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INTEREST: Kodansha's Sam Yoshiba Supports Scarlett Johansson Casting Choice for Live-Action GitS

KaiserNeko wrote:

It's pretty easy for the Japanese to make comments supporting this casting choice when they largely don't care about, nor do they even have the capacity to accommodate, ethnic diversity and representation in their casting, nor can we assume most of them have an educated grasp on the sociopolitical complications and controversy that is involved in casting and representation in our media.

Yes, only American's are smart enough to appreciate all the nuances of this subject.
Really......You actually used the word 'educated' to imply that most Japanese are lacking in critical thinking or of even having the capacity of deep thought.

What is really amazing is that despite being so forward thinking on this subject, you so quite easily degenerate another culture and society as if they were incapable of having thoughts of merit.

It will probably flop but I really couldn't give a damn. She looks the role, all that matters is execution.

but random Japanese "netizens" don't exactly scream out as particularly vital commentary on the subject when we've got scores and scores of Americans who struggle with the subject.

KaiserNeko wrote:

but random Japanese "netizens" don't exactly scream out as particularly vital commentary on the subject when we've got scores and scores of Americans who struggle with the subject.

I wouldn't exactly classify Kodansha's Sam Yoshiba as a random netizen.


I understand what you are trying to say, but you shouldn't keep parsing your clarifications with classifications of the Japanese populace. But that is all I will say on the matter.

KaiserNeko wrote:

but random Japanese "netizens" don't exactly scream out as particularly vital commentary on the subject when we've got scores and scores of Americans who struggle with the subject.

I wouldn't exactly classify Kodansha's Sam Yoshiba as a random netizen.

TarsTarkas wrote:

KaiserNeko wrote: but random Japanese "netizens" don't exactly scream out as particularly vital commentary on the subject when we've got scores and scores of Americans who struggle with the subject. I wouldn't exactly classify Kodansha's Sam Yoshiba as a random netizen.

I'm not touching much on Sam Yoshiba because by and large, I find that while he is a point of authority on Ghost in the Shell, his personal opinions on the matter are only partially relevant and not necessarily the deciding factor on whether or not the cast decision was good for either the film or the subject matter at hand.

ParaChomp wrote:

It will probably flop but I really couldn't give a damn. She looks the role, all that matters is execution.

Took the words right out of my mouth.

KaiserNeko wrote:

TarsTarkas wrote: KaiserNeko wrote: but random Japanese "netizens" don't exactly scream out as particularly vital commentary on the subject when we've got scores and scores of Americans who struggle with the subject. I wouldn't exactly classify Kodansha's Sam Yoshiba as a random netizen. I'm not touching much on Sam Yoshiba because by and large, I find that while he is a point of authority on Ghost in the Shell, his personal opinions on the matter are only partially relevant and not necessarily the deciding factor on whether or not the cast decision was good for either the film or the subject matter at hand.

In other words, you really don't care what anyone else thinks on this subject except for the people that explicitly agree with your point of view. Got it.

Then you should also be offended by the "japanese-washing" of the recent Attack on Titan adaptation. All of the characters (except Mikasa) are of White Germanic descent, yet all the actors were Japanese in the film.

Screenwriter Max Landis made it worse by making a Youtube video "explaining" (he claims he's not defending) the decision to hire Johansson as pretty much entirely financial, claiming that there were no A-list female Asian actors capable of getting the film greenlit (warning: the article contains NSFW profanity)

So for people arguing that the casting may have been about finding the best actress for the role, nope. It was about getting someone famous enough to get the Hollywood execs to pay for it.