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"me and my brother were like "oh look, another black actor.""
WHAT'S IT LIKE IN ALABAMA?🤔
You do realize your reply was as bigoted as the OP, right?
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I'm not sure the words "way too" mean what you think. There was like 4 non-white characters (not counting background characters) and one (Jasper) appears to be mixed.
What IS the percentage of non-white people in England and how should it work? Should the number of actors in a movie's race be exactly the same percentage wise as the region's population?
"oh look, another black actor."
Are you unaware of how you sound or do you not care?
It's a requirement as part of a disinformation troll farming campaign for farmers to take any current IP--be it video game, movie, or TV show--and post a whiny rant about it containing minority or female characters: https://moviechat.org/tt0993840/Army-of-the-Dead/60abe3cd7a3b651435c20bd7/Posters-screaming-about-woke-in-discussing-this-film-are-engaging-in-whats-known-as-social-contagion
shareWhile there are certainly people who get upset at the sight of a female lead or a minority supporting character with significant screen time - and the OP appears to be one of them - I think you are completely dismissive of something that happens more and more.
Kevin Feige did it not once, but twice recently.
First, he said casting Tilda Swinton in Dr. Strange was a mistake, specifically because she is white:
“We thought we were being so smart and so cutting-edge,” Feige said. “We’re not going to do the cliché of the wizened, old, wise Asian man. But it was a wake up call to say, ‘Well, wait a minute, is there any other way to figure it out? Is there any other way to both not fall into the cliché and cast an Asian actor?’ And the answer to that, of course, is yes.”
https://deadline.com/2021/05/doctor-strange-tilda-swinton-the-ancient-one-whitewashing-kevin-feige-marvel-studios-1234761666/
The irony is not only are there minorities playing white characters in other Marvel movies, but one in THAT MOVIE.
He also said Dr. Strange was not in the TV show Wanda Vision specifically because he is white:
https://www.indiewire.com/2021/05/doctor-strange-cut-wandavision-finale-white-guy-savior-1234634909/
"“Some people might say, ‘Oh, it would’ve been so cool to see Doctor Strange,'” Feige said. “But it would have taken away from Wanda. We didn’t want the end of the show to be commoditized to go to the next movie — here’s the white guy, ‘Let me show you how power works.’”
The Last of Us is a TV show based on a video game. Two white characters were replaced with Hispanic men. The black character? Nope, she's black:
https://moviechat.org/tt3581920/The-Last-of-Us/60b0d771b9b97568bd14b674/Marlene-actress-matches-characters-race
While there are certainly people who get upset at the sight of a female lead or a minority supporting character with significant screen time
There are those people of course but I think they are a lot fewer and far between than most media indicates.
There is a difference between someone that would "get upset at the sight of a female lead or a minority supporting character with significant screen time" and a person who does not have a problem with "a female lead or a minority supporting character with significant screen time" but has a problem with people who think that is the focus of the film.
So many times when a film comes out, Ghostbusters 2016 for instance (for the record I liked it and bought the Blu-Ray) any criticism of it was looked at as sexism and anyone that made that criticism of it was described as a person who was just "upset at the sight of a female lead".
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The OP literally complained there are too many black people in this movie and there's like 4. He's rightly been RIPPED for it.
shareI'm not white, and the movie had too many blacks in it. The worst was the female reporter Anita Darling. The character was white in the original 101 Dalmatians movie and should have stayed white. If the make a live action Fat Albert the gang should be all black not changed up just to tick boxes on a woke checklist. The fact that they are making decisions on who to cast based on black or white is pretty fucking racist as the seem to think that they can ignore other groups like Asians or Native Americans as long as they throw in some blacks since the black faces show up better to prove they used minorities
It is pathetic. If the goal is making things demographically correct then get the right percentages otherwise stop pandering which is what it us when you assume that to have the minorities the minorities have to be be black.
Said like a true racist. If it ain't white, it ain't right?
shareAnd the obligatory whiny anti-woke posts shows up on a popular movie forum, right on schedule.
See my post here to understand why: https://moviechat.org/tt0993840/Army-of-the-Dead/60abe3cd7a3b651435c20bd7/Posters-screaming-about-woke-in-discussing-this-film-are-engaging-in-whats-known-as-social-contagion
Like I said in my post, don't engage, because the whole point isn't to complain about so-called diversity casting but to get you into a debate so they can drop more Alt Right talking points.
OK I read your post and you also have to admit that to THEM, the woke crowd is the "group of people with a demented point of view, way of life, etc. using media to normalize and spread these views and ways of life onto others, so that people who otherwise are normal start to feel, think and act like them."
I think the extremes on both sides are wrong. You know the extreme side on their end and on the "woke" side the extreme is the people that think every single critique of a item with diversity is sexism or racism. and you seem to fall into that category. You did not even try to counter what he said but just yell racism and went away.
My response to the OP is simply this: Unless it is germander to the plot the race of the characters is irrelevant especially in a film like "Cruella" What is germander is the idea that actors who previously were not getting any exposure to the acting world are getting that exposure.
I'm amazed at the lack of self awareness of these redundant & predictable white supremacist "too many non whites" grievance threads.
sharewhite roles are recast as minority roles all the time, but it has never gone the other way.
sharewhite roles are recast as minority roles all the time, but it has never gone the other way.
*sigh* Do white supremacists get off on boldly spewing such laughable horseh*t?
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/26-times-white-actors-played-people-of-color-and-no-one-really-gave-a-sht_n_56cf57e2e4b0bf0dab313ffc share
prince of persia, really? moses? nobody knows what color his skin was. and hollywood always cast asians and indians with white people. its nothing new, hollywood is all liberal too, remember when 30 rock did blackface or when Kimmel did blackface? all liberals.
most all that happened pre-woke too, no way hollywood can get away with that stuff anymore.
except for vegetable Joe and Gov Guomo. both have been accused of sexual harassment/assault. somehow they both got a free #MeToo pass.
In America, African Americans make up about 13% of our population.
I'd say that it's at least double that representation in our current media. Probably closer to 30%, maybe more.
Hispanics are the ones that are underrepresented in American media. They make up a larger share of American population than blacks, but my guess is maybe 5% of the faces I see are Latinos.
That's another issue, they throw in an interracial black couple and say "diversity!". It's like a cliche now to see a black chick/white guy couple in an american commerical.
shareYep...no one gives a shit about that reality though.
shareDiversity is increasing in real life.
In the future, if Caucasians became a minority as low as 13% would it bother you to see them over-represented at 30% in film?
Not really, but I think it's a part of the human condition to look for faces that look like them in film.
People usually gravitate to movies (stories) with the main character that they can identify with and that identification that usually includes race and gender.
There are exceptions, comedy has a way of breaking barriers. Eddie Murphy is a fine example.