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NEWS: Live-Action Dragonball Film Wraps Shooting in Mexico

This has got to be one of the stupidest lines of discussion I've ever read. Wow, you might as well stamp elitist on your forehead. Heck, martial arts may have originated in Asia, but they're it's pretty much a global culture now. Saying it will look weird if non-Asians do martial arts is just plain silly as non-Asians have been doing martial arts for decades, probably even more than a century.

"One Missed Call" also failed because it was just a god awful concept with no good actors in it. As mentioned, I highly doubt anyone didn't watch it because the actors weren't Asian. Seriously, I would love to see you hit the streets here in the US and find one person who would seriously give that as your reason. I'm willing to bet you'd be working on that for quite some time.

Besides, none of the DBZ characters even resemble Asians really. Anime characters are pretty well known for being racially ambiguous, and DBZ is no exception there. I could care less if the actors portraying them aren't Asian because the characters, frankly, don't even look Asian.

Let me just say that closed minded and generalized assumptions have just about never amounted to anything good, so I'd be careful there. You're obviously very proud of your ancestry, but Pride is often seen as a sin or negative trait in many cultures for a reason, and I think we're seeing a demonstration of sorts here.

This has got to be one of the stupidest lines of discussion I've ever read. Movies failing because the actors weren't asian? Wow, you might as well stamp elitist on your forehead. Heck, martial arts may have originated in Asia, but they're it's pretty much a global culture now. Saying it will look weird if non-Asians do martial arts is just plain silly as non-Asians have been doing martial arts for decades, probably even more than a century.

[About Pride as sin is only in Christianity and or in the western culture. In Asian culture pride is what make someone worth to be called as human, without pride someoen just the same like Anime in human shape. That is what we Asian belief in our culture.

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Asian Guy wrote:

[About Pride as sin is only in Christianity and or in the western culture. In Asian culture pride is what make someone worth to be called as human, without pride someoen just the same like Anime in human shape. That is what we Asian belief in our culture.

Please speak for yourself. As proud as I am to be Asian (I'm Vietnamese), I'm also Catholic so the whole "pride is sin only in Christianity" does not apply to me at all, and what makes you think that other cultures can't have pride in themselves?.

I'm actually glad that Goku isn't played by an Asian guy, even though I know the reason why is probably because there are still people in Hollywood who believe that a big budget movie cannot do well with an Asian as the lead character. Why? Because there are already enough movies with Asians doing crazy stunts and martial arts action as there is that add to the stereotype here in the US that all Asians must know some form of kung fu.

You don't seem to realize that this movie is made with an American audience in mind. And like it was said before, there are Asian people in this film: Chow Yun-Fat, Jamie Chung, Joon Park, Eriko Tamura, and Randall Duk Kim.

What do you mean by the sentence you said that I put in bold? And please don't be ignorant by saying you are still a Vietnamese or Asian while you choose to change your nationality as American, the real Vietnamese or the Vietnamese who loyal to their country will surely hurted by a traitor who claim to be one of them but choose to have other nationality.

You sure talk a lot of BS.

The discussion are about how Dragon Ball live movie will fail for not using Asian actors since Dragon Ball are an Anime whose story, settings and characters are Asian. So it is not about Movies failing because the actors weren't asian? like you have said.

You can not put and old actor to act as a young cheerful person or you will see them odd, so the point is the actor not suited for the task.

The one who generalize and close minded is yourself, just read back at what you have said below :

About Pride as sin is only in Christianity and or in the western culture. In Asian culture pride is what make someone worth to be called as human, without pride someoen just the same like Anime in human shape. That is what we Asian belief in our culture.

Asian Guy wrote:

The discussion are about how Dragon Ball live movie will fail for not using Asian actors since Dragon Ball are an Anime whose story, settings and characters are Asian. So it is not about Movies failing because the actors weren't asian? like you have said.

Who said the movies story will be a carbon copy? Chances are the settings and nationalities will be left ambiguous. Not to mention from what I've seen of Dragonball, the settings are only about as Asian as one could expect from something that's made in Asia. It's like saying Star Trek is American because they speak English and the screens are in English.

You can not put and old actor to act as a young cheerful person or you will see them odd, so the point is the actor not suited for the task.

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Nope, you couldn't, but you can put a qualified actor in the role of a racially ambiguous character quite easily.

And which actors they are? American trying to look like Asian?

Asian Guy wrote:

The one who generalize and close minded is yourself, just read back at what you have said below :

Okay, so I'm closed minded because I'm not buying in to the idea that the movie will fail as a result of not having asian actors? So by opposing a mindset that is closed-minded, I myself am closed-minded? Interesting, quite the paradox I've found myself in. Something tells me I'll survive though.

Most cultures outside of Christianity teach pride, or rather an abundance of it, to be a bad thing. Yeah, pride can be a good thing, but in excess as we see here it can be quite a negative notion. Many cultures, including asian cultures, do teach pride, but they also balance it with humility. It doesn't matter anyhow as I wasn't implying that you have to abide by the concept, but rather that this here is an example of why the concept is so common. It doesn't matter if you believe it or the exact opposite, that won't change the way people will see you as a result of your actions.

In Asian culture pride is what make someone worth to be called as human, without pride someoen just the same like Anime in human shape. That is what we Asian belief in our culture.

But it's Asian BS, which is superior to American BS .

You're saying how it would be better if some characters were cast by an asian actor. Is it because some of the charaters in the Dragon Ball series have black hair and eyebrows?

Vuwazy wrote:

You're saying how it would be better if some characters were cast by an asian actor. Is it because some of the charaters in the Dragon Ball series have black hair and eyebrows?

No, but because of the Asian martical arts, name, story and settings of the Dragon Ball that will be odd if performed by non Asian. I have said that how I think even the best American actress can not perform a cute adorable Chi Chi and some of my other points.

Asian American? what do you mean by that? did you mean she is half Asian and half American or she just change nationality as American when she is full Asian?

Not just Chi Chi but other human characters in Dragon Ball also Asian looking. Will it not be odd to see an American person acting as Goku when on his cloth there are writen a Kanji symbol? also Goku is known as Asian only name commontly known as Son Goku from Chinese popular novel of Journey To The West. Chinese language only used in Asia unlike english that are used in several countries even in Africa and Asia also english used as international language.

So which characters Yamcha going to be?