Aaaaaaaagh!
Okay, this thing is getting mangled!
🙎‍♂️🗯Michael B. Jordan: Some people may look at my casting as political correctness or an attempt to meet a racial quota, or as part of the year of “Black Film.”
🧝‍♀️Ocean Elf: *Facepalm* Considering that liberals are notorious for this quota and affirmative action crap, I wouldn't put it past them. Look what happened with Fem Ghost Busters. Anyway, scrap that. It's time people got lives. I don't give a flying hot dart who's cast where as long as the actor can be convincing at the role. So if you're going to promote a movie, promote it for the content and how good you think the actors are in their roles. Forget this race card trash, it does not belong in this century and has no place in a movie promo…At all!
🙎‍♂️🗯Michael B. Jordan: Or they could look at it as a creative choice by the director, Josh Trank,
🧝‍♀️Ocean Elf: Or, they could not look at it all because of not giving a darn. That's what I would've done, but now because of your ridiculous tirade, I won't be able to hear about "Fantastic Four" without remembering that you felt the need to pat yourself on the back by saying basically 'Oh, look! Multi-racial movie with different skin-color actors! Aren't I awesome for that!?' *Pfffft!* You've just insured I will not see or promote this movie. Good going!
🙎‍♂️🗯Michael B. Jordan: who is in an interracial relationship himself—
🧝‍♀️Ocean Elf: Oh, wow, I'm sure the world would have so ended in a cataclysmic explosion if you hadn't said that, I mean, it's like totally the most monumentally IMPORTANT observation anyone could ever have made throughout all of human history! *Rolling eyes* Get over it, dude, I couldn't care less… I don't even know who this guy is.
🙎‍♂️🗯Michael B. Jordan: a reflection of what a modern family looks like today. ...
🧝‍♀️Ocean Elf: No duh! So freaking what? You want some kind of adoration for pointing out the obvious? And why should I even care? Look, if you want to be awesome and try to teach the rest of us lowly humans something, try for something genuinely important, like making narrative tracks "Descriptive video service (DVS)" a mandatory part of movie and TV show production so the option to use it is there for visually impaired movie-goers and TV-watchers, along with the closed captioning for the hard of hearing and deaf.
🙎‍♂️🗯Michael B. Jordan: Sometimes you have to be the person who stands up and says, “I’ll be the one to shoulder all this hate. I’ll take the brunt for the next couple of generations.” I put that responsibility on myself.
🧝‍♀️Ocean Elf: Oh my gosh, I haven't heard anything quite so sanctimonious and up one's own butt for a while. O' people, o' hail to the great Michael B Jordan, hate-martyr of the 21st century! Give him your "hate" and he will turn it into…Whatever it is, it ain't love. Give him your point of view, and he'll turn it into 'hate' by managing to bring race into it somehow, even if you never mentioned anything about race. Give him a movie to be involved in and to promote, and he'll give you a great steaming pile of race card crap and call it a movie promo, when it's just a hand out, demanding to be patted on the back for being a race card-addicted drongo!
🙎‍♂️🗯Michael B. Jordan: People are always going to see each other in terms of race,
🧝‍♀️Ocean Elf: such as yourself, and the other trolls and idiots, particularly in your race-card-addicted Hollywood echo-chamber. not the people who actually have their heads on straight. That means, don't count me in as one of your "people".
So weren't you supposed to be talking about the movie or something?
🙎‍♂️🗯Michael B. Jordan: but maybe in the future we won’t talk about it as much.
🧝‍♀️Ocean Elf: I wish… But you sure aren't setting a good example so far…
🙎‍♂️🗯Michael B. Jordan: Maybe, if I set an example,
🧝‍♀️Ocean Elf: Forget it, you already failed.
🙎‍♂️🗯Michael B. Jordan: Hollywood will start considering more people of color in other prominent roles,
🧝‍♀️Ocean Elf: Oh, right, you're really not at all interested in getting people to stop obsessing on race, you want to promote racism through movie affirmative action.
