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Ugh the author won't be happy about that

Well I'm severely disappointed in Mitchell, then.

Very misleading post. What that article entirely fails to mention is that there are also black actors and Asians made-up as whites as well as vice versa. It's not racist or offensive in any way shape or form - it's a way of getting across the book's themes of continuity and repetition, of the same soul remaining intact through the ages despite bodily transitions.

IKR. That'd be like taking the movie White Chicks and saying the whiteface is offensive.

But remember what exactly Blackface and Yellowface was used and what it stood for.

It was used because they didn't want to cast real POC and it was a device to demean POC. Blackface and Yellowface is just blatant racism.

That's not the case here with the film. Do you actually think this cast would participate in this production if it were??

Say what you will about the Wachowski's, but they put more POC in their films that most filmmakers working today.

SMH @ whoever thought this was a good idea.

I have no intention of reading this book, but isn't the point that they're basically the same characters throughout time, just in different iterations? It makes sense to me that they'd have the same actors play the parts. *shrug*

I look forward to the misinformed wank.

Edited at 2012-08-08 05:12 pm (UTC)

IA. The colourface would be less offensive if only it was believable.

WTF is the third one Hugo Weaving? WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS TO US ELROND??

um.... what

Sooo instead of getting asian actors/actresses they just continued with the same people they were reincarnated as but in yellow face

Thank you. cuz i was confused as fuck.

the wikipedia page didn't help.

I also spotted Halle in a sari at one point in the trailer, wonder if she's supposed to be Indian there?

yeah ia this post is stirring shit because I was like wtf until I saw the first reply about it being about the same actor in different forms and whatnot

Why did they turn Hugo Weaving into a fucked-up looking Spock? NAGL.

WTF IS GOING ON? that trailer is a total mindfuck

Mr. Nobody will probably/ has done this concept better. That trailer was totes confusing.

I... don't understand how this was allowed.

Ah, true, true. Mea culpa, bb. I don't know why I keep giving them the benefit of the doubt.

OMG, do you think the whiteness has infiltrated my brain?! D:

i love white people

im just really getting sick and tired of whiteness though

i was interested in their idea of using multiple actors in different roles across the timelines, but i am SO not here for the repeated use of tom hanks and halle berry, especially when halle berry plays the main character twice and they had to age up all of tom hanks's characters so he could realistically play them. and the yellow face is SO BAD and an awful choice; they absolutely should have gotten korean actors.

i was looking forward to the movie after reading the book, but now i'm pretty worried/wary. the theme of reincarnation was so subtle in the book; i have a feeling that they're going to be throwing it in our faces in the movie.

it's actually really interesting/good. the stories are nested, so that the next one interrupts the middle of the previous one, until the halfway point, where they finish in the opposite order. makes for a really interesting narrative technique. only small, subtle things link the stories and the reincarnation is not just "reincarnation for reincarnation's sake." it's used as almost a device to show the overarching themes of how humans use and treat each other despite all these different situations and societies.

plus, it's good if you like different genres, because it goes from colonial ship diary, to 1800s period drama, to comedy, to dystopian, to post-apocalyptic stories.

so fucking confused right now

I recently read it, so maybe I need another reread, but who is the murderer supposed to be? I understand how the savior part works at the end of the novel, but maybe I missed out on the first part.