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Nobody complained when Nick Fury suddenly became a black guy that looks like Sam Jackson. But that's because the Hasselhoff version was already such a non-entity by the time the MCU rolled around, that no one really cared that much.
However, making Katara of the Water Tribe of the South be pasty-white made no sense whatsoever. It required retconning an entire civilization to justify!
I get why they keep putting white actors in movies about Moses: wanting to somehow recapture the magic of Charleton Heston with The Ten Commandments. But sometimes, you gotta let it go.
I was surprisingly fine with MJ being altered. Namely, because they never gave her much to do in the Sony films anyway. Sony has so misused and underused her, that she could be played by almost any skinny girl and it'd be the same thing. Case in point: other than moping, screaming, and needing to be saved - and whoring around and cheating on everyone - what was Kirsten Dunst's MJ known for again?
And in the Heist addon for Spidey PS4, MJ in Earth-1048 basically admits to sleeping with every Tom, Dick, and Harry at one point in her life. So she's an overcompensating journalist who is reckless because of the inequality in her relationship; whose only other accomplishment besides gambling her life for a story again and again is that she used to sleep around even more than Peter? Yeah... no need for her to be a redhead to tell that story! So the MCU didn't even bother.
Jimmy Olsen in the films is of so little significance, again, that he could be played by almost anyone. And while I was confused by Michael Clarke Duncan playing the Kingpin, he totally sold the part. He was probably the best part of Daredevil 2003. Jennifer Garner as Elektra, by that stroke, was simply miscast.
I think the main rule is stick to the original and don't make changes that aren't necessarily. If it's either a historical person, the appearance is important for the plot or the author have decided something, they should keep it accurate and respect it. If it's fictional, the character's appearance aren't important in the plot, the author hasn't described their appearance and doesn't care I think it's up to the movie and series makers what they wants to do.
If I was an author, I would like my ideas to be respected when someone makes an adaption. I could accept them changing parts of the plot to make it fit the movie or series format better, since not everything in books would look good on the screen. I would however get disappointed if they changed basic and simple things like a hair color because of it's not that difficult to get correct. Imagine if people didn't care about J. K. Rowling's idea and made a movie about Harry Potter as a bald guy with no glasses, or if someone made a biography about Morgan Freeman as a blonde person.
I think the actors don't have to be born from a specific place or be exactly the same as the characters since it's acting and they're a different person than the characters, but I do however think their appearance should be convincing on screen and they should be passable. If the character is a natural red head, I think they should try to find an actor with natural red hair. If they doesn't find any good actors with red hair, they should go for someone who's natural blonde and dye their hair or use a wig making it look natural. They shouldn't go for an African-American then because of inaccuracy. I think the most ironic thing I've seen in movie's history is when the original character was white and they cast a white woman to play her, but the movie director changed his mind and made the white woman look Latina because of he thought it would look cool. It's funny to think of he suddenly thought: "Hey, we've a blonde woman playing a blonde witch. Why not make her hair black and her skin tan?".
@October808 you donrnt know the English do you?
@October808 i dont think i had beans on toast i like 40 years
Hollywood has been doing it for years, especially to characters who are minorities for the longest. No one bats an eye and in fact has the nerve to tells those minorities that the race of character is no big deal and seeing a character that represents them i being erased is fine. No one cares when a black, hispanic, Asian etc. fictional character is white washed but as soon as Arial, also a fictional character, becomes black- then suddenly it's a problem? Sure it's annoying, but i wish everyone would keep the same energy. Let them make batman or spiderman or any loved fictional character become any other race than a white man/boy.. and you will see tables being flipped but you don't see these reaction when it's a character that's is non white. get pissed when white characters are changed, when black characters are changed, Asian, characters are changed etc. again, keep the same energy.
And if the actor is the best actor for the role let them play it. That's what actings about. The best person to make the role come to life.
Man on fire john creese was white and they gave it to denzel and nobody could play that role better.
