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Dear ZK, if it's any consolation to you, I won't be seeing this movie either.

Because it's my view that cartoons and fantasies are for children and adolescents.
 
The director says he is "listening and learning". What bullshit.
Somebody should show him an old Charlie Chan movie.
 
pat grimshaw said:
I used to love watching those when I was a kid. The son called his father Honorable Father and he meant it.
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AMC and Turner Classic movies with show them occasionally. I always like them, but the actors were so obviously not asian.
I also like the Sherlock Holmes movies with Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, which must be from the same time frame as Charlie Chan.
The Charlie Chan movie were pretty racist in another way, too. Charlie's chauffeur and man servant was a black man who bungled everything he did and was afraid of his shadow. It's why I really don't believe the director of this new movie is listening and learning.
 
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.....
 
Of course if Lupita Nyong'o were given the part, no one would be saying anything....well they would, but they wouldn't be complaining.
 
Here's a partial quote from a reader's letter commenting on the captioned article:

The Ancient One in this incarnation is neither male or Asian -she's Celtic -just as Baron Mordo in the MCU is not a Caucasian Transylvanian -he's black of an origin yet to be determined. There is diversity of all sorts in this film and when Marvel releases another trailer that focuses on the rest of the cast -hopefully that appeases the folks who took this 'controversy' to the level it is now.
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zombiekiller said:
Yes, I'm hurt. I know I shouldn't take this personally, but I am.

I don't know what hurts more, that Hollywood still thinks it's ok to whitewash asian characters or that most people don't seem to care enough thus allowing them to keep getting away with it.

https://www.thewrap.com/doctor-strange-director-scott-derrickson-responds-to-whitewashedout/

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Boyfriend and I will not be seeing this movie. Ever.
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Console yourself with the knowledge that one of the lead characters in one of the most successful sitcoms, Big Bang Theory, is unashamably Asian
 
I'm still more appalled at the casting of Scarlett Johannsen as an Asian.
 
I can't say much about this film because I don't know the source material very well, but you you will find a lot of people are actually bothered by these things. Rareboy pointed out one of them, Death Note is also another one that has gotten white washed when it comes to an American adaptation.
 
They've been doing this for as long as they've been making movies, casting white actors to play obvious asian roles. Goku, for example, has always been obviously asian. They got asian actors to play his families, but when it came to him they got a white guy to play it. They even admitted they were afraid people wouldn't see it if he wasn't white.

I posed this question to all my white friends a while back. Can you think of a single Hollywood movie where the main character was asian and he gets the girl at the end? Most to this day still can't name one. A few tried to say crouching tiger hidden dragon. I had to remind them the Hollywood part.

I hate being portrayed by the mainstream American media as sexless.
 
And this one?

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zombiekiller said:
They've been doing this for as long as they've been making movies, casting white actors to play obvious asian roles. Goku, for example, has always been obviously asian. They got asian actors to play his families, but when it came to him they got a white guy to play it. They even admitted they were afraid people wouldn't see it if he wasn't white.

I posed this question to all my white friends a while back. Can you think of a single Hollywood movie where the main character was asian and he gets the girl at the end? Most to this day still can't name one. A few tried to say crouching tiger hidden dragon. I had to remind them the Hollywood part.

I hate being portrayed by the mainstream American media as sexless.
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Asians are the most under represented group of people in TV and film...period.

Having said that...I am so tired of super hero marvel crap and I would rather see 100 Joy Luck Clubs at the theater vs one more Marvel Super Hero..enough already...

Speaking of Joy Luck Club...one of my top ten films of all time...I wish there were more in that genre. I like characters and stories about people who have strong spirits...
 
Haha Pat is set out to prove me wrong by posting the most obscure movies no one knows about. But that's not really the point of my question is it? The point is how hard did you have to think or look things up to find these obscure movies?

As the saying goes, pointing out the exception does not disprove the general trend. If I say a disease is 90% fatal, you pointing out a member of the remaining 10% does not negate the fact that the disease kills 90% of the infected.
 
Jason Scott Lee married the blond girl in Dragon. Not an obscure movie. Movies are a business. Producers produce movies which will appral to the largest audience. It is not an affirmative action plan to allocate parts on the basis of the racist yearnings of monorities.
 
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