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Aladdin and Jasmine were both voiced by the white people in the original animated film and hardly looked or sounded Arab.
The outrage is ridiculous. Might as well complain about Jasmine not wearing a Burqa or Aladdin not having a full blown beard.
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Even background characters, whose faces you most likely will never see upclose?
I mean, from position of the setting, than probably yes, there shouldn't be white characters. Though why not? It's not like white people were not existing at the time of the story, but whatever. But from position of moviemaking - isn't it ridiculous? Last edited by Sumac; 01-07-2018 at 03:56 PM. |
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But you can't go all the way to the other extreme that they're racist against whites either. The extreme left is already looking foolish because of things like these but when you counter with extreme right believes it neglects the point and they can justify it as "only nazis have a problem with it".
Two wrongs don't make a right. There shouldn't be white roles in Aladdin, background characters that you can't see is perfectly fine especially if they're "tanned" or brownish. Almost, you can bet Jasmine won't be wearing her original outfit. And yet she will be a strong female based on interviews. No consistency. |
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There is also this little bit of controversy that is mentioned in the report.
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Because they are afraid that their cast members aren't "brown" enough for the extreme left and blogs are salivating at all the clickbait they'll be able to publish after the movie comes out to spark controversy and divide people politically further.
I think it must be tough for big companies right now as they have to appease the blogs or be swamped with "bad PR" that they create for the sake of clicks. |
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For me it depends how it'll be handled, it can work but some of the quotes I've seen leave me worried. I want to love this movie but we'll see, I won't get a real look at the movie until the first trailer I guess.
This and Lion King are the two live action Disney adaptations I've actually cared about. edit: just saw this movie is 2019, too early to be talking about it. Last edited by sdp; 01-07-2018 at 04:45 PM. |
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As someone who loves the Animated movie to death I am not excited for this movie one bit. I hope they don't **** it up.
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I mean, it's not like there are white-passing Middle Easterners, right? Right???
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White people has no place in Aladdin. We had enough movies with washing as it is (Exodus, Ghost in the Shell, Netflix's Death Note, etc).
I just remember Will Smith is Genie. Doubt he would be like Robbie Williams though. |
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Neither Middle Easterns, since originally tale took place in (heavily mythologized) China.
But seriously, no-one says about white people on main roles. We are talking strictly of background characters and stunt doubles. They can not be in the movie to because color of their skin? You know what it's called like? |
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And there's such a thing as acting, where you can become someone you're not in real life.
Charlton Heston was not Hebrew, yet his portrayal of Moses in The Ten Commandments was great.
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But I agree there has been enough "white washing" or washing in general definitely. I just hope this movie is good and honors the Aladin we grew up with. Arabic story in an Arabic settings. I have to say I think its funny that people are complaining about this so much, but not the actress who is playing starfire
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People having issues with races of the characters they like is logical, I usually don't care as long as they can "pass off" as the race the character normally is. In other cases like Death Note it was more of an "american" take than Light/L trying to be those characters from the manga so it was ok, well the movie was kind of bad but you know what I mean. When it comes to manga that characters aren't technically Japanese I don't care, in the case of Ghost in the Shell it didn't matter much to me. In Spawn I was mad that they made some characters white so it wouldn't feel like "a black film". Kingpin in Daredevil(movie) I was fine with since he gave such an awesome performance that I couldn't see anyone else. Bane not being Latino in TDKRises was a shame though. Basically my stand is: I hate when characters are changed their ethnicity for whatever reason when they already have one while some only want white people because their bigots and others only want people of color because they think it's only fair. |
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While Alladin gotta be Chinese, the bad wizard is a Berber though, and the names, in-story customs and titles like Sultan are more Arabic then Chinese. But I've read that it most likely took place in the Muslim provinces of China, but I think the Emperor would be interested to hear there was a Sultan in China Quote:
And, with Agrabah being a analog for Baghdad, and this is a LA version of Disney's adaptation. There should be Vikings wandering around doing trade in the background, Baghdad was a capitol city, a huge trading hub for the Silk Road so anyone from Europe, Africa and Asia would do trade there. So BG characters should be diverse. There's also John Wayne as Genghis Khan |
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I'm sure Naomi Scott will do well. It's great to see her in a much bigger role.
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This whole thing seems a little performative. Naomi Scott is British, Mena Massoud is Canadian, Marwan Kenzari is Dutch. Casting a cheese-ball Broadway musical version of Aladdin with sort’a kind’a Middle Eastern actors (or North Africans – because apparently that’s close enough) doesn’t add cultural authenticity. If Disney are worried about being accused of ‘cultural appropriation’, this doesn’t really absolve them in any way.
I have no problem with their casting choices, but I wish they’d get down from their high-horse and stop pretending they give two sh*ts about anything other than their shareholders.
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