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NEWS: Netflix's Live-Action Death Note Film Casts Keith Stanfield

Why did they choose an ugly guy to play someone that being good looking is an important part of his character?

Not to mention he's bad actor...

maxs2d2ace wrote:

Hollywood a few years back(and still to this day) only gave leading rolls to white people because that is the target audience that they were trying to market too(i.e Gods of Egypt). ... So just stay in your seclude domicile of insecurity until your dissolution, because i don't wont you affecting others with your Prejudice and stupidity.

Just wanted to pop in here to say that, depending on the era, those in power in Egypt weren't black. If Gods of Egypt were to take place during the Ptolemaic Period, with all that Greek influence (ie. Cleopatra), casting with white people would make sense. It might make sense to do a little more research on Egypt before you start calling out others on their stupidity.

Oh, and fun, I just received this nasty, abusive PM (evidently because he was too afraid to post it on here):

"You hope he isn't L because dumb [expletive] ignorant sack of discriminatory shit. It's highly likely that he is and if so that's not only a wonderful decision, it's something you'll have to deal with or take your worthless [expletive] bullshit regression elsewhere, you worthless piece of shit.

Permaleaving this fake account and that article now so this is our last contact. Deal with it dumb fudge, my facts win, you and your ignorant bullshit lose."

Hannish Lightning wrote:

RoverTX wrote: Possibly a black L, kind of cool! Diversity that doesn't screw with the actual plot, imagine that! I don't get why everything either has to be "Americanized" ie white washed, or a character's background rewritten to fit one random ethnic group that the marketing team said needs to be in the movie, plot be damned. L isnt black. It's funny how people complain when a character is whitewashed but you think it's great when a character is black washed. If he is L though I have no intention of watching this.

We don't like whitewashing because Hollywood has a long history of it. African, Mexican, Asian and other minorities are barely focused upon in Hollywood. The only acting jobs minorities usually get in movies are that of stereotypes. Hollywood a few years back(and still to this day) only gave leading rolls to white people because that is the target audience that they were trying to market too(i.e Gods of Egypt).
But this is 2016, a year when people are really coming together to try and make things equally better for everybody. Women are getting a lot more Leading rolls in film. Gay people are finally getting accepted by the public. And Black people are finally getting more Movies and games focused around them. In fact just this year 3 tipple"A" companies announced that an African male is the leading protagonist. Mafia 3, Watch dogs 2, and Battlefield 1(well from the box art) all have a Black protagonist in the leading roll. We are currently living in a time where you shouldn't look at a person skin,gender, or sexually and say "i cant relate to them because they are of a different set of people".
So when people like you say " I have no intention of watching this because of this race..ect" you make me sick.

The argument goes both ways however. If relating to a character doesn't matter then why do we need more diversity?' With anime it's even weirder because you'll be taking away Asian roles and giving them to Black or Hispanic people. Who gets priority over representation in that case? Is it really progressive if you're just shutting out one minority over another? I also think people should make original characters for diversity rather than changing existing ones. It's just a cheap and lazy way to alter someone's successful work rather than make your own new work with whatever representation you want in it

I'm sorry to butt in (personally I think it's great minorities and other identities are getting lead roles, but personally I'd prefer original characters than changing preexisting ones), but the whole 'I NEED to relate to the character personally' is a really American thing. This is why other countries don't have this sort of hubbubb about race/gender casting.

Agreed. People are too quick to forget that most anime and manga characters are actually Japanese.

If we're going to assume that there's no difference between races, cultures, sexes, sexual orientations, etc. and that people should be able to relate to a cast of characters from any background, then why push so hard for diversity in the first place? What's so wrong with having every role in Hollywood be played exclusively by white actors if the audience, regardless of racial background, ought to be able to relate to the cast? (especially in order to avoid making certain people "sick"...) Either race, culture, sex, sexual orientation, and so forth matter for everyone or they don't matter for anyone. You can't have it both ways.

Just my two cents.