re: Chinese Fans ‘Whitewash’ “The Little Mermaid” – Transform Black Ariel into a White Charact

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Exactly, or West African mythological figures like Anansi and Papa Legba. They can make interesting movies out of that.

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Or just use them in roles that aren't already defined. It's been a long time since I read Without Remorse but his description, while white, wasn't a big part of the story and John Clark has been a minor character at best in movies. I don't recall a big uproar about Michael Johnson being chosen for that role. Now it was a complete abortion of a movie but that was on the writers, not the fact that a black guy played the main character. Luther was an outstanding vehicle for Idris Elba and he didn't play a "black cop", he played a cop who happened to be black. Just cast people as characters, not characters defined by their skin tone.

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Hollywood should stop replacing white characters with black ones

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Idris Elba should have been James bond. Not because he's black but because he's British and he kicked everyone's arse in Luther. He did get fricked up in the the wire but whatever