In the case of starfire she is an alien princess and has an orange tinge. But the actress playing her in Titans is amazing. I love the choice.
Christian Bale is an amazing actor so sure the choice made the movie better.
Zendaya has been the best MJ in all the movies.
The Jimmie Olsen role that to much change for me. He was a weak person who now is a super badass.
Michael clarke Duncan not sure about that one never saw the movie.
Aquaman no brainer Jason Momoa made Aquaman actually an entertaining character for the first time.
I hate what they did to starfire. They made her look like a cheap hooker.
True lol 😂
I understand if it's solely because they're an amazing actor and fit the personality and overall character of whoever they're playing. I mean, I wouldn't have minded Zendaya as MJ if she had actually matched what MJ was supposed to be like. It's just when they cast someone of the other race for brownie points or when they change it just to be more inclusive that it actually bothers me.
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I think these studios change the established races of known characters, not to be progressive or inclusive, but just to rile people up and crate attention and buzz about their otherwise half assed remake.
If you want to be inclusive and progressive, make a new movie with a new story with new characters. No issue.
But because they're remaking a well known classic movie, rather than doing a frame by frame carbon copy of the original (which seems lazy and a blatant cash grab) and rather than actually thinking of things to add or improve upon to add a dash of originality... The easiest thing to do is change the race, gender or sexual orientation of the characters. That's not being original and it's not improving on what already came before.
They know it will cause a shit storm for those who loved the original story, it will create buzz and debate, thus more awareness of their new movie coming, and it will maybe make those supporting the change or relate to those changes go and see the movie.
But in the end, it's just an empty remake that doesn't bring anything unique to the franchise or original story and all the hype and debates were for nothing.
I think that depends on the situation.
If the character is defined as some particular ethnicity / gender, then an actor who closely matches those characteristics should be chosen.
However, if the character has no particular defined ethnicity / gender, then it shouldn't matter.
For instance, there was a shitstorm about 3 months ago over a live action "The Little Mermaid" being cast with a black girl instead of a white girl like the original animated film. Since mermaids aren't real (and, if they were, would likely be more genetically closely related to blacks), I had no problem with that.
However, I DO have a problem with the Broadway play "Hamilton" because the actors chosen to play real-life Founding Fathers were deliberately chosen to be a different ethnicity.
In fiction, I've come across characters whose ethnicity is never even mentioned and/or is difficult to discern. So, if a film or play was made, casting for this character can be wide open. As an example, in Isaac Asimov's "Foundation's Edge" and "Foundation and Earth", a central character is Golan Trevize. The only things that we know about Golan is that he is a human male from the planet Terminus and is living about 25000 years from now. So, how do you cast that?
For me, it all boils down to two things:
1. Casting should be done to best match the defined character or real-life person who is the basis of the character.
2. For characters who are not well-defined, it's less of an issue, but casting should always be toward matching what characteristics/traits are known.
I forgot to mention this: In Hollywood's past, "non-white" roles were often given to white actors. For instance, in the 1971 film "A Fistful of Dynamite" (aka "Duck, You Sucker!" aka "Duck Your Head"), the very white Rod Steiger plays Mexican Juan Miranda.
This practice of selecting a white actor for the lead of a character of different ethnicity was very common. Do you have a problem with that?
Unnecessary and divisive. Just make a movie in the same universe with a NEW character of a different ethnicity, and new storyline and DON’T make it about race. That would be great, and the proper way to go about it.
These people don’t seem to understand that just because you criticize how they make their movie, it doesn’t make you racist. They are politicizing race to manipulate the virtuous nature of modern day people to gain power, and shame on you if you see through their shallow, corrupt garbage! If anything, they’ve proven that they want to hold racial groups down to maintain control. Look at Kanye. “Shame on that wack job Kanye West! He’s just crazy, he’s gone off the deep end for not supporting the left!”
They are CORRUPT people! Kanye is free to think and believe whatever he wants. He’s caught on to their shady ways in how they manipulate the African American population. They’ve probably labeled him a white supremacy advocate or something now, which, HOW does that even make sense?
