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That’s just wrong. If this was really an “anti-cancel culture” movie, why wasn't James Franco invited back?
Wrong, it very much is. Right from the start we have Jameson turned into Tucker Carlson and right-wingers shown as a lunatic hate mob who’ll believe any stupid senseless conspiracy. The whole message of the film is that trying to make things great again causes huge problems. Then we have the ACAB scenes, Uncle Ben’s inspiration completely given over to Aunt May, Michelle now made “MJ Watson” out of nowhere, shall I go on?
Oh yes, more than you realize. The means of that reforming? A vaccine. Everyone who takes their vaccine is good, everyone who doesn’t is bad. Gee, I wonder if the movie is trying to tell me something.
Or consider how the whole story is about how trying to maintain a status quo and make things great again causes major problems.
Kind of, but what fans wanted anything from Amazing Spider-Man back? Those movies are to the franchise what Sonic ‘06 was to its.
Also, Electro never knew Peter at all, so why is he here? And why weren’t the others who did know that Peter was Spider-Man (Harry, Mary Jane, Gwen, etc.) there?
No. Nobody is above criticism.
Hey don't forget the true greats like Grace Randolph, Lauren Chen, and MechaRandom 42.
Samira Wiley IS openly gay.
Irrelevant. When a role calls for a certain race, gender, age, height, etc, you get an actor of that race, gender, age, height, etc.
<blockquote>Beautiful Mind character was from El Salvador but might be described as white passing or white Hispanic. </blockquote>
No, she was pretty ethnic-looking.
<blockquote>Same with Anthony Hopkins in Human Stain. </blockquote>
In that case, it was a plot twist. That’s a little different and trickier since casting an actor known as mixed will ruin the reveal. Some things just work better as books.
<blockquote>Edge of Tomorrow just Americanized?</blockquote>
This is false. The original novel had a mostly American cast of characters. The lead was Japanese but most of the rest were Americans. Guess what? The ones of color (particularly a Latino and a Native American) got whitewashed too.
<blockquote>Hunger Games character had olive skin?</blockquote>
In universe, they’re called the “Seam” and are presented as an underclass who perform the manual labor jobs and are discriminated against. Not really the kind of role that a pale Aryan fits into.
<blockquote>And to go back to 1926 is ridiculous.</blockquote>
Why? Shouldn't a comprehensive list of examples be comprehensive?
Check this one too, which lays out how this disgusting practice is utterly indefensible
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Whitewashing_in_film
<blockquote>The newest Spiderman didn't have left leaning politics in it </blockquote>
You mean the one that turned J Jonah Jameson into Tucker Carlson and depicted right-wingers as a hate mob? The one where the message is that trying to maintain a status quo and make things great again causes huge problems?
This is just patently false. 2017 was also the year of Get Out and Shape of Water, both much more TZ-like and very successful.
I thought the same. Bernie Mac in Guess Who did it so much better.
I assumed he was a supernatural entity since no actual human being behaves like that.
Such a crappy ripoff of Screwfly Solution.
Here's one https://www.cnn.com/2012/01/13/us/is-hollywood-whitewashing-asian-roles/index.html
<blockquote>Not really, why would they?</blockquote>
It's a country where virtually everyone is the same race. Why WOULDN'T it come up?
<blockquote>Is mostly dystopian, but that's another problem, unrelated to how people see race in a cyberworld.</blockquote>
Be that as it may, it's not a "post-racial" society. Advancements in robotics do not cause long-standing prejudices to simply vanish.
<blockquote>That has nothing to do with that we are discussing here. </blockquote>
It has to do with the question that was asked.
<blockquote>And it was an example on how the character was changed, without being "whitewashing" or "blackwashing" - you are so biased that it's crazy ...</blockquote>
It is if he wasn't those in the book.
<blockquote>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motoko_Kusanagi
Motoko Kusanagi's body was designed by the manga author and artist Masamune Shirow to be a mass production model so she would not be conspicuous.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Never is it said that she is Japanese in appearance. </blockquote>
Well, exactly. If she weren't, somebody would say something about it.
<blockquote>Really? A society in a future so advanced that the race doesn't matter anymore?</blockquote>
No, that's Star Trek. The world of GitS is hardly utopian.
<blockquote>Who cares about the book?</blockquote>
Uh, the people who read it? Viewers who like it when the source material is respected?
The Hunger Games - new book/movie has a male lead
Twilight - new book has a male lead
50 Shades of Gray - tons of female nudity
Barbie - possible Ken spin-off?