| WagnerPaiva said: I am fine if they give white characters to black actors, not the other way around. There are like 5% of black heroes on comics, to give them to white people would be really stuppid. Giving white characters to black actors is a good way to work around the notorious racism that always existed in Comic books. |
Not really. At all. Having a black (or any other race) actor play a white character is just as stupid as having a white (or any other race) actor play, let's say, The Black Panther. It's fucking stupid, and lazy casting, period.
Hiring a black actor for a non-black character JUST to say you have a black character in your movie, is moronic and pointless. Why not do that for EVERY ethnicity then? Why not arbitrarily hire hispanic, or Arabic, or Indian, or Asian actors to play parts that don't fit those ethnicities? If it was (and is) stupid for Hollywood to have a longstanding tradition of having white actors play non-white parts in films, then it is JUST as stupid to have non-white actors play white roles "just because". This isn't about racism or a lack of black characters in comics or any other entertainment medium. This is about one thing:
Staying true to the fucking source material. And that isn't restricted to race. Hiring a brown-eyed brunnete, for example, to play the RED HAIRED, GREEN EYED Jean Grey? Pretty fucking stupid. Hiring Jessica Alba to play the WHITE, BLONDE HAIRED, BLUE EYED Susan Storm, and just giving her a shitty bleach job and crappy looking blue contacts.......JUST because Jessica Alba has done some action roles before? Pretty fucking dumb. Making Mystique some scaly-skinned broud who walks around stark naked, just because someone probably thought that looked neat, even though it wasn't in the character? Pretty fucking stupid. Having the actor who played Nightcrawler have blue skin (instead of blue FUR), that is covered in "angelic carvings" he's cut into himself, even though that is NOT in the actual character? Pretty fucking stupid. See the trend here?
The POINT here is, that having a white actress play storm, would be just as absolutely retarded as having a black Johnny Storm. WHY would you have a black Human Torch? "Just because"? Just to have a black character in the FF? Then you'd have to make Invisible Woman black too, to make a modicum of sense, and it would STILL be stupid. Having the Kingpin be black was pretty stupid. Know how I know that? Because Michael Clark Duncan himself said in an interview that even though he was happy to get the role, he mentioned to the director that if they were trying to stay true to the comics, why was his character black? If HE can say that, then I'm pretty sure it's a valid point. What if they made Captain Kirk black (or Mexican, or Chinese) in the new Star Trek, just because? Would that be okay? No, it wouldn't, because Kirk is white.
It is a moot point at this juncture that the comics industry, or the movie industry, or the television industry, was white-centric, which they mostly were. The POINT here is, that we're talking about long-standing, established, beloved characters that are known as being one thing, not another. You don't just make Aragorn black because "there aren't any black characters in LOTR". I guess Tolkien must've been a racist too, right? That non-inclusive bastard.
There are plenty of great black characters in comics. Steel, Falcon, Storm, Black Panther, Static, Black Lightning, Bishop, Shard, Deadlock, Blade, Luke Cage, Photon (Female Captain Marvel), Mister Terrific II, Misty Knight, Spawn, Amanda Waller, Amazing-Man, Bumblebee, Herald, Cloak, Synch (from Gen X), Bronze Tiger, Cyborg, Green Lantern John Stewart, Johnny Thunder II, Vixen, Bedlam, Brother Voodoo, G.W. Bridge, Night Thrasher, Rage, Goliath, Nightwatch, The Prowler, Silhouette, Hardware, War Machine, etc., and those are just HERO characters.
GRANTED, there are far more white characters. But again, the POINT is, that any one of those black characters above being played by a non-black actor, would be JUST as stupid as having black actors play non-black parts "just because". Like I said....it's not about race, it's about being true to the source material. And that is something Hollywood seems to have not cared all that much about at all when it comes to comics, for a long time.
