When Movies Didn't Cast Actors Based On Race and They Were Still Great (Page 2)

[ChocolateBrowny]

I didn't watch Aladdin because the actress that plays jasmine looks nothing like the cartoon character. she's ugly!

[ChocolateBrowny]

oh and you didn't do a mytake on Aladdin before :D
Jasmine is an indian princess because the palace looks exactly like the Taj Mahal in Agra, India... Agra... Agrabhar...

[SpiderManFan2002]

Jasmine wasn't ugly, and she actually played the role really well, you're missing out. :P

I didn't write a MyTake about Aladdin because it came out during Ramadan and I watched it after then.

[ChocolateBrowny]

lol then you shouldn't have written "I didn't see you complaining about how Jasmine in the cartoon was a dark-skinned Arabian girl, but in the remake she's a light-skinned"

No she looks like a dude. I won't be watching it ever :)

[SpiderManFan2002]

I saw other posts, that people posted about Jasmine.

She does not look like a dude she is so pretty!

[ElissaDido]

One of the songs in the Aladin movie is literally called Arabian night...
Jasmine and Aladin are Arab names..

[ChocolateBrowny]

@ElissaDido Jasmine is a name of a white flower or a plant in the olive family, is of Indian origin (our kitchen is painted Jasmine white for this very reason). I accept Aladdin is arab but you see this movie stems from an arabic race who want to divide and conquer and so Aladdin seeks an Indian princess living in the Taj Mahal. You have to imagine Agra-bhar as two places conjoined into a small space. This is what the writer imagined as he probably loved an indian woman.

[AnimeThot]

I think the actress looks better than the cartoon. Cartoon Jasmine has a giant nose.

[RationalMale]

The same people going "only racists are upset about Ariel!" are the same people who clamor for more non whites in all movies possible, and who loved that Black Panther was indeed a very very racial movie.

[shephardjhon]

Spider-Man handles this perfectly. They didn't pretend Peter Parker didn't exist, they didn't say he became useless/evil like Thor, no they made a NEW character who still likes Peter Parker.

[MackToday]

Cultural Marxism again. Attempting to redistribute social power, it's what they tried in the Soviet Union with money , housing etc. It was a disaster, it will be again if we don't stop it.

[ForbesMagazine]

The actor for the 2019 Jasmine has a very similar skin tone to the cartoon! They're both tan!

Besides, Arabs are pretty diverse in their skin color. Even then, the original Aladdin was set in Uyghurstan, not in Arabia or the Levant.

[border_lines]

Those three look similar to the animated version, though, which is all I care for.

[themomo84]

I agree. The topic of cultural appropriation is tedious and endless.

[TonyBologna25]

People did complain about jasmine being half white/indian. A lot of disney shareholders dropped out and sold. Disney stocks went down because of this.

[SpiderManFan2002]

I'm not saying nobody complained, what I'm saying is the people I see on G@G complaining about a black Ariel, did not complain about a half white half Indian.

And as I said, she did great as Jasmine so those people are missing out hugely.

[TheAmazingDoggo]

Not trying to be rude or anything, but if they made a live action Princess and the Frog and casted Tiana as a white girl, I think that there would be bigger back last than this whole Ariel thing is getting

[Yesplease23]

True even though orignal story is inspired from European story

[AllThatSweetJazz]

You seem to gloss over that all your examples actually manage to look like the character. Iss bailey going to be in white-face?

[Yesplease23]

In Alita Battle Angel they don't look Japanese anima character usually don't look Japanese so i am seeing resemblance with character sadly new Ariel don't look like how she should.

[Vesta]

Casting a white woman to play Pocahontas, defeats the purpose of the story

ITS WRONG

[SpiderManFan2002]

Pocahontas was a historical figure.

Ariel is a fictional character.

[Vesta]

Portrayed as a white girl, it should be played by a white girl, not a black one

Pocahontas, fictional or not, is a native, it should be played by a native

[polymuter]

How is Naomi Scott a miscast for Jasmine? She could easily pass as North Indian or Pakistani. Not everyone in those regions have thick eyebrows and dark brown skin.

[SpiderManFan2002]

North Indian or Pakistani isn't Arabian.

And I never said she was miscast.

[polymuter]

You implied she was the incorrect race for the role because she wasn't dark enough. Naomi's complexion isn't uncommon in the Middle East either.

[SpiderManFan2002]

"Earlier on this year, the Aladdin movie came out. It was an amazing movie, I for one, loved it. One of my favourite parts of the movie was Jasmine. Naomi Scott played an amazing role as Jasmine, when she made that speech after the song "speechless", that was one of my most favourite parts of the movie and I swear I can't stop listening to "speechless" itself. "

Did you read that part?

I was saying her skin tone didn't match Jasmine's in the cartoon because it didn't. But what does that matter? Naomi did a brilliant job. :)

[armleg]

Because its not about race what dont you get? Those characters, no matter what race they are, are faithful adaptations.

[Muhammad1999]

I think Halle bailey is very attractive and she deserves to be the little mermaid.

[SpiderManFan2002]

She is very pretty :)

[LtJackass]

They did cast by race. They just weren't changing the races of white characters.

[Puppylover_129]

Do plays count. Basically everyone in Hamilton lol

[SpiderManFan2002]

I mean I don't watch plays, but sure. xD

[leahzrc]

Will Smith sucked ass, let's be honest.

[SpiderManFan2002]

No, I don't think so, and neither do many other people considering this was his second highest grossing movie ;)

[leahzrc]

It's disney, it's obviouly gonna make a lot of money. a ton of people agree with me, and i dont think children care, which is what disney is targeted towards mainly

[esotericstory]

Death to Hollywood period.

[MySunnyLife]

I like Mulan 👍