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This Movie Is Whitewashed Trash

posted 9 years ago by JohnBonDon
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It really does say a lot about Warner Brothers in that even though there is a lot of controversy surrounding the casting of their Akira live action movie they went ahead anyway with another Japanese based adaptation and cast a white lead for, "Edge Of Tomorrow" which is based on the Japanese novel: "All You Need Is Kill".

Here is the link to the official English language translation of the original Japanese novel: http://www.haikasoru.com/all-you-need-is-kill/

The interesting thing to note about this is that in the original novel while the main character was Asian (his name is "Keiji Kiriya") the main female lead was a white American (Rita Vrataski) so it's not like white people couldn't have been in the movie if it was kept as it was in the original novel. The original novel was actually quite ethnically diverse as apart from those two leads there was a part Latino part Japanese sergeant and a Native American female technician. However, anyone who wasn't white in the books (which was mostly the entire cast) was whitewashed in the movie made by supposed "liberal" people in Hollywood including the ridiculous like having a Japanese guy in his 20s being bastardized into Tom Cruise.

What's even worse is that this racist trash is being hailed as some great thing so it is having its whitewashing being whitewashed.

Just another incident of Asian Americans, like other people of color, being denied opportunities to get lead roles in major Hollywood movies.

[–] j_mcmillan33 8 years ago

Actually it was very good

[–] galahadfairlight 8 years ago

You and that clown Razor were thoroughly destroyed on this topic when you posted it virtually VERBATIM two years ago, and what was said then still stands.

The movie cost $178million to make, plus all the other costs associated with marketing it.

This movie relies, and simply couldn't be made if it were not for someone of Tom Cruises star power.

Hollywood is NOT responsible nor required to follow a property to the letter, it is BASED on the book, and they can do whatever they please to ensure they can get the maximum return on THEIR investment, your sensitive little bleeding heart has no bearing on that.

The majority in the US and the markets they release in are white, there is nothing wrong with tailoring a property to reflect that.

Japan, India, China have all remade Hollywood movies and changed the ethnicity of the original characters to their respective culture.

When I see you bemoaning that as a problem, then i'll take you seriously here.

I'm beginning to think you and Razor are one and the same, you both crop up in the same threads and the same boards.

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[–] Unicorn-9 8 years ago

SJWs are so predictable and boring.

But, I have to admit, I always laugh when I see them attacking Hollywood. If there's one entity on Earth that deserves to be attacked by SJWs, it's Hollywood.

It's as though they don't even realize that they're eating their own.

[–] mickeylbrown 8 years ago

Keanu is the only Asian with star power even close to Tom Cruise. They didn't white wash it you idiot, they Tom Cruise washed it.

[–] JohnBonDon 8 years ago

Keanu is the only Asian with star power even close to Tom Cruise. They didn't white wash it you idiot, they Tom Cruise washed it.

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[–] filmcritic-16538 8 years ago

Hollywood did the same with the movie "Aloha" starring Emma Stone. It was still a good film though, in my opinion.

[–] The-Original-Pinky 8 years ago

It's an ADAPTATION.

You do understand the meaning of the word?

There are adaptations I like, and adaptations I did not like. I look at the adaptation solely as a free-standing piece and judge it as that; not compare it to the material from which it was adapted.

Good adaptation: The Shawshank Redemption (based on the novella Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption). The adaptation's story strayed and varied from the novella, but it was a compelling and beautifully moving film.

Bad adaptation: Never Let Me Go. Although very faithful to the book, it suffered from pacing, and felt more like a badly-constructed soap opera.

Life can be arbitrary and comes without a warranty.

[–] JohnBonDon 8 years ago

This isn't merely about how far it strayed from the original book. This is about the systematic racism against nonwhite American actors that Hollywood has had in effect for decades and decades now and movies like this show no signs of it stopping.

[–] The-Original-Pinky 8 years ago

Cry me a river. It's an adaptation. Accept it and move on.

Life can be arbitrary and comes without a warranty.

[–] JohnBonDon 8 years ago

"Adaptation" does not mean "whitewashing" and the "continual discrimination against nonwhite Americans".

[–] The-Original-Pinky 8 years ago

You are BRAINwashed. And a terrible troll.

Life can be arbitrary and comes without a warranty.

[–] Godzilla1981 8 years ago

On the one hand, you have some valid points.

On the other hand, no one bats an eyelash when Japan does adaptations of things, and they almost always cast Japanese actors in almost every role. So....

[–] JohnBonDon 8 years ago

On the other hand, no one bats an eyelash when Japan does adaptations of things, and they almost always cast Japanese actors in almost every role.

Because Japan is a country that has almost nothing but Japanese people in it.

The United States however is a multi-racial country. That is why it is a problem when Hollywood does it.