You can debate it all you like, but the truth is, casting someone who was non-white would have greatly helped against the racist connotations of the original concept.
You can debate it all you like, but the truth is, casting someone who was non-white would have greatly helped against the racist connotations of the original concept.
No, but they could have worked to fix the racist connotations. Like, say, casting someone who wasn’t white.
Oh for fucks sake. Shang Chi may have been based on Kung Fu, but he wasn’t Kung Fu. He wasn’t a white guy pretending to be half-Asian. He wasn’t a part of the “Mighty Whitey” trope which is fucking racist.
People did review what is there, they just didn’t like it. The fact that people were annoyed that Iron Fist the show kept problematic tropes doesn’t diminish the other criticisms they raised (i.e., bad fight choreography, too much boardroom/non-action story, etc.)
I never said the people who worked on Iron Fist were racist. I said that Iron Fist came from an old racist concept, that of “Mighty Whitey.” Wuxia films weren’t racist and certainly Marvel’s first try to copy them, with Shang Chi, actually turned out pretty good. But then they turned it over to Mighty Whitey and that…
I’m sorry, the Michael Keaton Batman was a ninja? Because I don’t remember him doing any ninja-ing in Tim Burton’s Batman.
The casting of a white dude as Iron Fist is definitely part of the problem, but every review I’ve read has said that it goes beyond that to simple writing and structure issues. Apparently the pacing is a mess and the fight scenes are bad. That’s certainly something that could be fixed.
The casting of a white dude as Iron Fist is definitely part of the problem, but every review I’ve read has said that it goes beyond that to simple writing and structure issues. Apparently the pacing is a mess and the fight scenes are bad. That’s certainly something that could be better without recasting the role. (I…
I’d also cite a case much closer to home. I was really impressed how Jessica Jones lead Krysten Ritter handled controversy around the whole Purple Man storyline. Showrunner Melissa Rosenberg knew that the show was playing out against a backdrop of heightened sensitivity (and controversy) around treatment of physical,…
To a degree I empathize with him in that he is, as the star of the show, compelled to sell it.
When Keaton accepted an award for Batman and said something to the effect of: This is for everyone who said we couldn’t do this, I felt a vicarious sense of triumph.
I support the Amell Method. I might have dropped the show early on but his public outreach and manner prevented that. He got the audience to be on his side no matter what criticism got levelled his way. He hasn’t been perfect but even when he stumbled, he was more prone to apologize effusively than he was to deflect,…
That is exactly what happened.
It was called the British Raj, French Indochina, the Spanish Phillipines, the Dutch East Indies, et cetera.
I don’t think the racial controversy is necessarily ginned up. Like it or not, this is one of the issues of the day, minority participation in Hollywood is a blatant problem, and Iron Fist, while a reasonably popular character, has this problematic history. In other words, this wasn’t unforeseeable and it didn’t come…
Imagine white people go to Asia and say, “There’s too many Asians here. Let’s do something about that.”
Here’s a personal favorite: Farmers who voted for Trump worried they’ll lose their field workers
Reminds me of the Onion headline from Our Dumb Century’s review of WW2: Japan Forms Alliance With White Supremacists in Well-Thought-Out Scheme
Nice to see that Trump supporters are fucking dolts regardless of ethnicity.