Hollywood White WASHES Japanese Anime in movie adaptation

[JusKeepBreathin 19,311]

21 hours ago, Morphine Prince said:

This is all due to marketing. It's purely financial. They are ADAPTING a foreign film into an American version for an American audience, which btw if you didn't know is around 60% white. Of course most of the cast would be white. People want to watch a film where they connect to the characters. 

I'm probably a minority in my opinion here but I think films should just stick to the race they are. 

In this case, the actress should've been Asian.

I don't want a black Spider Man or whatever, if they were white, they're white. 

 

 

Spiderman Miles Morales is not white. Yet Hollywood will always make Spiderman Peter Parker and will probably never make a movie with the current Spiderman, Miles Morales. 

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39 minutes ago, just4fun said:

Spiderman Miles Morales is not white. Yet Hollywood will always make Spiderman Peter Parker and will probably never make a movie with the current Spiderman, Miles Morales. 

Because people are more accustomed to Peter Parker, I guess. 

They might make a Miles Morales in the future. 

[JusKeepBreathin 19,311]

1 hour ago, Yanko said:

 

 

Smart and so cute. 

[Eros92 2,528]

Get over it. 

 

SJ has always been the perfect pic for the character. I remember WAY back when when they announced they were making an American live action adaptation I automatically thought she'd be perfect. Then I didn't hear much about the movie, saw Lucy and thought "GOD they need to make that GITS movie and cast her" and my prayers were answered. I mean come on they cast people on who they think is best. Clearly she nailed the role. I don't care if they casted someone black, Hispanic, white or Asian. As long as they can act and nail the role that's all I care about. But FYI the character isn't even human, she's s cyborg therefore it has no race. Yes it's an anime/manga which is based in Japan which explains her name cause she was manufactured in Japanso but they never state that she is any race.. 

[RadioIsOurs 13,876]

Wait until they remake Akira with a white Kaneda and Tetsuo.. 

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What do people expect from Hollywood? 

[Seeka 12,372]

11 hours ago, LavendarBlonde said:

Wait until they remake Akira with a white Kaneda and Tetsuo.. 

I don't think they would touch Akira. It's been over twenty years and it's too great a film.

I think if Hollywood is reaching into the anime bucket, I think they're going to stick to popular series, not movies already made.

Though Ghost in the Shell is a weird choice. I know that an anime movie was released recently, and they remade the series, I thought there'd be several other series I'd go to. Like Attack on Titan, Black Butler, and Free!

Bleach would also be a good choice, as it is STILL going on. Then there is Naruto which is ending as well.

I think Ghost in the Shell is great for Hollywood to make a movie out of, but is its fandom even still strong enough to bring in a box office if ScarJo don't?

I'm honestly asking because I usually don't care about stars in movies.

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But doesn't Anime portray a ton of characters as white?

[Brian Ryan 1,468]

An anime character isn't presumably asian, wtf are some of you guys. They mainly speak Japanese and dubbed in English later. These comments. It's totally white washed. That women is Asian. I swear this thread reminds of the white person playing Michael Jackson and Zoe Saldana playing Nina Simone. The things Hollywood does for sales. No respect for culture.

 

[Brian Ryan 1,468]

17 hours ago, Yanko said:

 

 

No lies detected. I'm going to follow the cute Asian.

[PartySick 163,101]

4 hours ago, BrianxRyan said:

I swear this thread reminds of the white person playing Michael Jackson

Right? It's crazy to think a white person would play this guy:

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And before you say Michael said he didn't want to be played by a white guy, he told Oprah that he didn't want a white child playing him...because that was a rumor around that time 

I'm gonna throw my two cents into this lion cage too...honestly, it's an American remake of an popular Asian anime, odds are they're going to use American actors, popular ones at that  If they remade an American movie/show in Asia and had a full Asian cast instead, I'd be saying the same thing. 

Idk, I guess there's just things I consider more important than a live adaptation of a cartoon  everyone's vocal and up in arms about Scarlett Johansson playing a character from an anime while there's people who've been wrongfully imprisoned, discriminated against in "professional" environments, outright attacked, or killed...

Priorities, people. Let's deal with things that are destroying peoples' lives, sometimes ending them, then we can worry about Hollywood.

[Brian Ryan 1,468]

Just now, PartySick said:

Right? It's crazy to think a white person would play this guy:

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And before you say Michael said he didn't want to be played by a white guy, he told Oprah that he didn't want a white child playing him...because that was a rumor around that time 

I'm gonna throw my two cents into this lion cage too...honestly, it's an American remake of an popular Asian anime, odds are they're going to use American actors, popular ones at that  If they remade an American movie/show in Asia and had a full Asian cast instead, I'd be saying the same thing. 

Idk, I guess there's just things I consider more important than a live adaptation of a cartoon  everyone's vocal and up in arms about Scarlett Johansson playing a character from an anime while there's people who've been wrongfully imprisoned, discriminated against in "professional" environments, outright attacked, or killed...

Priorities, people. Let's deal with things that are destroying peoples' lives, sometimes ending them, then we can worry about Hollywood.

My mind can talk about Hollywood and more.... just like the people in the office do.

[Himeros26 1,688]

This also reminds me of when a BLM activist protested at HilLiary's conference and she turned around and said "Let's get back to the issues" As if racial injustice isn't a thing. White people will never know what minorities feel, however. Because they've been conditioned that racism has already happened and has ended. 

This messy ass thread should be closed honestly

[JDi 1,495]

"you have to understand the origins of anime" is the best they could come up with?

so if this is about culture and not looks did they also have to cast Zach Galifianakis instead of Brad Pitt in "Troy"? Pitt fit the looks of Achilles better than any English-speaking Greek/Greek-American actor they could find and it's simply an American-produced adaptation and it's only positive to make the film more successful with a better-known lead.

are we also going to condemn every American adaptation that's already been made just because everyone looking for ways to get in the holy fight for social justice is the thing now? are we really that retarded?

...and the creators of that anime obviously preferred their character Scarlet Johansson-looking.

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http://collider.com/ghost-in-the-shell-scarlett-johansson-asian-controversy/

These test sought to shift Johansson’s ethnicity in post-production to make her appear Asian in the film. Fortunately, an insider clarified to ScreenCrush that these tests were immediately rejected upon review, but the problem is that there were seemingly enough voices behind the scenes that believed this to be a good idea in the first place.

But why try making her look Asian in the first place?