This race swapping stuff is getting absolutely ridiculous now. They just keep rebooting these I.P's and replacing the white protagonist with a 'person of color'.
shareCan't agree with you more. It's like Disney just forgot how to pick a lane when it came to casting. It's not the actors. Just the concept of the casting that ruins it for me.
shareIt's all in your head. Keep it moving, nothing to see here.
shareDoesn't matter, I'm not watching it. Evidently Disney didn't learn anything from that horrendous "Pan" musical, and doesn't really respect their own source material these days.
It's pretty obvious Peter Pan started out in England, as a white kid, and through an unknown series of events, ended up in Neverland and created a refuge for other boys like himself (white, orphaned, British boys) while fighting Hook, who with a name like "James," is very much a white British guy from the 1600s.
If modern Disney and their tiny, woke, chosen audience can't handle that, they have nobody but themselves to blame when they lose a ton of money pissing off the majority of movie-goers.
Peter Pan is STILL a fictional character. What?! And out of the many live-action & animated adaptions of this story that have been made over the decades, heâs not going to be fair skin this time? Letâs also not forget Tinker Bell! They did that? Well⊠boo hoo!
Oh, excuse me. âWhat I meantâ to say is⊠this is almost as bad as Peter being played by women back in the olden days. Wait⊠WHAT IN TARNATIONS?! How could they?! That was a long, long time ago and shyt was⊠WOKE!!! How?! Why?! Stuff was made for us raging (never inconvenienced like today!) white reactionaries back then only, so a WOMEN playing someone of the opposite sex?! Sure dude actors played female roles for centuries in plays and stuff... females werenât allowed to be part of these performance arts back then⊠but grrr! (REAL MEN donât do drag btw! Nope! Itâs just modern woke agenda crap.)
No, I know. A female, and a white one, playing Peter made sense back then. Itâs a very physical role, huh? And at least they kept it Caucasian, whew! So that was understandable. Dis new film Peter tho?! WHAT A TRAVESTY!
Okay, race-swap-getting-ridiculous-broke one. But good thing white washing in Hollywood and beyond has never been an issue, aye? TwO WrOnGs (at least for some) dOnT mAKeâŠ. well, you now. Anyway, youâre preaching to the woke boogeywoman-haunted reich wing choir up on this mofo; funny how many act like theyâre the first to voice/preach their usual outrage when clearly chuds ranting about woke and everything they hate in life (and thatâs now being represented in good olâ reactionary-disapproved Hollywood) is what these boards are all for, of course. But hey, Adolf De Santisâ enemy (the enemy of all broflakes), Disney, continues flexing their reactionary-disapproved (WOKE) ways?! NO WAY. And Hollywood in general keeps at it?! Damn you! Benny Shapiro gots to hurry up and make the grand anti-woke films that will no doubt be supported by the millions and millions representing the majority and consequently the true people will FINNA take their cinema back! Now, but letâs not include that Gina Carano failure that shapiroâs studio released and was called WOKE by many triggered chuds who were supposed to be the target audience. LOL. Go D!
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sharePeter Pan was historically played by a woman because of laws restricting the use of child actors in London theatre. Having an adult male with a deep voice attempting to portray a boy would not have been convincing, so a female (usually of petite build) with a naturally higher-pitched, more childlike voice was given the rĂŽle.
This type of character was known as a principal boy. See this Wikipedia article for more details:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal_boy
lol DracTarashV2 really thought he had an argument bringing up how women played Pan back in the day.
As you said, the reason for all those casting choices he mentioned were because of restrictions, ergo they had no choice but to use men for female roles, no choice but to use petite women for young male roles. We don't have those restrictions anymore, but that doesn't mean we'll just accept studios making unnecessary changes to classic stories to push their agendas, especially if they're gonna be hypocritical and have double standards about it.
If they wanna make a parody and include blind-casting, that's one thing. But if they're gonna adapt a previous work, the audience expects as much faithfulness as possible. If they want diversity, there's plenty of non-white stories, mythologies, and folklore to use. If they wanna represent colored folk, draw from OUR cultures instead of smearing paint on white culture and calling it a day.
"Peter being played by women"
What do you call a girl with no arms and no legs at the beach?
SANDY!
What do you call that girl when you throw her in the sea?
SANDY DUNCAN!
Sandy Duncan was another actress who played Peter Pan (in a Broadway production):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRSQ-Eqheng
I was trying to figure out his ethnicity. One article stated that he was born in London but the article below states that he is a native New Zealander. He looks South Asian but would he be part Maori? One other poster mentioned that Peter Pan was always played by a woman so I guess it's cool that he's male. I recommend Hook from 1991 with Robin Williams playing an adult Peter Pan. Lowery is the director of this show and he also swapped the race of Gawain in The Green Knight movie.
https://www.cinemaexpress.com/stories/news/2020/mar/11/disney-casts-fresh-faces-for-peter-pan--wendy-film-17478.html
Disney has their inclusion standards so the majority of the cast have to be from underrepresented groups and that means no white males. It's also odd that Disney added & Wendy to the title since Peter Pan has always been the hero of the story. They even added females to the lost boys. I just hope Disney goes bankrupt and has to sell off Marvel, ESPN and Star Wars.
https://reimaginetomorrow.disney.com/assets/ABC-INCLUSION-STANDARDS-ONE-PAGER-6-16-21.pdf * Inclusion standards
The majority of the cast have to be minorities?
shareThe Reimagine Tomorrow inclusion standards require 50% or more of the cast to be from underrepresented groups so that could mean people with disabilities or LBGTQ+ people. They wouldn't necessarily be considered minorities. A gay white male in a wheelchair would be considered LBGTQ+ while a straight white male would be ruled out.
https://reimaginetomorrow.disney.com/assets/ABC-INCLUSION-STANDARDS-ONE-PAGER-6-16-21.pdf * Inclusion standards * Inclusion Standards *
Disney's Reimagine Tomorrow standards are vague about who is underrepresented but the Oscars identifies the underrepresented groups in its inclusion standards for best picture.
https://www.oscars.org/awards/representation-and-inclusion-standards
So, discriminatory hiring practices, then.
Two wrongs don't make a right.
J. M. Barrie's book is public domain. Instead of being triggered, you could make your own politically correct versions to show to like minded people in their safe places. :)
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