Comments on: Paramount Admits Whitewashing Controversy Hurt ‘Ghost In The Shell’

By: aFriendlyAgenda

aFriendlyAgenda — Tue, 11 Apr 2017 04:26:00 +0000

And thats a good thing

White liberals in hollywood spend so much time patting themselves on the back for their own smug race-baiting, they should be called out and punished for their own hypocrisy

How tone-def are hollywood race-baiters to think that nobody would notice and it was a good idea

By: jmbrr

jmbrr — Thu, 06 Apr 2017 08:43:00 +0000

This casting thing was an issue only in U.S. Japanese couldn’t care less,for example. Also, if the latest Iron Fist whitewashing nonsense has taught us anything,it is that large amount of audiences won’t care about these issues if they like what they see. I haven’t seen this movie, but everyone who has seen it seems to agree that it wasn’t a very good one.

By: Miguel Juan

Miguel Juan — Thu, 06 Apr 2017 07:40:00 +0000

Nope. The movie was just bad. The parts that were taken from the original anime only served to show how this fell short in comparison. The actors did well, it’s a shame they were in a bad movie…

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 05 Apr 2017 23:49:00 +0000

In reply to Glenn Morris. Exactly. Whitewashing was not the problem with this movie. The problem was the almost total disregard for the themes of the original source material. GitS is not necessarily a Japan centric story. If we were talking about Akira (which should not be remade), then that would be different.

By: terrygrant

terrygrant — Wed, 05 Apr 2017 23:44:00 +0000

– “You’ve got a movie that is very important to the fanboys since it’s based on a Japanese anime movie. So you’re always trying to thread that needle between honoring the source material and make a movie for a mass audience.”

And your solution is to hire the writer of STREET KINGS and the director of SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN? You had no intention of honoring the source material, dude – you just liked the way it looked.

Sanders is on record as having said that the original film was basically too cerebral and philosophical, and while he wanted to bring a bit of that to this adaptation, he wanted people to be excited by the film, more than anything.

Whitewashing was the least of this film’s problems.

By: Glenn Morris

Glenn Morris — Wed, 05 Apr 2017 20:58:00 +0000

Having spent years studying Ghost in the Shell to prepare for my own
writing within the genre, I would like to address the “whitewashing”
controversy of its Hollywood adaptation. The setting is a Japanese
controlled city in China. The body of Motoko is Caucasian, according to
her creator. Although she was given a Japanese name (by a Japanese
agency) there is no indication that her original name was Japanese. If
she was ever a human in the first place, she chose a female cybernetic
body instead of a “more combat efficient male model” as a reminder of
her original gender. That is her memory, anyway, which may have been
implanted. If you would like to know the actual background regarding
this character, I refer you to the source material and Wendy Hui Kyong
Chun’s book on the subject: ‘Control and Freedom’. Personally, I do not
argue that The Major had to be white, but that nobody should presuppose
that she was not, without evidence. Finally, my personal favorite twist
on this discussion: A man in China actually build a Scarjo robot years
ago using Japanese robotics and $50,000 of his own money.

By: La Serpenta Canta

La Serpenta Canta — Wed, 05 Apr 2017 17:33:00 +0000

Outrage over ethnic representation in films and television is definitely a selective thing.
Like almost everyone out there, I was looking forward to watching Big Little Lies, which was David E. Kelly’s return to television as well as Nicole Kidman’s first television project. What could go wrong? The intro montage was cringey but I still tried to watch the first episode. It took me only 20 minutes to realize that, not only was the show going to be bad, but it is also one of the most racist, white centric productions of at the very least, the last 20 years.

The show features the whitest, most redneck celebrity today, Reese Witherspoon, joined by an entirely white cast, with just one token black character in the form of dyed blonde Zoey Kravitz who, truth be told, looks white in most scenes thanks to the whitewashed digital photography. In a show of 58 actors appearing in different capacities only 4 are black including Zoe Kravitz.

It is quite clear that HBO and David E. Kelly are firmly entrenched in the 90′s, where ethnic visibility was akin to what it was in the early days of Hollywood. There is no reason for this show about wealthy citizens to feature such an incredibly white cast, yet not only is the media and representation advocates as silent as a tomb, they are bending over themselves backwards to actually catapult this show into some historic television landmark.

This just shows that, the more you distance yourself from the new civil rights and feminist movements the better, for these people have zero clue about anything, no grasp on history, no critical thinking and endless potential for incredibly dangerous and negative influence in the world today, and for entertainment.

By: John W

John W — Wed, 05 Apr 2017 17:28:00 +0000

Welp, let’s see what happens with Akira.