Disney casts 19 year-old Halle Bailey as Ariel in "Little Mermaid."
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The one Lipwig talks to to get them to move....gold, keeps kneeling with one arm in the air, Lipwig refers to him as ‘black moustache’ at one point and it clicked.
Never followed Freddie Mercury or Queen, but still, I shouldn't have missed that!
Never followed Freddie Mercury or Queen, but still, I shouldn't have missed that!
It’s probably my second or third reading, and I won’t lie, I am still not absolutely sure....but....I think it’s what Pratchett was doing. I mean...kneeling...arm in air....referred to as Black moustache. It’s got robe hasn’t it really? And Golems all want to break Free....(kinda)
I wish he were around to give us a Brexit novel.
Have just started writing something his style, because have got tired of missing the Disc.
I think it just makes you old.
They should cast Jason Momoa just to mess with everyone's heads. 
That's not someone who would have occurred to me.
Major Motoko Kusanagi is an assault-team leader for the Public Security Section 9 of "New Port City" in Japan.. It may have been made to look like Hong Kong.. but wasn'tIt was a made up coast city..
Batou had served in a military special forces unit and often states that he was a Ranger-trained soldier with the Japanese Ground Self Defense Force.. So he was "Originally" Japanese
Motoko, in the manga, had a run of the mill, average body.. like a ford focus.. but with the internals customized..
Plus, The Japanese are quite a xenophobic people.. come and visit, but don't stay.. even Koreans..
well there's always 47 Ronin.. with Keanu Reeves..
I remember watching Mission Impossible, the 60's series.. not the Tom "I'm short but Awesome" Cruise ones..
for 3 years they had Leonard Nimoy as the group's "mask/actor" guy.. and in 1 episode.. they were in Japan.. and they had Nimoy as the "Asian" guy with a couple make up props.. Ha!
(then there's You Only Live Twice with Sean Connery getting make up to be an Asian guy.. ugh)
So, back in the 60's.. they didn't care.. they had the lead guy play a Central American general a lot of times.. and he was blonde (pretty much grey) hair blue eyes..
Back in the 1950's Toshiro Mifune starred as a Mexican man in the movie Ánimas Trujano: El hombre importante (Ánimas Trujano: The Important Man), so sometimes, the race of an actor/actress isn't that important if they can look convincing in a role (Jake Gyllenhall as Prince Dastan in Prince Of Persia comes to mind; with his beard, and dressed in Iranian streetwear speaking Farsi, he could probably pass for an Iranian man, or even impersonate a member of the Iranian Majlis with what they wear.)
As for Ghost in the Shell, I liked what I saw, but the movie would have been even more better if it was set in the United States, with the main character being a white woman or a woman of color (black, brown, Asian) and the name changed to Marion Kramer (or if she's Asian-American, Marion Kusanagi).
If an American IP was re-adapted to another country (like this one, adapted as this Colombian telenovela), I do not think that people would be objecting much, and they shouldn't be objecting when an American company adapts a foreign IP to be set in the United States.
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Some IP can be imported and changed, like say a comedy or drama, kinda like how Korea done there own Designated Survivor series, you'd have to change the setting/people because.. Korea.. different political system..
Lets take Full Metal Alchmist..
If they make a live action of that, then it would have to be a majorly european/american cast.. becuase its pretty much set in Germany/Austria analog.. Now you have middle eastren people like Scar and his people, and you have chinese/asian in lou fang.. Thats where its set.. so you make the casting decisions based on that, sure there's a bit of wiggle room on a few characters.. but ..
Lets take Full Metal Alchmist..
If they make a live action of that, then it would have to be a majorly european/american cast.. becuase its pretty much set in Germany/Austria analog.. Now you have middle eastren people like Scar and his people, and you have chinese/asian in lou fang.. Thats where its set.. so you make the casting decisions based on that, sure there's a bit of wiggle room on a few characters.. but ..
That's not going to happen now, at least not without negative comment. Hell, on io9 they were trying to start something with Batwoman being Jewish since Ruby Rose isn't.
Io9 and kotaku are my daily reads.
But they have definitely informed my...shall we say somewhat cynical...view of modern politics.
It’s almost more fun to look at what they aren’t talking about in their respective fields (the lack of press for Vita vs the love for Nintendo handhelds, Anita sarkesian vs Liana K...io9 is just confusing these days because it spends more time talking about films that aren’t SF and F than it does it’s supposed remit...and in both cases, you find a lot of stuff that’s odd opinion pieces more focused on the politics of a thing than the thing itself. They also both seem to sometimes create their own controversies, just so they can report on it. The standard of writing has really gone down over the last few years, bad knowledge, lots of product placement series....but there’s no other game in town really.)
There's been a fair amount of change over at Io9 the last few years, so I think that's probably a big part of why it's changed so much.
People being upset that Ruby Rose isn't Jewish does seem a big excessive to me. That doesn't really seem to me like where the actor and character have to match up, at least compared to things like race, or even sexual orientation.
People being upset that Ruby Rose isn't Jewish does seem a big excessive to me. That doesn't really seem to me like where the actor and character have to match up, at least compared to things like race, or even sexual orientation.
Actually, they did do a live action Fullmetal Alchemist movie in Japan, and some people were upset because they used an all Asian cast, rather than a mostly European cast that would have fit the source material better. It's on Netflix in the US.
And if the US did that with an all white cast.. of course acused of White washing.. ugh..
Besides.. movie was so much Meh...
Well, When Ruby was cast.. there was a big hooplah on she wasn't "Gay" enough.. she was Only Bisexual.. and of course not jewish.. so.. someone is going to complain on EVERYTHING!!
But there is a BIG difference complaining on the merit of the cast/casting and just being a Racist Bigot Homopohobe Sexist..