ATLA movie again: a long Washington Post article about extra[s] casting

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"The movie people are here!" yells one boy, and a bunch of excited 11-year-olds lines up to fill out cards and look sternly at the camera.

"What does 'ethnicity' mean?" asks another boy.

"Asian," says Bold.

"If you're Mongolian, put 'Mongolian,' " Ricketts says.

I think I'm going to be ill.


ETA: A good industry timeline of casting events, news-based not fandom-based.

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[zebeckras.livejournal.com]

Oh Hollywood. You keep getting it so, so, so horribly WRONG.

I had a big discussion with Dan about "Watchmen" last night and it's similar - there is not the major major invisible racism involved in it, or anything on par, it's just destruction of a good source material - they're so good at going "Hey! People like this! We should do it!" and then so completely NOT GETTING why people liked it.

And people wonder why I take these things so seriously sometimes. "It's just a movie, it's supposed to entertain!" But it's so INSIDIOUS. It's like there's just such a huge cost to sitting back and "being entertained" sometimes... not the least of which is the cost to my intellect. :P