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No he doesn't.
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Once again, he spent his career successfully passing as a local in places like South Asia, the Middle East, and South America. That’s not something some average white guy can do.
A 9/11 movie - Barbinladen
John Wick (a role Cruise actually would have fit pretty well)
Then care to explain Black Panther? Or Squid Game? Or Get Out? Or Crazy Rich Asians? Or Aquaman? (and before anyone asks, no I was not ok with that either)
I think we can safely say that the general audience isn't as racist as you believe them to be.
Ben Affleck
Reb Brown
Jessica Chastain
Robert Duvall
Chris Evans
James Franco
Johnny Galecki
Rondo Hatton
Kerry Ingram
Don Johnson
Mindy Kaling
Diego Luna
Rachel McAdams
Paul Newman
Clive Owen
Pete Postlethwaite
Maggie Q
Robert Redford
Kristen Stewart
George Takei
Jay Underwood
In-universe, they're called “the seam” and are largely impoverished and discriminated against by the upper class.
Awful casting of the protagonist (forget race, Cruise is 3 decades too old), neutered PG-13 instead of hard R like it should be, BS happy ending, feels like a video game instead of a hellish nightmare, generic aesthetics
Need more?
Speaking for myself, your feeling is wrong.
I only just found out this site existed at all just the other day (my original posts were from IMDB). For the heck of it I looked into some of my old stuff and found the discussions still going. There’s a lot I need to catch up on.
I’ve also learned in the years since that he was suffering from Parkinson’s/dementia, though I cannot say what impact that had on his mental state.
Wrong. This is the official (and only) film adaptation of a novel. Fans of a book have every right to feel dismayed when the big movie version is unfaithful.
Here’s another memo from the future: Asian actors are NOT an impediment to success (Squid Game, Shogun, Everything Everywhere All at Once, Crazy Rich, To All the Boys…) so the bigots here can retire that talking point
“Bad joke” and “racist POS” does describe this movie and its defenders pretty well.
So what? It’s still wrong. He had no problems with the numerous other falsehoods either.
That's a false equivalence on at least 3 levels.
Already addressed, so I'll reiterate:
"I swear, does nobody who brings this interview up actually READ the damn thing? He's talking about cultural upbringing, not race. Did the instant contrast with "a person who grew up in the desert" not make that clear?
If you want a quote that's relevant, there's this one: "My (appearance) is such that I can be in India and look Muslim or do the same thing in Russia and Latin America."
And anyway, it's just PR. Of course he's not going publically criticize something that he's profiting off of, no matter how many lies it tells (did he ever speak up in Sheardown's defense? Didn't think so.)."