I am sorry to say that today I am the bearer of ill will

[kali921]

lienne tagged me for the Eight Things That Make You Happy meme, but yesterday afternoon and this morning I saw the below two things and was reminded of how much I occasionally despair of humanity.

In case you're unaware of why so many fans are so upset by how the casting was done for the live action version of Avatar, perhaps this will nicely illustrate

Comments

[kali921]

It's the outright dismissal on the part of the producers, director, and the casting agents for the Avatar film THAT THERE IS A PROBLEM that really makes me nauseous.

[wild_euphoria]

The Avatar casting literally makes me shake with anger. This film would have been such a good chance for getting some new Asian American actors into the industry.

[kali921]

Not just Asian Americans. Native and First Nation actors. Actors that could represent the obvious South American influence (meaning Aztec, Inca, etc.) on the tribes that watched over the dragons. Avatar was a luscious smorgasbord of non-white civilizations and cultures, it had such a beautiful eclecticism in its melange of peoples, and this film just ruins all of that.

[wild_euphoria]

True that!! Which is why I hope that fans of Avatar are boycotting the shit out of this thing, as I am. I love this show, and it makes me so sad and frustrated to see it completely destroyed like this. Not to mention it hurts me, as an Asian person, to see so much whitewashing.

The people involved with this movie are morons.

[ceitfianna]

Why does the guy playing Sokka look like a miniature Robert Pattison? That's just disturbing.

Also I always enjoy what you have to say about perceptions of female beauty because from so many different directions, women are given contradicting ideas of what's beautiful along with simply unhealthy ideas.

[kali921]

Why does the guy playing Sokka look like a miniature Robert Pattison? That's just disturbing.

Why, because people of color as main characters in a film that's supposed to be marketed towards a white majority just won't do, that's why!

[ceitfianna]

Yeeah just so wrong and I haven't even watched Avatar.

Edited for my grammar fail.

[gillan]

Zuko's not a villain! By the end of the series you realize that him and Ang are BOTH the main characters of the show.

[kali921]

Totally agreed! But he's the closest thing in the show to a villain at the beginning (but then he really was well fleshed over the course of the show). Avatar was a show that really eschewed a strong black/white dichotomy in terms of the concept of "villain." Except for Sozin, of course, but even THERE the show touches on how and why he became so twisted and hegemonic. He reminds me a bit of Doom in that at one point he seemed to clearly believe that what he was doing was for the good of everyone. Before he went off the deep end and just wanted to subjugate everything and everyone, I mean.

[gillan]

Yeah. Oh and I pretty much agree about the casting, but I think the casting of Zuko is actually pretty cool.

And holy crap Millie Carter's ass is terrifying, and I mean that in a good way.

[outlawpoet]

yeah, aren't there going to be multiple movies? I doubt they'll cover his character growth in the first one, except peripherally, and I'm not entirely sure they will all get made.

So either way, the initial movie(which will probably be the most popular, since the show is over, and not gaining fans) will have the (admittedly awesome) dark actor as the bad guy.

(Also, if Water Tribe folk were that pale(and their lifestyles aren't wildly different than on the show), they'd die of cancer at the poles. Just saying.)

[_call_me_snake_]

Someone needs to send Deborah Miller some historical based descriptions on one of the most famous Macedonian women EVER. She was short and a little plump. Still Cleopatra is a woman given great sexual appeal!