Do airbenders have color?
June 30, 2010 5:24 PM   Subscribe

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Open thread three down?
posted by cjorgensen at 5:26 PM on June 30, 2010


Another one?
posted by dersins at 5:28 PM on June 30, 2010


This has got to be old news.
posted by jabberjaw at 5:28 PM on June 30, 2010


Casting so bad, it bears repeating!
posted by zarq at 5:29 PM on June 30, 2010


It's as if the universe has predestined this site to have a post about the live-action Last Airbender movie.
posted by ardgedee at 5:29 PM on June 30, 2010


Crap obviously wasnt paying attention....the mods can delete this one....I'll contribute to the conversation in the other thread.
posted by The1andonly at 5:33 PM on June 30, 2010


But, but, is it racist to cast non-white actors into European roles? People who do this are progressive, right?
posted by Sukiari at 5:33 PM on June 30, 2010


Not the last, as it turns out.
posted by Joe Beese at 5:36 PM on June 30, 2010


But, but, is it racist to cast non-white actors into European roles? People who do this are progressive, right?

When Europeans start finding themselves unable to find work playing European characters in media, we can talk then.
posted by yeloson at 5:37 PM on June 30, 2010


But, but, is it racist to cast non-white actors into European roles? People who do this are progressive, right?

I might be missing something, but I haven't noticed this happening very often.
posted by lekvar at 5:38 PM on June 30, 2010


I'm confused. Something's only racist if you think it's bad then? Or it's only racism if it affects non-whites?
posted by Sukiari at 5:40 PM on June 30, 2010


An argument could certainly made that whites being passed over in favor of other ethnicities is racism, but it ignores centuries of the opposite being the institutional standard. I'm not aware of centuries of oppressed caucasians.
posted by lekvar at 5:42 PM on June 30, 2010


As I said in the other thread, it is likely that M. Night made casting choices based strictly on what would attract larger audiences to the film, rather than what would be true to the source material. Further details on the problems with the production.

This problem isn't restricted to Hollywood.
posted by zarq at 5:44 PM on June 30, 2010


i just have to lol at this
posted by bam at 5:45 PM on June 30, 2010


"I'm not aware of centuries of oppressed caucasians."

Never heard of Muslim Spain?

Oh, you mean more recently.
posted by Sukiari at 5:47 PM on June 30, 2010


"The play is about an Native American chief who at first befriends White settlers but through politics and a series of betrayals, eventually retaliates against the impending colonists, ultimately dying in a climatically melodramatic scene."

Climatically melodramatic. It's lightly snowing, the wind is swirling the flakes around...
posted by mr_crash_davis mark II: Jazz Odyssey at 5:47 PM on June 30, 2010


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