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Now it's hilarious and yet depressing people can view the same thing and not even remotely get the same thing from it. I totally agree the ONLY way a film or tv show should be cast is use the best people to make the most entertaining product. Now there is no way on earth anyone can not see that almost every single Hollywood production made today has as it's top mission to check all the WOKE boxes period. They still want to make money so thats still important as well of course but I don't think making the best work is nearly as important to them as making sure they are so inclusive as to take no heat whatsoever. One of the reasons racial divide is where its at now is people living in the past. Anyone should be allowed to cast whoever they want without any cancel crap or complaints. As far as the casting of different races to play established characters, I think thats crap but it's funny the same Woke jackasses that are all for say black actors playing white characters also don't even think a straight actor should be allowed to play a gay character. typical hypocritical idiocy from the fringe.
For the record I don't think he is or some bitter ex of his (male or female) would have dropped a bomb by now. But we love a good conspiracy in America and he had some great smoke there. Mostly I think it's the fact that one of Scientologies self help areas is "curing" homosexuality. So people figured it made perfect sense for Cruise to be so locked in for life with them.
City of God is getting some serious action here, you can add another person to that list. It's the hightest rated I haven't seen and I haven't ever like semi-serious animated films so no Spirited Away or Lion King for me either.
First the arguments from even a few years ago are no longer valid. Everything has flipped in Hollywood now. Black, Gay and especially Transgender roles are VERY overrepresented. Blacks are 13 percent of U.S. pop. New studies put Gay pop. actually below the 10 percent that was standard for years. And Transgender is less than 1 percent. I assume everyone here has seen a new film/tv show or two the last couple of years, think thats where the numbers for those groups are? However it seems to me Asians are still underrepresented. Hispanic is not a race so I can't stand that argument usually but I will say dark skinned Hispanics seem underrepresented a bit.
My opinion is that it's great if people want to make all black, all gay, all anything films. But it's not fair that everyone has been bullied into being afraid to not make largely white productions. Hell you can't read an article about a 20 year old show like Friends now without being lectured on how they were *gasp* white friends. Guess what, if you take any average group in the U.S. chances are they are going to be largely racially homogenous, so what. Pretty much only in films does every group of six people contain One interracial couple, one gay character, one Asian character and one trans/fluid/non something character, it's absurd and reads so phony it takes me out of it completely. We have no common sense anymore, let people make the films they want, no one needs to police this unless one group is criminally underrepresented.
Also I agree with above poster about this nonsense of casting say for example Denzel Washington as Scottish King Macbeth. It's stupid and wrong if a white guy plays a black character and it's equally stupid and offensive when it's the other way around. The modern woke take seems to be tell us all how awful whitewashing in Hollywood was, but since we can do this awful thing now in this new enlightened age by all means.
I'll echo what someone said about Pluto tv, great free app. I flip on the Bond channel all the time. I did what you are about to embark on a couple of years ago, it's both fantastic and at times a chore. Some things were exactly as remembered (Moonraker absolutely horrid- Still thought Dalton was a great actor in movies I disliked-For Your Eyes Only a fantastic, underrated entry.) and some things really seemed different, like On Her Majesties Secret Service. Hated it for years after seeing it as a child but it's a fine Bond outing even if Lazenby can't compare to the rest.
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