Preemptive petition against whitewashing appears after Mulan announcement

September 15th, 2016, 11:40 am

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Preemptive petition against whitewashing appears after Mulan announcement

Mulan will be getting the live action treatment

Sony is handling it

90,000 have signed the petition

“Whitewashing implies that people of colour cannot be heroes (although they may at times be villains or supporting characters), leaving it far more difficult for countless children around the world to see themselves in the stories they love and think that they too can make a difference,”

The cast is said to be mostly chinese

Reports suggest that this many be a more gritter and violent, aimed at adults and not children

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Tagged: race / racism

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maybe im naive but there is no way they'd cast mulan as a white girl? i mean.......there's just no way

a part of me wants to believe that but after seeing a group of tanned white guys cast for the gods of EGYPT...

yeah, there's no way that's going to happen with Mulan, there's no possible guise of ambiguity with it because of the Disney version

worst case scenario she'll be a half a white half Japanese(or korean/taiwaniese/etc) girl instead of Chinese

but whatever happens she'll be at least be part east asain.

"but whatever happens she'll be at least be part east asain." Mmmm, Mulan is Chinese, the story is set in China, its based on a centuries year old Chinese tale. For me, casting anyone who isn't Chinese, even if they were Korean or Japanese, is just as bad as casting a white actress.

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Lighting candles for it to be Constance Wu tbh

I really hope not

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Nah, they'll probably just cast Asian-American actress Scarlett Johansson.

right?!!!!!!

they really wouldn't. white washing is a thing, but its done more sneakily than this.

nope not rly possible with something like this. With Avatar, it was a fictional universe so they got away with it. Emma Stone's character was an original character I think so ppl aren't really going to notice or care as much as if an established character got whitewashed

...Sony?

speaks volumes of how pervasive anti-Asian racism is in Hollywood.

Can we stop with live action adaptions? Jesus h. christ.

To be fair, Mulan is an actual historical figure.

Actually no. Mulan is not a historical figure. The story of Mulan is from a Chinese poem and she's treated more as a legend.

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shes actually a chinese legend, whether or not she existed is uncertain

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The actual wuxia Chinese Mulan movies are pretty decent; although they're technically not taking from the cartoon version. Definitely weary of a live-action western version.

i hope mulan is chinese and not korean or japanese, since hollywood seems to think all PoC are interchangeable.
i'm also surprised by how many people think Disney created/invented Mulan.

+1 It's sf annoying to me when they do this.

This bothers Asians more than people realize

this

ugh i hate it when they think we're all interchangeable.

people think disney created most of their stories, which very few are original

sony is not to be trusted.

Why would there be white ppl in it??

you need to be at the table with sony execs and ask that very question.

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There is always a white savior!!! LA DIABLOS!

That film is purely fictional and has nothing to do with the history of the Great Wall. As far as I know, Matt Damon is being heavily pushed in western markets as China wants to break out its cinema overseas

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in Mulan? or you mean in Gods of Egypt, or Prince of Persia, or Exodus: Gods and Kings, or West Side Story, or Othello, or The Last Airbender, or-

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idk Matt Damon might ride in at the end and save everyone instead

Because they looked high and low and the best actress/actor for the main characters were white. /s

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Idt they'll whitewash the film but my fear is they either won't cast a chinese girl because they think all asians are the same, they'll cast an older actress that's already famous in china or someone half white.

Also, Sony tho? I thought Disney was supposed to make one

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Yeah, I thought Disney talked about doing a live action Mulan a while ago.
It could always be a Snow White and the Huntsman/Mirror, Mirror situation.
Or the WB Jungle Book movie coming out after Disney's.
Or White House Down and Olympus Has Fallen.
Hollywood really does this a lot....

I have zero faith that they won't fuck up.

I swear China made two Mulan movies in a year. Actually, I feel like movie studios in China are dicks cuz I've heard of a couple of different adaptations of the same movie coming out in a short span of time there

that's not too different from studios in the US tbh

Feel like it's rarer here. Jungle Book's the only thing I can think of.

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Wait a minute, the whole Jennifer Lawrence/Mulan is true? I thought it was a bad joke.

that is a joke.

it's a joke

the one on tumblr? if you actually click the link it leads to "Never Gonna Give You Up"

It's true!! Glue ur lace fronts down henny!!

it was very clearly a joke but people seem to believe something like that could actually happen, hence the petition to make sure it doesn't

no one seems to have faith after all the recent whitewashing with Ghost in the Shell and Death Note, which is understandable, but i truly can't see them doing this with Mulan

i mean, i don't think i'd be surprised if they tried to throw in a white girl or a mixed (chinese/white) girl in as mulan, but, like you, can't see them trying this with mulan.

i don't think i would have even known that it was whitewashing with ghost in a shell or death note because i don't really watch anime or know any titles outside of chobits if it wasn't for ontd.

lol that rumour originated from a twitter account literally called "unreal news". what do you think?

Did y'all see the gumbo recipe video that Disney put out & then had to pull because of the negative reactions? My sister-in-law who is from New Orleans was losing her mind on FB about it. Here's the funny reaction video to it, since I can't find original (can't embed on mobile)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OSbqPzRLPY0

Ok I hadn't even finished the video I linked & I just spit my drink out at the Mark Walberg reaction to the quinoa.

Why does that olive oil look like that.

Whatever they're making is an abomination and I'm not even from the south.

Yeeeep. I'm in Cajun country for the next two years. I was wondering why #gumbostrong was trending on twitter.
Disney apparently pulled the original.
I lost it at the Kale.

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I don't know much about Gumbo, but the "roux" and the trinity or whatever is common knowledge.

I screamed at the kale and quinoa.

Quinoa is fucking disgusting and it'll never be a substitute for rice no matter how hard it tries. Sorry, Quinoa.

That's all I have to contribute to this mess.

YES THE FACEBOOK COMMENTS WERE PURE GOLD

But...where's the roux?

Wait, Sony is doing this???????? Boo.

actually, idk...fine? if the cast is write. I know the Disney version is actually pretty inaccurate to the original story so idk, idk we'll see.