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disease bring in alzheimer s disease and political affiliations tend to fall by the wayside and it slips into the realm of intense personal suffering very few would find that kind of soul destroying suffering funny even if it happened to a republican and even fewer would publicly admit to finding it funny solely because it happens to a republican imagine this conversation a did you see the new movie about reagan it s the funniest thing ever made b isn t that about him having alzheimer s a yeah and it s hilarious i laughed so much at his inability to remember things like friends and family b we didn t find it funny when that happened to my grandpa a but this a republican we re talking about b so a that makes laughing at alzheimer s okay b i can t even look at the trailers or commercials without remembering how bad things got for my grandfather before he died a you have no sense of humour that might put a damper on the word of mouth something offensive part two actress scarlett johansson has been cast in the lead role of an american movie version of the japanese anime ghost in the shell this led to cries of outrage that the originally japanese role hadn t gone to a japanese actor most of the cries of whitewashing came from asian american organizations and a lot of angry white people but do you know who wasn t offended by the casting the japanese most japanese pundits and media outlets don t really care about johansson s casting and many are even enthusiastic about it the japanese aren t freaking out over johansson because they assume that an american version of a japanese story would have an american actor translation white part of this is because the japanese have no qualms doing a japanese version of a euro american story with japanese versions of those once white characters kurosawa adapted several works of shakespeare and the tropes of the american western movie into many of his samurai films then there s the other part even when it s not a japanese version of a euro american story but a japanese story featuring caucasian european or american characters they will still use japanese actors case in point however cast a chinese or korean actor to play a japanese character or vice versa and then they get offended to explain that would involve explaining centuries of asia s ethnic politics and prejudices and i ain t going there does this mean that whitewashing is not a problem no whitewashing especially of asian characters is a real problem and it s part of the short shrift that asian actors have been getting in hollywood since the dawn of the medium white actors in bad make up speaking pidgin english have been used to play asian characters for over a century the most infamous being the popular charlie chan movies of the 1930s 1940s which managed to make the character of a brilliant detective shorthand for an insulting and offensive stereotype but even when asian american actors break through in hollywood they still got shafted the first asian american movie star california born anna may wong was beautiful talented and denied most of the plum roles she probably deserved why there were actual laws on the books against the portrayal of interracial romance or miscegenation that meant that she couldn t even kiss a white co star on screen even if he was playing an asian character that meant that she was trapped playing stock or stereotyped characters for most of her career those laws are gone but the narrow casting of asian actors in hollywood continues also the recent demands for greater diversity in hollywood also seem to leave them out that isn t right hollywood does need to reflect the wider audience and to ditch a lot of the stereotypes that hold back not only actors but the art of storytelling but that will take effort and hollywood isn t known for spending effort they just prefer to throw money at empty gestures and hope the problem goes away ______________________________ anna may wong was also the inspiration for this classic love song by furious d 2 14 pm 3 talk backs email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest genres allow me to explain floptopsy hollywood babble on and on hollywood idiot report shameless self promotion strictly business the book report the fame game things to drop tuesday 12 april 2016 hollywood babble on on 1262 quo vadis american crime story glad to back my loyal readers i hope you re still out there crickets sorry it s been soooooo long since i last posted things have been busy lately one the up side i signed a contract with a publisher in los angeles for a mystery novel and my work as chief caregiver for my parents has been taking up most of my time lately since my mother s knee surgery anyway enough about me let s talk about movies and tv if you ve been missing american crime story the people vs oj simpson you ve been missing a treat it s been wildly entertaining and stacked with tons of emmy worthy performances from the entire cast i haven t seen a single false note in the acting and more than a few moments of pure performance bliss the scene where david schwimmer as robert kardashian lectures his kids on the emptiness of fame without virtue is pure brilliance i had to rewind to revel in its satiric glory but what to do with season 2 well it seems that the show s driving force ryan murphy wants to take the show in a different direction in season 2 he wants to take it from covering a true crime story with the sort of intense detail that only a tv series can do and do a fictional story about people living in new orleans in the aftermath of hurricane katrina so basically a variation of david simon s tremé from hbo which came and went with some good reviews but not much in the line of impact this seems to be in keeping with murphy s modus operandi to create a show deliver really high quality in the first season then begin whittling away everything people liked about the show in subsequent seasons to diminishing returns in audience satisfaction and ratings i witnessed this with murphy s biggest mainstream hit glee where my twitter feed went from fans raving about the show to fans complaining about the show to fans ignoring the show the same has happened with his other anthology series american horror story which got raves at the beginning and then faded into a mess of loose narrative strings and steadily declining viewership i don t know what happened in the case of horror story but it seems that crime story is the victim of a fundamental misunderstanding of the show s success the people behind the show seem to think that the show s success hinges on issues of race in america like in the real case of o j simpson race is more of a distraction and an excuse for some decisions than the real heart of the issue the success of american crime story is that they re telling a true story where literally everyone knows the ending so well that it s compelling to watch i think there s a market for more true crime and that murphy and acs are fools to just give it up when they ve already set themselves up as the gold standard let s look at some cases they could adapt that would be better ideas harry thaw stanford white in the 1900s white was a brilliant architect top dog of new york high society and an unrepentant lecher harry thaw was the son of nouveau riche industrialists who had the paranoid belief that white had blackballed him from high society this obsession grew even stronger when he married