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I think it's funny that the "she doesn't have red hair" people are trying their hardest to speak in code. What they're really trying to say is, "She isn't white." At least one person admitted it.
But that's a mutation! Yeah, blue eyes are a mutation.
A quote I read: "Some people are more upset about Nike and mermaids than they are about concentration camps."
Facts.
I think it's funny that the "she doesn't have red hair" people are trying their hardest to speak in code. What they're really trying to say is, "She isn't white." At least one person admitted it.
It's not like black people don't have red hair:
you sound really really sore about something that to most people would be meaningless.This.
Disney's trying to have it both ways, and the end result have been films that are, on the whole, so lackluster as to make one nostalgic for the prequels.
Actual weapons experts have torn Rey's fighting technique apart (she'd have been killed repeatedly if she had tried to fight like that in real life), any credible tactical analysis of The Last Jedi shows that Poe was right & Holdo was incompetent, the "fill the gap" movies are artificially constricted by their having to fit into established spaces, et cetra.
They're doing too much at once, none of it is being done well, and individual creatives in particular are failing miserably.
The franchise as a whole has largely suffered under Disney's watch, so much so that it can't even support a theme attraction.
I'm glad social media wasn't a thing in the 90s, we were likely spared the whines and complaints about Dame Judy Dench being M.
you sound really really sore about something that to most people would be meaningless.
If this was about hair color, then there would be an angry campaign against Scarlett Johansson, Kirsten Dunst, Jennifer Lawrence, Charlize Theron, Jessica Alba, Kate Mara, etc., about people with different hair color playing a role in a movie. None of those angry campaigns occurred, so to say that it’s about hair seems far-fetched.Is one of them cast as Ariel?
I dislike that red haired people are always cast as people of other haircolor in film.
One would think that someone as sensitive about issues of exclusion as you would understand that, but maybe you only see skin color and not hair color.
I can't believe Hollywood is changing the hair color of iconic characters:
Aquaman is white and has blonde hair, it was obviously bad casting.Read up on who and what Jason Momoa is when the cameras aren't running, and you'll can see that this is a clear case of "pragmatic casting".
Momoa is if Native Hawaiian ancestry, and some of those tattoos he has are related to his family (including one that's his family crest) and his position within the group of people he hails from.
That scar on his face? It's real. Got it in a bar fight 11 years ago.
And so on.
Given who and what Aquaman is, he's probably the best person in Hollywood to handle the role.
It's mostly the targeted replacement of red-haired characters that is bothering me.If this was about hair color, then there would be an angry campaign against Scarlett Johansson, Kirsten Dunst, Jennifer Lawrence, Charlize Theron, Jessica Alba, Kate Mara, etc., about people with different hair color playing a role in a movie. None of those angry campaigns occurred, so to say that it’s about hair seems far-fetched.
As I said, the absence of campaigns, articles, hashtags, etc., complaining about the "targeting" of redhead roles suggests that the current anger expressed by many is not genuine or about red hair. If they did, perhaps we would have seen complaints for the casting of the following:It's mostly the targeted replacement of red-haired characters that is bothering me.
Not that you'll believe me.
If you really were against oppression of minorities, you would be open to the underrepresentation of any minority in film, but for you, it's only about skin color, and you are projecting your own bias on everyone else, just like you are doing in this thread.
You might have missed the complaints, but I saw at least some for some of those examples.As I said, the absence of campaigns, articles, hashtags, etc., complaining about the "targeting" of redhead roles suggests that the current anger expressed by many is not genuine or about red hair. If they did, perhaps we would have seen complaints for the casting of the following:
You'll have to forgive me if I shrug my shoulders about the silence until now. I understand some are making a satirical joke, but others are not.
- April O'Neil (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
- Batgirl (Batman)
- Black Widow (Avengers)
- Daphne (Scooby Doo)
- Jimmy Olsen (Superman)
- Leelo (Fifth Element)
- Mary Jane (Spider-Man)
- Poison Ivy (Batman)