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Is this the movie every white person complained about white washing while actual Japanese people in Japan didn't give a shit about who the lead was?
hopefully lessons have been learned.
Is this the movie every white person complained about white washing while actual Japanese people in Japan didn't give a shit about who the lead was?
Rinko: She's not considered a super good actress but she's always namedropped in these discussions because people know her from PacRim.
This is the movie where Asian Americans didn't appreciate Hollywood turning yet another Asian character white.Is this the movie every white person complained about white washing while actual Japanese people in Japan didn't give a shit about who the lead was?
I mean, I thought she was bad in (the unbelievably bad) Pacific Rim, but so was Charlie Hunnam and his career is still buzzing.
Yep and ScarJo was also in The Spirit...
Lawd we've already been over this in this very thread. Native Japanese have a different context for this than Asian Americans.Is this the movie every white person complained about white washing while actual Japanese people in Japan didn't give a shit about who the lead was?
Rinko: She's not considered a super good actress but she's always namedropped in these discussions because people know her from PacRim. This is ironic because it just highlights the invisibility of Asian American actors that people can only name one Japanese American actress off hand.
Is this the movie every white person complained about white washing while actual Japanese people in Japan didn't give a shit about who the lead was?
Ah well, shows what I know.She's not even American...
Rinko: She's not considered a super good actress but she's always namedropped in these discussions because people know her from PacRim. This is ironic because it just highlights the invisibility of Asian American actors that people can only name one Japanese American actress off hand.
Lore: "You can't whitewash robots" or "it's explained in the story why she has to be a Japanese women inside ScarJo". The latter is basically the "1000 year old Dragon loli" of casting arguments. The former is a case of "you're missing the point"
Yessss, the "words and deeds" argument. Producer Steven Paul was so deluded as to have made this exact defense.Ah, gotcha, thanks.
Another example of the lore argument is Quiet in MGS5: "Dude, she has to be almost naked all the time or she'll die!" Lol.
I think everybody is going to end up being really happy with it.
My fear is that their "honest" attempt to hire Asian actors will have a shitty script and/or director, which will lead them to say, "see that don't work either!". I hope that doesn't happen.
Is this the movie every white person complained about white washing while actual Japanese people in Japan didn't give a shit about who the lead was?
Yes, why would actual Japanese people in Japan with Japanese media and a Japanese film industry with Japanese actors all the time care about Asian representation in the American film industry?Is this the movie every white person complained about white washing while actual Japanese people in Japan didn't give a shit about who the lead was?
Is this the movie every white person complained about white washing while actual Japanese people in Japan didn't give a shit about who the lead was?
Is this the movie every white person complained about white washing while actual Japanese people in Japan didn't give a shit about who the lead was?
Yup. There are only two types of people in the entire world. White people, and "actual" Japanese people in Japan. You figured it out champ.
People in Japan cared. Here's a thread about it.
Is this the movie every white person complained about white washing while actual Japanese people in Japan didn't give a shit about who the lead was?
Wow a "stay woke" card for people to easily throw up to block any conversation. That's great.
At least one of them immigrated. She talked about working hard to lose her accent only to be told by the casting people she needed a stronger accent.I believe THR article/video that thread references interviewed 4 Japanese-American actresses - women who were born in USA and are working in America - not actresses who were born and work in Japan.
So is Scarlett actual character supposed to be Japanese in the movie?
I thought she was just playing a White Major and that was the problem.
Wow a "stay woke" card for people to easily throw up to block any conversation. That's great.
Read it again, they're not learning the right lessons fro this.
Dude just basically said you can't have an Asian lead in a movie for mass audiences. The lesson they will take from this is don't adapt Japanese properties, not don't whitewash.
Edge of Tomorow would like a word with you.I am OK with this, no proper amount of right casting is going to make these adaptations good, they just don't translate well to real action.
So is Scarlett actual character supposed to be Japanese in the movie?
I thought she was just playing a White Major and that was the problem.
Edge of Tomorow would like a word with you.
GitS could easily have been a good movie with the right team behind it.
The reason it ended up the way it did has nothing to do with 'Anime not translating well to live action.'
Wow a "stay woke" card for people to easily throw up to block any conversation. That's great.
Lol, Hollywood continues blaming everyone but themselves. Hell do they even make movies where the white hero doesn't save everyone. Even in Hidden figures that created a fake white male to save those poor genius black wome.
People in Japan cared. Here's a thread about it.
Wow I never thought of it like that. That guy wasn't actually based off anyone?