You implied that wasn't what you were doing and that we were all getting it wrong when you said: "Some people may look at my casting as political correctness or an attempt to meet a racial quota, or as part of the year of “Black Film.”
But you just admitted it. And it's a stupid reason to cast anyone for any part. That would be like someone choosing me to be in their show to set an example so that future shows would include more women. That's already been done, with the miserable flop known as Fem Ghost Busters 2016. Affirmative action is still racism/sexism because you're choosing people for the job on the basis of race/gender instead of talent and whether or not they are really good at what is required of them on the job.
*Rolling eyes* What a sad fantasy world you live in. And gah how I detest that term "people of color" come on, get a life! It doesn't matter what color someone's skin is, if they're the best in the role, give it to them. If they stink, don't hire them for that role…
🙎‍♂️🗯Michael B. Jordan: and maybe we can reach the people who are stuck in the mindset that “it has to be true to the comic book.”
🧝‍♀️Ocean Elf: W…T…H..!? So if I don't like that someone was not true to the comic book and turned Spider Man into a serial killer, that makes me a racist? What the freaking hex? There's something to be said for treating well-established characters with enough respect to let them be themselves. And no, a different color-skinned actor playing Super Man from the original does not qualify as "not being true to the character" unless of course that version of Super Man suddenly got Darth Vader's personality In that case, it's character mangling no matter what that Super Man looked like, even if he was the spitting image of the original.
Reading down the comments in some nimrod's blog, I realized this was all over some character looking different in the new movie than from in the comic book.
Well, I don't have a problem with that if it's within reason, for example, a black Spider Man, a Korean Spider man (where the actor is black or Korean) it's not Spidy's skin tone that matters, it's his amazing Spidy super powers/abilities, and personality.
But in cases where a character's skin or hair color is sort of important to the plot, then I can see being more careful about appearance when casting. And that isn't affirmative action, that's keeping the character as close to the original as possible. Think about it. Would you really want to cast a brunette or black-haired girl in the role of Goldilocks?
I'll bet there would be a heck of a lot of howling from the likes of Michael B. Jordan and other race-card mongers if some new remake of or sequel to "Roots" came out and they had at least one black plantation owner and one white slave in the cast.
Then they'd be screaming about it not being true to the original source, and how would they like it if we came back with "You must be racists!" ?
🙎‍♂️🗯Michael B. Jordan: Or maybe we have to reach past them.
🧝‍♀️Ocean Elf: Reach past what? There aren't any people blithering on about comic book character skin color here.
🙎‍♂️🗯Michael B. Jordan: To the trolls on the Internet,
🧝‍♀️Ocean Elf: Hey Mr. Jordan, sir, I got something for you! *Holds up cyber-mirror*
🙎‍♂️🗯Michael B. Jordan: I want to say: Get your head out of the computer.
🧝‍♀️Ocean Elf: I want to say, get your head out of your arse, and get the race-obsession toxin out of your brain.
🙎‍♂️🗯Michael B. Jordan: Go outside and walk around.
🧝‍♀️Ocean Elf: Go outside and fly a kite.
🙎‍♂️🗯Michael B. Jordan: Look at the people walking next to you.
🧝‍♀️Ocean Elf: Why? What am I supposed to be looking for/at? Looking for friends? sure. Watching out for people who might not have good intentions? Sure.
🙎‍♂️🗯Michael B. Jordan: Look at your friends’ friends and who they’re interacting with.
🧝‍♀️Ocean Elf: Eww. no. What do you think I am, some sort of lurking stalker? What my friends and their friends do is none of my business. I'm not here to monitor anything they do, where they go and whom with. I mean I'll speak up if I think I'm witnessing something unjust going on, but otherwise, no thanks.
🙎‍♂️🗯Michael B. Jordan: And just understand this is the world we live in.
🧝‍♀️Ocean Elf: No duh, genius, and all this time I thought we were all living on an asteroid…
🙎‍♂️🗯Michael B. Jordan: It’s okay to like it.
🧝‍♀️Ocean Elf: Well, nooooooooo kidding! But you sure have a strange way of showing it.
Over and out!
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