I was assuming the original topic expanded to include any non-white female lead. My bad.
Marvel films, it's time for a Black female lead
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Black Panther and Storm getting married was a huge story for Marvel, not that long ago, and could calmly shepherd Mutants into the MCU organically.
In the comics, Charles met Storm just before he was crippled in mortal combat with the shadow King... So we should have seen Storm on Legion during the last 4 weeks.
I was always confused that Riri was the leading character in a comic called Iron Man, and her name wasn't Iron Man. It would have been a modern challenge to gender identity, and cool.
I agree
Numbers aren't important unless it 50% of films lead by minorities! That's the only number I want to hear!
The white straight guy who started this thread is pretending he's a black lesbian.
That should pretty much tell you everything you need to know about his intentions here.
Please no, since its inception Hollywood only seems to find eurocentric looking, fair skinned black women acceptable.
No, no, no to all Beyonce, Halle Berry, Mariah Carey or Vanessa Williams lookalikes.
Storm is from Africa, use someone who fits the average African phenotype.
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It's not "time for a black female lead".
It's time for a good character. If that character happens to be black, fine.
If that character happens to be female, fine.
If that character happens to be both, fine.
But by saying it's time that a character HAS to be of a certain demographic or gender identity, you are just buying into EVERYTHING that is wrong with Hollywood today. We had strong female characters LONG before those three words, "strong female character" were used together as a label to promote an agenda.. in fact, we had them before agendas. I read Tim Miller's comments about the new Terminator character Grace, and how she would scare the shit of of the misogynists.. and it got me thinking, back when there were no characters better than Ellen Ripley, Lindsey Brigman, or Sarah Connor, I had not even heard of the word "misogyny"
It's time for a good character. If that character happens to be black, fine.
If that character happens to be female, fine.
If that character happens to be both, fine.
But by saying it's time that a character HAS to be of a certain demographic or gender identity, you are just buying into EVERYTHING that is wrong with Hollywood today. We had strong female characters LONG before those three words, "strong female character" were used together as a label to promote an agenda.. in fact, we had them before agendas. I read Tim Miller's comments about the new Terminator character Grace, and how she would scare the shit of of the misogynists.. and it got me thinking, back when there were no characters better than Ellen Ripley, Lindsey Brigman, or Sarah Connor, I had not even heard of the word "misogyny"
Beyonce is overrated (insert shocked gasp!)
it will be Lupita Nyong'o, I'd put money on it.
Misogyny is not a new word.
Would you rather we said 'its time for the Western entertainment industry to stop asuming only white human males (or females) exist in the universe'?
As much as I love watching Lupita, expand the casting, find even more Lupitas for roles. Otherwise it would be like giving every major movie role to Meryl Streep in her heyday and ignoring all the other available white female actors. (They did a similar thing with Halle Berry, want to cast a black female - call Halle Berry, she's the only one that exists.)
Of course it's not a new word. I never said it was. I'm just saying it was never an issue, or an agenda or anything like that before. Filmmakers just made their films.
Lupita Nyong'o already plays Nakia in the MCU.
I guess you never heard 'male privilege' either...
Does it rhyme with 'the only humans who go to the cinema are white males'?I guess you never heard 'male privilege' either...
Uh, yeah....no.
my point is that story comes first. not the demographic, not the agenda. You don't make a movie to serve an agenda, you make ti to tell the story
The history of cinema shows otherwise.
The demographic Hollywood served from the beginning did not include nonwhites. There is a reason such films as Birth of a Nation exists. Production wise good, story wise, racist as hell!
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