Wake up people. Think freely. It doesn’t have anything to do with race.
It annoys me when they do it regardless of the character's race. If the character has pale skin and they hire a brown skinned actor, they don't resemble the original character so it feels like they aren't really the same character anymore. The same goes for if they hire a light skinned person to play character that isn't light skinned. No matter what the race is I think they should always have people who actually look like the characters play them in live action shows/films. Character design is very important and is one of the main things we attribute to identify them. Character design is a part of who the character is and when you drastically change it, the character becomes unrecognizable. I mean look at mickey mouse, his design is so essential to his character and easily recognizable that people see three circles stuck together and think of him. Imagine how people would react if they gave him an updated character design and he had oval shaped ears and brown fur. Or if they redesigned spongebob and made him round. Or made Pikachu pink instead of yellow. That would ruin those characters for most people. The same goes for changing a character's race.
Finding a good actor/actress who can transcend a role, maybe. If the "race" is not integral to a story, then maybe... Doing it to cover some Social Justice Warrior type thing, or to just fill some sort of quota, or just because they're "hip" right now, no.
It's like anything else. If you want a role, you should ideally be looking for an actor that can act, but also sort of resemble the character, if that's important to the character.
Like... ok, there was a series called "Batman Beyond." It's a "Batman" set in the future (2040). Barbara Gordon is a senior citizen (50+, voiced by Stockard Channing), and took over as police commissioner from her dad (all makes some sense). She was voiced in the series by a 50 something year old woman who had a quality of a woman anywhere from 50s-70s. In the movie that came out later, same character was voiced by Angie Harmon. Both are amazing actresses, but they picked a woman no older than 29 (at the time) to play a woman in her 60's - 80's. And it sounded "off." It sounded like a 20 something trying way too hard to add 40+ years to the voice. I have no idea why they went with her, other than she's a good actress, a name, etc. To me, they should have picked someone with the right voice quality. Even now, while her voice has no doubt changed, and maybe she's gotten some skill with playing older, I still think she sounds "young," and would not be a great fit for a character in her 80's.
A Madea movie with Angie Harmon would be a bad idea, as she fits almost none of the criteria, even if the Madea concept itself is a mild parody (a young guy playing an old woman). I think even A Madea movie with Martin Lawrence would "feel" kinda wrong, even though he's done the "masculine dude in drag for laughs" a few times.
Most of the time it's annoying and ruins the character. But Nick Fury, Kingpin and Aquaman were all played by phenomenal actors. Aquaman was always a goofy surfer dude but now he's a believable badass. Nick Fury was a boring white haired white guy with no real character until SLJ arrived. Michael Clark Duncan was one of my favorite actors and I was so sad when he died. He isn't the comic Kingpin but he did a good job playing the character.
As for Ariel, that's actually more akin to what she would have looked like. She would not have had pale skin and red hair.
Making Domino black with a white circle is dumb as shit. She's literally a Domino... Pale white skin with a black circle around her eye... Sure the actress did an okay job but that was not Domino.
And making MJ, a bombshell redhead be played by Zendaya is just insulting. I'm not even really an MJ fan but regardless...
I don't like it when it feels forced to meet a political correctness quota. If it happens because they think the actor will do a great job, I think that's cool.
For example, Halle Berry was great as catwoman but PC culture didn't pressure movies into giving her the role. She did the role because they thought she'd do the best job.
