AVATAR: Publicity Wanted!

[glockgal]

AVATAR THE LAST AIRBENDER
It's the publicity post!

As with everything else in our modern world, publicity is the way to get noticed. I've started with the most obvious venues - online new sites and newsblogs, specifically those that enjoy a good Entertainment-related story.

So, as with the aang-aint-white letter-writing campaign, please help me with getting

Comments

[ani_bester]

Thank you for this ^__^

For whatever reason, the promo art I see everywhere really does make me think the kids are caucasion (who knows maybe that was deliberate too). Like I said, I've never seen 3 seconds of the show so when my f'list exploded with OMG the cast Caucasions!! I was like huh wha?

I never doubted y'all, but this really shows just how stupid the casting is to us non fans.

PS: Their have gotta be bigger things to hit. Poke the ACLU or something, See if there are some watchdog groups for things like this with some clout. I know some group scared Disney and got them to change the name of the girl in this Frog Princess. I'd poke for you but I'm at work.

[bzzinglikeneon]

This was me, as well. I knew pretty much zip about Avatar aside from occasionally seeing icons of the characters on my flist -- But even then, I wouldn't really have known what they were from. I think it's really, really beneficial to have something so immediately visual for people like us who otherwise would have had no idea of the culture involved. I just thought it was a fantasy thing.

And I still think Jackson's too old. >.>

[glockgal]

Thank goodness for that visual essay, man. It just drives the point home even to me, and I've watched the entire series!

Ohhhh Jackson. So old, so white...so wrong.

[glockgal]

Hooray! I wanted to tell you that it's true - based off of cursory glances at the promo stuff *tries not to get all conspiracy theory about that, LOL*, the initial reaction of "Er, any actor can play them" is reasonable. The amazing (read WTFery) happens when someone who has watched the whole series still tries to say "Yeah, I know it's all Asian-influenced, but Aang looks white".

I just. It's still so hard for me to comprehend that mentality, really it is!

Oooooh! I totally want to look into this Frog Princess name thing. Thanks for that! *looks it up* It's too bad - they talk about the name change, but not who or how it was pioneered.

Still, it kinda gives me hope I mean. If DISNEY can change, why not Paramount, right? Right? XD XD

[vejiicakes]

Just think; it wasn't only Maddy-to-Tiana; they even changed the title from The Frog Princess to The Princess and the Frog to avoid upsetting the groups (and I still have no idea what precisely was going on with the former title that was so objectionable, especially when it was the title of the original book) and changing major plot elements because they were too unattractively historically accurate (she worked for rich white people in a pre-Civil Rights period of American history).

So, I mean, if a world power like Disney can change its movie during its production stages while they're still releasing information of their progression through the movie for super-sensitive details like that, you'd FIGURE there would be a similar advocate group for our concerns to lean on Paramount before pre-production is even underway!

[glockgal]

I'm making a post about it right now! Oh the things I spend my time doing at work. XD