SaberFireTiger
Wow. That is a little ... er actually a lot backwards.
Yeah, just thinking about it annoys me. Kristin Kreuk was one of the few good things about that film.
SaberFireTiger
I have nothing against white people. And some of them are good actors. Some. Most of the good actors happen to be overseas someplace it seems.
It's just, you know, like 99.9% of mainstream media is already about white people -- and then you get Earthsea or 21, where the people making the film have layered, well-written non-white characters handed to them
on a plate, and, er, make them white. You have to wonder why.
neutral iirc, Ursula LeGuin (the woman who wrote the books) was pretty upset about it too.
Even if you look at it from a purely apolitical standpoint, surely it's better for Hollywood if they make more films about people who aren't white people, because then they have a broader pool of actors to pick from. It at least has to be better for all the struggling non-white actors who can't get parts because nobody's writing parts for them ...
Woo, political diatribe of the week!
SaberFireTiger
Looking forward to The Forbidden Kingdom though.
Is that the new Jackie Chan film? I might see that.
