Captaindemotion wrote:
^I wasn't aware of Glover having played Marlowe. But is his take on the character as well known as Easy Rawlins? Will it ever be more than an interesting one-off take?
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I haven't seen it, but I don't think it was considered a bad performance.
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Shaft, as you say, is a take on 007 and Hammer. Would simply taking either character and simply having a black actor play them have been as successful? No. Instead, by making an original, standalone black character, an iconic character was created (not to mention a bloody great theme song).
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Well, personally, I think the original movie is heavily dated, and the story weak.
And having a black actor portray either Hammer or 007 in 1971 wouldn't have went well with the populace at the time.
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The point about Blade v Van Helsing is that Marv Wolfman and his co-creator (memory fails me at the min) is that they created a memorable and original vampire killer and happened to make him black. They didn't go, 'hmmm, who's an interesting vampire killer? Let's take him and have him played by a black actor, 'cos it's time he was played by one.' They made their own. And he's at least as famous as VH at this stage.
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Well, they could have done that. Doesn't mean it would have been successful or unsuccessful because of the race of the actor.
It's all about the story.
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As regards the last paragraph of your post, I'm afraid I simply don't understand it. I haven't advocated making any Asian or black characters white.
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The question was to you personally dude, I was just saying that the question can go both ways....