Date: 2009-07-30 10:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ladysisyphus.livejournal.com
You should keep an eye on [livejournal.com profile] racebending! It's very educational!

Date: 2009-07-30 10:32 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] derumi.livejournal.com
Hey, may I have your permission to post this on my Facebook wall?

Date: 2009-07-31 12:39 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chuma.livejournal.com
That actually sickens me and I'm usually a cynical bastard.

Date: 2009-07-31 04:07 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ashfae.livejournal.com
Don't get me started.

Date: 2009-07-31 08:11 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] communicator.livejournal.com
Wow, and I thought Shyamalan couldn't get any worse

Date: 2009-08-01 10:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] khbrown.livejournal.com
Some random thoughts:

1. Shyamalan is himself 'dark' and undoubtedly knows the business of Hollywood filmmaking better than anyone commenting here, myself included. So he must have his reasons (equals mainstream audience, equals profit)

2. The Slumdog Millionnaire actor could refuse the role, but someone else would likely accept it. He too has his reasons.

3. Isn't there a tendency, cross-culturally, for lighter to equal good / better and darker to equal bad / worse? Maybe this is a result of western imperialism, but if so, it's still being perpetuated in post-colonial powers, often by the relative beneficiaries of colonialism (comprador elites, post-imperialist foreign educated elites etc.)

4. Why in the original weren't all the figures red, blue, green or other colours that were distanced from humanity? I saw on the link posted that there were Chinese characters in the background, which have been omitted, but did the original address Han Chinese hegemony and the position of minorities in historical-mythological China, say? Or, for that matter, the historical Chinese notion of being at the centre of the world and the further out from the Imperial court correlating with the more people were barbarians devoid of culture? Racism cuts all ways.

Did you see this BTW: http://games.slashdot.org/story/09/07/31/2350242/Games-Fail-To-Portray-Gender-and-Ethnic-Diversity

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