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re: Hollywood replacing white people in true stories with black actors
Posted on 4/13/24 at 12:37 pm to thumperpait
Posted on 4/13/24 at 12:37 pm to thumperpait
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And Dave Chappelle played one of the merry men of Sherwood Forest in men in tights. And that movie sucked.
What the frick
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Posted on 4/13/24 at 12:38 pm to Corinthians420
quote:We're gettin' there!
hate when they do this or when they replace an American with an Englishman or a tall person with a short person
Should non-Jews play Jewish characters on-screen?
Posted on 4/13/24 at 12:41 pm to biglego
I'd love to see the Jackie Robinson movie with a White actor.
They need to do another WW2 movie where the White actors are flying the P51s with red tails & the black actors are all wearing swastikas & hats with skulls on them while putting Jews behind barbed wire.
It's time for infomercials to have the black actor acting spastic & then look into the camera making a stupid face.
And finally, we need to start seeing black actors sneaking around people's homes at night trying to break in.
They need to do another WW2 movie where the White actors are flying the P51s with red tails & the black actors are all wearing swastikas & hats with skulls on them while putting Jews behind barbed wire.
It's time for infomercials to have the black actor acting spastic & then look into the camera making a stupid face.
And finally, we need to start seeing black actors sneaking around people's homes at night trying to break in.
Posted on 4/13/24 at 12:43 pm to Kraut Dawg
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I'd love to see the Jackie Robinson movie with a White actor.
The standard Moderate response is “his race was central to his character and therefore cannot be changed.” It’s an argument that only ever applies in one direction.
This post was edited on 4/13/24 at 6:58 pm
Posted on 4/13/24 at 12:47 pm to biglego
quote:The language you people use is such a big brother/ 1984 happening in real time
This is known and undisputed. Except for the Moderates on this board who argue Hollywood isn’t woke
these people are not moderates they're progressives they're not even liberals they're Progressives you all call them moderates and then Conservatives are really populists
Traditional, limited Govt conservatism built this Nation, and its gone
Posted on 4/13/24 at 1:05 pm to East Coast Band
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Morgan Freeman s character "Red" in Shawshank Redemption is an Irish descendant red head in Steven Kings book.
That doesn’t bother me because Morgan Freeman has the best mindset for a black person in America. They would have zero problems if he was a hero and not George Floyd. Also he was amazing in Shawshank.
Morgan Freeman: “I don’t want black history month. Which month is white history month?”
Interview: “I’m Jewish”
Morgan Freeman: “OK, do you want a Jewish history month?”
Interview: “No.”
Morgan Freeman: “Black history is American history. I’m not going to refer to you as a Jewish man, and I’m going to have to ask you to stop referring to me as a black man.”
frickin’ brilliant.
Edit: it wasn’t Charlie Rose. I don’t remember who it was.
This post was edited on 4/13/24 at 1:09 pm
Posted on 4/13/24 at 1:11 pm to TN Tygah
I wish South Park creators would make a movie about MLK and have him played by Marky Mark.
Posted on 4/13/24 at 1:12 pm to TN Tygah
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it wasn’t Charlie Rose. I don’t remember who it was.
It was Mike Wallace.
Posted on 4/13/24 at 1:13 pm to TackySweater
I try to stay the hell out of these types of discussions lately but one example from a few years ago has stuck out to me as especially egregious to the point that I want to add it.
There was a West End (English Broadway basically) production of Apollo 13 called "Dark Side of the Moon" a few years ago that cast Fred Haise as a black guy.
This is Fred Haise, who is not only white but still very much alive:
This is the guy who played him:
The play is an exercise in speculation; it imagines what the astronauts might've discussed while out of communication with Earth. Among those topics? Structural racism and civil rights. As if these astronauts had any time or wherewithal to discuss anything beyond that which would improve their chances of survival.
They couldn't even wait until Fred Haise was dead to erase him from one of the most heroic episodes of American history. And they couldn't be bothered to tell the story of true American badasses like Ronald McNair. Just lazy shoehorn social justice rewritten history nonsense.
