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[glockgal]

TWILIGHT > AVATAR
Cree Actor in Talks for Lead Role in Twilight's 'New Moon' - I MEAN. COME ON. If Twilight can make the goddamned effort, WHY DOES THE LAST AIRBENDER HAVE TO FAIL US ON SO MANY (read: three) LEVELS?? IT IS SUPPOSED TO BE AN ASIAN-BASED WORLD, WTF WTF WTF

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[kayay]

OBVIOUSLY, there is only one native American actor out there, and Twilight got him. Right? What do you mean there are more? WHAT?!

[glockgal]

AHHHH RIGHT. I TOTALLY FORGOT THAT NATIVE AMERICANS ARE SO RARE IN AMERICA.

*shakes fist* Damn youuuuuu New Mooooooooon!

[glockgal]

I guess since they already think they're getting 'authentic Asians' right, they figure Rathbone-with-a-tan = Inuit.

UR DOIN' IT WRONG.

[melisus]

Well... I dunno... the main werewolf/Native American character has already been cast. And they don't name what this guy's been cast as so... he's probably in some minor werewolf role.

But that's still leaps and bounds ahead of Avatar.

[glockgal]

They article does claim he's landed a lead role, which to me means he has, like. A speaking role? With a personality and possibly an integral purpose in the plot? Man - just the mere fact that Twilight was like "Oh, hey, let's not just tan a some white actors and cast them in lead Quileute roles" is totally a leap ahead of TLA.

But, you know - I guess since TLA is a fantasy, it's okay. Unlike Twilight, which is SO BASED IN REALITY.

[ashkitty]

Twilight made so much effort to be diverse and PC that it cast them that way rather than 1) matching them to their descriptions in the book, or 2) ending up with it looking anything at all like the actual location (zombiechick was the actual English teacher in Forks at the time and the place is like 90% white and 10% Native American, just fyi). I'm not saying this is a bad thing; it's not like it's great literature and the races aren't important to characterisation (except the native american werewolf tribe, that's sort of important) so why not make it more diverse (if it were a couple of hours south of forks, it would've been in one of the most multicultural places i've ever seen, anyway).

Course, it helps that they apparently realise that it IS important. I think the whole native werewolf thing would sound a bit ridiculous coming from a white guy, but there are many, many reasons I changed my mind about going into the movie business. :p

[glockgal]

I think the whole native werewolf thing would sound a bit ridiculous coming from a white guy

I agree; the bitter irony being that apparently Water Tribe things from TLA somehow don't seem at ALL ridiculous coming from white actors. At least, according to Paramount Pictures. *facepalms*

[ashkitty]

Yes, well, we've established they're morons. *pets*

(eta: they're, not their. It is nearly 3 am.)

[neocloud9]

Oy vey. My brain hurts now.

[glockgal]

Cruel, cruel fate. How it mistreats us!