I don't ever want to hear anyone complain about whitewashing ever again
No idea why this gets a pass.
shareWhat do you mean? I haven't seen the film.
shareAll historical persons are portrayed by actors of a different ethnicity, including all the founding fathers portrayed by black actors. For people that constantly hear complains of "white actors playing a black person is racist" praise for this sound very hypocritical.
shareYeah its hypocritical Bullshit then they call us racist when rightfully calling out there shouldn't be a black Superman.
shareThat seems like it's kind of the point so I don't think that's whitewashing. Although I do find it weird that they're changing the race of people who actually existed.
shareI like Hamilton, but I have often wondered about the hypocrisy of it all.
shareI found this and I have no idea what he means:
"Authorial intent wins. Period," Lin-Miranda says in response to recent controversies involving race and casting. "As a Dramatists Guild Council member, I will tell you this. As an artist and as a human I will tell you this. Authorial intent wins."
In an interview with arts administrator and producer Howard Sherman, interim director of the Alliance for Inclusion in the Arts and director of the Arts Integrity Initiative at The New School College of Performing Arts, the author of Hamilton, written specifically to have a cast of racially diverse actors portraying the white real-life people who conducted the American revolution, speaks passionately about the productions that cast a white actor as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in Katori Hall's THE MOUNTAINTOP and white actors as Indian characters in Lloyd Suh's JESUS IN INDIA.
"Katori Hall never intended for a Caucasian Martin Luther King," he notes. "That's the end of the discussion. In every case, the intent of the author always wins. If the author has specified the ethnicity of the part, that wins."
https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/HAMILTONs-Lin-Manuel-Miranda-Speaks-On-Race-and-Casting-20151203
I think what it means is that as an author, if I write a play with the character description of say JFK as a latino, then that's what the character will be cast as. To cast JFK with a white person would go against my intent so that would be incorrect. So if I wrote Ali to be played by a white female, then that's what it would as well.
shareThat's what I was thinking too, but in this case he's basing them off of real people. I mean, would he win if he made a play where Hitler was a Jew?
shareThat could be interesting
I honestly don't know how I feel about it. I think that it needs to go both ways, but it won't balance itself out for awhile yet.
Thats interesting, because Lin-Miranda and the ones like him scream bloody murder if that authorian intent is ever used to portray a black person by a white actor.
shareI could understand if there was a point of doing it. It could work as a screwball comedy where every race played a different race.
shareSo there is a point in portraying a white character by a black actor but not vice versa? You sound racist.
shareThere could be a point depending on the context.
The act of painting your face to appear as a different race is not racist, except if it's a white person doing blackface because there was a history of that happening and it would come off like you're mocking. Again though, there could be contexts where it could be done (ie Tropic Thunder)
No, its either racist when anyone does it or not racist when anyone does it. Anything else is you being racist.
shareSo the point is to show that rules are for thee and not for me? Sounds like an odd way to show that blacks run the culture.
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