Speaking of, I was shocked when I saw Chloe Bennet (Daisy Johnson in "Agents of Shield") singing a Chinese Pop:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNUvqIsYo7k
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You know, even in diversity Hollywood is pretty non-diverse
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Speaking of, I was shocked when I saw Chloe Bennet (Daisy Johnson in "Agents of Shield") singing a Chinese Pop:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNUvqIsYo7k
Remember the Rue uproar on Twitter
UnemployedVillain
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Speaking of Chloe Bennet, she had to change her name just to even get considered. She's lucky she's mixed and has that ambiguous look that Hollywood deems ok as far as minorities go
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This so much. They're being praised for being "diverse", yet the main character is a white female. And then they tried to deceive everyone in thinking the black character would be the main. And then they cast another white female as a lead for the next one. Wish they casted an African American woman or Asian woman. That actress they casted doesn't even seem to be a good one.
It really would've been awesome if the main for Rogue One was a male or female Asian lead. That would've shown more of a commitment to diversity than casting another yet another white person. This would've been the perfect chance to do it.
Couldn't even give the dude a Jesus or Raul character, he's just straight Hector all the way through.Amen.
And even then, Antonio Banderas is a white spaniard and not Latino... You know things are bad in Hollywood when he's your best representation.
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I wonder why there hasn't been uproar about Aquaman like there was with those two. Is Momoa "white enough" to pass muster?
SixMachine
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Amen.
There's no way he might not be in on it if he has been doing this for years. It's like Danny Trejo plays mostly as a bad guy sans Machete, and he requests that he must be some kind of gangster or something and die in the movie because he wants to show everyone that being bad sucks.
edit: Yea it's fake, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noel_Gugliemi http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0346595/
It would have been hilarious if he wanted to be named Hector in every movie.
Same reason why there wasn't much of an outrage about Electro: no one really gives a shit.
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Man, me too. They're always the "skeptic asshole" at best or they discover faith along the way. It's tiresome. But, that's another topic I think.
Now while I'd be totally on board for a minority female lead myself (and I'm really mad about the Sleepy Hollow fiasco about that), and I'd have preferred Tatiana Maslany among the candidates they were considering, that's really unfair to Felicity Jones, isn't it? She is widely considered to be a very talented actress.
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i agree with you OP, but I lost it at "Will Smill"
i think it will be another 30 years and change before we see asian (the entire region, not just china/japan/korea etc.) lead actors getting some decent amount of representation.
i think it will be another 30 years and change before we see asian (the entire region, not just china/japan/korea etc.) lead actors getting some decent amount of representation.
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No different from how the Muslim character is often a terrorist or at best a close minded asshole. At least the atheist is often portrayed as a snarky yet lovable scientist
Though a character's religion in most movies is rarely touched on, though I guess most assume they're Christian if it's set in the US.
Amen.
He is a cinematic universe onto himself, Hector links all these films
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I'd be lying if I said this didn't bother me. Still waiting for a POC to be the lead in that franchise.
Don't forget if you see a south Asian in something they're probably going to end up being a sex pest.
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Amen.
He's Hector in 7 films, which is still amazing. They edited some, like the Purge Anarchy, where he's Diego.
Aside from movies, Marvel/DC is pretty guilty for this as well.
For example, we have black superheroes (Miles Morales, Black Panther, Luke Cage, Falcon, John Stewart, Cyborg, etc..) but where are all the Asians?
Off the top of my head, the only prominent asian superhero i can remember is Shang-Chi and Katana.
This also doesn't even say much considering how obscure they are compare to most of the black superheroes that are definitely more well-known.
For example, we have black superheroes (Miles Morales, Black Panther, Luke Cage, Falcon, John Stewart, Cyborg, etc..) but where are all the Asians?
Off the top of my head, the only prominent asian superhero i can remember is Shang-Chi and Katana.
This also doesn't even say much considering how obscure they are compare to most of the black superheroes that are definitely more well-known.
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Y'all know that hector thing is fake right? He's been "Hector" an inordinate number of times, but not THAT many times.
We have lots of famous black leads.
Will Smith
Morgan Freeman
Denzel Washington
Samuel L. Jackson
Kevin Hart
Idris Elba
Laurence Fishburne
Terry Crews
Eddie Murphy
Jamie Fox
Danny Glover
but I think most are old at this point. I wonder if when the new generation will appear. They have cycled through these guys for decades. I think in 50 years will get more hispanics. Aren't they on their way to becoming half of the majority within the next century?
Will Smith
Morgan Freeman
Denzel Washington
Samuel L. Jackson
Kevin Hart
Idris Elba
Laurence Fishburne
Terry Crews
Eddie Murphy
Jamie Fox
Danny Glover
but I think most are old at this point. I wonder if when the new generation will appear. They have cycled through these guys for decades. I think in 50 years will get more hispanics. Aren't they on their way to becoming half of the majority within the next century?
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Marvel: Shang Chi, Special Agent Jimmy Woo (Agents of Atlas), Amadeus Cho (The current Hulk), Sunfire, Jubilee, Colleen Wing, Nico Minoru (Runaways), Karma, Jolt
DC is a bit harder off the top of my head and New 52 got rid of a few of them, like Ryan Choi (Atom). Katana, Shado, Cassandra Cain, The Ray are all I got, and the Cain just rejoined continuity. There's the new Superman coming soon and I believe the Great Ten will return in that book as well.
That's Asian as Japanese, Chinese, Korean, which is incorrect though.
And yes, they are less prominent than some of the black heroes.
Selma is also part Lebanese I think so she's a two for one combo!
Yep I'm black and have worked at a few production houses in London over the years and other than the usually black or indian security guy there is usually no one of colour in a lot of these companies. At best you'll maybe see 2 or 3 every now and then.
Interestingly when we had american production staff visit they were usually a lot more diverse and PoC usually were higher up in their companies than they ever would be in the UK.
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For once why can't he just have a generic name like Mark. I'm sure there are tons of hispanic dudes named Mark
It was never really anything. Just like the outrage over Rey & Finn in Star Wars was never anything of note. Just a few people on Twitter being grumpy.
I was under the impression that they were going to use the Captain Marvel identity for the Carol Danvers movie, not the Ms. Marvel mantle.
You know, if i was him and was typecasted like that i'd request when possible to have the character listed like that precisely because how funny it could be.
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Not a big comic guy. I thought Ms Marvel was another name for the female Captain Marvels. My mistake.
Amen.
not at all what IMDB says ....
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