Dreamworks 'Home": First ever 3D animated film to feature a black protagonist.
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Watch Da Birdie
I buy cakes for myself on my birthday it's not weird lots of people do it I bet
Looking it over, Pixar isn't just bad with having black characters, they're bad at hiring black actors as well, even for non-human characters.
The only major black actor I can think of in a Pixar Film is Samuel L. Jackson as Frozone, coincidentally the only major black character in a Pixar Film. And Whoopi Goldberg as the octopus in Toy Story 3, but that was a relatively minor character.
The only major black actor I can think of in a Pixar Film is Samuel L. Jackson as Frozone, coincidentally the only major black character in a Pixar Film. And Whoopi Goldberg as the octopus in Toy Story 3, but that was a relatively minor character.
The Faceless Master
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she looks mixed to me. i'm an expert.
http://www.policymic.com/articles/87797/dreamworks-latest-movie-will-have-something-no-pixar-film-has-ever-tried
I saw it in front of Peabody and Sherman and thought it was just a short.
Wasn't terrible, but wasn't world shattering either.
Dreamworks has been cool lately and haven't released an out and out bad movie in years, so I'm probably there.
I saw the trailer for this a while back and it looks good but you would have no idea that the star of the movie was black(or mixed according to Bloodrage).
http://youtu.be/GJY6fpoWYRw
How did I miss this fuckery?! Are you going to explain why they would need to make multiple versions of the movie?
Try "homie"
http://youtu.be/GJY6fpoWYRw
How did I miss this fuckery?! Are you going to explain why they would need to make multiple versions of the movie?
Try "homie"
Blackage
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What I've learned from gaf in the past week:
Other people can dictate what race you are, despite you identifying yourself as something.
So Obama is not black because he has some white in him and the 3D animated girl from the upcoming movie Home also isn't black because her hair looks a certain way.
PeakPointMatrix
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I just want to quote this. It is rare that a post this bad is made.
Choppasmith
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There seems to be trend of giving kid movies really short titles lately (Frozen, Turbo, Brave).
Read the summary in the link and it sounds interesting, the only thing that bugs me is it says all the humans having to relocate to Florida and then Arizona. I know it's a kids book but my adult brain has trouble wrapping my head around the idea of that being anything close to feasible.
Paper Sparrow
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Rihanna? I haven't seen her act. Is she good?
She was in Battleship and no she is not.
jhmtehgamr20xx
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Was also instantly my first thought.
Would you have an easier time voting for her as President, then?
Paper Sparrow
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TheKaeptain
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EscoBlades
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Then again, i almost feel like this is deliberate bait. Almost.
Educate yourself. and stop posting till you actually think about what you are going to type.
PhoenixDark
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You realize someone with two black, non Dominican parents can indeed have hair like that right?
How do you know that 100% black disco fros aren't nice to me?
No one ever said he isn't black. Obama is black.
Part black.
Necromanti
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I'm surprised they couldn't find an actual voice actress. I wonder how well diversity is represented among voice actors in general, or if it is an even more insular industry.
I'm sure certain audiences will deem the movie too controversial and "politically correct" now, so he's probably one of the people worried that Dreamworks won't make as much money with this film now. (Kind of like Nintendo's Tomodachi Life situation.) We must pander to bigots.
MorisUkunRasik
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I don't know. I saved that pic and zoomed in on it using hi-tech software (MS Paint) and after running some analysis I can confirm that she is indeed part Dominican. It's the only way to explain why I like her hair.
Blackage
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Oh, you actually don't know about the other meltdown thread from earlier in the week? That would explain some things, and why we're all kinda getting on you for the initial comment.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=816817
Edit: Also you never said nice, I will edit accordingly.
Also there's afro Domincans. . .but I'm interested in this film I guess. The trailer doesn't her in it though?
You mean you dated a Dominican girl who was part black?
Dark Octave
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She wasn't black?She kind of looks like a black Lotta Hart
Whitechocolatekrispies
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Well if you insist I probably should explain myself.
