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Asian-GAF: We're all the same, like Stormtroopers |OT| |AT|
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So you're aware, it can be tailored for you.
Feel free to contact her (her Instagram is above), she'd be delighted to give you a quote. (alternatively I can ask for you)
BLOODED_hands
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This was what I got out of what people have been saying. I still need to watch it to come to a proper conclusion.
On GITS: I saw it last night, and...hooo-boy. The whitewashing is too real.
On Get Out's Asian character: "Asians aren't above racism" is basically what I got from that, as well as the whole Model Minority thing. As SystemBug says, it's a show of racial hierarchy in America that isn't always talked about.
On Get Out's Asian character: "Asians aren't above racism" is basically what I got from that, as well as the whole Model Minority thing. As SystemBug says, it's a show of racial hierarchy in America that isn't always talked about.
GQ did a piece on Ghost in The Shell and I found it amusing. This part in particular. Spoilers for the ending!!
http://www.gq.com/story/ghost-in-the-shell-review
Kevin: (Spoilers ahoy!) At the end, we discover that the Major is the kidnapped brain of a young Japanese girl implanted into a robotic body by a tediously nefarious corporationa plot twist that is nowhere in the original and, at first, comes across as incredibly dumb until you have a moment to really think about it and realize oh my god this is even dumber than I could have ever imagined.
If there is a thin moral in Ghost in the Shell, its Do not take a Japanese girl and put her in the body of a white robot. Which is EXACTLY what this movie is! They took a Japanese brain and put it in a white shell. The ending of the movie is a self-condemnation of the movies own whitewashed existence (which in some ways would be an extremely anime move if it were deliberate). But in the end, Ghost in the Shell owns itself harder than any other movie Ive ever seen.
If there is a thin moral in Ghost in the Shell, its Do not take a Japanese girl and put her in the body of a white robot. Which is EXACTLY what this movie is! They took a Japanese brain and put it in a white shell. The ending of the movie is a self-condemnation of the movies own whitewashed existence (which in some ways would be an extremely anime move if it were deliberate). But in the end, Ghost in the Shell owns itself harder than any other movie Ive ever seen.
http://www.gq.com/story/ghost-in-the-shell-review
Don't think she's the type to do method acting. I enjoy reading method acting stories, though. They have a tendency to be crazy, like Adrien Brody breaking up with his girlfriend and getting rid of all of his stuff so he could get into the mindset for The Pianist. You have to wonder at that point: is it even acting anymore. If I'm in a movie where I need to act like I got shot in the foot and I accomplish this by actually shooting myself in the foot, am I a good actor or just committed?
I mean, how do you method act for a Japanese brain, brainwashed to think it's white?
However you bring up something worth actually talking about. Hearing about how the Joker role (not Jared Leto) is potentially dangerous interested me.
I wonder any aggressive method acting causes a revelation with some actors, like they became different/better people from it?
Thought we had a conversation on that at some point. Didn't someone's sister in here want to look more white because she thought white was the beauty norm?
Leto got way too into it. Apparently he never broke character.
Then there's Leo DiCaprio in Django crushing a real glass with his fist and then smearing his real blood all over Kerry Washington's face.
She must have been horrified. Good job keeping it together though. Same with Leo. I would have been screaming for a doctor because it was a pretty nasty cut.
The sad part is how understandable that is
BLOODED_hands
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That was me. Yeah.... My older sister wants to be white. It's infuriating.
What's worse is that she did grow up with nobody but Hmong people. It's the media she consumes now that makes her want to be white. I guess it's the way white people are treated that makes her want to be white, I suppose.
Blue-black Asian hair is beautiful, but natural brown for east-Asian o_o
Perhaps a genetic mutation (blue-eyes is thought to be). That's really cool.
With how the DNA tests are, and how mixed the Chinese population is, it might not be so strange if you had more precise results.
milkham
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I just had the idea to make a white washing bingo card, i'd say 5x5 grid is pretty standard so I'd need 25 things
here's what I've got so far
here's what I've got so far
- Rinko Kikuchi
- Lucy Liu
- Anime people are white
- The IP creator is fine with it
- White People have box office draw
- Blame China
- Matt Damon
- My asian girlfriend is fine with it
- What about other minority?
