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.

Comments

[mswyrr]

Your post came up on my flist right above a post about the deplorable situation the child actors from Slumdog Millionaire are in and I want to take a fucking flamethrower to Hollywood, man. Goddamn motherfuckers.

[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

[fadedelegance.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, let us marginalize the Asians and the Inuits even though this is a series about ASIANS AND INUITS! I am a white woman who believes in racial equality and this ticks me off.

I've said it a million times, and I'll say it again: I am boycotting this film. I refuse to see it. First of all, it's racist and white-washed because like no one in it is actually Asain except for Dev Patel. Second of all, this series just doesn't seem like it will translate well to live action. For those to reasons, in my opinion, this film has 'FAIL' written all over it.