CGI movie's have the inherent advantage that major assets could easily be changed, with little to no cost.
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Movie producers love to specifically target certain audiences. Children, adults etc etc.
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A 3D movie could be tailored to target specific markets and demographics quite easily. For example a main protagonist could be easily altered with little cost to appeal to the US, Asian, African or European market for example by simply altering a few properties of the main character.
It's already done with foreign movies (for example). I was just making the awful jump that these assholes that ruin movies could potential exploit the unique nature of 3D animated movies to specifically tailor movies for target audiences cheaply and easily.
But that is an awful idea, I find adjusting any movie from it's original form to be awful with next to always terrible results. Hence 'opening a can of worms'.
Is there something I'm missing here? I'm not getting the outrage in this thread (other than being mad at the casting cause Rihanna ain't shiiiiiiit). I was wondering if this was based on something where the girl wasn't white, but I found a sample on Amazon of the book, and
the little girl is clearly black, so I don't understand why a post like this,
Well, actually, yes I do.
the little girl is clearly black, so I don't understand why a post like this,
was made.
Well, actually, yes I do.
Dark Octave
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2014 and this is still an issue. Sad.
MorisUkunRasik
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Weird how this isn't brought at all when the protag is white.
Whitechocolatekrispies
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BlackBanditSho
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This.
MorisUkunRasik
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You mean your post about changing the race of characters in the thread about Dreamworks making a film featuring a black protagonist? yea.
Out of curiosity, have you made a similar posts in other threads about CG movies?
TheSpoiler
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First 3D black main character....
...from a major company. There's gotta be at least one before this, even if it was craptacular.
...from a major company. There's gotta be at least one before this, even if it was craptacular.
Whitechocolatekrispies
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Are you implying I said we should change the race of the main character? I said no such thing.
The thread is about the first black protagonist in a 3D animated film. Really the way I see that is this is the first 3D model where the textures are just a darker colour on the model. Nothing else.
But I did think it was interesting that in the realm of CG movies where assets could easily be modified, that it could be abused and used to specifically tailor movies towards certain demographics.
What the hell do you think I'm implying?
Was going to ask if Amandla Stenberg was busy, but apparently she was already in Rio 2.
MorisUkunRasik
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Part of your post literally says:
whitechocolatekripsies said:
in reference to this specific movie.
googleplex
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The hell?
Whitechocolatekrispies
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So despite explaining what I was actually talking about, really having nothing to do with race or what I think they should actually do, only what they could do.
You're still holding me to something taken out of context I never said in the first place?
Either tell me your thoughts on what I'm actually talking about or move on.
jhmtehgamr20xx
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Good explanation, and I agree that it's a shitastic terrible idea.
A slippery slope tho; you've got Broadway productions of classics that normally featured all white people being redone with black people in them, and defenders of the original work could use a similar "betraying the original vision" argument, but you'll have the new people who say that the story stays the same, just the cast looks different.
Difference in those cases is, the changes are done for cultural inclusion while in this case it'd only be done for money, and that essentially makes it shameful.
EDIT: I'd also suggest you revise some of your other posts. Like....all of your other posts. I got the point of this one but the others in this thread are pretty flawed and I wanna make it clear I'm not agreeing with those posts by association.
..what the hell does this mean? I mean no shit the first black protagonist in a 3D film is just a model with darker skin...that is how you make a model black. I hope this isn't something about a lack of black 'features.'
Now I want you to reread what you posted first in this thread. I'll make it easy for you and post it below.
Now there are multiple, smarter, clearer ways of expressing an interest in employing model swapping to appeal to certain demographics if that is what you were trying to express. This post fulfills none of that. You just come across as angry that a movie would dare model a black protagonist.
Alien male lead is purple.
Dreams-Visions
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It's quite prevalent.
MorisUkunRasik
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Don't get upset because you so poorly expressed yourself.
My point still stands unless you're saying the first cg movie with a black protag should have happened already by changing a character's color in a CG movie, it's still funny that you bring up changing the character's color when it just so happens to be a black character.
The main character of Shark Tale was a fish.
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