- It's an international story
milkham
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Hey, sometimes people talk about how bad Elementary is
Septimus Prime
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- The movie is already diverse because it has a black person in it.
- The movie is already diverse because it has a woman in it.
SuperStiltzkin
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- It's lore friendly
- The theme of the movie is about identity and how race doesn't matter
- Japanese people aren't bothered
- I guess I must be racist for enjoying the movie
- It's just a dumb action movie
- Trump
liburls playing the race card
No prominent Asian actors/actresses
As long as it's a good movie I don't care
edit:
There are starving kids in Africa and you're getting upset about a movie?????????
SuperStiltzkin
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Yeah, it's a country that's 99% Japanese. Their media is dominated by Japanese actors and personalities. They don't really know what it's like to live in a country where you are a minority.
Also
- I'm sure there are white people born in Japan who have Japanese names
Septimus Prime
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Trump should be the free space.
RapidCancel
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- Asian Americans can't be outsiders in Asia
- Asian movies never cast white people
Oh yeah, I was in the thick of the Ghost in the Shell thread. There were stuff tossed about like "I don't see anime characters as Asian if their eyes are big. But I can't be racist because I find small Asian eyes attractive."
I think the issue is worth open discussion without people getting banned, but once I got banned for chiming in and saying something wasn't intentionally racist but just an clash of cultural misunderstandings. Interesting standards.
SuperStiltzkin
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Now we're getting into english Anime voice actors in that GitS thread. I literally cannot anymore.
BLOODED_hands
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Is IP Creator and Lore similar to Muh Source Material?
We also forgot this one:
I love *insert series* and I'm Asian. I'm ok with it.
We also forgot this one:
I love *insert series* and I'm Asian. I'm ok with it.
YesNOnoNOYes
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SuperStiltzkin
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Anytime someone tries to pull the "I must be racist" line to play up being a victim, I know they're wasting my time. Either own your opinion and defend it or don't.
SuperStiltzkin
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The one and only
He even has slanty eyes so no one can mistake him for being white.
SuperStiltzkin
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FF9 has the best moogles. And Stiltzkin is the best of the best. I always wanted a game about his travels.
FF9 is also probably my favorite game. If someone asked me my favorite game, that's the answer I would come up with the quickest. Even if it might be the least interesting gameplay-wise, I just love everything about that world.
BLOODED_hands
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LUL
Just LUL
I'm catching some parts of Showtime's The Circus waiting for Homeland and uh..... The host went to a Elementary school to ask them about Trump..... The question was something like, "what word would you describe Trump?" One kid was Asian and he said TRUTH. I shook my damn head so hard tonight.
Septimus Prime
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Speaking of Homeland, my wife won't watch it because evidently Claire Danes is a racist bitch.
I don't watch it because it sucks with Damian Lewis.
I don't watch it because it sucks with Damian Lewis.
SuperStiltzkin
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Maybe his parents are Trump supporters. Two of my aunts voted for Trump and... I'm just glad we don't discuss politics anytime we visit.
i tuned outta homeland after they showed pakistan as some desert land
BLOODED_hands
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Damn. I know one person who voted for Trump and it seems like we all stopped hanging out with him. We all still discuss politics though just not with him around.
Homeland's decent. But if that's true about Claire then I'll need to stop watching once the season is over next week. Yeesh.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZdRDM-NYgc
like the portrayal is so bad. its like bruh
my bros in pakistan taking some photos right now
https://www.instagram.com/wajahut/
my beautiful beautiful country shown as some dystopian piece of shit in that show
Lahore is an amazing city.
One day I'd like to do a travel of the entire Himalayas mountain range.
I am hoping to go back next year, or maybe the winter of this year (around December). I haven't really been back there for about a decade so I am expecting a lot of feels when I do go back.