In the “Gallery” documentary, Morricone was explicitly one of the names that Favreau and Filoni gave him on a list of what they were thinking of for the music, so yeah. Check out episode 7 for that whole process.

I enjoyed Equilibrium for the first two acts, but you are not wrong about those final 30 minutes. It falls apart in a big way, and me and my friends who were watching it spent the time nitpicking all the ways it didn’t work.

See, I can’t even get it on the app, I think Facebook just hates me (or it’s a giant mess that doesn’t do roll-outs well, one or the other).

It did, in fact, quite prominently in “Thor: Ragnarok,” just completely transformed to a synth-theme by Mark Mothersbaugh (i.e. Devo).

But what are they supposed to do? Ship her with the nice former Stormtrooper who cares about her and comes to her rescue when she thought nobody would and who she obviously also cares about? That’s just boring! /sarcasm

See, I actually LIKED it because I read basically the whole message of that subplot in TLJ as “this relationship would be totally toxic as he tries to control her and treats her like crap, stop shipping it already!” Plus she’s less flirting with him and more trying to be Luke Skywalker. Like, it explicitly says that…

It certainly doesn’t hurt Reylo that her main alternative as a love interest is a black guy -- not because all Reylo shippers are overtly racist but because across every fandom shippers seem slow to ship white and black character together. The Walking Dead, The Flash, The MCU, it makes no difference. We’re just not…

And that’s how you know this was written by a man. I’m a woman who hates these tropes (they may be power fantasies, but when your fantasies overlap with the actual advice given to abused women by fundies, maybe get some better fantasies) but you don’t subvert them by brutally killing the woman, you subvert them by her…

I still own the original version of that book! I got it in high school and it’s pretty battered by now. It sits right next to another wild speculative book, Wayne D. Barlowe’s “Expedition: Being an Account in Words and Artwork of the A.D. 2358 Voyage to Darwin IV.”

In the books, apparently they’ve tried sending in a number of different combinations to see if it alters the (usually disastrous) results. Previous missions have been all male, too.

They’re assuming that they will make money with a white star over an Asian star. They are assuming their audience will only be interested in a story set in Asia featuring Asian culture if it has a white face. Even if they are right, that’s STILL racism - it’s just them catering to a racist audience.

The Japanese-cast FMA is their movie, this is ours. Sorry if the commenting system made who I was replying to confusing. But as I mentioned in my original post that nobody seemed to read, the main problem is that this is denying a role to an Asian-American actress. It kind of doesn’t matter what Oshii and Shirow think…

Right, because Japan is 99% ethnic Japanese and the remainder are largely Korean and Ainu - and even there they have gaijin talents that they trot out of a lot of historical dramas and the like. America is far more ethnically diverse in comparison. We have millions of people of Asian descent in this country, and many…

Woman, and no, i won’t. :D

No, she’s not. Go read up mukokuseikaku.

No, but Hollywood has a ton of institutional racism, and this is a manifestation of that.

No, just whitewashing and prioritizing white people over people of color, which is what her casting is.

The original character is Japanese. Instead they cast a white actress. That is whitewashing, which is racist.

Towards Asian-Americans? Denying them starring acting roles and relegating them to stereotypes? Yes, we are that in America.

No more than Japanese people are outraged by the American GiTS. It’s their movie, i don’t really care.