I don't think it's so much racism as it is 30+ something year old plain looking white female directors who cast other plain non threatening looking white females to play goddesses (think carrie, sex and the city) on the big screen. People want to relate, and most females do not look like angelina jolie and there for do not want to see angelina in a rom/com.
Have you ever wondered why they never ...
But how does that explain not even casting a black, asian or hispanic male..
Good lord..I mean the movie industry in 2009 is still casting films like it was back in Jim Crow era.
How do these actresses who claim that they are for this right and that right and bitch and moan for writers to write more roles for women and these are the same actors and actresses who were all rah rah elect ...
Oh theres minorities in this film; of course they're side chracters. And the status is such that in this film they dont just have to be minorities but they're also homosexual aka killing two birds with one stone to make their caucasian counterparts look tolerant of those who are "different". Yeah, I too am tired, tired, tired of the Hollywood whitewash. Probably even moreso in the fact that they ...
Why is this same question raised every single time there is a film without a minority in it, seriously who cares, and to say it is racist is just ridiculus
The reason people notice that there are no other minorites is because this is the 21st century and we live in a multi cultural society and the story takes place in present day American urban city.
It's reflects ignorance and a certain backwards thinking in Hollywood that for a commercial films with all their pretty highly paid liberal actors ...I don't know seems like a novel idea maybe to have ...
Oh get over it. You don't see white people complaining about not being in "black based" movies. Every single movie out there does not have to cater to every single ethnicity, sexual orientation, etc. Maybe you would be happy if one of the main characters was a half asian half black but converted to hindu religion even though they were raised muslim in a wheel chair. That argument just doesn't ...
Oh Ripley, you made me laugh.
"You don't see white people complaining about not being in "black based" movies"
And why would they? You get less exposure, and the movies are usually met with harsh criticism.
"Every single movie out there does not have to cater to every single ethnicity, sexual orientation"
While this statement is very true, you cannot base a movie in the city of Baltimore ...
Will Smith was the original choice for Neo in the Matrix. He turned it down. Oh what could have been
Of course it can happen to black and white actors alike. Roles actors and actresses turned down:
- Molly Ringwald: Vivian (Pretty Woman); Molly (Ghost)
Alec Baldwin: Richard Kimball (The Fugitive)
Melanie Griffith: Thelma (Thelma and Louise)
Julia Roberts: Lead in Basic Instinct;...
Hey, thanks for your support dre. Nice to see I'm not alone in this thread lol.
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Obviously this subject touched a nerve..I created this thread back in February..NEARLY forgot about and returned..and many have responded to this topic. The casting business in Hollywood does borderline on racism....and can get away with it. In huge highly profile film that is a story about male female relationships..it was and still is strange that the producers in casting this movie could not have included a black, asain or hispanic in the...
And I responded in kind to a moronic comment from a low-IQ, ugly (inside and out) cretin. No number of s will cover up the fact that I exposed your pathetically low self-esteem and riled you up with words on a screen. What you need to do is get a life, this argument was over before it even started. Next time, match wits with someone on your level, and maybe you'll leave with your pride intact, halfwit. “The modern definition of...
I responded to an idiotic comment from a small-minded loser, that does not mean my life revolves around "crying" about racism. Far from it. You're the one getting angry, not me. You don't like what I have to say about your dumb comments? That's too damn bad, get on with your life. This "argument" is over. boogaloo shrimp and pogo sticks
I never said racism doesn't exist anymore. But to keep crying about things like they are the same as they used to be is just crazy. Too many black people cry about the white man keeping them down like that's the only reason black people haven't thrived as a race, when in fact they carry alot of blame. I will never say some black people have no reason to be raw at white people. But ALOT of black people stop trying because they...
There probably are some, in, you know, Africa. I honestly don't see why Americans should include a person from every single one of their minorities in every film they make. It's not like the movie is set in New Orleans. Considering only about 14% of the US population is black (and a lot of them just have a social circle of their own that isn't all that mixed), I don't find it surprising at all that this film's main...
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