Hope there will be a lot of diversity in this one...
What do you think?
shareObviously, there is and it's about time. I'm glad to finally see Jason Scott Lee in a movie again. Roles for Asian actors were dismal until now.
shareYou mean everyone in a movie about Asians is going to be Asian? How is that even possible?
shareDisney doesn't have much margin. They're trying to get into the Chinese market, and Chinese people aren't very tolerant with modern western bullshit (unless they benefit, of course).
Disney would gladly have included a couple of white males playing despisable or evil characters, but that's not very well considered in Asia... If you check Asian movies, non-Asian characters are always neutral aseptic vanilla characters, not good, not bad, not... nothing. Just bland. And portraying a white male as neutral, even bland, is a bitter pill for Disney. Whites should be evil, or cucks, or miserable, they're an inferior race, and only racist people oppose the Modern Western Racial Truth.
You can have one or two black characters, though, provided they are secondary and not as positive as the Asian main characters. Kind of 'bland but good'. They'll do it fine, Disney has experience in racial casting and racial classification of movie characters, so they can reach a racial balance where the black characters are not as good as the Asian good ones, but they're still racially good enough to fit into the racial modern movie castings according to modern racial western protocols.
So it's all about the money. Are you are saying that if the next Star Wars movies tank and lose money Disney folks would actually be forced to invest into script-writing more than into promotion of socially relevant issues in their films?
shareNot necessarily.
China is becoming VERY hostile to modern western culture. They see it as a dangerous sickness, and they're taking precautions (which is a wise choice). In my opinion, that's why Asia has become so hostile to western influence and so nationalistic this last decade.
And... it's not only that Chinese people watch western influence with distrust. The same can be said about Chinese government. If Disney tries to inject too much propaganda in the movie, they'll just ban it.
In Western countries, the situation is different. Disney (and SJW in general) have a big influence in media. Movies that go against their Cult are the ones that can find problems to be financed, or distributed, or can just be shadowbanned or crushed by the controlled media. Not to say Star Wars is going TV, and Netflix and Hulu are the big names there. Both are converged SJW companies. As a general rule, SJW companies first try to take Non-Believer companies out of the market. If that doesn't work, they buy them. If that doesn't work, they make them illegal or create continuous legal problems (for example, that's how they reduced Gab, when they were started to grow and could have threatened twitter). The game is rigged.
And, even, EVEN if the Cult sinks a company, they just infiltrate the new one. Companies are dispensable, it's the Cult what matters. Think Marvel Comics, the went full woke and finally became the second one after DC. You know what's happening now? It's DC the one going woke.
I don't think Disney is gonna change, because it's not business, it's religion. China will be simply some exception.
One movie with diversity and all the racists crawl out from under their rock.
shareI didn't write that. I agreed there would be diversity.
"...a movie about Asians"
No, the movie is about a Chinese woman named Mulan. Asians is a very broad term and the movie isn't really about Asians, whatever that means. That's like saying The Godfather was about whites.
Not all of the actors in the movie are Chinese, if that's your concern. I'm not sure why that's an issue. Are you upset because everyone in the Godfather was white?