It worked well for the Michael Jackson movie too :P
If its not ok for a white guy to play MLK then black people should not be playing white historical figures.
It goes both ways.
Seeing its fine for black people to play white historical figures I am sure no one is giong to object to a white guy playing MLK.
That being said, i think its both stupid. White historical figures should be played by white people and MLK should be played by Idris Elba (my favorite actor of all time).
"But anyone can play any character!!!!!!"
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All right, gentleperchildren, let's review. The year is 2024 - that's two-zero-two-four, as in the 21st Century's perfect vision - and I am sorry to say the world has become a pussy-whipped, Brady Bunch version of itself, run by a bunch of still-masked clots ridden infertile senile sissies who want the Last Ukrainian to die so they can get on with the War on China, with some middle-eastern genocide on the side
In historically accurate movies white people shouldn't be played by colored people and vice versa. In adaptations like musicals it's often ok (see Hamilton) as it's already not accurate (I'm pretty sure the founding fathers didn't go around singing all day).
It bothers me when they throw in token colored people in movies about medieval Europe where there were none in reality. It also bothers me that a white guy played a moor in Othello. It would bother me if a white guy played Black Panther or a black guy played Captain America, because that's not the race they originally were.
If colored people get upset about having too few parts, write something NEW with colored people in it. Plenty of examples and it works wonders. No need to blackwash characters to please a minority.
One in the 90s had Eddie murfy in I think will have to look up the name, was a horrid americanisation of British legend but that's a sperate issue.
Well king Arthur's legbd isn't entirely myth but based on a few Kings who ruled in the post roman pre saxon period of Britain.
I guess the strangeness of it depends, the story's about the hawaian gods are fictional myths too but would you cast a non hawaian in that role?
So a movie where MLK is of Chinese heritage, fighting for the rights of his kind, which actually turn out in the movie are actually Peruvians, in an America where black people fight against rights for black people (but they're actually not black in the movie, cause they're Peruvians) would not be confusing to you? Alrighty then.
Only non hawaian for obvious reasons. Gods were not born in Hawai, were they?
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No, because I understand the point of the story. Oppressed group of people is fighting against the oppressors. We've seen it a plethora of times in different movies. Focusing on MLK blackness is RACIST.
All right, gentleperchildren, let's review. The year is 2024 - that's two-zero-two-four, as in the 21st Century's perfect vision - and I am sorry to say the world has become a pussy-whipped, Brady Bunch version of itself, run by a bunch of still-masked clots ridden infertile senile sissies who want the Last Ukrainian to die so they can get on with the War on China, with some middle-eastern genocide on the side
If you haven't, check out the earlier episodes of that rubbish; there's an episode about the dawn of the Iron Age in Britain, in which the village blacksmith is a black dude. Made me cringe into a migraine.
OT: I can settle this, we get Shaun King to do it. He's totally black you guys: https://twitter.com/ShaunKing
All right, gentleperchildren, let's review. The year is 2024 - that's two-zero-two-four, as in the 21st Century's perfect vision - and I am sorry to say the world has become a pussy-whipped, Brady Bunch version of itself, run by a bunch of still-masked clots ridden infertile senile sissies who want the Last Ukrainian to die so they can get on with the War on China, with some middle-eastern genocide on the side
Oh I'm not American so I don't care about the obsession with skin colour. I don't make a fuss about any movies, I just think that OPs examples weren't very good since I believe there is a difference between MLK being white and Achilles being black. Just like I think there would be a difference between a KKK grand wizard being black and Blade being white.
But I don't really care, if someone wants to make a movie where MLK is white and someone else wants to watch it, go ahead. I generally don't see any point in being outraged about shit that don't really affect my life.
No it's not racism. Seriously do you even know what the word "racism" means ? One can focus on a color of another person all they want to and it is not racism until said focus implies implies or other wise states that that color makes the person inferior in some way or otherwise discriminate against that person because of the color of the skin.
There are people with different skin colors in the world, acknowledging it is not racism, pretending its not the case is stupid.
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Yes changing skin color of historical figures or groups for no reason is actually bad move, especially in movies that are supposed to be at least partially factually correct. Making movie about Queen Margaret or Joan of Arc and dismissing their ethnicity is actually disrespecting them. It would not be big deal if a movie was "inspired by something" like the story of mentioned figures but was ultimately not about them in historical sense, then anything goes. I do not know what is the case in mentioned movies though.
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I think this is somewhat fitting with this thread.
The logical leaps...