| Qwark said: The trend of raceswapping, genderswapping and sexuality swapping will not end soon. Especially young people think it's important that entertainment reflects the diversity of western societies. Also outrage is still attention and for media there is not really a thing like bad attention. Case in point Velma gets a second season on Max. |
Gender swapping is anther interesting one. Let's look at Ghostbusters, they did it but they did it so damn poorly without any thought to the original that it made no sense and the humour was poor at best. The story didn't connect at all and was all over the place.
The worst part about that gender swap was is the black girl. Now instead of keeping it simple and basically making her a female Winston, they went all stereotypical loud mouth black woman that you would find at walmart arguing about something and everything. Now Winston was a smart black man and a scientist, so why couldn't they transition her to be the same? Are black women only seen as loud mouth obnoxious people who look to pick an argument with everyone in America? To me that felt far more racist by portraying her that way. Every race has smart people(men and women) in it and people fighting ghosts should be as such and not a bunch of clowns that couldn't get a gig at a kids birthday party.
Now look at Ghostbusters Afterlife. There was fricken kids involved boys and girls, however they were tided into the universe and the little girl was literally 10x smarter then the all female cast movie. Guess what when you put some fucking thought into the plot and don't try to turn it into cheap poor written humour with political agendas, it fucking works and made it a very enjoyable movie to watch.
So the point being if done right anything is possible, if done poorly to be just political to cash in on a franchise name it will end poorly.
