Speaking of Whitewashing

[netmouse]

I was discussing RaceFail '09 with andrhia the other day, and she mentioned the casting of the film version of Avatar, which I had never heard of. (I'd never heard of the cartoon or the movie. Not having a television or being a media fan, I don't track these things. I'd also not heard of the outcry over the main heroes' being cast to be played by white actors in the live-action movie series, which will begin in 2010 with a film called The Last Airbender.)

Anyway, in my now-getting-extensive-yet-not-even-approaching-done reading of the blogs of various people who participated or commented on RaceFail, I came across This excellent post by bossymarmalade about the casting of Avatar.

(So read it already.)

Comments

[branchandroot]

Yeah, the Avatar casting is right up there with the casting of that Travesty of an Earthsea series. Odd how "colorblind casting" makes all the explicit characters of color white but it never seems to make even the ambiguous characters non-white. /sarcasm