Forum - View topicINTEREST: Netflix's Death Note the Next Target of Whitewashing Claims
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Parsifal24
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Can fans please stop this, I understand that some people's hearts are in the right place but after a point it feels like it is less about fighting some real or perceived injustice and more about never being happy or moral preening.
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WANNFH
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v1cious
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Yeah as much as I champion social causes, it's getting really annoying now. Even the Japanese think it's silly.
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#838774
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Being morally offended on behalf of other people has become a full-time hobby and job for young and restless Americans. Can't they pick up something productive like knitting for the homeless? Oh, wait, that would be doing something instead of posturing through online petitions.
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Beatdigga
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People are looking for a reason to be offended. There were three Japanese LA movies. Watch those. |
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EricJ2
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Yeah, my first reaction was "They're complaining about the white character??" |
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TheOtakuX
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[quote="Beatdigga"][quote="v1cious"]Yeah as much as I champion social causes, it's getting really annoying now. Even the Japanese think it's silly.[/quote]
People are looking for a reason to be offended. There were three Japanese LA movies. Watch those.[/quote] AND a TV series. And isn't there a fourth movie now? People have plenty of options if they want to see a non-white Light. Well, OK, the third & fourth movies don't have Light. Whatever. Last edited by TheOtakuX on Wed Mar 29, 2017 1:08 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Sitensis
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Black L must be the dumbest idea of the century though.
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0nsen
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Those whitewashing idiots are distracting from the real issue: this shit was made. It's a live-action adaptation of anime/manga/stuff. This means it's a crime against humanity. Stuff like this shouldn't be made. It shouldn't be seen. It's horrible.
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FackuIkari
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How dare they cast american actors in an american version of death note? oh the humanity, what a crime
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Nakurawari
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but the Netflix movie takes place in the US, right? If so, why would they have an all-Asian cast? That would make no sense.
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Animechic420
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Jeez. Even I'm getting annoyed by all this "white wash" complaining.
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Stuart Smith
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Not all people against whitewashing do so for political reasons. I have zero interest in affirmative action, diversity, or whatever is behind the political aspect of being against whitewashing. I'm against it due to accuracy to source material. I feel the same way any time a white character is made black like Kingpin, Heimdall, or in this case, L. I also feel the same that Light is being portrayed as some pasty-faced guy in his 20s that looks like a drug addict, rather than a bishounen high school boy.
People looking to be offended would be more accurately squared at the complaints lodged against Iron Fist. People complaining a white character is being played by a white actor, and actually want the character to be race-lifted, either out of sheer ignorance for the character or affirmative action. Plenty of people, especially nerds, just complain about accuracy to source material. -Stuart Smith |
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Utsuro no Hako
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Complaints about Avatar, GiTs, Dragonball, etc. are well founded. Those are stories set in Asian cultures, but with white actors in the lead roles (and apart from ScarJo, they aren't even famous white actors, so the producers can't even claim marquee name value).
But Death Note is different. They're transplanting the story from Japan to the US -- something Hollywood does all the time with European films (see: Let Me In, The Vanishing, Insomnia, etc.) When they do it with an Asian film, of course ethnicities are going to change. If they end up making everyone white, yeah, that would be a problem, but that's not what happened in this case. They're giving us a black hero and a white villain. As far as I'm concerned, making Light a privileged white brat is perfect casting that translates the theme of the manga into an American cultural context in a way that enriches the story. |
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CrowLia
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Because, as we all very well know, there is no such thing as a non-white American. My problem is the notion that a foreign property needs to be "Westernized" or more specifically "Americanized" for it to be well-received by mainstream audiences. See, for instance the currently in-development American version of French movie Intouchables. It seems like Hollywood/Netflix believes their audience to be too stupid to enjoy something they can't directly relate to and so everything has to be/sound/look American or it won't sell. It's been mentioned that, with the American setting, making Light a white dude is more in line with the privileged position he was in as a Japanese guy in Japan and gives him the appropriate mindset to devolve into a psychopathic killer and I don't disagree with that. What I hate is this idea that things /must/ be Americanized or the American audience won't "get" it. |
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