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Mechafunkzilla posted:Gotta say I'm pretty disappointed in how homogenous the casting is here. Japan is a pretty racist country so what do you expect
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Agreed that not only one side should be subverted, but saying that a mystical orient character written during the days of Yellow Panic is a positive role that should be preserved is pretty questionable. They also made Baron Mordo Black, which he has never been in the source material, but was a good choice as well! That doesn't change how hilarious it is to see Tilda Swinton cast into the exact same Yellow Panic character. But it's cool, I think they made Cumberbatch's manservant Asian to make up for it.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Well then you shouldn't have led your initial argument with "you never end up with the white characters being played by people of color" "Never" never actually means 'never'.
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Apr 13, 2016 20:36
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I'm pretty sure Dr. Strange's live-in lover, Wong, has always been Chinese.
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Gyges posted:Of course part of the idea behind the Suicide Squad is that they're going on suicide missions, which means there's only a small chance of actual commutation coming about. That's really what it is. The government really has no intention of ever letting them walk free, they assume nobody would be able to survive these missions long enough to earn the commuted sentence. And Waller being Waller she probably is full of poo poo, she'd just have them disappeared if it really became an issue.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:I'm pretty sure Dr. Strange's live-in lover, Wong, has always been Chinese. isn't that who Chiwetel Ejiofor's playing in this? or is he someone else?
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Suicide Squad is literally just The Dirty Dozen with supervillains, which in principle is a can't-miss proposition. If that one psycho rapist from TDD had lived to get his sentence commuted it would have looked pretty bad for the US government, too. (Dear Amanda Waller, please watch TDD before considering putting the Joker on SS.)
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:isn't that who Chiwetel Ejiofor's playing in this? or is he someone else? He's playing the traditionally white character Baron Mordo
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:He's playing the traditionally white character Baron Mordo oh that actually makes more sense given the trailer. who's Mads Mikkelson playing then?
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:Agreed that not only one side should be subverted, but saying that a mystical orient character written during the days of Yellow Panic is a positive role that should be preserved is pretty questionable. They also made Baron Mordo Black, which he has never been in the source material, but was a good choice as well! You could, I dunno, redesign the character without making the character white and I mean poo poo, even that look would probably work okay if it was Gordon Liu or another ex-Shaw Bros actor playing it, it's a pretty clear wuxia homage
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:oh that actually makes more sense given the trailer. who's Mads Mikkelson playing then? I think they still haven't officially said who he's playing. Probably another Dark Dimension part being given to a 616 actor though.
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:oh that actually makes more sense given the trailer. who's Mads Mikkelson playing then? If it's not Dormammu, who cares?
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The Jared Leto sends weird gifts thing got a lot grosser.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:He's playing the traditionally white character Baron Mordo It'd be cool if POC got to be lead protagonists 
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ew.com is right!
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Jerkface posted:It'd be cool if POC got to be lead protagonists You mean like in Star Wars?
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Burkion posted:So this isn't the right thread for this but there isn't a right thread for this so gently caress it Youtube's acting up for me at the moment. Anyone know if this is hosted anywhere else?
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:ew.com is right! quote:The actor playing Killer Croc, Akinnuoye-Agbaje, also said the gifts “weren’t right,” but not for the reasons you might expect. “If you’re going to have that kind of party, at least invite The Croc. Don’t send me your dirty leftovers, that just isn’t right… You see why he ain’t part of The Squad, right? That’s just downright selfish.”
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LORD OF BUTT posted:You could, I dunno, redesign the character without making the character white Then again they also recast the Yellow Peril character The Mandarin as Guy Pearce and R'as al Ghul (orginally born an Asian/Arabic nomad in the comics) as Liam Neeson. Jerkface posted:It'd be cool if POC got to be lead protagonists Will Smith will be starring in Suicide Squad (again playing a traditionally white character) but I dunno if that counts as a protagonist. Edit: Aquaman too, and he'll even be getting his own film. Snowglobe of Doom fucked around with this message at 20:55 on Apr 13, 2016 |
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Then again they also recast the Yellow Peril character The Mandarin as Guy Pearce and R'as al Ghul (orginally born an Asian/Arabic nomad in the comics) as Liam Neeson. R'as is actually a fun character, though. I don't know if I'd put that in the plus column.
