Neil Gaiman Responds To Criticisms Of ‘Race-Swapped’ Casting Of Death In Netflix Sandman Series
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I hate this fucking lie. Anyone who actually believes they hold open auditions, that they don't already have an idea of who they want to cast and just go off performance, is retarded. That's it.
Because I'm not a fucking retard, Neil! I know what the costume will look like, it will be the actress in vaguely punky clothes. They won't put her in makeup or use special effects to change her skin tone, because they dont want to "erase" a black woman. So it won't be Death, it will be a black woman wearing generic black jeans and leather. As for the script, do you really expect me to believe they have such an iconic character be swapped and they don't do anything to advance their agenda with it? Whyshould I believe him when he's already lying about everything else?
Only to roll over like a good little cuck for the bad television adaptation instead. Precious.
https://youtu.be/zbW-EL5ipns video by Ya Boi Zack that I liked about this topic.
"The ability to give us the great personality was important."
Oh, she got the role despite having the wrong race because her acting was just so good. How many fucking times have we heard that excuse? And how many times has it actually panned out? The fucktards behind The Last Airbender movie said the same thing, and nobody bought it back then. And if anyone thinks this will be different, Netflix is notoriously cheap when it comes to scouting talent.
I liked Daniel Craig's Bond, but they could have solved the issue of his blond hair with dye or a wig. It's just plain stubborness or laziness on either the director or actor's part it was never addressed.
Glad I'm not the only one who says no to blond Bond.
No idea why they didn't dye his hair. He would've looked so better for the part.
Craig was a good book Bond.
But movie Bond and book Bond haven't ever been the same up until Craig, so...
My opinion is pretty mixed. I prefer the older stuff personally
I like camp movie bond best.
Kind of bummed that the eggheads in the writers' room decided that Austin Powers meant they couldn't make a camp bond movie ever again, as if my laughing at the parody means I no longer like the original.
Would Poe in Altered Carbon count since in the books it's meant to be Jimmy Hendrix? Technically that was due to legal issues from Hendrix' estate but the character of Poe was still loved by the audience because of the performance.
As for some historic examples, Morgan Freeman in Shawshank? Red is meant to be Irish afterall hence the nickname in the first place and the throwaway line about "Maybe it's because I'm Irish". He's certainly one of the more prominent actors out there that it could be claimed his performance worked.
That's the thing -- he was Morgan Fucking Freeman. They can put him in any role they want and I won't care because he's Morgan Fucking Freeman.
Most of the wokewashing today is with random actors or actresses that nobody has ever heard of that also just happens to be vocal activists for race issues, and we're supposed to believe that they got the job 100% based on merit.
Right? We're not getting the cream of the crop with these roles, we're getting literal-whos that next to no one know of.
Literally!
Yes. I don't think they cast him because he was black. They did it because of that damn beautiful voice. It wouldn't have been half as good a movie if they had anyone else.
Imagine if they replaced Clancy Brown with a nig guard. That would have sucked shit.
Heimdallr in Marvel’s Thor going to Idris Elba was a good choice.
Not exactly the same since they did it in the comics first, but Samuel Jackson as Nick Fury.
Can’t think of any others though, and these aren’t exactly deep or complex acting roles.
No, that was deliberate hostility, casting the "whitest Aesir" as a black man.
Idris Elba as Heimdall has kinda grown on me if I'm honest. Dude's a great actor. But that's about the only example I can think of.
Honestly I don’t think he’s a particularly good actor, I just think he’s charismatic and people like seeing him in movies. But he doesn’t really “disappear” in his roles, he always seems like Idris Alba and people see him and say “I like this guy, he must be a good actor!” I think guys like Gary Oldman or Billy Crudup are good actors because you often can’t even recognize them from movie to movie if you don’t already know they’re in it.
Let's be real here. He is a non-trashy black person. To wokesters, it's either him, that manlet Donald Glover or some femmie gay black dude in high heels. But because he is also neat and well-spoken, non-wokesters are of course okay with him as well, because he is fine.
The BBC said he wasn't really black because he didn't act black. That's one hell of an endorsement.
Gary Oldman is a fucking chameleon.
Tom Hardy has impressed the shit out of me lately as well.
