Enjoy whatever you want, but scoffing that others prefer to avoid such whitewashing seems like more than personal preference.
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True, and itâs also about how limited and limiting the few side roles given to POC tend to be.
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Fair enough, but there is nothing wrong with people demanding a more inclusive cinema experience and itâs not anything for white people to feel offended or upset about - given the very real history of both racial and gendered exclusion in Hollywood. Iâm sure that people who are not white and male would like to see more reflections of themselves and less cases of famous actors who are white being cast in roles that either are POC or where the race doesnât matter.
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Also he was born Farrokh Bulsara.
âŚthey go right to back to doing just that, because they just donât get it.
Why would you assume they donât get it? I think they understand completely what they are doing, but cast white A-listers because thatâs who, historically, have made them piles and piles of money.
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I am not offended by inclusive policies. I am actually pretty pleased to see accuracy in historical film. I have mentioned in other posts that my Academic background is Industrial Archaeology. My thesis topic was tracing human migration patterns through specific technologies. I am not still working in that field, but I keep up with the literature, and our family business is about restoration and conservation of historic artifacts for museums and private collections. I donât claim to be any sort of ultimate expert on history or race. Or cinema for that matter. But these are things I do care about, and have enough knowledge to at least hold informed opinions about some specific elements of these subjects. I am probably just as annoyed as you are when watch a western and see that the âIndiansâ are just white guys in makeup. Especially when they actually shot the film on a National Monument adjacent to several large Native American communities. I would like to give them the benefit of the doubt that they were just trying to save money by recasting the stunt riders as Apaches, but it is probably more whitewashing. And I understand that there are many examples of this, some of them quite current. I am not sure i agree on the male/female role issue, but I can certainly be educated more on that. To me, there seem to be a bunch of really positive female role models available in film today. This year for my daughterâs birthday, I spent too much money on a limited release copy of the watch Ellen Ripley wore in Aliens. Anyway, I did not start posting this topic because it is my custom to argue against casting minorities in film. I was specifically concerned at the rage being generated in this one case, because it seems to follow the trend of making assumptions about the demographics of ancient populations based on a stereotyped view of current populations of that geographical area. That is one of the things that I do have an opinion on. If people were being outraged at the casting of a POC in a historical role that they assumed was white, but the historical figure was likely Black or whatever, I would make the same argument. Probably if there is a post on cultural appropriation, I would comment there as well. The topics are related.
âI am not offended by inclusive policiesâ
Then thanks for your concern [troll].
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I think that I explained my remarks.
And speak out of both sides of your mouth.
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If you have to cast a white A-lister to sell your film, doesnât that suggest you donât think the story is strong enough on itâs own?
If the script is well done and the actors and production crew are decent then the film will do a lot better that a tone deaf, awkwardly directed film with a big name star.
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