There were plenty of people mad about most of those.
A certain group of people care a lot about this, the rest of the world isn’t as insane, that’s all.
I dislike it no matter the color for most things. There are plenty good actors that would match a characters ethnicity but they decide to go with the opposite of that. Now I’m all for representation and stuff, but when Hollywood does this it either feels forced or ignorant
It can often feel forced. That doesn’t mean it always is
Ras al ghul is Arabic/chinese
Guessing they couldn’t think of a way of finagling Russian in there too
Ras Al Ghultinienko
Ghultinenko is Ukrainian
Ghultinievsky?
Rasputin Alovich Ghultinienko
i don’t know if ascribing him an ethnicity is all that meaningful when his community ceased to exist thousands of years ago.
I’m sorry, but romani is just another word for white. If we make Italians and Greeks white, then romani are white too.
I know it’s hard to keep track of every different eurotrash breed, but please make an effort in the future
Thst is not at all how whiteness works.
Romani come from India you dumbfuck
Nah i’m upset at all of em, either cast the actual race of the character or you are too cheap to put in the effort.
If the character’s ethnicity isn’t directly relevant to the story or its message, why does it matter? People of all kinds of heritage live just about anywhere in the world, so a character being from some country doesn’t have to determine their ethnicity.
It’s a damn movie. Cast whoever is gonna play the character best. I don’t care of brothers and sisters were different or if men played women or women player men.
But I’m used to the theater were roles don’t have such a large talent pool.
More so, stop casting people just for their name.
I don’t know how to break this to you, but mermaids don’t exist.
I don’t really care about this though tbf, most comic book heroes have multiple incarnations often with gender-swap and different ethnic groups, Ariel on the other hand is a character from a traditional European fairy tale. It bothers me more to see Tom Cruise as “the last samurai” than some random modern comic book character with slightly off skin color.
Tom Cruise wasn’t the last samurai in that film, he witnessed the last samurai, Katsumoto, played by Ken Watanabe.
It’s confusing because Tom Cruise is on all the posters.
Marvel were big on Romani character = witch in the 70s and 80s.
Both whitewashing and turning a ginger character black are time honored traditions.
turning a ginger character black
iirc, a lot of the times in old media creators would use red-haired people as stand-in for minorities, basically if they wanted to make a character BIPOC, but the studio wouldn’t let them, they’d make them red-haired instead
got this from hearsay so take it with a grain of salt. but if it’s true, it’s nice that the original visions can be fulfilled now!
(and even if it’s not true, more BIPOC in movies is never a bad thing, even if it comes at the cost of red-haired characters, which whatever it’s not like we’re systematically oppressed)
edit: also I’ll note that Ariel is still red-haired in the remake
That’s really interesting
“Irish need not apply” was a thing. It tracks.
was.
I remember having an argument about the little mermaid movie years ago; the guy was complaining that a black lady was cast and I had to ask: “what do you care? You’re not gonna watch it”; he looked stunned for a second and then said “yeah but still…”, to which I had to reiterate “WHAT DO YOU CARE? YOU’RE NOT GONNA WATCH IT!”
Like why are grown men complaining about it at all?! We’re not the target demographic!
I’m angry about all five castings. Same about the casting of an african-american as Heimdall in the MCU - What would be whiter than a nordic god? But using while actors for non-white roles is the vast majority of miscasts.
I mean in the MCU Asguardians are just a separate race that have no reason not to be diverse. The only reason they’re considered Norse gods is because Scandinavia is where they happened to do things on earth.
People definitely made fun of Johnny Depp as a native American.
Made fun of, yes, but there was no outrage, calls for boycotts, etc.
Who would do it? The crazy, easily offended, superficial and impulsive Native Americans? There’s only one tribe that gets fuming mad and violent about this kind of ridiculous shit…
I remember both of those, in addition to the ridicule. Just wasn’t as loud.
he’s like 1/8 or 1/16 native, so despite being far removed from indigenous people and culture white americans have a tendency to see any claim to cultural heritage as valid, so the outrage wasn’t as big as normal
Casting a brown skinned woman as Snow White will never not be silly.
It’s similar to Jack Reacher, it’s made very clear in the books he’s a tall, physically intimidating person. And they cast Tom Cruise to play him.
Would be better if they actually made new movies with different cultures stories instead of just remaking the old shit too.
They do this outrage bait on purpose though. American society is brain rotted and we need a cause to support or hate. Even in children’s movies.
who gives a piss, like genuinely
beyond her name, is there any reason why snow white should be white?
and, like, even then. “brown skinned”. Zegler is super pale, you’re just mad she’s not a WASP
anyways fuuuuuck disney for a bunch of reasons, but “casting POC for traditionally white roles” is not one of them.
Pretty sure the original text describes her skin as white as snow
In that case no human fits the deacription, not even albinos who are more pink than “white as snow”.
Well, apart maybe from black metal artists.
fuck it, black metal snow white. doing something original for once
Even the tale is perfect. Witchcraft, hate, murder, life in the forest, fantasy dwarves, a tomb, and torture. It hardly gets more black metal than that.
I’d watch that.
“Uh Mr Drake”
Grown men having strong opinions on how Disney Princesses should look will never not be silly.
There’s no reason for it to them.
“Strong Opinions”, or just find it ridiculous?
I’m sure there’s a few that were upset, but I think most people were just amused.
Ow. Fuck. I rolled my eyes so hard that I hurt my head.
Woah I’m totally convinced now you’re so right actually
Thinking something is “silly” doesn’t sound like a very strong opinion lol
the gatekeeper has arrived
How dare they cast the role of Caribbean princess as a young black girl? /s
(I know the stories are Danish or something but Disney put these films in tropical island settings)
If copyright didn’t last forever, anyone could make a little mermaid movie with the main character as whatever race they prefer. Its been 35 years, time to release this into the public domain.
The copyright does not apply to the Grimm original anymore. You just have to make your own twist on the story.
The Little Mermaid was H. C. Andersen, not the brothers Grimm
There was no misremembering of information in Ba Sing Se!
I want a JAWS style retelling of the Little Mermaid. Then a porn parody version, because I want what I want
If they didn’t have double standards then they wouldn’t have them at all
