Well as a fan of the comics and such, I have no problem with the ideal of heimdall being played by a black man. The point is simple, if you take a topic, and adjust according to your own way of creativity, than all bets are off. Simple as that. If we truly wanted Thor to be represented, than he wouldn't be blond,
and he would have no affiliation with Captain America or the Avengers. But since Marvel Thor and Mythology Thor are relatively different, than all bets are off. But the reason people accept blond thor but not a black male is because we
are use to Americans taking a main character from another culture and giving it it's own WASP twist, only recently have we been doing that and providing a minority character twist, albeit with supporting characters of course. Now to someone who equate to shaft (can't remember who.), it's not the same.
Heimdall is not even a side character, he's merely a supporting character. In order to make the exact same difference, you would have to have an almost all black cast (good luck of that happening.) and than change one of the supporting characters to caucasian, that's the equivalent to what just happened.
The actor Jennifer Alexander also said this on her twitter page. She's
playing lady sif.
I'm actually surprised that people are rather shocked at this. Older forms of
literature and art aren't really too diverse when it comes to characters. (And arguably modern pieces isn't much better.) But comics by far has some of the lowest percentage of minority characters out of them all. So it was only natural for them to hide their lack of diversity when it's time to bring it
to the big screen. They did this with GI Joe, with ripclaw being played by marlon wayans. (To be honest, he was the best part of the movie IMO, him and the special effects.)
Ultimately, I believe that once you start changing things from the source material, than all bets are off.
and he would have no affiliation with Captain America or the Avengers. But since Marvel Thor and Mythology Thor are relatively different, than all bets are off. But the reason people accept blond thor but not a black male is because we
are use to Americans taking a main character from another culture and giving it it's own WASP twist, only recently have we been doing that and providing a minority character twist, albeit with supporting characters of course. Now to someone who equate to shaft (can't remember who.), it's not the same.
Heimdall is not even a side character, he's merely a supporting character. In order to make the exact same difference, you would have to have an almost all black cast (good luck of that happening.) and than change one of the supporting characters to caucasian, that's the equivalent to what just happened.
The actor Jennifer Alexander also said this on her twitter page. She's
playing lady sif.
I'm actually surprised that people are rather shocked at this. Older forms of
literature and art aren't really too diverse when it comes to characters. (And arguably modern pieces isn't much better.) But comics by far has some of the lowest percentage of minority characters out of them all. So it was only natural for them to hide their lack of diversity when it's time to bring it
to the big screen. They did this with GI Joe, with ripclaw being played by marlon wayans. (To be honest, he was the best part of the movie IMO, him and the special effects.)
Ultimately, I believe that once you start changing things from the source material, than all bets are off.
