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I am wandering why didn't they get Cahtarina Zeta Jones and J Lo to play them,,, I mean they are actresses if they can play aliens than they can pretend to be japanese too...doh :roll:
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Hmmm...so you would agree then that to cast "the engineer" in Miss Saigon as a white man would be equally as unreasonable?Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
For most characters, it's not that important. You can accept Sean Connery as a submarine captain even if you don't buy him as a Russian. Geisha are so thoroughly Japanese, however, that it's difficult to accept someone in the role if they simply can't fake being Japanese.
Let's look at hypothetical example using European cultures to illustrate my point. Can you really imagine Jean Reno (France's most famous actor) potraying a Nazi soldier (the most quintessential of German characters) in a thick French accent? Wouldn't that be a little jarring to the viewer?Who wants DVDs? Good prices! I swear!
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east asians are such filthy racists
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I know dude, all Asians are so disgusting...
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This is a silly storm in a t-cup. What's next? Whining that the guy who plays a Nazi isn't German? You hold auditions and the most talented actor/actress wins or at least that's the way it should be.Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.Comment
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I got an earful from my girlfriend (half Chinese, half Japanese) about this. She was very angry that Hollywood couldn't find at least a handful of decent Japanese actors who speak a little English to play the characters. It would be like making a movie set in the middle east and substituting hispanics for arabs or making a movie about New York and substituting shots of New York with those of Vancouver. They may look close but it shows that the filmmakers didn't go the extra mile.
Asians are especially sensative about this sort of thing, I've seen. I can imagine the furor that would go on in China if some Chinese national hero was portrayed by a Japanese actor.If you look around and think everyone else is an *******, you're the *******.Comment
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I think he was lithuanian.Originally posted by Sikander
Almost as much as Sean Connery.Comment
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it's just a movieCSPAComment
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What about getting an Australian actor to play a great Scottish hero? Or that same Australian playing a patriotic American character set in the Revolution?Originally posted by Drake Tungsten Let's look at hypothetical example using European cultures to illustrate my point. Can you really imagine Jean Reno (France's most famous actor) potraying a Nazi soldier (the most quintessential of German characters) in a thick French accent? Wouldn't that be a little jarring to the viewer?
I sure don't care, and my guess is the Scots didn't care too much with an Aussie William Wallace.Captain of Team Apolyton - ISDG 2012
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Asians are especially sensative about this sort of thing, I've seen. I can imagine the furor that would go on in China if some Chinese national hero was portrayed by a Japanese actor.
Yes. My argument - they are morons for being that way.Comment
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Were the actors in the Last Samurai actually Japanese? (I have never seen the movie, just curious.)I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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I think it just shows that the US is a bit more race blind than other countries.
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You just can't summon any ire at Gibson as a Scot when the rest of the movie sucks so hard.Originally posted by OzzyKP
What about getting an Australian actor to play a great Scottish hero?Why can't you be a non-conformist just like everybody else?
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SS Charlemagne?Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
Let's look at hypothetical example using European cultures to illustrate my point. Can you really imagine Jean Reno (France's most famous actor) potraying a Nazi soldier (the most quintessential of German characters) in a thick French accent? Wouldn't that be a little jarring to the viewer?
I've allways wanted to play "Russ Meyer's Civilization"Comment
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