as a fan of the show i initially thought it was gonna be so cool; being able to see this bald monk with arrow tattoos gliding around in his air scooter.
well i was half right.
there IS going to be a bald monk kid that can bend all 4 elements...
But he's gonna be white
i dont know if M. Night Shamalamadingdong watched the LAST movie that had an asian character cast with a White Kid.
cant remember? lemme refresh your memory.
oh wow that's horrible.
anyway; it seems that a couple of picture have been leaked on the net as to who Aang and Prince Zuko is.
have a look.
Aang doesnt even look like freakin Aang, he looks like some white kid who decided to cosplay Aang at his local ComiCon or some crap.
And Zuko (who BTW is Dev Patel from Slumdog Millionaire) is just well...
WEREN'T THEY ASIAN?!
ok technically Dev Patel IS asian... just the wrong kind.
And on top of that apparently the casting calls SPECIFICALLY
i repeat - SPECIFICALLY stated that the characters of Aang, Kitara, Sokka and Zuko were to me (and i quote) "Caucasian or any other Ethnicity"
OR ANY OTHER?!
like it was going to be a back up idea that Kitara was going to an Inuit girl.
She was meant to be one in the first place!
that's just only a fraction of what i read on this site:
http://www.racebending.com/
have a good look and decide for yourself.
i know it kind of seems like they're making a big fuss out of this but if you think about it in the stance that for this movie to work with the white actors; they're going to have to strip all Easter Culture from this movie for the characters to even barely blend in the story.
in short, they have to white wash the movie, just so the actors dont look so out of place.
oh and while i was reading the rest of the site - i was taken aback by the fact that the movie "21" - yknow, the blackjack movie - was based on a book that had Asian students INSTEAD of what we've been given, caucasian.
but that's ok - i guess, seeing that there wasnt much culture to "whitewash" other than the characters themselves, it still made the story work somewhat.
i'm rambling here, but all i want to say is that if they go through with the casting on this movie - it's going to suck the same balls that dragonball: evolution did.
and not the glowing yellow ones.
Ps.
there's an online petition boycotting the casting for the movie; here's the link:
http://www.petitiononline.com/racebend/petition.html
and dont forget to check out the website at: http://www.racebending.com
7 comments:
Dragonball totally sucked, I have to agree. I can totally understand that you don't like how Aang is white, and I hope that they somehow don't ruin Avatar forever because it is a brilliant series. But I have to disagree on the Dev Patel part, because I think he's a really good actor and he will probably be able to do the character well.
Sorry I just randomly found this website http://www.filmofilia.com/2009/05/26/the-last-airbender-movie-photos/ and I think Dev Patel looks fantastic in the first picture! And its at least better than Jesse McCartney...
The other actors I saw all look wrong... especailly Sokka, seriosuly? That weird guy from twilight? *shudder*
haha i didn't know this kind of thing could strike such passion ;)
Waist: i guess dev would do ok in this one - but did you see the soldiers around him? WHITE - sigh...
Eliza: ahaha, i'm serious about my cartoons :D
Aye.... I've no comment yet about this movie, but so far I only hear ppl saying dragonball sucks coz of Goku's white...?
But the thing is, I'm quite upset because .. our hero has been turned into... a white? :o
well, that's quite unusual.
Anyways, here's a funny response video by KevJumba: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAbJgXUM4o4
Btw, I should go and watch the movie for real. :p
not jsut the fact they are white... but i think dragon ball and this film look very much a different style to the animes... astro boy movie is CGI... that dissapoints me as i am a fan of hand-drawn films.... apart from the Simpsons movie there hasnt been an english speaking one in ages
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