(Not native english) As a black, it is annoying. I never had any problem identifying to white characters in shows and games as a kid. Then some people with initially good intentions decided we have to identify only by looks and biological background, not by personnality, interests, goals etc. They must create new interesting characters if they want it so bad, but make them interesting. My sister too find it excessive, and is annoyed about the new little mermaid and starfire in titans... Honestly, america is quite fucked up and is spreading a dangerous way of thinking and solving "problems", while it's already complicated enough, needless to say i'm a bit worried.
sorry, but i have a hard time believing that you are black. i’ve encountered people of many different races claiming that they are black in their opinions to make it seem more believable. (also starfire is not white she is from a different planet where no one else in the planet of earth is from therefore anyone should be able to play her)
Pissed as fuck. Make a comic book with a character as another race instead of white washing everything to avoid racist comments. Seriously guys! The issue isn't how it's portrayed, the issue is that there are not enough minority superheroes. you cannot fix this problem with white washing. You can fix this problem by becoming a comic book writer that specializes in creating minority superheroes with their own individual comic books series. Don't be so two-faced about how you're approaching it. Imagine how people would react if you portrayed Black panther as a white guy for the actor. Same thing the other way around. it's not genuine, and it ruins a lot of precious childhood memories for a lot of people. Don't rewrite history to suit your needs, write the future to better suit the needs of society.
Avatar :the last Airbender series was just nothing like the movie. It was just shit. If you ever watched the avatar Anime then you'll know that it was far from the movie. I don't know of others but surely this legendary series was entirely spoiled by the movie.
If it's a good change that this particular actor adds something to the character without taking away from it, such as Samuel L. Jackson's portrayal of Nick Fury, or Tilda Swinton's portrayal of The Ancient One, then I'm ok with it.
If on the other hand it takes away from the character, by changing it for political or "progressive" like reasons, such as the blackwashed "Spider-Man: Homecoming", or the feminist "Ghostbusters", then that is not good.
It's not a change for the sake of the story, but rather for the self-interest for the ones making the movie. That's where i draw the line.
I agree. I only care and mind when they change a characters race for obviously political reasons. That is just obnoxious. Other than that, I don’t care.
I also don’t like when people say white kids shouldn’t wear a black panther costume because of cultural appropriation, but they don’t mind black kids wearing Superman, Batman, Ironman, etc... costumes. Cultural appropriation is the biggest joke thought of by today’s butthurt left. Say goodbye to Mexican food. If you’re not German you can’t have sausages or cheeseburger or hotdogs. Seen any black men with the Irish-style hats? I have... TAKE THOSE OFF TOO!!! It is utterly laughable.
@RoninReich cultural appropriation is indeed one of the most retarded concepts of our time. If it wasn't for cultural appropriation, we'd all still be in the trees, throwing shit at one another.
I do think it is better when an actor is a realistic representation of what the character would have been. For instance, I think it was dumb that they had Christian bale play Joseph, and I think it was dumb that they had idris Elba play heimdal or whatever in Thor. It just ends up looking silly.
It gets worse - when they change the sex. In Netflix series Lost in Space they changed Dr. Smith from the original series into a female in the new one. Jonathan Harris morphed into Parker Posey.

It's not something new, it was done to Cinderella before if I'm not wrong. So it's certainly not a new thing, just more mainstream now. And there is no problem with it at all unless the character's race is relevant to the story, like Pocahontas and Mulan.
It's rather ironic that they're pushing these black characters into ginger-held roles for diversity and inclusion despite the fact that gingers are the smallest minority ever, far smaller than black people. Even black minorities in white-majority countries outnumber gingers if maybe discounting Ireland and Scotland.
Its unnecessary tbh. Whether its white to black or vice versa the whole goal is to make the person look like the character so why change the race? I think the only reason they may make white characters into black or any other race in the live action remakes is to get some support and the actual directors and whatnot couldnt give 2 shits about it
I think it's bullshit I've continuously dropped movies my whole life because those liberal assholes are fucking nazis with feelers. One way or another their always trying. to force everyone to think the way they do. Stupid bastards don't see by putting a spot light on race and then depicticting a difference is making a big problem. I'm from the central southern states and and since the Obama administration done all their race division shit tension got so high. in the we didn't care about what fucking color you was. Folks around here that see what he is still don't but our Obama supporters have become very racist and l prejudiced and it sucks. They can't give you a rasonal reason for anything either. Brain wash the week with tv and here were are 20 years behind the 90s in 2019.
