Anyone who read the books would understand that race was a huge part of the story/character development. A lot of people argue this point back and forth which is fair, but I did read all the books and felt it was important to the story.
At the end of the day, I think people could have lived with Roland being black, but all you have to do is look at the Character list to realize that this movie is not going to be nothing like the books. I don't understand why they didn't just create whatever world they came up with and called it something else instead of "The Dark Tower." All this is is a money grab by attaching a well known/liked author to a project. I'm sure the movie will be on par with all the other crap that Hollywood puts out, but I think a lot of people are disappointed that the movie is going to be nothing like the books, even if this is supposed to be a sequel like people are saying.
At the end of the day, whether this is a good movie or not, it is not going to be The Dark Tower that we read, and that's disappointing.
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Captain_Wesker
8 years ago
Anyone who read the books would understand that race was a huge part of the story/character development.
Of
all the characters, or...?
Anyhow, I read the books and didn't find the issue of skin color to be some sort of unifying/grand theme across all eight of them. It pretty much comes up for half a book and is essentially gone after that (unless you count some good-natured ribbing from Susannah to be "huge").
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Sawyer_Lost
8 years ago
I did read all the books and felt it was important to the story.
Except it wasn't. It was a minor issue for approximately 12 pages of a 4000 pages story, it had no impact on the overall story at all.
Books are a uniquely portable magic. ~Stephen King
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