WAY too multicultural - The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again (2016) Discussion

[–] PowergirlsMom 8 years ago

And Rocky Horror was so set in time and place that it had to be all white?

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[–] kingstewy 8 years ago

Great actor, but he was bad. Don't go all SJW. Magenta sucked as well. Furter was good after "Eddie". She started being herself and was great.

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[–] PowergirlsMom 8 years ago

My issue with the comments are those who link the casting to the " PC Police" and relagating my questions to being a Social Justice Warrior. I just thought of the casting as creative, didn't recall the Nazi reference/link with Scott. If you object to diverse casting that disturbs the story line I can comprehend that. No need to political name call and label.

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[–] joisepeterson 8 years ago

In the original the conventionalists were all different races. As for main casting I guess they wanted to appease the SJW and PC crowd.

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[–] VisionAri 8 years ago

Maybe you and your klavern can stage your own version!

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[–] SteverB 8 years ago

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[–] thehappyspaceman 8 years ago

Wasn't Dr. Scott supposed to be a Nazi in the original? Having Ben Vereen play the role comes off as an odd choice. It would be like having a black actor star in Schindler's List. No matter how good the actor is, it makes no sense in context.

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[–] PowergirlsMom 8 years ago

Forgive me if " context" seems an odd term to try to apply to a fantasy movie about alien Dr who builds a man?

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[–] illbeoneasystreet 8 years ago

"Context" is just as imporant in Sci-Fi and Horror as it is in more realistic genres. Heck, I'd argue it is even more important! Your world has to exists with in the confines of the world you have created otherwise the audiences spend the whole time laughing at you rather then with you. Dr. Scott was heavily implied to be a Nazi in the original film and if I remember correctly the play took the implication furthur. If you want to cast a black Dr. Scott then you need to do one of two things either play off the implications in an tongue in cheek manner or get rid of the implications all together. Dr. Scott was one of the better parts of this ludicrous show, but they really should have rethought that line.

Its something you'll get used to a mental mind *beep* can be nice!

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[–] paolo-severini-1 8 years ago

Fantasies movies don't mean you can change the 'gist' of characters and stories at will. There is still a context to respect.

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[–] illbeoneasystreet 8 years ago

Yup Dr. Scott was heavily hinted at being a Nazi! I would have been okay with the change had they axed the "Or should I say Dr. Von Scott!" line Magenta and Riff Raff being of different races was astetically off putting as well especially considering neither of them did that great of a job. If they blew it out of the park I'd care less. But considering there was no scene of the two of the making out it matters less. Still think that they could still have played up the creepy incest angle in the original had they not cast two people of different races as sibilings. The problem isn't that the cast was multicultural it was that the cast was multicultural without ryme or reason. You want to cast a black Dr. Scott? Great then get rid of the Von Scott line. You want to cast a black Magenta fine but have her brother black as well! I have no problem with a black person being cast as Frank I have an issue with a woman being cast as Frank and playing it as a female Frank. Lavern Fox's Frank looked more at place in a music video Mariah Carreying it up then she does playing Frank. Frank is supposed to blur gender lines but Lavern's Frank is undeniably a woman they even refer to her in female pronouns.

Its something you'll get used to a mental mind *beep* can be nice!

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[–] Chefeetaboopers 8 years ago

The Von Scott is a hint at him being a German/Crazy Nazi scientist, hence why the original actor had a silly German accent. Regardless of color of skin, the character just didn't scream "German".

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[–] CookieNCreams 8 years ago

I agree. The Dr. Von Scott retort wouldn’t really work without the character having a German accent.

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[–] moosefeathers 8 years ago

Multicultural casting didn't bother me. I thought that Magenta was great and Ben Vereen, although overly made up was just fine.

(didn't mind the basketball shorts on Rocky either...he certainly worked them...LOL)

Just Laverne Cox was wrong and weak for the roll, playing it as a mealy mouth wannabe diva instead of a manipulating, evil male, as it should have been cast.

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[–] sockpuppetsayswut 8 years ago

Or maybe, just MAYBE, they got the roles because the casting directors decided they were best for the role? You sound racist.

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[–] CookieNCreams 8 years ago

I didn’t mind the multiracial casting here, though there are some inconsistencies with it. Like how Dr. Scott has a white nephew (I.e. with a black Dr. Scott, shouldn’t Eddie also be somewhat black too? or vice versa with a white Eddie?).

I could also make arguments against Riff Raff and Magenta being siblings, but then I remembered they’re supposed to be Transylvanian aliens. So the race of those actors wouldn’t matter at all.

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