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Mortal Kombat Star Ludi Lin Criticizes Amazon’s Upcoming Lord Of The Rings Series For Apparent Lack Of “Any Characters That Look Asian” (boundingintocomics.com)
posted 5 years ago by TheAndredal 5 years ago by TheAndredal +49 / -0
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– Fmantothemaxagain 44 points 5 years ago +44 / -0

Whenever someone of X demographic complains about there not being enough X in the field they work, I can only see it as grifting for more work, not as an actual desire to see more of that demographic. And I'm sure he wouldn't be happy with a bunch of just Japanese people being the "asian looking" representation.

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– TentElephant 20 points 5 years ago +20 / -0

I'm sure he wouldn't be happy with a bunch of just Japanese people being the "asian looking" representation.

Even more fun would be Tiebetans, Uighurs, and Mongols.

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– Oppressinator 11 points 5 years ago +11 / -0

Ding ding ding.

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– Oppressinator 23 points 5 years ago +23 / -0

Next Sun Wukong better be a ginger, I swear to fuck.

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– BulbasaurusThe7th 14 points 5 years ago +14 / -0

So you want him to be black?

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– Oppressinator 8 points 5 years ago +8 / -0

No no, that's the next-next one. Damn dyslexics.

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– BulbasaurusThe7th 7 points 5 years ago +7 / -0

You call blacks monkeys????

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– Oppressinator 5 points 5 years ago +5 / -0

I'm gonna be honest, I was just trying to think of a well known Chinese character lol

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– BulbasaurusThe7th 7 points 5 years ago +7 / -0

I know, it's ridiculous. :D

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– MarauderShields 3 points 5 years ago +3 / -0

Gotta go with someone historical. Someone like Liu Bei, who is viewed as someone righteous.

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– Oppressinator 4 points 5 years ago +4 / -0

Confucius say: Nigga you trippin, dawg, bringing knives to the table? Dawg, that's some wack ass bullshit, finna stab a brotha? I ain't got my piece with me, this here's the cookout, don't be bringin dat. Chop sticks!

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– exilde 1 point 5 years ago +1 / -0

Liu Bei was an ass. Good strategist, though.

Sun Jian, on the other hand...

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– CanuckElhead 2 points 5 years ago +2 / -0

I mean he was the ancient chinese love child of Loki and revolver ocelot in terms of famous backstabber, but let's not split hairs

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– dagthegnome 7 points 5 years ago +7 / -0

Ginger only goes in stir fry, round-eyes.

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– deleted 16 points 5 years ago +16 / -0
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– a_superior_man 8 points 5 years ago +8 / -0

Crouching Tiger needed a black lead character then?

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– Johan_Liebert 7 points 5 years ago +7 / -0

Easterling, nigga.

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– Ahaus667 7 points 5 years ago +7 / -0

Odd, I was more disappointed in how horrendous the Asians in mortal kombat were cast.

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– current_horror 1 point 5 years ago +1 / -0

It was a truly terrible movie, and yet I see tons of people defending it online. Sad.

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– Ahaus667 1 point 5 years ago +1 / -0

They need to like it because it’s all that is available. The storyline of the original film was far superior. The clunky ness of just uninspired writing was barely hidden by the “Wow” moments and fights. The iconic shots and design of the original movie created a mystical island whereas the new one made me feel like each shot was cheap.

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– realerfunction 7 points 5 years ago +7 / -0

why would there be any asians in fantasy britain?

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– TechParadox 6 points 5 years ago +6 / -0

“It’s going to be difficult to justify building a ‘huge world’ without any characters that look Asian.”

No shit. And out of that world, the original story took place in a relatively small chunk of one continent. On said continent we saw what was primarily a Euro-centric cross section of phenotypes. Exactly why the hell should any stories taking place in the same area be forced to include Asian-looking people? That ranks right up there with a D&D DM trying to shoehorn the new player's weeb ninja assassin into a current campaign that takes place in Greyhawk.

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– cartoonericroberts 5 points 5 years ago +5 / -0

Oops, he's thinking of the fourth age of middle earth when they decide that losing their civilization is worth it for curry restaurants on every corner.

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– ramzaruglia 5 points 5 years ago +5 / -0

Excuse me, Ms. Lin, but where do you think the LOTR's lore were based from? Stop being a sissy.

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– alucard13mmfmj 4 points 5 years ago +4 / -0

Im ashamed at my asian bro and sis subscribing to this race bullshit.. lotr has european setting and medieval theme. Fucking idiot.

Hey.. the 3 kingdom story or monkey king should have whites, blacks and mexicans in it. Asian media is like 99.9% asian.

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– AntonioOfVenice 4 points 5 years ago +4 / -0

Feast on his flesh.

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– deleted 4 points 5 years ago +4 / -0
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– Lurker404 4 points 5 years ago +4 / -0

They should consult Dr. Suess on how to look more Asian. I hear one of his literary works detailing Asian culture has been all the rage recently.

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– Gideon-Syme 3 points 5 years ago +3 / -0

I predict the show will be a cluster, but not because of a lack of Asians.

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– deleted 2 points 5 years ago +2 / -0
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– Ep0ch 1 point 5 years ago +1 / -0

The new Mortal Kombat only had 2 white characters in it, Kano and Sonya, it sucked like a cheap whore. It wasn't true to the Mortal Kombat story. It was shit. How he can comment about diversity, the bane of everything diverse, is beyond all imagination. No diversity in Mortal Kombat, it just made it shit.

This assumed modern socialism has literally taken shit and rubbed it all over something else, and then put more shit into it. If it ain't got shit plastered all over it, it ain't diverse.Hey fucko it was diverse, it was original, before you went and made it shit. Because the story is diverse, not the monkeys they hired, the individual is diverse, we are all different, diverse, and not the colour of shit.

All it is, is a marketing con. Somebody stupid thinks it sells more if they add shit into it. Let me know how that works. It doesn't. Nobody watches shit because there's shit in it. Get your own market instead. They can watch all the shit they want. Strangely those competing markets are diverse it is why they went and nommed Parasite. Not that other film about the Black Norwegian Muslim climbing Troll's peak. Fuck off.

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– Constipatriot 1 point 5 years ago +1 / -0

This show is turning into one big circlejerk. Every few days there's an article that has phrases like "what if" "how about" "we should" "can we" in the title. This is all supposition and scenario positing. Literally the same shit that your brain does when jerking off.

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– GeneralBoobs 1 point 5 years ago +1 / -0

I want an all-white...there's no Banana movie I want to see with an all-white cast. Banana movies usually suck, Crazy Rich Asians is one of the worst.

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– YesMovement 1 point 5 years ago +1 / -0

So is that new MK shit worth watching or is it just woke BS?

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– bootsy_two_scoops 2 points 5 years ago +2 / -0

FINISH XIR!!!

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– current_horror 2 points 5 years ago +2 / -0

It's really bad, but not on account of any wokeness. Just crappy filmmaking.

First seven minutes are good.

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– lapalapa 1 point 5 years ago +1 / -0

Why would anyone hire an actor that stirs trouble? Either he's self-destructive or he knows he has no talent and is trying to pull a Brie Larson.

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