By: Crystal

Crystal — Fri, 14 Mar 2014 17:24:57 +0000

“Fire is orange, dammit, no matter who’s on fire.” <-Made me laugh.
I totally get where you're coming from Adam. And in many ways, I agree with you. Other recent arguments: changing the gender or race of the Doctor (geez, that was huge this past summer), Judi Dench portraying M and Idris Elba possibly becoming James Bond (which I'm totally down with).
At the same time, Amy Adams having red hair rather than brown/black in Man Of Steel annoyed me. I think it was because her role overall annoyed me and it was sort of the icing on the cake. And if actors can starve themselves for a role, what's a little Clairol dye?
I suppose, my nerd rants are on a case-by-case basis. But I think the argument could be made that, if Hollywood wants to make a film about a comic, why deviate from the comic? If Hollywood wants to change so much, why not create an original piece using the elements they want to use? (as original as possible in this day and age)
And if you're [population in general] okay with a white character being cast with a black actor, why is not okay to cast a Native American character with a white actor (as Beth points out in the previous comment)?
Personally, I'd much rather see a Native American in the role too. Diversity is interesting.
But in line with your train of thought – I too sometimes get tired of the nerd ranting. Frankly, it's exhausting. But I can't say I'm never guilty of it.

By: Beth

Beth — Thu, 13 Mar 2014 16:30:50 +0000

Thank you for writing this, I think there is a lot of unnecessary nerd hate around certain casting decisions like Gal Gadot, Michael B. Jordan and Ben Affleck. However, I do think it’s up to us to call Hollywood on it’s whitewashing, like Rooney Mara being cast as Tiger Lily in the upcoming Peter Pan remake, or Michael Fassbender playing Altaïr Ibn-La’Ahad in the Assassins Creed movie.

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