Why is it okay to cast white people but not any other race?
I'm just thinking, i have every episode of Columbo and I don't recall ever seeing anyone but white people being portrayed as the murderer, except the one Sal Mineo episode there one Arabian guy killed a few others, and the Billy Connolly episode where a Scotsman killed one of his underlings. Almost every black guy in the series was either a cop, a detective or just a bit part actor helping out for a moment. I may be wrong and plan to watch every episode again in the very near future so, I'll find out then.
I just finished watching every episode of "I Spy" and that's LOADED with bad guys of various races but, that's because the show was based in about a dozen different countries!!
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No, I'm not a woke idiot and bad guys have no one race.
And yes, I saw this story making the rounds this week. These idiots complaining should be ignored.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/FaygiFx-Jq0
No, Bianca was NEVER the "villain", she literally saved Wednesday's life at the end of the series. She was portrayed as a popular girl with a difficult and an overbearing mother. The real villain was Laurel and her family... who were all white. Even Tyler, who was The Hyde (he killed a lot of people) was white. Although Bianca was rude to Wednesday and a lot more people, I feel like she had a wonderful character development towards the end.
It depends on the context, but in reference to this, no. I do not think this is racist.
Not necessarily, although context can always change that.
It's more racist to be unable to cast actors of a race as ANY certain type of character, like a villain. Some people are villains, so to say a certain race is incapable of playing the villain indicates to me that people don't think of that race as people.
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When everything is racist, nothing is racist.
Villians are some of the best characters ever. And anyway, no. It's just people wanting something else to complain about and make themselves heroes for noticing. The fact that people are going to be upset about that and not when historical white people's roles are given to POC drives me a little insane.
It's a film role. If you don't want to play the role, then don't audition for it. Someone is offering Black people jobs and an opportunity to build a career in acting. Somehow woke commies turn that into racism. Bunch of retards. Obviously Blacks want the roles and try hard to get them or the role would never be filled to begin with.
Have you ever noticed that in almost EVERY movie/script that doesn’t include Blacks, when they finally put them, their roles are to feel less than others? Or their roles are made to be casted in a negative perspective?
I did find it weird that. Tim burton who did not cast any black people.
Then when asked said they don't fit my astetic.
Now he casts 3 or 4 with speaking roles and all of them were mean hateful and petty
No. What actually IS racist though is taking an established character and replacing them with another race.
If the person being played was historicaly white or was a fictional character set in a white country it is racist to replace him or her with a POC.
Who are the "people" who are the "critics". Very bad lazy journalism, probably spent 5 seconds on twitter and decided that was their job done for the day.
If the movie takes place in the inner city it would be okay to cast black people as bad guys. If it was in an all white town it could be considered racist. I think that art should imitate life.
I didn't see it like that. I was a bit confused about the raining scene but didn't take much of since other shows have done similar things- thought it was a funny moment for a serious scene...
There were also white bullies and the “big bad” in the end is a white man. Snowflakes are ridiculous with they’re misinformation and manufactured outrage.
I mean not really? Unless there's a point of saying how they're a villain/bully because they're black... but if it's just generally then no
No its not. Its only ridiculous if you do that in ALL of your movies, and you say that that has something to do with being black or stereotype
No, considering that every major horror movie I watched growing up had a White man as the killer (Bad guy).
This is pretty silly. I mean, should we be paranoid about who we cast in movies because the bully or villain may just happen to be a black person? This would be like me getting upset over someone with hazel eyes portraying a villain or bully.
I don't think so. It's no different than casting Russians, Italians or Mexicans as villains. Maybe it's perpetuating racial stereotypes, but it's not like they pulled this stuff out of thin air. Their basing their films off real ganhgs
If blacks are going to complain, the solution is to not have any black actors.
no. villains have always been more fascinating characters than heroes.
The actor of Wednesday is literally Mexican so... racist I think not.
No, any race can be a bully/villian. It's racist to assume only certain races can produce assholes.
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