Are you bothered by white-washing of asian characters is outrageous?
GitS taught me that only westerners care about white-washing.
In the eyes of actual Asians, Asian-Americans are just American.
I don't care about different characters being different races. It's just not something I have the effort to get worked up about
MICHALECOLE posted...
I don't care about different characters being different races. It's just not something I have the effort to get worked up about
So you'd be okay with the series about black people getting super powers being played entirely by white men?
Discriminated your casting choices based on skin color would be actual racism.
Discriminated your casting choices based on skin color would be actual racism.
Netflix release of Japanese manga adaptation Death Note drew outrage when it transferred a japanese story to Seattle without any asian actors.
Studies have shown that diverse casts often lead to better box office returns and yet the top 100 films of 2015 contained not one leading role for an Asian-American. This has lead to frustration for many prominent Asian-American actors
I don't get how one can complain about forced token minorities at the same time as whitewashing.
MICHALECOLE posted...
I don't care about different characters being different races. It's just not something I have the effort to get worked up about
So you'd be okay with the series about black people getting super powers being played entirely by white men?
Kyuubi4269 posted...
MICHALECOLE posted...
I don't care about different characters being different races. It's just not something I have the effort to get worked up about
So you'd be okay with the series about black people getting super powers being played entirely by white men?
How would that work?
Would they blackface the whole cast? Then I would see it as a parody.
White people doing black stereotypes? I would see it as a parody.
Changing the script to remove the black requirements? If the show is good enough, then I would see it.
I wish I was born 1000 years from now when we're all living in computers and no one has any race.
GitS taught me that only westerners care about white-washing.
Seeing as I got mad when they made jonny storm black, yes I mad about this too
i dont like changing canon race
How would that work?
Would they blackface the whole cast? Then I would see it as a parody.
White people doing black stereotypes? I would see it as a parody.
Changing the script to remove the black requirements? If the show is good enough, then I would see it.
Why not simply think of it as an alternative universe version.
I mean, what do you feel about Nick Fury?
He is white in the Marvel comics, then turned black in the Marvel Ultimate universe, and he is black in the current Marvel movieverse. He is white in earlier movies.
White Washing is a problem for Asian/Indian in Hollywood.
I thought Ghost In the Shell the problem was just Scarlet Jo, but after watching that movie i think i only saw 3 asian people that had speaking roles in futuristic Japan.
Foppe posted...
Why not simply think of it as an alternative universe version.
I mean, what do you feel about Nick Fury?
He is white in the Marvel comics, then turned black in the Marvel Ultimate universe, and he is black in the current Marvel movieverse. He is white in earlier movies.
the Nick Fury thing pisses me off the most of any of these changes. Because it completly changes the character. Black Nick Fury isn't just Nick Fury with black skin. He's a totally different person. original Nick Fury fought in WW2. he's from the same generation as Cap. He took a lesser version of a Super Soldier serum and it slowed down his aging. the black version is just a normal person who joined SHIELD. he's not from WW2. it takes away one of the coolest parts of the character. A guy who fought in WW2 and slowed down his aging is better than "black super spy from modern day"
I wouldn't be nearly as angry about it, if they had kept the WW2 part and just made him black. but they didn't.
Zikten posted...
Foppe posted...
Why not simply think of it as an alternative universe version.
I mean, what do you feel about Nick Fury?
He is white in the Marvel comics, then turned black in the Marvel Ultimate universe, and he is black in the current Marvel movieverse. He is white in earlier movies.
the Nick Fury thing pisses me off the most of any of these changes. Because it completly changes the character. Black Nick Fury isn't just Nick Fury with black skin. He's a totally different person. original Nick Fury fought in WW2. he's from the same generation as Cap. He took a lesser version of a Super Soldier serum and it slowed down his aging. the black version is just a normal person who joined SHIELD. he's not from WW2. it takes away one of the coolest parts of the character. A guy who fought in WW2 and slowed down his aging is better than "black super spy from modern day"
I wouldn't be nearly as angry about it, if they had kept the WW2 part and just made him black. but they didn't.
So you would have been as pissed if they turned him into a normal white guy who had not been in WWII that joined SHIELD?
All their characters in anime/manga look American anyway.
I'm Asian, and I don't care.
Hell, even when Scarlett Johansson was casted as the Major, I didn't care.
Strangely enough, from what I experience, I tend to see more white people offended by this than Asians when it comes to this kind of stuff.
fettster777 posted...
All their characters in anime/manga look American anyway.
American=/=white
Update: Ed Skrein stepped down from the role when he found out that Daimio was Asian-American in the source material.
http://deadline.com/2017/08/ed-skrein-hellboy-whitewashing-backlash-lionsgate-millennium-1202157461/
JOExHIGASHI posted...
fettster777 posted...
All their characters in anime/manga look American anyway.
American=/=white
Until after the 60's, it pretty much was..