The perfect analogy
By blog on Jun. 24, 2009.
Sometimes, sometimes someone else says something just right. They say it so perfectly that really nothing else needs to be said. Except that then I wouldn’t be able to write about it… because I am going to anyway.
What has tickled my funny-bone today is seeing this Penny Arcade. Up until seeing this I hadn’t really paid much attention to the fact that there is going to be an Avatar: The Last Airbender film, but because of this I actually went and had a look at the trailer. Which looks like a heck of a lot of fun, actually.
There is currently a – rather stupid, if you ask me – furore about the casting choices in the film. A controversy highlighted by Gabe’s declaration of not caring about the facts , just being angry for the sake of being angry. That is kind of what it seems like, to me. I checked out the casting choices, and it seems pretty alright to me. No live action film can be entirely spot on for the casting of cartoon characters, and it seems a heck of a lot better than Dragon Ball Evolution!
A website has gone up about this issue, racebending.com, and it’s really very odd to see people really angered about the casting choices. It seems as though they believe that the casting of the leads is inappropriate because the characters are supposed to be Asian, but all the actors are white. I feel like I can see both sides to this argument, on the one hand, the characters are obviously diverging from their original cartoon counterparts. On the other, it is clear that Paramount has kept in mind the fact that they are selling to a particular demographic, America.
Whilst the website does contain information that is thought provoking, I think all this talk of boycotting the film is somewhat of an overreaction.
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