White supremacists Versus Thor and Idris Elba

do you think they should stick to the orginal racial make up of the story ?

  • Im disregarding the racists but they should stick to the original racial make up

    Votes: 13 38.2%
  • I think it should reflect what the world is .

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • No one ever seen Gods so race should not be an issue

    Votes: 9 26.5%
  • race shouldnt be an issue as long as the story is good

    Votes: 12 35.3%

  • Total voters
    34
Just watched Thor again. Why didnt anyone bitch about the Asian Asgardian but the blsck one causes a stir. Smh lol



There was no bitching about the Asian character in the Thor movie mainly because that character in the comics is actually Asian or rather the Asgardian dimension version of a Mongul and created for the comics.




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Don't know if this was ever mentioned, but in the comics the Heimdall character is the brother of Sif the female warrior featured in the movie and initially the plan was to also cast a black actress for that part as well.


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Good post especially the last part.

21, Dragonball, Prince of Persia, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Akira (not out yet), Stuck, A Mighty Heart, The Lone Ranger (somewhat debatable) are some I can think of off the top of my head and in this past decade but like I said it's been going on since at least the 40s.

Occasionally you see a minority character playing a role that was originally a white person or written as a white person (ie: Tara Thornton in the Sookie Stackhouse series is white, Nick Fury is white in the comics, etc) but you see far more white actors taking roles that are based on minorities either historically, in books, or in film.

Not to mention even many movies ABOUT minorities largely revolve around White protagonists and their point of view. The Help, Ghosts of Mississippi, Wind Talkers, Cry Freedom, A Time to Kill, etc.

This largely comes down to many whites in the US not wanting to see films with too many minorities. They think if the characters in the movie aren't white, they won't be able to relate to them. Yet unfortunately most minorities in this country are more than willing to see movies that have all white casts and do so time and time again. Which is why I wish more minorities would boycott those types of movies, or at least stop paying to see them.

edit: However should add I do think that Hollywood sells white American audiences short, and if there were more movies, with more minority characters with protagonist roles (and I'm not talking about the same recycled action/thriller roles where you see Will Smith, Samuel L. Jackson, Denzel Washington, etc over and over again) white audiences would be interested in seeing them. It would also be nice if Hollywood would green light movies with minority characters where the focus of the story doesn't have to center around race in some way (ie: Booty Call, Love & Basketball, The Woods, Baby Boy, etc)

well stated. it would be best for blacks not to formerly boycott with the marches but just dont go. also support black quality movies
 
Maybe a Luke Cage/Power Man movie is in question and in the meantime, go ahead and support it, especially when it'll be part of the eventual Avengers trilogy/saga/movies...etc...

well stated. it would be best for blacks not to formerly boycott with the marches but just dont go. also support black quality movies
 
21, Dragonball, Prince of Persia, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Akira (not out yet), Stuck, A Mighty Heart, The Lone Ranger (somewhat debatable) are some I can think of off the top of my head and in this past decade but like I said it's been going on since at least the 40s.

u aint eva lied

that's some bullshit

you mean hollywood couldn't find enough fluent asian cats to represent those MIT students from 21...

..or find enough chop-socky Asians to star in DBZ?

Prince of Persia? dont even get me started...

If Jake Gylenhall is Arabian, i'm from fucking Pluto


on a side style tho...is it me or does it seem like Hollywood does not want to put Asians in a primarily Drama-type movie? When you see a lot of asians in a film, it's usually some action flick like Rush Hour. That's why I was surprised when DBZ gave them the shun. Hollywood loves to stereotype those mothafuckas.

I guess 21 being all mathematical would be too stereotypical for Asians as well...

hmmm
 
The clown was actually integral to the storyline. The acting didn't match the character at all. The Clown/Violator was more sinister. If you saw the HBO cartoon, he actually was much closer to the comic book's portrayal.

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By the way, there was a Batman/Spawn crossover and The Joker and the Clown worked together.

Definitely. I actually enjoyed the first one except for the stupid ass clown
 
u aint eva lied

that's some bullshit

you mean hollywood couldn't find enough fluent asian cats to represent those MIT students from 21...

..or find enough chop-socky Asians to star in DBZ?

Prince of Persia? dont even get me started...

If Jake Gylenhall is Arabian, i'm from fucking Pluto

Its artistic freedom when they do it. When we do it its revisionist history.
Thats tge main reason I just couldnt watch DBZ pure bullshit snd until you guys mentioned it I had no clue 21 was suppose to be Asians. Some shit just never changes
 
The clown was actually integral to the storyline. The acting didn't match the character at all. The Clown/Violator was more sinister. If you saw the HBO cartoon, he actually was much closer to the comic book's portrayal.

[YOUTUBE]1m5IqKsc6LA[/YOUTUBE]

By the way, there was a Batman/Spawn crossover and The Joker and the Clown worked together.
In the comics or on thr show?
 
Its artistic freedom when they do it. When we do it its revisionist history.
Thats tge main reason I just couldnt watch DBZ pure bullshit snd until you guys mentioned it I had no clue 21 was suppose to be Asians. Some shit just never changes

yeah 21 is kinda based on the true story of those wickedly brilliant asian students@MIT. I decided to look it up and seen mugshots of a bunch of asian people, and wondered why everyone in the movie except one dude, was white.

as for DBZ....fuck that. I grew up watching that and to just white-wash the whole story like that, was disgraceful

as if minorities didn't have a hard enough time as it is landing big roles
 
Also another thing I noticed in Dragonball was they made the guy who played Goku white but the actress who played his love interest, Chi Chi, is ethnically Korean.
 
Also another thing I noticed in Dragonball was they made the guy who played Goku white but the actress who played his love interest, Chi Chi, is ethnically Korean.

At least she was Asian. Side note she got started on Real World. Fucking gorgeous
 
FYI - Heimdall is not referred to as explicitly 'white' or any other race. Further, in all these mythologies, many members of the pantheon are not physically representative of the ethnic group that spawned them. There are people who appear to be half-animal, of other races, and other colors and everything else. So, unless it's explicit and material to the character, who cares? Hermes is supposed to have wings on his ankles, so are we only going to hire someone who has wings on their feet?
 
FYI - Heimdall is not referred to as explicitly 'white' or any other race. Further, in all these mythologies, many members of the pantheon are not physically representative of the ethnic group that spawned them. There are people who appear to be half-animal, of other races, and other colors and everything else. So, unless it's explicit and material to the character, who cares? Hermes is supposed to have wings on his ankles, so are we only going to hire someone who has wings on their feet?

You can't fight stupidity with logic my friend.
 
FYI - Heimdall is not referred to as explicitly 'white' or any other race. Further, in all these mythologies, many members of the pantheon are not physically representative of the ethnic group that spawned them. There are people who appear to be half-animal, of other races, and other colors and everything else. So, unless it's explicit and material to the character, who cares? Hermes is supposed to have wings on his ankles, so are we only going to hire someone who has wings on their feet?

the only reason people care is because Norse mythology was supported and believed in by Caucasians (why gods or celestial beings would appear black to them, is beyond me...but i guess its possible)

therefore, many of them feel as if their 'gods' or lore, should reflect the way they look

when's the last time you seen a black Norseman?
 
the only reason people care is because Norse mythology was supported and believed in by Caucasians (why gods or celestial beings would appear black to them, is beyond me...but i guess its possible)

therefore, many of them feel as if their 'gods' or lore, should reflect the way they look

when's the last time you seen a black Norseman?

Can't wait to see peeps posting pics of black dudes in kilts. This is gonna be awesome lol
 
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