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Rumor: ‘Ghost in the Shell’ producers ran VFX tests to make white actors appear Asian

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Slayven said:
Why do people keep missing that point? Even Bronsonlee picked it up
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Yeah and I'm stupid as hell!

CapitalismSucks DonkeyBalls said:
A very tongue-in-cheek view of method acting and improper cultural appropriation and poor casting choices. The whole film is a parody on blockbusters. RDJ actually being full-on Aryan kind of drove that point home.
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Thank god they didn't make a sequel to that movie, it's basically perfect as-is
 
In a world where Asia is quickly becoming the major determinant of a films peak success, why the fuck would you not start putting more Asian actors into films?

Why is this even a thing lol.
 
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Right over their fucking heads. I ain't even mad. It's just hilarious how clueless they are. They want Asians? Well... I guess we could CGI them in.
 
Slayven said:
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While there are problematic elements to what was done in Cloud Atlas, it at least had direct bearing on the themes that the story was working towards. It's quite different from "let's use makeup to make this bankable white actor look more like the original Asian role."
 
This can't be a real story. It just can't be. How could they be dumb enough to acknowledge the white washing controversy and then think using CGI to turn the actors Asian would be a good fix? This would be mind blowingly stupid.
 
Spend millions on visual FX to make the white superstar look Asian thus defeating the hilarious notion of "we need a recognizable face for this movie to work!". Millions more than it would have cost to simply hire an Asian actress for the role in the first place. But something something this is America, something something so she has to be white because.
 
I actually can't believe they would do this before even considering actual Asian people

The absolute lengths they would go to to whitewash. Insane.
 
If this is true, then holy shit. How hard is it to find an Asian actress for the role?! I highly doubt Scarlett Johansson was just that good in her audition (I'm not knocking her, I like her as an actress but her getting this role is bullshit).
 
This is my pet peeve. From a post I made elsewhere:

This process (of false news or kneejerk reactions to minor details) has been repeating over and over lately, as the media blows up any hint about the content of major movies into a frenzy of speculation, and usually approbation. Anger comes so naturally on the Internet that it feels as though people enjoy being offended. And it’s true that the self-righteous, superior burn of, “I know how to do this story right, and the people who are making it don’t” can feel clarifying and satisfying. But at some point, it becomes counterproductive, especially when it distracts from actual movies. At some point, outrage fatigue has to set in. It’d probably be better for movies—and especially for journalists and journalism—if that happened sooner rather than later.

Because the demand for details about upcoming movies—even wrong or fake details—is so vast, it pushes outlets to report on the faintest rumor or wildest speculation, blowing theories out of a single set photo, or an anonymous tip dating back to an outdated story meeting, or a celebrity’s flippant, “Sure, why not?” response to a highly leading question. When the movie in question comes out, and the rumors are all proven false, the invective moves on to the next target with no apparent sense of irony—or betrayal at having been fed a thin gruel of half-invented facts and thin-skinned moral superiority.

It’s worth looking at some of the after-the-fact rumor round-ups that examine past news stories for any hint of truth, which often isn’t there. For instance, Collider’s Avengers rumor recap, which points to old stories promising the Skrulls as the movie’s main villains, with the Kree fighting them, and a primary focus on Captain America’s perspective. Or What Culture’s Dark Knight rumors collection, which has Ellen Page as Batgirl (based on a faked photo), Joseph Gordon-Levitt as the Joker, and Bruce Wayne’s series-ending death. Examining these kinds of guesses in the wake of the actual movie coming out shows exactly how flimsy they were all along—but in their moment, sometimes with the actual movie years away, some of them seemed plausible. Movies—particularly gigantic tentpole movies involving characters with decades of continuity to sort through for ideas—evolve a lot from conception to screen, and it’s even possible that some of the rumors on those pages were actually true at some point, for a hot minute or two.

But that’s one more reason to wait for the actual screen version before getting frothingly angry. There’s nothing wrong with speculation, or trading theories, ideas, wish lists, or worries. It’s fun to spend the ramp-up time while waiting for a movie by talking to other people with shared interests and possibly different perspectives. But the tone of the reactions is so often shrill and hysterical. And later, when all those rage-inducing pre-facts are demonstrably proved untrue by the film, that somehow never seems to blunt the next wave of unsubstantiated, unnecessary anger. The "how dare they!!!" never seems to get replaced with "wait, never mind, they didn’t on anything like the same scale."
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Maybe this happened, maybe it didn't, but in recent years there has been plenty of non-journalism going on with movies and resulting explosions of anger from the fanbases that have only ended up with "Oh, well maybe it didn't happen quite like this" articles being released quietly by the news sources. Regardless, does it really matter? They ran a few tests to try an idea out. They ultimately decided not to go with them.
 
They sound they're using the fact that Major Kusanagi has a fully prosthetic body as an excuse to have these bad effects...

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QuiteWhittle said:
Just hire Asian actors or just make a full western adaptation like Edge Of Tomorrow. Is it really that hard to avoid fuckery?
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This. But at the same time [and this isn't directed at you]...

When people (in general) suggest that a 'western adaptation' justifies the use of White main characters, it kind of reveals a level of arrogance, erasure and adherence to White Supremacy. There are Asian-Americans who are a part of western society. Who are integrated and are just as much American as Tom Cruise or as British as Emily Blunt. Not all Westerners are White. People flat out tend to ignore this.
 
Haha to hell with this trash

Have you seen the doofus they hired to play batou btw? It's bad enough he looks like a dork but game of thrones also cast him as euron greyjoy....smh
 
BewareTheBatsie said:
If this is true, then holy shit. How hard is it to find an Asian actress for the role?! I highly doubt Scarlett Johansson was just that good in her audition (I'm not knocking her, I like her as an actress but her getting this role is bullshit).
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Ultimately, I think it all really comes down to the studio wanting to hire an A-list actress who'll get people into theatres, so naturally Johansson is one of the few young female actresses who'll foots that bill.

In comparison, how many female Asian actresses can boast of that level of popularity in the West? Basically none whatsoever.

It would be completely naive to believe that she was hired by the studio for nothing more than being the best actress in the role...and even more so to believe that an actress of Johansson's repute would even have to audition for the part in the first place. For the studio, it's simply a matter of making the most amount of money with this film as possible. As a result, with Johansson playing the lead in this project, for the executives it guarantees the film a certain level of financial security it otherwise wouldn't have had with a far less marketable Asian actress in the role.
 
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