There was a West End (English Broadway basically) production of Apollo 13 called "Dark Side of the Moon" a few years ago that cast Fred Haise as a black guy.
This is Fred Haise, who is not only white but still very much alive:
This is the guy who played him:
The play is an exercise in speculation; it imagines what the astronauts might've discussed while out of communication with Earth. Among those topics? Structural racism and civil rights. As if these astronauts had any time or wherewithal to discuss anything beyond that which would improve their chances of survival.
They couldn't even wait until Fred Haise was dead to erase him from one of the most heroic episodes of American history. And they couldn't be bothered to tell the story of true American badasses like Ronald McNair. Just lazy shoehorn social justice rewritten history nonsense.
Posted on 4/13/24 at 1:18 pm to OWLFAN86
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these people are not moderates they're progressives
We know that. It’s tongue in cheek. The “moderates” all insist they are not leftist prog trash. They pretend to be above the fray “both parties are terrible” yet 100% of the time will defend every nutty prog idea.
Posted on 4/13/24 at 1:19 pm to TackySweater
Don't watch something that upsets you/thread.
Posted on 4/13/24 at 1:21 pm to messyjesse
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This is Fred Haise, who is not only white but still very much alive
I met the man. Can confirm.
Posted on 4/13/24 at 1:30 pm to fr33manator
And the studios lose hundreds of millions of dollars…. Seems like a profound lack of common sense.
Posted on 4/13/24 at 1:38 pm to TackySweater
The world has gone mad
Posted on 4/13/24 at 1:39 pm to fr33manator
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But James Earl Jones as the voice of the evil half robot Sith Lord who was burned and dismembered by Luke Skywalker's mentor...that makes sense.
Any person should be able to do any voice, because they are just voices. Putting a racial barrier around them is asinine.
Something in a fantasy western doesn't make sense?
Lol
OK
Pick your battles.
Posted on 4/13/24 at 1:42 pm to 3nOut
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A lot of the shows just cast minorities in historical fiction (Bridgerton) and ignore race all together and that’s mostly fine.
Dumb things for me are Anne Boleyn or Vikings being black.
The first is how they laid the groundwork for the second.
The third? They start rewriting actual history in books and schools. In 20 years, schools will teach that America was REALLY founded in 1964 and that MLK is the “Father of our country”.
Posted on 4/13/24 at 1:44 pm to DesScorp
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The first is how they laid the groundwork for the second.
The third? They start rewriting actual history in books and schools. In 20 years, schools will teach that America was REALLY founded in 1964 and that MLK is the “Father of our country”.
yep. then they will put us all in concentration camps and castrate us
Posted on 4/13/24 at 1:50 pm to DesScorp
America started in 1619 
Posted on 4/13/24 at 1:55 pm to thumperpait
quote:
And Dave Chappelle played one of the merry men of Sherwood Forest in men in tights. And that movie sucked.
You realize that Robin Hood Men in Tights is a parody, right?
Were you really watching this movie through a historical lens?
Posted on 4/13/24 at 2:01 pm to TackySweater
Who is in charge of casting?
Who is making these decisions?
Had the TV on yesterday randomly on ABC. “SWAT” came on. Black man. Asian man. Hispanic female.
Don’t get mad at the skin color of the person portraying this role.
Be mad at the people making the decisions to not portray white people.
Now who would that be? And why would they do that?
Can it be the same people who say they deserve an ethnocentric homeland? That it is their birthright? …….. but white people must share their homeland with Africans and Muslims and Hispanics?
Hm
Who is making these decisions?
Had the TV on yesterday randomly on ABC. “SWAT” came on. Black man. Asian man. Hispanic female.
Don’t get mad at the skin color of the person portraying this role.
Be mad at the people making the decisions to not portray white people.
Now who would that be? And why would they do that?
Can it be the same people who say they deserve an ethnocentric homeland? That it is their birthright? …….. but white people must share their homeland with Africans and Muslims and Hispanics?
Hm
This post was edited on 4/13/24 at 2:02 pm
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