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Emma Stone playing an Asian-American in 'Aloha' is bizarre as fuck.
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DoktorEvil
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Because Cameron Crowe is a damn good director?
He did coming of age about as good as John Hughes could do it.
teruterubozu
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Or hanging out in Hawaii, surrounded by people of Asian descent and pretending to be one.
I'll bet she even called herself a native.
Why should she feel shitty for accepting a paying role?
Octavianus
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WrenchNinja
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Was
i agree
god DAMN emma stone is hot
i wouldnt mind if she played michelle obama in a movie someday
SenjutsuSage
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Man, it's a movie. I know Jamaicans who are as Chinese as it gets as far as their roots are concerned, but don't look it at all.
UberTag
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I'm not so sure about Cameron Crowe being a "damn good director" these days.
Dude's living off his legacy of Almost Famous and Jerry Maguire.
SenjutsuSage
Banned
Taylor Swift actually already landed the roll according to insiders.
FantasticMrFoxdie
Mumber
Yeah they could have atleast dyed her hair black.
lmao fuck. coughed up my coffee
i hate blonde emma
lmao fuck. coughed up my coffee
Mrs. Manky
Banned
And also Kristin "Lana Lang and Chun-Li" Kreuk. Sure, she's Canadian, but per wikipedia, "Her father is of Dutch descent; her mother is of Chinese descent, but was born in Indonesia; and her maternal grandmother was a Chinese Jamaican." So we have an actual wealth of women who could have been cast or at the very least called to try out for this role.
SillyEskimo
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Her face looks like an anime character. You can't possibly get more asian then that.
Massive Duck. C.M.
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It would be nice to see actual Asian-American actors and actresses given chances to shine. How are you supposed to get famous/become a box office draw without exposure?
shadowstar
Member
I personally did. As a Mexican, I always feel the only parts in any media for us are migrant worker, cook, maid, wrestler, or gang member. It's always the same few actors playing all of the parts as well. Finally there is a movie about a latino with a different job and Ben Affleck plays him.
Seems like the cast was full on white and a smaller no name or asian person is there would of made the movie that "less" appealing.
Shit get some latinos some love Hollywood and make them asian too! (jk)
Btw I saw CHaPPIE recently and they had that latin dude as "America". That was a nice touch that I feel pissed off some people.
(well it doesnt end well so who am I kidding) We need more of that AND asians!It's not just the eyes. It's the combination of that and the mouth; the entire facial expression has been used as a racial caricature in the past.
Given what the thread's about, finding that picture from the movie to use for this thread on this topic is funny to me.
Jeeeezus... that is just....
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thepotatoman
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I guess Sorkin was wrong when he said he wasn't going to waste time writing a script with an Asian lead for a movie Sony would never produce because there are no well known asian movie stars. He should have just casted a well known caucasian actor and call him asian instead.
Of course, there might not be any asian movie stars because no one ever writes/produces a movie with major asian roles, and even when they do, they put caucasian actors and actresses in their place...
Of course, there might not be any asian movie stars because no one ever writes/produces a movie with major asian roles, and even when they do, they put caucasian actors and actresses in their place...
MisterHero
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As an asian-caucasian, I'd accept a recessive genes argument. Movies have had worse leaps of logic.
This is what gets to me the most. When the only major East Asian-descent actor in Hollywood that most people think of on the top of their head is Lucy Liu, there's a fucking problem. It's staring at the movie industry right in their face and they ignore it. It's so infuriating and I roll my eyes every time whenever people bring up that "whitewashing isn't that bad" or whatever.
Emma Stone should know better. This movie doesn't seem impressive, either.
First 8 mins are up on Youtube, dialogue is all over the place.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-9Tc4rHg2o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-9Tc4rHg2o
kittenbreath
Member
Idris Elba portrayed a member of a fictional alien species. Totally the same thing.
I agree that they are vastly more responsible, but not solely. I think it is your job to consider what work you take. I wouldn't want shaming her to be the outcome of this at all, her taking the job is not at all the greater issue. But I think it's totally fair to be disappointed in people's actions in cases like this. I already am completely jaded about the racism in Hollywood casting as it is so prevalent and indefensible, so I apologize when my focus falls on the smaller issue, but the smaller issue involves someone I would actually have hope in making good choices, the actual greater issue is one I have little to no hope for.
Jorok Goldblade
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We also have to look forward to:
Scarlet Johansson as Makoto Kusanagi.
Tilda Swinton as a Tibetan mystic.
Live action Mulan would probably be Jennifer Lawrence.
triplestation
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It is the same thing. He's not black in the source material.
For the record:
I'm one-quarter Hawaiian, 3/4ths various European. You wouldn't know from looking at me that I was part-Hawaiian, you'd think I was full-haole.
My mother is half-Hawaiian, half various European. She looks more white than I do.
I'm good friends with another mixed-ethnicity family, the mother is half-German/half-Hawaiian. She looks so Prussian it's astounding. The kids are quarter-Hawaiian 3/4 German (she married a full-blooded German), and are totally white.
So, yeah, I've got no real issues with Emma Stone in this role. Genetics are weird.
I'm one-quarter Hawaiian, 3/4ths various European. You wouldn't know from looking at me that I was part-Hawaiian, you'd think I was full-haole.
My mother is half-Hawaiian, half various European. She looks more white than I do.
I'm good friends with another mixed-ethnicity family, the mother is half-German/half-Hawaiian. She looks so Prussian it's astounding. The kids are quarter-Hawaiian 3/4 German (she married a full-blooded German), and are totally white.
So, yeah, I've got no real issues with Emma Stone in this role. Genetics are weird.
Dude Abides
Banned
I always prefer my manic pixie dream girls with at least 50% fake Asian.
Cooper apparently goes with Stone over McAdams so realism was out the window from the beginning.
Cooper apparently goes with Stone over McAdams so realism was out the window from the beginning.
WrenchNinja
Member
I think you should reexamine the situation
A minority actor playing a white character
A White actor playing a minority character
They are not equivalent scenarios.
Sho_Nuff82
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He's not Nordic either. He's literally not human, doesn't live on earth, and doesn't even travel to earth like the other Asgardians do from time to time.
"Bizarre" doesn't begin to cover it.
He's not human in the source material, but we can only cast humans and other animals in movies.
Also, there are enough white comic book characters. And this isn't an adaptation, AFAIK.
He's not human in the source material, but we can only cast humans and other animals in movies.
Also, there are enough white comic book characters. And this isn't an adaptation, AFAIK.
grandwizard
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Hollywood has no problem with interracial relationships so long as it's a white man and minority woman.
PsihoPerihelion
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No, he isn't anymore. He did Elizabethtown. He's dead to me, Jim.
Everybody knows that 'genetiics are weird' isn't the real reason they went with her. It's because she's a famous white actress. If you don't see the issue then you're just looking at the surface of things. 'Oh part swedish, that's why she is white!', that's exactly what the writers had in mind.
Lmao.
You know? I can get behind this.
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