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I hope Mads plays Tiboro, the Tyrant of the Sixth Dimension. I also hope they repeat his full name as much as possible.
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Mads has played a Bond villain, and an awesome one at that, so if he's anything other than the Big Bad then its a step down as far as I'm concerned. Lets get this guy on the A-list already!
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Basebf555 posted:You mean like in Star Wars? Snowglobe of Doom posted:Edit: Aquaman too, and he'll even be getting his own film. Yea but ya can't just stop there! Theres lots of ppl out there who want/need representation. I'm white bread and find the glut of white movie protagonists/video game protagonists loving boring. And as the father of a biracial daughter I'd love to see more diverse casts in gender & race. I hope the Wonder Woman & Aquaman movies kill it. More female lead movies, more ethnic actors for heroes. TFA is one of the movies i cant wait for her to experience because Rey owns, Disney/Kathleen Kennedy did really good to bring those characters to the universe.
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Basebf555 posted:Mads has played a Bond villain, and an awesome one at that, so if he's anything other than the Big Bad then its a step down as far as I'm concerned. Lets get this guy on the A-list already! They already said Mads is playing the villain, they just haven't said who the villain specifically is.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Then again they also recast the Yellow Peril character The Mandarin as Guy Pearce and R'as al Ghul (orginally born an Asian/Arabic nomad in the comics) as Liam Neeson. R'as was both an Irishman and a Japanese man.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:They already said Mads is playing the villain, they just haven't said who the villain specifically is. Ah good. I was worried he'd be similar to Falcone in Batman Begins in terms of screentime.
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Gyges posted:R'as was both an Irishman and a Japanese man. Well there's our biracial character quotient all sewn up 
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Jerkface posted:Yea but ya can't just stop there! Theres lots of ppl out there who want/need representation. I'm white bread and find the glut of white movie protagonists/video game protagonists loving boring. And as the father of a biracial daughter I'd love to see more diverse casts in gender & race. Black Panther isn't until 2018 but he's been getting singled out as awesome in the early Captain America 3 reactions. Hopefully he'll continue to be one of the marquees after the original dudes retire after Avengers 3.
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They'll never top Sean Connery's Highlander character.
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ImpAtom posted:Nobody ever remembers that Bane got whitewashed as hell too. Sort of, he's a biracial son of a Caribbean rebel and a (blond, blue eyed) mercenary who also wears a luchador mask because of reasons.
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ImpAtom posted:Nobody ever remembers that Bane got whitewashed as hell too. It's because he has such a lovely voice.
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:They already said Mads is playing the villain, they just haven't said who the villain specifically is. There are rumors that he's Eternity
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computer parts posted:It's certainly better than "mutie". So how did Phil react to this?
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Then again they also recast the Yellow Peril character The Mandarin as Guy Pearce and R'as al Ghul (orginally born an Asian/Arabic nomad in the comics) as Liam Neeson. No, they recast The Mandarin as Ben Kingsley, who is half-Indian.
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First full reviews of Civil War are releasing today. Empire gave it 5/5 stars and says it is the best Marvel movie to date and the strongest third act of any recent blockbuster film. Some mild spoilers in the full review. The interesting thing to me is (very mild spoiler) There is apparently not a major outside villain in the movie. No Hydra false flag. http://www.empireonline.com/movies/captain-america-civil-war/review/ Leon Trotsky 2012 fucked around with this message at 22:43 on Apr 13, 2016 |
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:The interesting thing to me is (very mild spoiler) There is apparently not a major outside villain in the movie. No Hydra false flag. Hehe, some people here and elsewhere were SURE that this wouldn't be the case and Marvel would take the easy way out.
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