Ryan Gosling is my favorite lesbian.
These are historical figures, not fictional characters, though.
So?
“So?” is how I feel about fictional characters being cast as different races in and of itself. If it’s done in a pandery way and/or the piece of media is a turd, that’s different, of course.
But, for example, the Hannibal TV Series is hands down the best part of the Hannibal Lector IP. They made Jack Crawford a black guy after he was white in all previous incarnations. But Laurence Fishburne killed it in that role. His portrayal of Jack was the best yet.
They also made Freddy Lounds a woman, but it was also done well enough and worked for the story, even if Philip Seymour Hoffman is a better actor. It certainly didn’t detract from things at all, though.
Your complaint should go deeper than “this person was this way in this portrayal and this way in another.” Both “this is just pandering in a way that makes the story worse” and “this is a historical drama portraying history inaccurately” are good reasons.
I don’t get what any of that have to do with this suggestion that South Park should make fun of the pandering race swaps by replacing the lead in movies about prominent black people with white guys, or white gay women.
Was Cleopatra fictional?
No, and that’s an example of a character being recast as black that everybody pushed back against. What a perfect example to explain the difference!
Are there more than 5 examples like this? I can’t think of any other historical figures recast as a different race. I’m trying lol
So basically Hillary Clinton
Im a democrat and I just snorted irl 😂
Christian Bale would probably pull it off tbh
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The main thing I took away from the Panderverse= Disney should create new diverse characters. Moana was good, Coco was good, Encanto was good. Do more of that and less making old movies with slight changes and
Agreed. The problem with the Little Mermaid remake wasn’t that Ariel was black. It is that it was a bad movie. They remade a movie that didnt need to be remade in order to cash in on people’s nostalgia.
It isn’t as if they remade the movie as-is but made Ariel white that it would have been a blockbuster
So true! They did make a live action Beauty and the Beast featuring white actors and we fucking hated it! We also hated the live action Lion King movie, and all the main characters were blondes in that film!
That said, the live action Cinderella ended up accidentally being quite good.
the issues was the live action wasn’t screen accurate to the animation
It sucked ass. When I realized I was looking at my phone during “under the sea” because it was so boring, I knew it was all downhill from there.
Coco and Encanto were amazing.
There’s some fantastical mythology to play with if they did an Inuit/Eskimo movie, plus you get to use husky’s, wolves, foxes and polar bears, which are all marketable animals that people love.
They’re remaking those old movies to retain the IPs. It’s purely a business decision.
I don’t think so, if you want to just make something for that purpose there are cheaper and better ways than spending 300 million to make a mediocre movie.
Yes - its a no brainer lol. Coco, Encanto, & Moana are all great movies and those characters are well liked. Idk why they dont just keep going with that formula, its working efficiently
Those new diverse Disney movies keep bombing mostly though
why pay a decent writer to make a new story when you can get a hack and the producer’s neice to
ruinadapt a classic.There’s a good chance they’re counting on the fact that getting people to drum up controversy and/or hate watch it is factored in too
Ryan Gosling got typecast
It’s great the person putting the meme together couldn’t think of a sixth black person and had to use Obama twice.
The little mermaid
because then Pedro Pascal would play every male lead
None of these are characters though. They’re movies based on real people. Quite a bit different from having a black Superman lol
“I don’t see the difference between fictional characters and historical figures.” - people who believe in magical sky daddies and conspiracy theories.
Russell Crowe could’ve been a great Ali but Mark Wahlberg is a funnier choice
No shit, i would pay money to watch Anthony Hopkins as Nelson Mandela… Bet he could win an oscar too.
I get the joke. But where are these posters from? I assume they are AI recreations of real movie posters. The Mohammed Ali and Nelson Mandela movies are the only ones I reconize
What’s the female equivalent of Paul rudd? That would be the pick
Conservatives now have a second joke and it’s as bad as the last one.
Wait, what was the last one?