binary solo said:
People didn't go see it because it was a shit movie, not because of any particular casting choices. The movie would have been a success if it had been an actually good movie and it would still have had a black actor in a role that has historically been a white person. Michael B. Jordan's skin colour had nothing to do with this movie being a bad movie which was the sole cause of the movie flopping. So why are you trying to make out like his skin colour was a factor? Are you saying that the vast majority of potential Fantastic 4 movie watchers are sufficiently racist that they would refuse to see the movie because it has a black actor playing an historically white character? I'm pretty cynical about humanity as it is right now, but even I don't have that low an opinion of the general population. A person's skin colour is pretty much irrelevant when it comes to any fictional role for character credibility, moreso for a character like Jonny Storm who is basically just a gung-ho, hothead, grunt. A person's age can be far more relevant to character credibility when trying to present someone as having had mature experience as a leading scientific mind. A person in their 20's who looks a bit like a Jock and a teen hearthrob (I don't see it in Teller myself, but then again I'm not a teen) just has a hard time being seen as a credible leader in the scientific community. You can have an age approprioate heart throb (Brad Pitt, for instance) play a science genius, or you can have a young person who actually looks like a science genius. But you can't have a young heart throb. Jesse Eisenberg would have been a better choice for a young looking science genius. But even so, as miscast as I think Miles Teller was, his casting into the role of Mr Fantastic was not the reason the movie was a flop. |
I bet you wouldn't say the same thing if a character was changed to white.
