Fans Petition Dreamworks Over 'Ghost In The Shell' Movie Casting

[Willy Wonka 4]

What, an example of what happening?.

I'm asking for an example of a live-action anime adaption that cast an Asian actor in the role of an Asian character and people took issue with the fact that the actor is Asian.

 

The character's name is Motoko Kusanagi and it takes place in Japan. You're going to try and argue that she isn't Japanese?

 

But let's go with your theory of racial ambiguity, okay? The character's name is Motoko Kusanagi and it takes place in Japan. With the disgusting underrepresentation of Asians in movies, you think the casting of Scarlet Johansson is just coincidental? Even worse, you think it's justifiable or reasonable to cast a white actress in a role that was a perfect vehicle for a race that is underrepresented in Hollywood?

 

Let me bring up this example: Think about Ru in the Hunger Games. The character had no race specified. When a black actress was cast to play the part, there was a huge backlash because "Ru was supposed to be white". 

 

If a supposedly (or logically) white character was to be portrayed by a person of color, you'd see people flip ****. But those same people are the ones trying to trivialize people being upset about Scarlet Johansson being cast as "Motoko Kusanagi".

[uo111 5,261]

I'm asking for an example of a live-action anime adaption that cast an Asian actor in the role of an Asian character and people took issue with the fact that the actor is Asian.

 

The character's name is Motoko Kusanagi and it takes place in Japan. You're going to try and argue that she isn't Japanese?

 

But let's go with your theory of racial ambiguity, okay? The character's name is Motoko Kusanagi and it takes place in Japan. With the disgusting underrepresentation of Asians in movies, you think the casting of Scarlet Johansson is just coincidental? Even worse, you think it's justifiable or reasonable to cast a white actress in a role that was a perfect vehicle for a race that is underrepresented in Hollywood?

 

Let me bring up this example: Think about Ru in the Hunger Games. The character had no race specified. When a black actress was cast to play the part, there was a huge backlash because "Ru was supposed to be white". 

 

If a supposedly (or logically) white character was to be portrayed by a person of color, you'd see people flip ****. But those same people are the ones trying to trivialize people being upset about Scarlet Johansson being cast as "Motoko Kusanagi".

The Last Airbender is pretty much the only movie that has been based on anime style characters released in America and casted the characters as what their actual race "should've been." And everyone hated it because it looked nothing like what the drawn characters looked like and acted nothing like them either. That's one of the main problems with live-action films based on animation, the characters never ever look the same. Regardless of what race you cast them as, they won't ever look the same. So Japan will cast characters as Japanese people and Americans will cast characters as Americans.

 

You might look to Dragonball Evolution but that was a train-wreck all around. Half the characters were white, half were asian, and even the non-human characters were pathetic attempts at the originals.

 

The only reason to get mad is because you think Asian people need more representation in Hollywood. Which is fine, but fictional racially ambiguous characters can't be "white-washed." There is no visual reason to make her Asian. There is a potentially factual one, but your only argument stems from the fact that she has a Japanese name and hails from Tokyo, things which don't dictate race and which will potentially be changed in the movie for American audiences anyways. This isn't even mentioning that she isn't human.

 

It's the same **** as people who say "but James Bond is white!" when they think he might be cast as a black man. No, he is a fictional character. Who cares if they wanted to make him black? Rue on the other hand was specified as having dark skin in the books, and the movie adaptations were very clearly meant to represent the books. Those people were idiots.

[ryhanna 3,507]

I couldn't name a big time Asian actress off the top of my head. That's a shame. It's way past time for Hollywood to start being more inclusive of Asian actors.

[Creyk 17,810]

Mess at people wanting Asian actors for the sake of them being asian

It's not like they are being discriminated against, it's just that there isn't one who is a big enough name to get an important role like that, no one took the time to build an impressive career yet.

[TRILL MONSTER 1,113]

People would complain if she was Asian because... shockingly, anime characters never look Asian.

Making a live adaptation of anime is a stupid idea because anime characters purposefully don't look human. It would be like a live action Simpsons movie. Terrible. Horrendous, this is no exception.

The white washing would make sense if anime characters were actually Asian. At least they aren't making real people of color white.

I was just gonna say this ..

This is very true

Add a purple wig and i could see the resemblence

[Haroon 49,685]

I think Western people look more like anime characters than Asian people so if they're going for Scarlett because she'd look more like the character then I'm totally on the same page

 

I remember watching a live action adaptation of Death Note and I could hardly recognise or get used to Light Yagami because he was played by an Asian person

[Spock 20,290]

I obviously understand the difference, but I love how petitions like this are welcomed while the justified uproars of casting black people in white comic book roles is deemed racist.