It was predictable :( Right now characters must fit archetypes depending on their race and gender: white males are either psychopaths, violent abusers or pathetic crybabies. The only exceptions seem to be characters written decades ago (when they don't change them, as they changed Luke) and Nolan movies. We won't see any Harrison Ford or John Wayne or Cary Grant or Sean Connery or Kirk Douglas in the near future.
As an interesting thing, Asian characters are supposed to stay in a secondary role. Real badass and fuckers are reserved for white females and/or black males. You'll never see Ken Watanabe or Yoo Gong getting the top main character in a Hollywood movie. Damn hell, in Dr.Strange you had the holy kung-fu-folkloric monastery in the mountains ruled by... a white female and a black male!!! I couldn't believe it when I saw the movie!
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