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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > Cinema Discusso > Ghost in the Shell: White Wash Complex
 
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am0kgonzo
Jun 18, 2010
 The casting is fine, wish they had a better/ more interesting director though.

I'd have loved to see Gits direct by someone like Refn.

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am0kgonzo
Jun 18, 2010

BravestOfTheLamps posted:

Oh just look at these these poor Japanese people suffering from internalized racism

And if you want to know what Japanese nerds think, they're more annoyed that it's live action in the first place.

She’s going to be an erotic lieutenant.

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am0kgonzo
Jun 18, 2010

Echo Chamber posted:

I don't give a drat about anime but whitewashing is terrible.

No, it's not.

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am0kgonzo
Jun 18, 2010

Echo Chamber posted:

So to recap the whitewashing controversy, now that the movie is out:

- Film began pre-production in an environment where whitewashing in Hollywood (including Paramount) has already been scrutinized. Nonetheless, they pursued Margot Robbie before casting Scarlett Johansson.
- As expected, people took issue with the choice of Scarlett Johansson as the lead role, well before a single frame of the film was shot, but those concerns fell on deaf ears. Constance Wu and Ming-Na weighed in on the controversy, saying they were opposed to yet another whitewashed film.
- It was reported that the studio, after catching some wind of the controversy, considered using CGI (not unlike the technology used in Benjamin Button) to make Scarlett Johansson "look" asian, as if it's somehow supposed to make the casting choice less worse. What's of particular interest is that this was the first report that recognized that the character ScarJo was playing could have been Asian. And how this would have been a tone-deaf use of CGI yellowface in the literal, not metaphorical, sense. Paramount disputed the reports, though Paramount has a record of flat out lying about whitewashing in previous films. Screencrush stuck to their story, sticking with their anonymous source.
- Film is released. Despite being an adaptation of property that was not adapted to live action before, the film didn't even try muddying the waters with the character's origin and ethnicity. (The film could have tried to pretend that the character was never Asian to begin with.) Instead, it's revealed that ScarJo's character is literally an Asian woman's brain planted in ScarJo's robotic body.
- The film and Scarlett Johansson's performance received mixed reception from critics and audiences.

and?

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