re: Why does Hollywood keep race swapping iconic white characters?

They are considering casting a black woman as James? Bond after Daniel Craig's next (and probably last) role as 007.

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They killed James Bond in the film and had M briefing a new 007 who was a black woman at the end.

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Why does Hollywood keep race swapping iconic white characters?

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I know they're trying to show that minority actors, producers and directors are just as as good if not better than whites but what it comes across as is they are not talented enough to come up with new exciting ideas that people would want to watch so they remake other movies and just replace the characters with minorities, rewrite the script to be more about what minorities experience or their culture (Wonder Years) and roll it out as some ground breaking achievement.

It's really lazy and shows a lack of ingenuity and motivation. Not sure that's what they should be aiming for.

ETA: They do this or have done this to a lesser extent with women and LGBTSHDFHJBFN roles as well. (Ghost Buster)

And for the record I don't even like when they remake movies and use white actors to replace white actors. 95% of the time it looks like a cheap money grab and adds nothing to the overall likeability of the movie. And even less so that it's obvious they're doing it race or gender reasons.

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I am all for putting the best actor you can in any role

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This is usual not an issue. There is rarely a situation where when casting for a movie the role is undefined and literally "the best actor" is chosen from a wide array of possibilities. What's happening now is nearly exactly what we saw with Biden's SC nominee, in that studios go looking for very specific demographics to fill the already conceived idea of how they want to "reimagine" the role.

In addition, if this was a real thing then why do we often see animated adaptations doing race and gender swaps? Were they the best drawings for the role?

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One thing that always takes me out of a historical movie is when they use the wrong race for a character.

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If you think back a few years ago we were told by people who would now tell us what's happening today is no big deal and we should all shut up and like it, was that historical figure would NEVER EVER be swapped, because they would be ludicrous. We were told to stop behaving like man babies and simply accept that fictional characters, even though they may have had decade after decade of established canon and lore were fake and thus subject to being altered.

Now? You've got shows having black Vikings...



Black Anne Boleyn...



It's about complete rewriting history at this point. It doesn't matter if it was factual accurate, it needs to look like today. In the case of the black Viking, that was based on a white guy...so that one is both race and gender swapped.

Miles Morales and Peter Parker exist in the same comic universe, so technically they did make a new character.

But anyways, these are fictional characters. There's nothing that says that they have to be white. Now I will say that altering characters in period pieces where we know for fact that a non-white character could not have existed raises my eyebrow, Like Cinderella or Snow White. But, comic book writers retcon their characters all the time to update their development for modern times. Marvel prides themselves on being able to make their characters relate to their readers. Point being this isn't necessarily Hollywood being "woke."

Better question, why are you supporting Hollywood enough to know?

We still have "conservatives" supporting Hollywood and Twitter on this board, y'all are part of the problem.

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Don’t. It’s fricking terrible. Knowing you’re a big Last Kingdom fan like me I know it’s tempting because the reign of Cnut is interesting but the show is garbage. A woke meandering mess.

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Can confirm this. If you're looking for accurate history, this definitely isn't the series to watch. Perry much everything is historically wrong. Woke? Oh dear and then some. Amazing how women are super soldiers back then. Amazing.

Spot on.

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We were told to stop behaving like man babies and simply accept

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This is still the party line. Any thread on the movie board on this topic will always bring out the same liberal posters saying the same thing. For years now.

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Miles Morales and Peter Parker exist in the same comic universe, so technically they did make a new character.

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It's still tokenization. Spider-Man was not a Mantle. It's Peter Parker.

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But anyways, these are fictional characters. There's nothing that says that they have to be white. Now I will say that altering characters in period pieces where we know for fact that a non-white character could not have existed raises my eyebrow, Like Cinderella or Snow White. But, comic book writers retcon their characters all the time to update their development for modern times. Marvel prides themselves on being able to make their characters relate to their readers. Point being this isn't necessarily Hollywood being "woke."

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Like I said earlier...

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If you think back a few years ago we were told by people who would now tell us what's happening today is no big deal and we should all shut up and like it, was that historical figure would NEVER EVER be swapped, because they would be ludicrous. We were told to stop behaving like man babies and simply accept that fictional characters, even though they may have had decade after decade of established canon and lore were fake and thus subject to being altered.

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As for Marvel updating characters for readers...let's be blunt. They have no readers any more, and it's because of this kind of thing. Comics have been totally replaced by Manga because comic pros have very little interest in writing anything fans actual want. what they are doing now is akin to shitty comedian in the 70's and 80's who only worked on 8 minute sets in an attempt to be seen and hopefully get a TV deal. they are creating things with the direct hope that they will be adapted to TV/movies.