Should Hollywood stop blackwashing characters?

[DonFerrari]

MrWayne said:

KManX89 said:

Except, by completely ignoring the source material, it's no longer an adaptation, it's strictly a reimagining of said work, big difference. If they completely change the character, it is no longer that character except in name (which is where the whole GINO-Godzilla In Name Only acronym came from for Godzilla 98). It would be like if they made Batman a living humanoid bat who eats people in the middle of New York City instead of the technological crime fighter we all know him to be from the comics. You can claim "it's up to the adapters of said work" all night and day, but that shit wouldn't jive with anyone and for good reason. Or hell, if they changed Superman into a transgendered alien or gave Ellen Ripley a sex change in a hypothetical reboot of Alien (turned her into Allen Ripley), I guarantee you it would be met with the same level of shit-flinging, it's easy to see why.

Well then it's a reimagining. Are reimaginings a priori bad? You just gave a bunch of worst case scenarios for a reimagining, I give you a best case scenario, West Side Story a modern reimagining of  Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.

You see, it all depends on whether the adaptation /reimagining is good or not.

I don't think he said it is bad

He basically said that when you are re-imagining everything, then there is no point in complaining about some trait of a char changing. But when you are adapting close to source then these type of changes can get a lot of complain.