Race swapping and whitewashing

[JRPGfan]

JuliusHackebeil said:

Soundwave said:

Who gives a shit. Does every James Bond look exactly the same? 

There's nothing wrong with Disney wanting to make like the 4th or 5th Little Mermaid movie they've made a bit different. 

Brad Pitt's character here is supposed to be Asian in the book. I don't recall any big outcry or whining about this:

I think the lack of outcry for the bullet train race swap can easily be explained by the low popularity of the book/movie. You even had to write "Brad Pitt's character", because nobody knows who "Ladybug" is. Everybod knows who Ariel is and how she looks.

If the general population was aware about Ladybug on the same level is it is aware about Ariel, the shitstorm would have been much worse.

I didn't even recognize the movie... my first take was, thats Brad Pitt, and two rando's... I had to read the tittle at the buttom, to make out it was from Bullet Train.
Ladybug character? Who? I never even watched Bullet Train (or had any idea, it was based on a book, with a asian main character).

I feel like faerie tales, everyone grew up on, being told by their mothers (for hundreds of years), and most in our generation watched disney cartoons of,.... is a differnt matter than say random movie, Bullet Train.

Thats my take anyways.

I'm also the type that hates when movies/series, that adapt a book/game, try to alter it, when they move it to the big screen/series whatever.
I prefer them staying true to the story.

And yes, if Brad Pitt in this movie was supposed to be a asian character, even if its some "meh action movie", I'd have liked to see that character have been played by a asian.