Sam Jackson as Nick Fury. Annnd that's about it.
He's kind of a gray case, mostly because Marvel had redesigned him as a black man (more accurately, redesigned him as Samuel L. Jackson) for the Ultimate Marvel universe years before the MCU even began.
I’ve reached a point where a race or gender swap is enough for me not to watch. In the past I wouldn’t have minded but it seems to be the norm now. Denzel Washington gets a rare exception due to him being one of my favorite actors. Lol
Agreed. I lived Vikings. I'm noping out of the upcoming sequel series after learning that the King of Denmark is now a black woman.
The king is a black woman? Of Denmark?! Geez
What
The only response I have to that is a rhetorical "lol what".
Honk fucking honk.
Turning the wife into a lesbian out of nowhere was enough to make me "nope" out.
The explanation didn't even make sense, it was something like "she had only been hurt by men, so she found love with a woman."
It just leaves you completely scratching your head because it made zero sense and came completely out of left field.
I haven't and won't watch the Artemis Fowl movie because of blackwashed Butler and sex-swapped Commander Root. I don't care how great their "personalities" are.
From what I heard, the film was an absolute disgrace to the franchise, so you didn't miss much.
As someone who knows exactly zero about the source material I don't really care about the swap. But Gaiman's passive aggressive bitchy attitude on twitter is enough for me to never watch this.
Exactly.
"We couldn't find a suitable white actress in California," said nobody ever.
"Kirby Howell-Baptiste is a British actress." She's as British as I am African, get fucked.
That is the equivalent of a zebra in a Saudi Arabian zoo being called an arabian horse.
Whatever Gaiman was when he wrote Sandman, Amanda Palmer has turned him into a soy cuck faggot SJW.
That woman is "disgusting" personified.
Think she'll ever get canceled for her idiotic Evelyn Evelyn project? Pretty sure it would be considered pretty ableist these days.
She isn't getting cancelled, because she is a rat nasty feminazi who flops out her saggy tits in public, fucked other people while married to the golden goose (though only had his kid, because she doesn't put the ball and chain on a broke ass motherfucker), traumatised an ex with a fake suicide for her "art", ripped off her fans when she begged for money, but then refused to pay for other performers who worked for her, sold the details of her divorce on Patreon, etc.
That woman is one of the worst human beings without being a literal serial killer. She is the definition of shitty. Bad artist, bad employer, bad wife, bad mother, bad everything.
I had the misfortune of reading American Gods. Declined to pursue any of his other books after that.
It's not at all racist and condescending to take random stuff white people make and turn it black, as a sort of fake participation-trophy. Not at all...
I cançt understand how people don't see that race-swapping is pretty racist against the race being swapped to.
Because they don't give a shit about racism. They just want to take your toys and feel powerful.
Its entirely obvious. How many black people actually give a shit about Neil Gaiman works? Probably a low number, but they (and their much bigger white coddlers) will gladly twist it knowing you do. So twisting it will make them feel powerful because it will ruin something of yours.
To be fair, the Sandman series probably has the largest woke female audience in comics. Race swapping major characters is pretty much on-brand here.
That bugs me too! Whiteness is being replaced yet a lot of people seem to be programed to only sympathize with how this effects nonwhites.
Anti-racism has nothing to do with racism. Anti-racism is purely anti-white.
At least it wasn't a ginger sacrificed this time around
I've not been following this one but this is a comic right? It is not a novel or anything like that.
Shouldn't the character design matter a lot more on comic based characters? There is as much work in the visual aspect as in the writing of comics so by scraping the visual aspect you are reducing the comics to the text?
For me at least the visual aspect of a comic matters a lot. I know it is his art and he can do what ever he wants with it but he is butchering his own work.
I would not have believed if you told me I'd ever be saying this only a year or two ago, but quite frankly, fuck Neil Gaiman.
Selling out your work, whether over ideology or simple greed, is bad enough, but don't fucking piss on my head and tell me it's raining.
(((Gaiman)))
Neil gave the interview lying on his stomach as his ass was torn and gaping from his girlfriend's tender mercies.
Just say it Neil. You sold out. You were given a bucket of cash from people that wanted to race-swap Death, and you took the money.
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