Of course a southern traitor would think America is more racist now. Let me ask you this:
Do you pray to a white Jesus?
Did you complain about Prince of Egypt?
Did you go on a rant when the ancient one was made white?
Last time I checked America is a better place, and you southern people just can't accept the fact that we're moving out of a time where you can call black men niggas and Spanish descendants Mexicans. Your only issue with race changes is when minority people are added into the spotlight but when the reverse happens it's all peaches.
I feel like the character should be played by someone of the same race/culture because we have already defined them to that race. If they feel the need to have a character of different race/culture then they can make a different character. The character already made should not be changed because like for example, Ariel, is described as a red haired, "white" mermaid. Therefore we should have someone who fits the description already made.
For me, it really depends on the character. For example the pics of the egyptians played by white folks is fairly unforgivable. Where the character's race is important to the story, (take the native American shown in one of these pic sets) then it shouldn't be changed.
But when it is irrelevant to the story, it doesn't phase me at all
I dont think they necessarily have to have be the same race but I think if a character has already been established as having a certain appearance that it would be nice if they try to maintain some consistency with future adaptations. Like if the person they pick is a different race but they are still look similar to what people expect that character to look like then that is fine by me, but if they look drastically different then it's kind of hurts the immersion in my opinion.
I don't really care. I guess its both lazy and kind of shitty to cast white folk in obviously different ethnic roles. Like, casting Matt Dameon to be a Japanese hero, or a white kid in an Asian role. However, these roles are fictional people, so until they cast Ben Aflek to play Mandela or Gahndi, I don't really care.
If anyone has ever watched any type of animation the race of the animated character doesn't fit the origin of which the animated character was made such as Japan animation those aren't Japanese faces.. lol as far as Little mermaid and other american-made films why do we have to bother with what race The Little mermaid was I mean who sits back in thinks about this oh why is The Little mermaid white instead of black why is The Little mermaid not Asian lol
Apparently being original is dead so let's just reuse something from the past but just change the race and look of a few things and make a movie to make a quick buck even though it's shit compared to the original, there's nothing original anymore it's rare to find that kinda thing it's why I don't watch remakes of a lot movies unless I hear it's a real good movie or If I have an interest in it I won't waste my time or money watching something I know is going to be shit
I think it is fantastic. We need diversity in all aspects of life and changing the race, or gender of a character helps to lend a brand new life and look at it. Gives new perspectives and possibilities. We also have to remember these characters in which we hold to certain standards are them selfs made up. They could have been any combination of things before they were originally released.
Dramatic much?
So what practically does diversity improve?
Forced diversity isn't a good thing. If you want more characters that represent a specific race you should create new stories with original characters. Changing the character's race and making them unrecognizable completely ruins the movie/show and makes it seem like an unofficial spin off of the original. If the original character has light skin and red hair, the actressnthat plays them should have red hair and light skin. If the character is dark skinned with an afro the actor should look like them. Imagine if they gave mickey mouse oval ears, removed his gloves, and made him brown. It would not be a recognizable character anymore.
Just feels like desperate racial brownie point farming. As in not caring whether it's cannon to their own. Works depiction and instead what will get the most promotion by minorities. And in a way just trying to manipulate the smaller racial groups support. It's kinda like the crummy awkward live actions of anime that Netflix pumps out every 2-4 years.
I think that unless it is written in the source material what a character specifically looks like (sex, ethnicity, physical characteristics etc) then it is open to interpretation. Example being a black lady cast as Hermione Granger is the Harry Potter stage play. Nowhere in the books does it state that Hernione is white. I think that is the reason so many adaptations state that they are "based on" a book as opposed to copying from it.
No problem with it basically if there working with a comic character the character might have been originally been created in less diverse times hence worth a change.
I do hate when they change the gender of a character if you really must change this go down the mirror universe route or just create a new character.