model and dancer evelyn nesbit nesbit had been white s mistress when she was a teenager and may have even been raped by white this put the already mentally unstable and violently abusive thaw over the edge and he murdered white in the middle of a nightclub in front of a hundred people the trial and its aftermath pretty much birthed the tabloid and scandal culture we have today and is loaded with so many myths deceptions and half truths it could make compelling viewing stephanie st clair the queen of harlem this is the story of a woman who came to control the numbers racket in harlem while queen she held off the mobsters like the psychopathic dutch schultz and became a thorn in the side of corrupt and racist policemen by using her resources to promote civil rights and political reform and if business and activism wasn t enough trouble for her she ended up in a disastrous marriage to a political activist turned cult leader with messianic and hitlerian tendencies that ended with a gunshot the fact that she survived and thrived in these conditions would make a fascinating television show you could even cast travolta as dutch schultz sterling k brown as her right hand bumpy johnson and courtney b vance as st clair s charismatic but erratic cult leader husband sufi abdul hamid who was dubbed the black hitler by the press the murder of william desmond taylor i wrote a review of the riveting book tinseltown and i said then that it would make a great series and i still do anyway these stories are true and i think they d really rope in the viewers far better than just another social realist drama about how life is hard in new orleans by furious d 12 39 pm 4 talk backs email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest genres 20th century foxy adaptation palpitations hollywood babble on and on take my advice please monday 29 february 2016 hollywood babble on on 1261 whitewashing or stereotyping sorry i ve been so lax with the posting lately things have been pretty busy lately and there just wasn t enough time in the day it s getting even tighter but i will try to squeeze out what wisdom i can in the moment i can spare today the term whitewashing gets tossed around a lot the biggest uproar being over the gods of egypt which featured no egyptians or anyone who looked egyptian but i m not talking about that film because there was a bit of a point behind the criticism what i am going to talk about is where some critics are demanding that what they see as whitewashing be fixed by replacing it with a stereotype allow me to explain marvel cast a british actor to play daniel rand also known as iron fist a martial arts master who is partnered with luke cage as the heroes for hire to be featured on netflix in jessica jones and probably daredevil someday as well a daredevil appearance is likely since iron fist was daredevil for a while well the outrage was quick in coming whitewashing they screamed or tweeted and demanded that an asian actor get the role this made me ask 2 questions 1 is it really whitewashing 2 isn t the proposed solution of replacing iron fist with an asian character stereotyping let s think about it 1 iron fist was always a white character the whole premise of the character is that he is a westerner who is taken in by asian friends of his father after he is orphaned and is fully absorbed into their culture to the point where he dawns the mantle of the iron fist i guess you could say that it s all about cultural appropriation but that s another story but let s get to stereotyping 2 if you re an male asian actor in hollywood you get cast in one of three roles all the time and they are a martial arts master b triad gang member or c math science geek how will pigeonholing an asian actor into one of the three stereotypical asian roles somehow right this perceived wrong wouldn t it be better to show that there s a commercial viability in seeing an asian character in a non stereotypical role or if you re not willing to take that leap at least try to get marvel to bring in shang chi master of kung fu maybe folks are just looking for something to be offended over so they can tweet about something without the effort of trying to be interesting that s what i think put what you think in the comments by furious d 3 45 pm 6 talk backs email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest genres allow me to explain comic book confidential hollywood babble on and on marvel s marvels talk among yourselves wednesday 20 january 2016 hollywood babble on on 1260 why the oscars are so white with the oscar nominations out comes the traditional complaining about how weirdly unfair the nominations seem to be for the second year in a row all of the acting nominees are white marking the return of the oscarsowhite and oscarssowhite hashtags on twitter as well as threats of boycotts from several prominent black entertainers they do have a case several african american actors like michael b jordan and samuel l jackson and the cast of straight outta compton have put out performances that critics and audiences have considered oscar worthy also the african american directors f gary gray and ryan coogler were snubbed even though their films straight outta compton and creed had excellent box office reviews and oscar buzz so why all the snubbing do the academy members meet around a big table and declare a moratorium on african americans getting nominations are the individual academy members so riddled with hate for non white people they can t bring themselves to nominate african americans the answer to both questions is no the cause isn t hatred the cause is blindness you see the academy members are predominantly older average age 67 predominantly white and predominantly politically liberal they are the generation that came of age in the 1950s and 1960s and they see literally everything through that lens which brings us to the reasons why creed and straight outta compton were mostly snubbed they didn t look like black films to the academy voters for someone in the very rarified demographic of an academy voter straight outta compton and creed look radically different from the way everyone else saw them to an academy voter straight outta compton was just a showbiz biopic about a kind of music they don t like but don t dare admit to not liking for fear someone will call them racist they also saw creed as just a sports movie and a comeback vehicle for a previous nominee who has been below their precious radar since the first time he played his signature character no one in compton or creed are brutalized slaves in the pre civil war south or led civil rights marches in the 1960s or ended up on death row because of a racist justice system manned by white men with heavy southern accents if they were then they d all be up for oscars because to academy voters those are oscar worthy african american movies instead the movies featured african americans using talent and hard work to succeed in america and to various degrees doing just that no martyrs no oscar nominations because the academy just cannot accept them as telling a sincere or real african american story because they lay outside their narrow field of vision there is a way to use the academy s narrow vision to get nominations and awards bryan cranston was nominated for playing blacklisted screenwriter dalton trumbo in trumbo a film whose sole purpose was to get cranston an oscar nomination and to do that it followed a carefully structured formu...