He should work with more mexican actors

You should change your handle name since it sounds like you kiss the feet of phony white blonde women.

I do think Beautiful Barbie Girls has a fair point. For an ethnic director to work predominantly with white actors, even in his own native country just feels wrong.

He didn't seem to respect the diversity issue either as evidenced by the way he dismissively said 'people's colour should not matter'. He used it as a double meaning.

Talented technical director, but not somebody I would want to waste money on again.

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WTF is an "ethnic director"? Are you implying that Alejandro can't sit toe to toe with all of the Hollywood bigshots and should return to Mexico to fall into obscurity?

Let's be honest, Mexico, as well as most of Latin American isn't on the same level playing field as Hollywood. If he were to leave it then he'd probably be a footnote in cinematic history to most English speaking audiences.

As for respecting diversity, how is he going to accomplish that by only working with Mexican actors to fit Barbie Girl's expectations. Btw, skin color should NOT be a prerequisite for determining diversity either. That's just a forced perception of equality based on a biased and staged pretense.

It's also ironic considering that these past Oscars were plagued by the phony #OscarsSoWhite non-troversey where it was argued that diversity for the acting categories was lacking because it didn't forcibly have only black people included. It was nothing more than a self-serving stunt to complain about what happens to every actor who is never nominated every year, as well as every nominated actor who never wins.

Naughty God, thank you for your reply.

I did not mean to imply that Alejandro should not be in there with 'the big leagues', obviously, he is talented as any Spielberg or Lucas, and I certainly didn't mean to imply that he should ONLY work with hispanics actors, either. I just feel that he should be trying to represent people from his walks of life better by making more stories that involve them. It's just good for morale.

Look at young Ryan Coogler. This is a man who's making great films and not compromising, yet he is paying tribute to his race by including them in stories, even in white dominated franchises like the Rocky films.

You are right btw, skin colour isn't what determines true diversity and I find that oscar stuff laughable if only because of a few privileged black folk getting their knickers in a twist all because their oscar baiting films didn't garner the attention they were hoping for. I felt that only Idris Elba and the you boy in 'Beasts Of No Nation' deserved recognition, as well as the aforementioned Coogler for his sterling directorial approach to 'Creed'. But...the season did highlight something we've always known, and if it ain't white, it ain't right. So many asians and black actors, AND those outside the arts like inventors/scientists/politicians don't get acknowledge and have their contribution completely eradicated from the history books and I guess the oscars thing is extension of that of some sorts.

I don't want to start a hostile argument, btw. Just posting my own thoughts.



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She doesn't have s * * t. She's a dumb pressed racist who depends on Academy Award wins to tell her what's good and what isn't. If it'd won Song, she'd probably say "Fifty Shades of Grey" was a masterpiece. Look through her post history and realize this is nothing more than her ignorant rambling.

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I never said he should stop making films in Hollywood, silly. I said he should work with mexican actors or american actors of mexican descent IN HOLLYWOOD. Is that too difficult for you to understand? If he continues to help whitey to get undeserved Oscars he will be nothing but a traitor of his own race and people, which is despicable. Spike Lee and Tyler Perry work with almost nobody except black actors. I dislike both blacks and whites but at least they have UNITY. Alejadro should be working with mexicans. Biutiful (Jorribul) is the last "mexican" movie to be nominated for an academy award for best foreign film... and it's set in freaking Spain, and its lead is a Spaniard. How f-up is that?

And yes, the Oscars are so white. Whitey gets nominated for everything without being deserving of such accolade. Naomi Watts and Emmanuelle Riva in 2012, for example, what's so amazing about their "acting"? since when lying in bed for 2 hours is considered acting? Little sissy Eddie Redmayer for playing a lame excuse of a transgender woman? What's so amazing about that? No mexican actor has won the Oscar since the 1950s

Instead of Dicaprio, Alejandro should be working with Damián Alcázar, Luis Gerardo Méndez, Edward James Olmos, Kristyan Ferrer and Luis Fernando Peña

You mention Spike Lee and Tyler Perry??? Only working with black actors? Hah. Wow. Thanks for the laugh. Don't know about you - but nobody takes those two directors seriously. Spike Lee had one good film a couple decades ago - Do The Right Thing- from there/ he hasn't done squat worth acknowledging. Tyler Perry is a complete joke. If anything - they should probably switch their game plan up.

What you don't realize is - you are in fact being racist by calling out Alejandro for working with white actors. Maybe he just/ wants to do a certain story- where--- I don't know/ the characters are white? Is that a crime? God forbid he doesn't help out a brother from Latin America !! Because they don't get any good roles... Right? Hogwash. There's a reason will smith and his wife looked foolish this year at the oscars. The whole argument is ignorant. So now what..? You'll be mad at him if he doesn't put a black/ Spanish man on his next film? That doesn't seem rediculous to you? Jeez people are dumb

The Revenant and Birdman couldn't be made with Mexican actors... besides, Revenant actually had a lot of diversity. Babel had a lot of Mexicans working on it, Adriana Barraza even made the cut at the Oscar nods.
I understand your point, but your argument is so poorly based... what the fck does Lee and Perry have to do with this? They're not Mexican and they're not even good directors. You're not taking about nationality there, you're talking about race, Luis Gerardo Mendez, for example, is white, despite being Mexican.

Is not his obligation to take Mexican actors to Hollywood, I wish he would direct Alcázar or Bichir, but because the combination would be interesting. And lets remember he has taken many people from the technical and artistic approaches already. For what you can notice in his iMDB page, he actually supports Mexican cinema by producing many Mexican films.

That being said, we can conclude he isn't against his own country talent, on the contrary, but maybe what your post should've said is that you wish he would work with those actors you mentioned, but because it would seem interesting to you, not because he's a racist of his own culture and film products or talent.