Well, it's a sign of changing demographics and changing audiences too. I wouldn't say I'm against it but my gut reaction is more just because "I don't like that actor over this actor" and race isn't the issue... it's just I thought a different actor in my head same race as say that black Mary Jane could've done a better job than the black actor they went with. So you know just saying, it's not about race, it's im picky about my actors. Lol.
So for me I'm not fussed... I just wish the actor they went with, could've done a better performance. But that's me being demanding and pushy, lols I can't act.
In a generalised sense, not picking on any one movie or one actor. Just using hypotheticals.
Don't care because I've given up movies and media since we're not in the pre-1980s, where musicians obsessed over music as art, and movies were about storytelling.
Society has become so narcissistic and greedy it's nothing more than a platform to shove belief down others' throats, and tell those who reach different conclusions why they're idiots for not believing as another does.
Depends on the character/story.
A historical figure? I have a problem with it. Stick to how the character looked. If it’s just some anime, cartoon character or anything else, I literally don’t care, as long as it’s good, and if somewhat looks like them (so I can know who they are talking about by just looking at them)
Most of the time, race does not define the character and I'm good with it. But sometimes it does.
Felix Leiter became black in Casino Royale and I thought Jeffrey Wright fit the part just as well as David Hedison did in earlier Bond films or maybe better. Ditto Naomie Harris as Moneypenny re-imagined from Lois Maxwell, but logical.
But James Bond himself is a white male from the United Kingdom and I will not attend a Bond film that abandons that.
Bond's appearance varies too. When Pierce Brosnan, Sean Connery and many other actors played him, he had black hair. When Daniel Craig played him, he had blonde hair.
The differences are smaller, but still there. There's a difference between someone with an Italian/Spanish like appearance and Nordic one. Having a narrow small nose doesn't automatically make you look British, but it definitively makes you look European. Again, the UK is a diverse place. So having some blondes, brunettes etc. makes sense though.
@curiousnorway
Not being sentimental, Craig is the best Bond of all. Had Dalton made more than two movies, he'd be shoulder to shoulder with Craig. Moore and Brosnan were buffoons, Lazenby was a fill in and Connery is The Godfather of Bonds. This is Ian Fleming's drawing of Bond
en.wikipedia.org/.../File:Fleming007impression.jpg
Looks like they had a ringer with Dalton.
Judging from the sketch I would say the majority of the dark haired actors match the Bond drawing to an extent appearance wise, but Daniel Craig didn't. I've not watched many Bond movies, so I can't tell. Since he looks Mediterranean, I think they could just keep the look in all of the movies. Craig could get his hair dyed darker and a tan.
The facial features, yes, it resemble more. Hair color, I don't know.
Over 90% of canonically red-headed characters have now been portrayed by blacks.
I’ve seen a lot of memes about Hollywood hating red heads lol
Hollywood is full of fags and I don't just mean homos.
Racism all over again. Just its reversed this time.
Everyone talks about ending racism, but they all keep bring it up and pushing about change.
All that does is keep the hate going.
Ever notice if the Government or Hollywood get involved in something. All they do it make it worse.
Look in the 80s with the Governments war on drugs. It made Cocaine famous
As far as animation, what does it matter?
As long as the voice actors speak English clearly
I think the most egregious thing is when they take an actual historical or mythical story, and just change the race of characters. They make Achilles West African and then they make the Ancient Egyptians Anglo-saxon, thats retarded and offensive. its appropriation 100%.
It surely is stupid but how come offensive?
@ThisDudeHere Because the directors are making a conscious decision to alter the publics perspective of history.
Most people understand history through movies.
They are deliberately trying to alter the memory.
They are, indeed. But how is that offensive?
@ThisDudeHere Because they are altering the public perception of history and memory, which will affect how the public reacts against grievances of the native peoples.
You already see this sort of hollywood revisionism, all over and its had a negative affect on people perception of the past. In particular Europeans.
I fully agree and am not denying that. I just don't understand where the offense is. I don't really believe in taking offense.
@ThisDudeHere I get what you are saying but the problem is no one gets offended and does something.
