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Emma Stone playing an Asian-American in 'Aloha' is bizarre as fuck.
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Did she kick your dog?
Sho_Nuff82
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So you're admitting to not having watched her actual acting performances, and just decided to shit post because reasons? Okay.
dead souls
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The Newsroom was terrible, but calling it garbage in the same post where you admit to watching G4 is pretty goddamn hilarious.
Only on GAF.
BronsonLee
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DiipuSurotu
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GAF's raging hate boner for Olivia Munn continues to amaze him. Why so much hatred??
dead souls
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It's pretty idiotic. She was undeniably great on The Newsroom.
DoktorEvil
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"BECAUSE SHES NOT A REAL GAMER GIRL".
Really sick of this shit being trotted out because of AOTS.
Something about journalism integrity or some nonsense like that.
They're mad hot girl hosted a show on geek culture and didn't bang them.
It's always about that with Olivia, they'll tell you it's not, then write some dragged out nonsense that basically reads: "She's a hot chick who was a host on a TV show aimed at geeks, and she never offered to fuck me!"
Some kind of weird idea of culture appropriation, she got "rich" being a "nerd" and that just pisses some people off proper.
BronsonLee
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I don't think the various people that hosted CHEAT, a goddamn show about cheat codes in video games, were either
And don't even get me started about Lee Reherman on ARENA!!!!!!!
Black_Stride
do not tempt fate do not contrain Wonder Woman's thighs do not do not
NealMcCauley
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Crowe apologized on Variety, but said the character was based on a real person. Will link once I get on a computer.
old manatee
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Olivia Munn isn't my favorite actress, but she is definitely good enough for a Cameron Crowe film.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/...a-stone-aloha-asian-casting-apology/28400233/
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Crowe took to his blog, TheUncool, Tuesday to offer a "heartfelt apology" for the casting choice. He also went on to explain why he cast Stone in the part in the first place:
"I have heard your words and your disappointment, and I offer you a heart-felt apology to all who felt this was an odd or misguided casting choice. As far back as 2007, Captain Allison Ng was written to be a super-proud ¼ Hawaiian who was frustrated that, by all outward appearances, she looked nothing like one. A half-Chinese father was meant to show the surprising mix of cultures often prevalent in Hawaii. Extremely proud of her unlikely heritage, she feels personally compelled to over-explain every chance she gets. The character was based on a real-life, red-headed local who did just that."
He went on to ask that people blame him if they were upset, not Stone:
"We were extremely proud to present the island, the locals and the film community with many jobs for over four months. Emma Stone was chief among those who did tireless research, and if any part of her fine characterization has caused consternation and controversy, I am the one to blame."
Crowe also said that he was "grateful" for the dialogue surrounding the moving. "So many of us are hungry for stories with more racial diversity, more truth in representation, and I am anxious to help tell those stories in the future," he said.
megatronium
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Exodus
NealMcCauley
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Thanks for posting.
WrenchNinja
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Sounds like bullshit.
She's filthy rich and an adult, she's smart enough to see that it would look ridiculous.
AcademicSaucer
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Immigration only happened in the the United States of America . USA USA USA
Can you smell the lipservice?
firehawk12
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Heh, yeah, I imagine he didn't even think it would be an issue until people started writing about it.
Discotheque
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Still it's a much more diplomatic response than Scott's for exodus lol
DoktorEvil
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America is progressive, not THAT progressive.
In realm of believability in the movie busindss, she's too pale to pull it off.
RedNumberFive
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People are getting way too hung up on this.
My kids are both half Asian, and from their looks you could never tell. My wife has been mistaken as their nanny on more than one occasion.
My kids are both half Asian, and from their looks you could never tell. My wife has been mistaken as their nanny on more than one occasion.
Maybe it has to do with Hawaii's history, Hollywoods track record and what the character is supposed to represent in the film.
What were they thinking?
In this case, it was an Asian American banking on his own experiences with Hollywood.
Black_Stride
do not tempt fate do not contrain Wonder Woman's thighs do not do not
What were they thinking?
Are they the adopted ones, they are the only white people in what seems to be a tribe of Eskimo?
Chuckie
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Yeah she betrayed us gamers by pretending to be a geeky gamer grlll!
Once she got better offers (probably by sucking dick!) she left us!
Yes, we know white-looking mixed people exist.
Did you guys also know that there are a lot of mixed race people that don't look entirely white either? Maybe Hollywood should cast people like that instead of going for a completely white person for like, every single role? Just an idea.
