So I'm doing a full MCU rewatch and I have a confession to make. As a complete stand alone film, with no tie in to the overall MCU story arch, Iron Man 3 is not THAT bad.
Really brave take here: I used to take the position that adaptations should stay as close to the original as possible when it comes to a character's look (general costume color scheme and style, age, race, etc). But then I realized most of the comics (basically all from the golden age to the 70s or so, which is almost all the most famous ones) feature an almost exclusively white cast and, unless there's a team or group, a basic middle aged white male. Variety/diversity/inclusion is fine by me.
Doing it "just because" would be dumb and counterproductive. Doing it because an interracial couple is the best choice in casting would be great, I mean we already have a biracial MJ in Zendaya and she's absolutely amazing.
I love the “I just want them to hire the best person for the job” narrative, that narrative only seems to pop up whenever a person of color is mentioned, nobody brings up the “hire the best couple” opinion when Krasinski and Blunt are mentioned.
IM2 had that weird moment where they couldn't decide if they wanted to address Tony's obvious alcoholism and in the end decided not to, and just painted him as a reckless asshole (which was because of his alcoholism and Daddy issues). Could've been a much better movie, also not using Mickey Rouke better was a awful after giving him such a powerful entrance.
Alcoholism generally doesn’t exist in a vacuum. I think it was quite clear to the viewer what was going on
Slightly less than I love watching people flip out when a black person is hired to play a “white” fictional character.
If Liz Taylor could play Cleopatra, Anne Baxter play Nefertiti, and Joel Edgerton play Ramesses, a Korean actor playing BP is not much of a stretch. The fact that whitewashing happens all the time with little to no outrage is what makes it so funny when people lose their mind over Hollywood using a minority actor to play a “white” character. I’m sure that if Denzel Washington was casted to play William Wallace the reaction would’ve been the same as all the times that white actors are casted to play Egyptian gods, kings, and queens.
Knowing that you are on his side on this argument makes me feel so much better about my position, thank you for that.
Wasn't Cleopatra largely Greek? I didn't know anything about this controversy until it blew up with Gal Gadot.
I'm sitting here watching The Incredible Hulk. I just want them to finally give me The Leader that they teased in this movie. I know, I know, Universal has the movie rights.
Remember when Hunger Games fans bullied a 12 year old because they thought her part should have been played by a white actor?
Can’t tell if you’re kidding or not, but I’ve heard this “argument” before. Black Panther’s cultural/racial identity is completely entwined with his superhero persona. His blackness is equally important to the character and to what he represents. There is nothing similar tying Spider-Man or Cap to theirs.
I'd forgotten about that. It was even more angering when the author of the source material said specifically that the character she was depicting was intended to Black.
I wish COVID wasn't a thing anymore so I can see 58408324 slutty girls wearing that costume this Halloween
“No, Agent Trask, I never would have suspected bigpig from the-mainboard.com could ever have been the Tooth Fairy Killer, this is shocking!” -me, in the next few years