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netmouse ([personal profile] netmouse) wrote2009-03-28 11:24 am

Speaking of Whitewashing

I was discussing RaceFail '09 with [livejournal.com profile] 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.)

[identity profile] vretallin.livejournal.com 2009-03-28 11:19 pm (UTC)(link)
They have done a horrible job on the casting of Avatar. I have a friend who is a real fan of it and she compared the actors with the characters, it's really really poorly done.