For Fargo, exactly how many non-white characters do you expect there to be in a movie that takes place largely in North Dakota and Minnesota? There’s that Native American guy who beats the shit out of Steve Buscemi. Or are we only counting African American actors for diversity?

Except some male writers and directors can write women as well or better than women writers and directors. See: Pedro Almodóvar. I don’t ascribe to the school of thought that men can’t write women, or women can’t write men. Some writers (male and female) can write both.

Good choice of wording (“risky”) - because when it comes to investments, risk is an important factor in determining where to put (and to not put) one’s money.

So is your point that the Coen bros are racist based on whom they cast?

That the Coen Brothers aren’t regularly accused of being “obnoxious fucking douches”. That moron above is projecting its own feelings, not stating something factual.

Do Jew’s not count as enthnicity or does that not fit the narrative?

F. Murray Abraham is half Syrian. Don’t know whether he’d consider himself to be a POC, but he’s listed as a famous Arab-American by many Arab-American organizations.

Someone offers a rational insight into how scripts and movies are cast, Jezebel freaks out. Big surprise.

So the summary of your argument is that you expect a couple of Jewish boys from Minnesota to write about the Black experience. But if they did, you would be writing about how they have no business presuming to write about Black experiences, because it lacks the authenticity that Black writers would give. There is…

It would have been a different Jesus. Turturro is an Italian-american with a fucking weird face and he’s a brilliant character actor whose success already flies in the face of what a traditional famous actor is supposed to look like, so forgive me if i think that turturro should play as many roles as possible, of any…

Bullshit. Your own baggage doesn’t equate with some deep observation about others, dearie.

Are you going to fucking well sit there, type that shit, and completely ignore the historical and social contextual settings of most of those films?

Thank you. People think diversity will come about by pointing their finger at white filmmakers and writers doing what they know, when what is truly needed is, as you say, more diversity in writers and directors so that more diverse stories can be told. But I guess pointing fingers at well known white celebrities gets…

If anyone by turturro had played the Jesus, it wouldn’t have been the same. That entire movie is perfect from beginning to end.

Why SHOULD they care about diversity? What you are advocating is that every piece of art should basically cater to your own prejudices and if they offend your sensibilities movies are automatically bad, and this is basically the death of art. Great art shouldn’t coddle you, and if you leave a movie feeling “yes, I…

It is very interesting how they’re choosing not to call will Smith on it.

I don’t give a shit because their movies are really fucking good. Is that wrong?

Diversity is good. But it is also good to write what you know. The Coens are white, and so it is no surprise that they are better at writing from that perspective. That’s not a problem. The problem is that all the other writers in Hollywood have a very similar background.

Funny how jezebel has been eerily silent about that...

You could do the same thing with will smith’s production company, all the movies are directed by white men, staring mostly white men.