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They Cast Whom?! Actor Choices To Offend Every Racial Sensibility
NPR ^ | March 22, 2014 | Kat Chow

Posted on 03/23/2014 3:51:25 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Edited on 03/23/2014 5:50:57 PM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]

As for Mara's ethnicity? She's not Native American. Folks are passing around an online petition that asks Warner Bros. to "stop casting white actors to play people of color."

2. If you're particularly ticked off when a white character is played by a person of color, then you're probably not pleased that Michael B. Jordan (Friday Night Lights, The Wire, Fruitvale Station), who is black, was cast as the Human Torch in Fantastic Four. Human Torch is a superhero who, as his name hints, can engulf his body in flames, control nearby fires and fly. When he's not on fire (though he usually is), the comics show that he's a blonde, white guy named Johnny Storm. (There was an android Human Torch once. To the extent that androids have ethnic identities, the android's was probably Anglo-Saxon.) If casting a black actor to play a white superhero irks you, this probably will, too.


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TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Society; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: acting; comicbooks; disney; movies; race; racehustlin; revisionisthistory
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To: nickcarraway

what???


41 posted on 03/23/2014 5:13:19 PM PDT by skinkinthegrass (The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun..0'Caligula / 0'Reid / 0'Pelosi)
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To: Albion Wilde
By the way, April Webster and/or Erica L. Silverman deserve an award for casting these two as father and son...

Superb job!

42 posted on 03/23/2014 5:18:25 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: GreyFriar
Seeing that Johnny Storm is Sue Storm’s younger brother, are the film’s producers going to have her also as black? Of course that would make it a white Reed Richards married to a Black Sue Storm Richards.

Just don't let them have a child and do a Cheerios commercial. That'll really set them off.

43 posted on 03/23/2014 5:19:51 PM PDT by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: Impy; nickcarraway; Bender2; Perdogg; fieldmarshaldj; GOPsterinMA; NFHale; goldstategop
Rooney Mara as Tiger Lily pretty much rules out that I'll watch it. It's like when they announced Megan Fox will be playing April O'Neill in new Ninja Turtles movie or Jack Black would be playing Lemuel Guillver in a "modern take" on Guilliver's Travels. You know from the start it will be crap (I even refused to watch Man of Steel when I found Laurence Fishburne was playing Perry "Great Caesar's Ghost!" White and the storyline would be a remake/rip-off/rehash of Superman II)

Interesting enough, they recently did a Peter Pan prequel on the Sci-Fi channel that purposely "reimagined" it as a more sci-fi themed concept (all the human inhabitants of Neverland are people that were brought to the planet from different time periods in earth's history via an orb that's a time vortex... the pirates are from the 1600s, Peter is from 19th century London etc.) That version radically departed from the "traditional" Peter Pan origin story on purpose, and even it was far more faithful with the casting... Q'orianka Kilcher was Tiger Lily, and in a huge casting coup, they managed to get Bob Hoskins back to reprise his role as Smee, 20 years after he had played the role in Hook).

The alternative origin story didn't really work well, but it did resolve some plotholes that arise in the traditional origin story (if nobody ages in Neverland, why did Peter Pan continue to age when he was brought there as an infant, then suddenly stop aging when he was 13ish?). In the new take, he's brought to Neverland when he's about 16 years old, and he knew James Hook back in London, when the latter had a very different occupation than Pirate (Hook basically stumbles on the pirate ship in this version and they make him their leader because they're so impressed by his skills, which was BS in my opinion) The ending was also a letdown, but much of it was far more interesting than anything they're presenting in the latest Peter Pan cash grab. If you're curious, check out the Neverland trailer on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHsg_cl011s

44 posted on 03/23/2014 5:22:33 PM PDT by BillyBoy (Looking at the weather lately, I could really use some 'global warming' right now!)
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To: Tupelo
As one who grew up with BLUE EYED Indians in the 50s, who cares. They are ACTING. If Jeffrey Hunter could make me believe he was Guy Gabaldon or John Wayne as Genghis Khan for God’s sake, then today’s Hollywood can have Samuel L. Jackson play Stonewall Jackson. If he can pull it off, more power to him. Just make sure the beard and quotes are correct, that’s all I ask.


45 posted on 03/23/2014 5:24:13 PM PDT by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: BenLurkin

Nice!


46 posted on 03/23/2014 5:24:28 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("The commenters are plenty but the thinkers are few." -- Walid Shoebat)
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To: Chode
i get confused... am i supposed to say "people of color" or "colored people", and what, specifically, is the difference???

Either way, you're wrong.

47 posted on 03/23/2014 5:27:36 PM PDT by mountn man (The Pleasure You Get From Life Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
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To: nickcarraway

And Leonardo DiCaprio looks about as Irish as I look Italian.


48 posted on 03/23/2014 5:27:43 PM PDT by Darren McCarty (Abortion - legalized murder for convenience)
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To: BenLurkin

Ugga wugga meatball!


49 posted on 03/23/2014 5:31:26 PM PDT by Nea Wood (When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.-Sowell)
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To: mountn man
story of my life...
50 posted on 03/23/2014 5:32:13 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: mountn man

I’d like to poke her hontas.


51 posted on 03/23/2014 5:32:57 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Darren McCarty
the boy doesn't look Italian either, go figure
52 posted on 03/23/2014 5:33:16 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: Borges; DollyCali; Perdogg

ping


53 posted on 03/23/2014 5:45:32 PM PDT by EveningStar
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To: Mr Rogers

John Wayne behaving in a manner reminiscent of Jenjis Khan. A couple of my favorite miscast roles are Max von Sydow as Jesus in The Greatest Story Ever Told. Everyone knows that Jesus had a British accent. I also enjoyed when Batman and Bruce Wayne had to be n the same place, so Alfred would don the bat suit. Aside from the fact that Alan Napier was in his seventies, was rail thin, had a white mustache, and a British accent, he was a dead ringer for Adam West.


54 posted on 03/23/2014 5:51:47 PM PDT by Freestate316 (Know what you believe and why you believe it.)
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To: nickcarraway; All
let us count the various ways that certain actors getting cast in certain roles might make you squirm

One of the things that makes me squirm are sob stories, such as this article.

55 posted on 03/23/2014 5:53:08 PM PDT by EveningStar
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To: mountn man

All I can say is ....

Bravo!


56 posted on 03/23/2014 5:58:00 PM PDT by ifinnegan
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To: BenLurkin

Really. How much do I care what actor plays a comic book character in a movie? Apparently enough to open this thread but not much more.


57 posted on 03/23/2014 5:59:23 PM PDT by Chuckster (The longer I live the less I care about what you think.)
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To: Impy

Englishmen are almost invariably cast as the villains in Hollywood movies these days (and in Disney cartoons the villain will always have a snooty English accent), the English are the last race that can be vilified without fear of accusations of “RACIST!!!”.

What would Alan Rickman do for work if Hollywood cast any other race as villains? Even in “Michael Collins” they cast Liam Neeson as the “good guy” (Collins) while the “bad guy” (De Valera) was played by Rickman, because nobody could play an Irish Republican rebel leader other than a posh Englishman right?


58 posted on 03/23/2014 6:04:17 PM PDT by PotatoHeadMick
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To: nickcarraway

My concern is who the South Koreans are going to cast as Nodame and Chiaki in their remake of Nodame Cantabile.

59 posted on 03/23/2014 6:09:49 PM PDT by csvset
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To: Chuckster

It’s a fun thread.


60 posted on 03/23/2014 6:10:05 PM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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