more twilight crap! Run for your lives!
Stephenie Meyer has a new novella coming out. Featuring a Twilight vampire.
The comments below are hilarious. I particularly like this one: I believe the complete title is ""The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner: A Novella That Will Pay For My New Condo."
The comments below are hilarious. I particularly like this one: I believe the complete title is ""The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner: A Novella That Will Pay For My New Condo."
I'm familiar with the Avatar series, even though I've only seen a couple of episodes, it's clear that the entire cast are part of Asian culture and the whole setting is set in a world largely populated by those of different Asian cultures.
I've read the casting call sheet and it is racist. Whether it's intentional or not, that's how it looks. For anyone who doesn't believe that there is still Racism in Hollywood is kidding themselves.
As a "Non-Caucasian" person, it's disheartening when people don't or refuse to see anything wrong in situations like these. It's happened before with other films.
A real life story is adapted for the screen and the entire cast is race-changed from the people they are portraying. I hate the reason for it too.
"Being adapted for American Audiences."
As if American = White. It's the same with the casting director's response to the backlash for the Avatar film. I can't find a direct quote, but she said something like since this Avatar is set in a multi-cultural world, then the casting would represent that.
That's good and fine. But somehow she translated that to mean that if the film has no white people, then it's not multi-cultural. Like there's only a few ethnicities in the entire world.
What exactly is the problem with sticking to the race and appearance of a character? It's not as if whites are under-represented in film. Or any other form of media for that matter.
It's just all so frustrating. It's even more frustrating when people don't see a problem with it.
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And more frustrating still not just when people don't even see a problem with it, but that they blame you for seeing it, for bringing it up, for pointing it out.
If you see the racism, then it's because YOU brought it. Like Hitchcock's birds or something. Everything was all sunshine and daisies and wonder bread till YOU showed up to point out the problem.
Next up: and besides which you were wearing a miniskirt so it's your fault.
Yep.
(and I disabled comments because I didn't want to start a whole dogpile thread on anyone. But you have no idea how reassuring it is not to be speaking into a vacuum. Thanks)
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