An incredibly moving piece from ssj10 on how The Last Airbender movie is personally affecting and hurting people with their racism.

pie_or_death also sent me this CNN article about recent whitewashing in movies, which includes white, white Angelina Jolie cast as Cleopatra in an upcoming biopic...you know, the Egyptian queen of Mediterranean descent who science has determined had an African mother. Totally white ( Read more... )

"Why is Spiderman White?" It's a damn good article, go read it. It's also been mentioned on

Baby, it's hit the big news.

LA Times (now with pictures)
Associated Press
NBC
San Francisco Gate
NOLA
CBS
Yahoo! Movies, with photos
Huffington Post
MovieLine

The LA Times blog wrote an article about the racebending in both The Last Airbender and Prince of Persia. It's a pretty good article, so if you'd like to leave a nice comment thanking them, that'd be awesome!

In other news: Saban is making a new Power Rangers series and releases a casting call; the red ranger must be whiteFinally, if you're a ( Read more... )

SciFi Wire has two articles up about the racebending, one saying "yes, this is racist" and one saying "no, this isn't racist". Let's all go politely say our opinion on each of these pieces.

Thanks to the racebending comm! Their post is here.

Shyamalan, why don't you stop while you're only so far behind? Why do you continue to defend this movie? "So if I'm failing the bar, I'm not sure whose bar is set higher than this movie." How dare we have standards, you guys, how dare we expect Asians and Inuit to star in a world based on Asian and Inuit cultures!

Thanks once again to racebending for ( Read more... )

Mickey Rourke as Genghis fucking Khan. Article here.

Fucking seriously? In all our American history books, he's the evil Asian warlord oh noes until we want to make a movie about him, then he's suddenly white? Fuck you, Hollywood!

Thanks to racebending for finding this.

jedifreac makes a really good argument about numbers and the "cost of appeal" argument you hear so often against casting people of colour (or women, or any other minority, really) in lead roles, especially as to how that argument fails in regards to Avatar: The Last Airbender.

Also, here's another article covering the racebending! Featuring Shyamalan going ( Read more... )

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