Seeing a lot of complains about Catwoman being black as expected from the usual suspects. Casting interracial couples is the future and here to stay and it is the right move going forward for Hollywood as it better represents America's demographics and how things will be in the future. Complaining about that exposes you as a racist. Don't do it.
shareThis is why I find old sci-fi films so hard to engage with / be immersed in.
Clearly in the future most Americans will be of mixed race, yet we have these futuristic films with mostly white actors in them! Where exactly would these white Americans have come from in the future?
Well whites are 65% of the population in America, so that's where they'll come from.
shareYes, for now. But I was talking futuristic sci-fi movies.
No self respecting white college girl these days would be seen dead with a privileged white male partner. So that 65% is going to be less than 50% in what, something like 20 years maybe?
So how can I watch films with spaceships full of pure white people when it's set in some far flung future? It's just completely unrealistic to consider such a possibility so these films become impossible to be immersed in...
You're delusional, only people who believe that are envious cliques of “minorities” who can’t replicate the success of whites, so they attack the people that built it.
shareWhy am I delusional?
I didn't make the OP and am simply pointing out facts without any subjective spin.
The facts are that interracial couples are being pushed in practically any media you look at - film, TV, advertising.
You said the white population is currently 65% and, given that socio-media push, the number is only going to drop further and further. And you talk of minorities but that's irrelevant - it's white people themselves who are going to literally screw that percentage down!
So why would it possibly be delusional to suggest a futuristic sci-fi production featuring predominantly white people is unrealistic and hard to be immersed by? I would suggest believing the opposite (without thinking there'd be some kind of racial war with an outright "winner") is actually the delusional position to take...
Forced diversity being pushed in Hollywood fantasy land is one thing. Real life is another.
shareNah, see, the college girl will go around sucking BBC but when it comes time to settle and have kids shell find someone with actual income, ie white or asian.
shareOld Sci-fi movies didnt account for you being outbread by literally everyone else.
shareNo one cares if she’s black, no one cares if a white person and a black person want to get married. GTF over it.
shareKalergi Plan.
shareThe 60s Batman TV series had the first black Catwoman (Eartha Kitt) and at least in my circle (since there was no internet) nobody saw it as something to "complain" about, it wasn't even a topic of conversation, all my friends just enjoyed the show.
shareEartha Kitt was great, and so was the 60s TV show
and movie for that matter
A lot of people don't like alterations to source material, and Catwoman is usually depicted as white. Remember people complained that Daniel Craig was blond and Bond had dark hair? Was that racist against Aryans?
I think a lot of people whine about non-white casting because they're racist, but there are two other categories of people who don't like it: (1) people who don't like change, and (2) people who don't like their favourite characters' movies or TV shows (or books or whatever) being used to make political points.
I liked Kravitz as Catwoman, thought she did a good job and looks right for the role. I liked Geoffrey Wright as Gordon, too. But I don't think everybody who is skeptical of casting like this is doing so from a place of bigotry.
I liked Kravitz as Catwoman, thought she did a good job and looks right for the role. I liked Geoffrey Wright as Gordon, too.
The privilege line was okay, in my opinion, because it was used to actually make a decent point about Bruce's blind spots. He is being challenged in the picture, but not demonized. It worked because it's good to hold a character's feet to the fire (especially the hero) and break them down a bit, and it's all building to that moment on the catwalk with the gunman (I'm trying to avoid spoilers for anybody casually reading; forgive the vagueness, but you know what I mean, I think).
The other reason the line was okay was because it felt like something the character might say (it wasn't (too) forced) and because Bruce wasn't always being shown to be an ignorant moron with no wisdom or intellect of his own. He bests Catwoman in combat, he wins a lot of their intellectual/moral sparring (along the murder lines) and so forth.
So, ultimately, they didn't bug me.
I haven't seen Wright in Westworld, but I was a bit amused at the similarities between Gordon and Felix Leiter in the Bond franchise, as played by Wright. There are similarities between Bond and Bats, so the fact that Wright managed to be the sidekick "fellow spy/detective" to both amused me.
I liked what he did with Gordon. If you didn't: cool. But I liked it. I do prefer Oldman (just as I prefer Pfeiffer as Catwoman), but I liked it.
They are still a small percentage of actual couples in America. Most Americans would still rather be with their own kind and it's not racist to say that.
share" Most Americans would still rather be with their own kind and it's not racist to say that."
THAT IS SUPER RACIST...YOU ARE RIDICULOUS.
I don't know why it's even an issue. Interracial couples are nothing new.
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