Imagine if someone defiled the image of christ in a movie or show (Which happens every day on television) and christians went and just hung the director. Because what he did was offensive.
No one else would portray him negatively or defile his image.
Wish European people were as easily as offended as other groups. They would be able to form collectives and inact change and protect their heritage
It really depends on what kind of character it is. If it's a historical character or a character based on a real person, then I have a problem with it. If it's a comic book, cartoon, anime, or literary character then as long as the actor/actress can actually pull off the role, I don't have any problem with it.
I think it's dumb. The characters should be the race they were created as. It's better and more creative to make similar superheroes as different races or completely new ones that are all kinds of different races in my opinion, honestly I feel changing a characters race is actually pretty lazy
I call it bullshit.
And racist.
Racist bullshit.
Why racist?
If you white face black panther people would lose their minds. Fuck diversity. Give each race their own charecter the only reason I gave 2 fucks about titans was to see my cartoon crush in live action and they black faces her.
Its like black facing punished when they have blade. by the way where tf is my blade live action series that would be tits. Make it bloody it, d be great.
In short no don't black face character we know are supposed to be white. Make new characters only problem is we know you made them just to be woke asf. Black panther came into the marvel movies and managed to avoid that vibe
And civil war was all the better with him in it. That is an example.
It's just wrong, if equality is to be taken seriously the characters should be treated as people and their heritage is part of the character not to be changed to get more people interested how can Pocahontis become white she's lost her background so not true to the point of the film
That isn't Pocahontas. It's Tiger Lily. Still... pasty-white Indians in Neverland make no sense. Disney allowed it, because they are embarrassed by the original cartoon's song "What Makes the Red Man Red."
I'm just going to be honest and say that as much as I don't care, I don't like it. I'm not racist, but changing a character's race makes them seem like an "off brand" version of that character. This goes for any race, whether Superman is being played by a black guy or Black Panther being played by an Asian guy.
It depends if the character's race is important to their story or not
If an animated character is brought to life, I do like an actor who looks like them, it's interesting. But it's not always practical
Honestly I don't care, when I do care a bit is when a character is from a specific ethnic background where they have like traditional outfits or something like that like Asian, Native American, Indian, Middle Eastern or African or European or Latino.
its been going on since hollywood made its first flick... i would suggest if you didn't take the crap they spew so seriously they would infact lose their influence paradoxically
I don't care cause the actors they selected are excellent at what they do. They didn't just select some random a-list celebs to play these parts they have A-listers. I think it's more so about the acting skills and who plays the part better during auditions than the color of the person.
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It's fucked up. Mostly black people think they have to remake everything with all black characters. They have their own fucking channel BET. You can bet your ass they'd go crazy if any other race, especially the white people, started their own network with all white shows.
Hollywood has been whitewashing remakes for years, so I see no problem with them changing races for remakes. People only start to notice now because of the whole little mermaid debacle, but they don't have the same energy when they give a poc role to a white person.
Okay... So just want to point out that Koriandy'r is an alien race and doesn't count... For everything else... Idc so long as the entertainment is entertaining to me, and I'm not one to nitpick over things as simple as skin color.
I'm not racist but when things are set out a certain way, i. e. a remake/animation or anything describing that character visually or via text, should be consistent with the original. Changing race is ridiculous.
It doesn't really bother me unless it's unconvincing. The whole part of a story is for it to be convincing. Trying to change history, to be something it isn't, is a huge mistake in films and admittedly bothers me a bit.
I honestly just don't get why they do it.
It's not like they are going to have a hard time finding an Asian/ African-American/caucasian guy/woman who could actually match the role's description considering how many people audition.
It depends on the actor. Let's take the Thor movie for example: Heimdallr was portrayed by Idris Elba (though Heimdallr is a redhead). Did anybody complain? No, because he killed that role. Same did Lucy Liu in Charlie's angels. And Zendaya in both Homecoming and Far from Home. But for the rest, I'm not convinced. They should stick with the original, unless the actor is very good
Heimdall actually has black hair in the MARVEL comics.
