Brian Ross
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Frank wrote on Apr 10 th, 2024 at 2:57pm: Brian Ross wrote on Apr 10 th, 2024 at 1:48pm: Frank wrote on Apr 10 th, 2024 at 8:56am: Brian Ross wrote on Apr 9 th, 2024 at 10:14pm: Frank wrote on Apr 9 th, 2024 at 7:04pm: Brian Ross wrote on Apr 9 th, 2024 at 3:40pm: Frank wrote on Apr 8 th, 2024 at 12:53pm: Why is it that black actors can play white characters and that is regaded as great - but no white actor can play black characters because that would be cultural appropriation, or worse, racial marginalisation of the 'black experience'.
Who are the great black characters of film, drama, literature?
Brad Pitt as Malcolm X.
Dustin Hoffman as Celie Harris in The Color Purple
Daniel Craig in To Sir, With Love, set in a Harlem school.
Margot Robbie as Jedda and Chris Hemsworth in the Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith. Of course we shouldn't forget Sir Lawrence Oliverier in Blackface as Othello, now should we, Soren? https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/films/2021/10/11/TELEMMGLPICT00017133147...Or should we forget the many actors who appeared in Yellowface in Hollywood? https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/Starring_Mickey_Rooney.jpgOr the "Good Earth": https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/films/2023/03/10/TELEMMGLPICT00032830764...Or Mary Pickford in Madame Butterfly: [url]https://assets.editorial.aetnd.com/uploads/2018/08/madame-butterfly-5 17424774.jpg?[/url] Or Katherine Hepburn in Dragon Seed: [url]https://assets.editorial.aetnd.com/uploads/2018/08/katherine-hepburn- dragon-seed-515387278.jpg?[/url] Or the Charlie Chan movies: [url]https://assets.editorial.aetnd.com/uploads/2018/08/charlie-chan-59489 7652.jpg[/url] Or Shirley Maclaine in My Geisha: https://www.alphavillejournal.com/Issue14Images/Article%20Images/Chan%20Fig%203....It seems no one likes Black or Yellow actors, Soren... Tsk, tsk, tsk... And your point is - what exactly? Are you able to articulate, beyond tsk tsk and eye rolling? (no) Appears you are a silly fool, Soren. You protest about Blacks portraying in Classic Shakespeare plays Characters but are perfectly ok with Europeans playing Blacks and Asians in makeup. Oh, dearie, dearie, me, we see once more your rabid Racism, writ larger, across the Interwebs for everybody to read. Tsk, tsk, tsk... They should have put on white face. White actors made an effort at verisimilitude. I have no issue with black actors being cast as Othello. But not as McBeth or Snow White. It's just silly and totally undermines the production and the credibility of the actors involved. It's as silly as it would be to cast white actors as Aborigines. Totally unbelievable. That is for the audience to determine, Soren, not some aging, ancient, old Dane who hates all Black and Yellow people, no matter what they are doing. Such a silly Sausage you are, concerned about fantasy characters and their "credibility". Tsk, tsk, tsk... I AM of the audience.... Even you wouldn't believe it if Nicole Kidman or Margot Robbie was cast as tribal Aborigines in a movie. Or Bill Nighy as a Zulu Chief or John Goodman as samurai. Until the 1970s, white people did exactly that, Soren. They donned Blackface and acted as Indigenous Australians on stage and screen. Tsk, tsk, tsk...
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