I kinda feel like crying

[mikemizanin729]

I'm still more appalled at the casting of Scarlett Johannsen as an Asian.

She was amazing.

I loved here performance and I think she's a wonderful woman.

 

[MakeDigitalLove]

She is a good actress and I like her, I am sure she will do fine in the movie when it comes to acting, but she was only hired for the part to draw a crowd.

 

[gsdx]

Hollywood has a history of hiring Caucasians to play non-Caucasian roles. A few off the top of my head: Peter Ustinov as Charlie Chan, Marlon Brando as Sakini (Teahouse of the August Moon), John Wayne as Genghis Khan, Mickey Rooney as Yunioshi (Breakfast at Tiffany's), Natalie Wood as Maria (West Side Story), Jake Gyllenhaal in Prince of Persia.

In most cases, it's the name and not the race of the actor which is expected to draw the crowds.

 

[dereperez]

White privilege has been so ingrained in our culture that most of the time it just happens...and many people don't even realize it or mean to be racist. Hollywood has always been a reflection of this.

 

[eastofeden]

Well...It isn't the movies...but arguably one of the most popular couples in all of TV that has the highest ratings in all of TV is Glen and Maggie.....

So...hopefully it will change in the future. Hollywood will do whatever they think will bring them ratings and money..and TWD is a ratings juggernaut....and the Asian guy DEFINITELY got the girl.

 

[Draven]

Hollywood is unwilling to change, it has always been a classless, racist, exploitative shit-hole ran by money-grubbing despots. There hasn't been a "hot release" in theaters that I have wanted to see in almost 6 years, and I happen to like movies a lot, just not the brain-damaged quality that Hollywood is vomiting these days. I hate to sound like a cliche` but Independent films are where its are where it's at, anyone ever see "Chan is missing" or "Omar"?

 

[canteventhinkstr8]

1) The writer of Doctor Strange has spoken about this controversy:



2) People were more offended by Ghost In The Shell, when they announced that they had attempted to use CG to make white actors look Asian, rather than hire any Asian actors.

 

[Draven]

GITS should never have left Japan, nor any anime or video game-based movie for that matter. Hollywood always manages to fuck the story up and ruin it with too much CG, unbelievable/unflattering actors for the characters. Dragonball, The Last Airbender, Super Mario Brothers, and Tomb Raider are examples of Hollywood's dumbfuckery when it comes to plot/content/casting choices, though Tomb Raider did spawn 1 or 2 sequels probably though (which is rare for a game-based movie).

 

[star-warrior]

Like the Last AirBender all over again.

 

[eddielee]

If it's a good movie, I just sit back and enjoy it, without too much concern for who is playing to character as long as the actor does a good job. Of course I expect some stereotypes in older movies and even in some movies today. The dumb, inbred southerner is a common stereotype that while it annoys me, I'm not ready to call for a boycott. As I recall "The King and I" was banned in Siam, because Yule Brenner was hardly Asian. That did not stop it form being a good movie and an excellent performance. In the movie "Breakfast at Tiffany's", Mickey Rooney played a very offensive stereotype of an Asian person, which hurts and otherwise excellent movie.

 

[gsdx]

In the movie "Breakfast at Tiffany's", Mickey Rooney played a very offensive stereotype of an Asian person, which hurts and otherwise excellent movie.

Most of the Asians and other non-whites of that time were stereotype. It really wasn't until Star Trek (except, perhaps, for Chekov) that non-white characters (Sulu and Uhura) weren't stereotypical. Still, the movies still faked it. Look what they did to Johnny Depp!!

Funnily enough, one of the most recognised and famous Native American actors wasn't Native. He wasn't even American. 'Iron Eyes Cody', whose real name was Espera Oscar de Corti, was Italian.

 

[rareboy]

Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon.

Proof that you don't have to whitewash.

Next Hollywood will go back to using white guys in blackface for blacks.

 

[NotHardUp1]

It's almost like the film industry is some kind of self-interested profiteering juggernaut that couldn't give two shits about social justice when it isn't destined to make the producer rich. It's almost like that.

 

[pat grimshaw]

Yes, I'm hurt. I know I shouldn't take this personally, but I am.
...Hollywood still thinks it's ok to whitewash asian characters...

What can you complain about?

Hollywood, America, Europe and my country all kow-tow to the industrial and financial might of Asia.

Asia will rule the planet in the coming century.

 

[pat grimshaw]

BTW:

Kowtow, which is borrowed from kau tau in Cantonese (koutou in Mandarin Chinese), is the act of deep respect shown by prostration, that is, kneeling and bowing so low as to have one's head touching the ground.

 

[star-warrior]

BTW:

Kowtow, which is borrowed from kau tau in Cantonese (koutou in Mandarin Chinese), is the act of deep respect shown by prostration, that is, kneeling and bowing so low as to have one's head touching the ground.

It literally means "to bang one's head."

 

[pat grimshaw]

... bang one's head...

It looks as though some of these people spend a great deal of the day with their forehead on the dirty floor as much as their feet on the ground.

I'm all for yoga and alternative postures but spending so many hours a day with your two buttocks spread open and your sphincter pointed heavenward must affect rheumatism and arthritis in one's later life.

 

[Kulindahr]

Most of you need to understand why this was done. China is a huge market for movie makers, and every American film must be screened by China's government rulers before being greenlighted for distribution via movie theaters. As for Dr. Strange, there is apparently lots of social and political issues involving Tibet (most of which I cannot understand). So Marvel decided to avoid offending that segment of its viewership all together by casting a non Asian to play the Ancient One. I'm not happy about seeing a snow white British woman playing a character that has always been of Asian decent but that's the decision they made so.....

The issue of Tibet is an easy one: China wants it to not exist, to make it all Chinese. So they don't like anything that reminds anyone at all of their atrocious treatment of other peoples.