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In Reply to: RE: Hollywood Racist casting posted by rico on September 13, 2007 at 21:52:03
it may not be overtly racist, but I would think the casting of Gong Li, Michelle Yeoh, and Zhang Ziyi surely the height of insensitivity to Japanese feelings.
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...in a case like this where the subject is so essentially Japanese, and considering that there are a great many Japanese actresses of great skill and experience, it simply wasn't necessary to go so far as to cast all three of these key roles with Chinese players.
It's not so much fundamentally unethical as, to me, simply unwise, a bit foolish, and unnecessarily insenitive. Can anyone doubt Japan has an incredibly rich cinema history. Although there may be countless films never exported to the west, China's entering the world of universal cinema at least *appears* a relatively recent phenomenon, though this is likely due to the constraining effect of enforced "communist" ideology on creative artists. I strongly suspect there are a great many more Japanese films than Chinese that sensitive international viewers would say are great films.
(I put "communist" in quotes because I remain unconvinced that there has ever been a truly communist regime anywhere in the world. But that's another discussion entirely and has nothing to do with movies.)
those are sensitivities for which I have no regard. Film making is pretend. what next? Aussies can't play English? Steve Martin has to give up his role in the Pink Panther? Japanese and chinese are both Asian. yes I know there are certain physical traits that predominate both but in fact there are Chinese people who look Japanese and visa versa just as there are Irish with dark hair and skin and Italians with red hair and freckles. I think it's all a load of crap. Race is superficial and culture is something that is not Owned by any group. Let the artists play what they want to play. It's art not real life.
I'm with you - I normally not too anal about these things...
but in this case filling ALL three lead roles with Chinese actresses in a film premised ostensibly on a Japanese cultural icon?
> ...culture is something that is not Owned by any group. <
By definition a culture IS owned by a group. The Japanese has their own and the Chinese has their own. I think you meant to say the human condition is common across all races and cultures. Fine. But surely you don't deny that different cultures has distinctive traits, nuances and undercurrents.
N/T
"...You're all welcome to stay for the next set...we're going to play all the same tunes, but in different keys..." -Count Basie
Amen. Even the anti cell 'phone bit with him they run in theaters is an abomination.
...and sometimes the best actor for the production may not be of authentic race.
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