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I don't know where to even begin on this. How is this even happening?
A whole new level of white washing
Re: A whole new level of white washing
Well, um, yeah I got nothing.
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You can't hang a man for killing a woman who's trying to steal his horse.
You can't hang a man for killing a woman who's trying to steal his horse.
Re: A whole new level of white washing
Matt Damon's already shown his deep understanding of diversity so I'm not surprised: http://variety.com/2015/film/news/matt- ... 201595189/
With live action Ghost in the Shell starring Scarlett Johansson (sp?), I am just waiting for white Mulan before I walk into the sea.
With live action Ghost in the Shell starring Scarlett Johansson (sp?), I am just waiting for white Mulan before I walk into the sea.
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Re: A whole new level of white washing
lol that is so bad
Though this is slightly different given it's a Chinese director and being partly produced and financed by China. It doesn't cause the same damage as when it's done in the US, given that most Chinese-produced films have an all-Chinese cast, and they probably see this as their exciting exotic new project with a white guy. Kind of like how many Japanese people in Japan had no problem with Americans deciding to adapt Ghost in the Shell with ScarJo - as far as they're concerned, theirs is the actual GitS and everything else an inferior imitation they don't care about. There isn't that same power dynamic as with Asian Americans in a white-saturated film industry that makes the same incident of whitewashing so much more potently offensive.
fun fact: many people in the rural parts of China have never seen white people. Apparently some white guy was travelling through the villages and a woman (via a translating local) asked him what part of China he was from. I love the purity of that, where they're genuinely race-blind because everyone just looks like a human.
Though this is slightly different given it's a Chinese director and being partly produced and financed by China. It doesn't cause the same damage as when it's done in the US, given that most Chinese-produced films have an all-Chinese cast, and they probably see this as their exciting exotic new project with a white guy. Kind of like how many Japanese people in Japan had no problem with Americans deciding to adapt Ghost in the Shell with ScarJo - as far as they're concerned, theirs is the actual GitS and everything else an inferior imitation they don't care about. There isn't that same power dynamic as with Asian Americans in a white-saturated film industry that makes the same incident of whitewashing so much more potently offensive.
fun fact: many people in the rural parts of China have never seen white people. Apparently some white guy was travelling through the villages and a woman (via a translating local) asked him what part of China he was from. I love the purity of that, where they're genuinely race-blind because everyone just looks like a human.