@October808 in the original history he's a redhead
In the MARVEL comics which the movie is based on, he has black hair. The red hair is irrelevant.
@October808 the Marvel have often always been inaccurate in depictions.
Your comparison is rrelevant, it's based off the MARVEL comics the way Jack Kirby illustrated it as such. The MARVEL version of Heimdall is only an interpretation of Norse mythology.
I’m especially annoyed that they are making James Bond into a black woman. It makes no sense.
Its beyond stupid. And notice how they never do it from black to white.
Granted, Hollywood has been wasting their time trying to look progressive and "in with colored folks homie" instead of just making a damn movie that leaves me entertained for an hour and a half
the fact that you said “colored folks” shows what kind of person you are.
Makes no sense to me but it doesn't trigger me either.
Not a fan of ethnic changes, Gods of Egypt was so bad.
And what is up with Starfire swearing like she's watched too many reruns of Netflix's 'Jessica Jones'? She doesn't even use her unique way of talking. And she's supposed to be orange.
Starfire in the show is a bit odd. She's nothing like the character but in general the show is a lot darker all around, not a race joke. She's suppose to be an assassin from her planet, her powers come from the sun, and she's dressed like that because she legit has no memory of her life prior to the season 1 finale. I was annoyed by her character at first but she's not bad. Overall though the show does well with her.
@Hypnos0929 She needs to be orange, needs to stop watching Jessica Jones reruns and speak like she's supposed to from the comic books. 'Young Justice' the animated series is more faithful.
I'm saying that she isn't really the same character, and no one in the show is.
Robin (Dick Grayson) isn't Nightwing and is a huge murderer
Raven has never been to Azarath and she doesn't really know about Trigon
Beast Boy is a real buzzkill at times and he only turns into tigers
Cyborg isn't in the show and has been replaced by Hawk and Dove and Donna Troy.
Honestly the skin color isn't that big of a deal when you look at the facts SHE'S A MURDERER
@Hypnos0929 Ah beast boy. Just the fact that his skin isn't green is a real problem already. The ONLY series I really enjoyed from DC All Access was Swamp Thing. That had good potential to introduce all the other supernatural elements in the DC 'verse.
Not to be that guy but you're kinda sounding racist. It doesn't even seem like you care about the characters or the actors, you seem to ONLY care about race first which is a bad way to operate when looking at movies and shows in general.
@Hypnos0929 Not to be that guy but you sound idiotic for misuing the word race in a sentence.
Would you prefer I just say "You care more about the color of a character's skin than their character as a whole"? I gave you multiple reasons and outs but you keep jumping back to skin color. You could just say "I dont like the acting" or "My expectations were [insert x or y] so I was disappointed" or "The plot is confusing" or, what most people say, "It's too dark compared to other adaptations" but you keep going back to skin color as if it's the only reason you dislike the show.
I hate it, if the change to character is drastic, might as well create a brand new character and change up the entire backstory. With that said, I don't mind the changes to a character in an alternate universe as long as the original character is untouched in his/her universe or timeline.
If the character is fictional then to me, it doesn't matter. But if the character is a historical figure, or has actually existed then that's different because of accuracy.
Just for the sake of "look this race can do this" is stupid, if the actor can actually play that character super well though I dont tend to mind unless it conflicts with the story at hand
Depends on what they're trying to do. Is it a completely different character in a somewhat similar story or scene to scene remake? If it's the latter they should look the same as well.
I think it all depends on whether it makes sense or not. In many cases the ethnicity of the character doesn't really matter, so I find it silly of people to have a problem when they change it.
I generally don't care unless the decision was blatantly made for political reasons, or source material very clearly describes a character a certain way while movie adaptations completely ignore this.
It kind of changes the movie a bit , I would love to see a black character get changed to a white character for once and see what happens , lol or come out with “The Jefferson’s“ as being an all white family which it really was in the 1700s like Thomas Jefferson’s actual family
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