Did you guys also know that there are a lot of mixed race people that don't look entirely white either? Maybe Hollywood should cast people like that instead of going for a completely white person for like, every single role? Just an idea.
Massive Duck. C.M.
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Scott's was refreshing in it's honesty though
davepoobond
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Is there even a picture of what the real person looks like?
I think the real person is based on someone 1/4 Hawaiian, 3/4 white.
He added the half-Chinese father to "show the surprising mix of cultures often prevalent in Hawaii".
grandwizard
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They're the leads, so of course they are white. The actual people of the ethnicity that's supposed to be represented are set dressing in the background, to give it the feel of being exotic without actually having to risk anything. See also: Prince of Persia
I am so fucking sick of the marginalization of Asians and multiracial Asians in Hollywood films. Still. Enough so that it's worth whitewashing an Asian character in a movie set in Hawaii. HAWAII. Go to Hawaii, motherfucker.
This shit needs to end, Hollywood. It's not 195-fucking-9. Hopefully in sixty years when most of humanity is part-Asian (or at least multiethnic) I'll finally live to see Caucasians like myself marginalized, after four-odd centuries of self-aggrandizing, virtually eugenical bullshit.
I will not see this film.
This shit needs to end, Hollywood. It's not 195-fucking-9. Hopefully in sixty years when most of humanity is part-Asian (or at least multiethnic) I'll finally live to see Caucasians like myself marginalized, after four-odd centuries of self-aggrandizing, virtually eugenical bullshit.
I will not see this film.
teruterubozu
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"Hey GAF, I know half-Asians that look all white! It's OK!"
smh
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I will deny that. Not a soul was spared from the toxicity of that show.
Hollywood knows that Emma Stone is more of a draw than any of the other possible (more appropriate) actresses named in this thread. They want to make money. Thats it.
for example, even though this movie looks ridiculous and i hate romantic comedies i might watch it anyway because emma stone is the hottest woman on the planet.
I think he would have been better served by casting someone with that ethnic background and a similar outward appearance, but I would think that there isn't an actress like that and has Emma Stone's bankability, which makes the apology ring slightly hollow for me.
IsntChrisL
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Wait so people are losing their shit over a character that's 1/4th Hawaiian and 3/4th's white? Cheesus, she's not the perfect casting but this is hardly Rob Schneider with buck teeth.
I will say that they might as well have went with an unknown though, given how the film turned out anyway.
I will say that they might as well have went with an unknown though, given how the film turned out anyway.
The character was based on someone 1/4 Asian, but he made the character 1/2 Asian.
He then defends having all white lead actors for a majority-Asian setting that is by saying that, actually, they are there (in the background and behind the scenes):
Poimandres
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Stereogatari
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This phenomenon exists in the East as well. There are Turkish films about Arab Islamic saints, Quranic stories and Mongol-Turkic history that cast the leads as White phenotype Turk, rather than Middle Eastern phenotype and Central Asian phenotype Turks.They're the leads, so of course they are white. The actual people of the ethnicity that's supposed to be represented are set dressing in the background, to give it the feel of being exotic without actually having to risk anything. See also: Prince of Persia
That's the backhanded point. You won't cast Asian American actresses, allowing them to become draws. Emma Stone didn't step into Hollywood as a draw.
There may very well be real people living in Hawaii of mixed heritage and look exactly like Emma Stone. But the issue isn't really, imo, that "Emma Stone looks totally ridiculous playing a mixed-heritage Asian-American," but rather that Crowe (and Hollywood in general) chose to tell a story about a mixed-heritage Asian-American where they could get away with casting a decidedly not Asian-American white actress to play the role.
It may be accurate to whoever the person Crowe knows and based the character on, but the conscious decision to go that route is what's troubling, not whether people like Stone's character actually exist in real life. And frankly, feels like a backpeddling excuse to rationalize the casting anyway -- like hiring Johnny Depp to play Tonto and then touting his 1/100000th Cherokee heritage to excuse it.
It may be accurate to whoever the person Crowe knows and based the character on, but the conscious decision to go that route is what's troubling, not whether people like Stone's character actually exist in real life. And frankly, feels like a backpeddling excuse to rationalize the casting anyway -- like hiring Johnny Depp to play Tonto and then touting his 1/100000th Cherokee heritage to excuse it.
evilromero
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My co-worker is a 1/4 Korean and she is a redhead with the whitest freckly skin. I mean, she looks less Asian than me and I have no Asian heritage in my lineage. We're talking a normal looking redhead. I thought she was joking about her grandma being full Korean and mom half.
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