I know it's a bit bad form to mock a child's appearance, but screw your optics, I'm going in!
There are good looking black people. But these raceswaps always pick the most mutant-looking fuckers they can find, it seems like. It's not enough to take an existing character and make them black, they seem to have to take an existing character and make them black and ugly. Now, it's a little different here, as I believe this is a stage production (perhaps she's a really talented singer, I don't know!), not a movie, but the point still stands.
No, I don't think I will. Because I can already picture it. I'm guessing very diverse mutant landwhales wearing so little clothing it's a war crime, and probably some self-mutilators to top things off.
Honestly, next time you’re watching TV, pay attention to the kids in commercials. It must be some kind of trend to cast only the weirdest looking children in anything, even ads, and preferably ones where the combination of their weird looks and stylistic choices like clothes and hair makes them look completely genderless.
It’s just the going thing right now. It’s not as blatant as the apparent requirement that every female adult role be filled by a shambling fatass with a bizarre skin condition, but the goofy androgynous kid casting is quietly on the rise. Ones that stand out in my mind are the “what’s a computer?” girl and the kid from a recent commercial where a dad turns a shed into a giant version of the kid’s favorite snow globe. I don’t even remember what the ad was selling, but then I also could never figure out if the kid was a boy or girl.
Honestly, next time you’re watching TV, pay attention to the kids in commercials.
I don't watch TV, so I don't see ads. That said, I totally believe it; there's obviously a push to uglify and mutate the kids. It's especially sad to see it in real life. If you're ever driving in a town when kids are getting off school busses, or you drive past a college or something...IRL young peeople are uglifying themselves, and it's really sad. It's so much weirder than past cliques such as even emos or goths. Bad haircuts in bright colors, problem glasses, very fat. They're doing it on purpose, and I'm pissed off that this has been pushed on our society. And as you said, one of the 'in things' seems to be to look as androgynous as possible.
I think they shouldn't change any race, white to black or black to white, but it'd be less objectionable if they actually acted like it didn't matter (and picked the man for the job), as opposed to wanting to make as many characters black as possible.
Nobody gives a shit that Nick Fury was changed to black because it was Samuel L. Jackson.
If it only happened occasionally, and the nonwhites demonstrated merit & talent so the white audience could watch and say "well, I can see why this person won out getting the role irrespective of color", then nobody would have a problem with it.
The only reason its a problem is because clearly inferior people are being chosen - objectively creating an inferior product - purely to force a political agenda on the audience.
A significant tragedy, because Cruise playing Harvey Weinstein opposite RDJ and Ben Stiller parodying pretentious actors was funny in a way movies haven't been in fifteen years or more.
but it'd be less objectionable if they actually acted like it didn't matter (and picked the man for the job)
No such thing in film & theatre. Casting directors always cast on opinion, and more often than not engage in nepotism. Additionally, you can always find someone that matches the source material perfectly. Not doing so is a deliberate act.
Hang on, they WANT the blacks to be poor and their only way out of poverty is to be uplifted by a generous capitalist businessman with a race as indentured workers?
It’ll be fine, they’ll just cast Lizzo as Willie Wonka and then no one will even notice how fucked up the story kinda is. Just don’t use real chocolate and candy in the sets or the movie might never finish production.
Oompa loompa doompety doo
I've got a perfect puzzle for you
Oompa loompa doompety dee
If you are wise you'll listen to me
What do you get when you guzzle down sweets
Eating as much as an elephant eats
What are you at, getting terribly fat
What do you think will come of that
I don't like the look of it
Oompa loompa doompety da
If you're not greedy, you will go far
You will live in happiness too
Like the Oompa Loompa Doompety do
These debates are pointless. Leftists want you dead and gone, your nations and cultures erased, because you are white. They will say and do anything that empowers them to achieve these goals. They will lie and cheat and feign ignorance at every turn, all while things move forward in accordance with their obvious plan.
Either you know the score by now, or you never will. At this late date, the internet posturing by conservatives is tantamount to virtue signaling.
The only interesting question is who shoots first.
If they weren't doing this to everything not enough people would notice here to care. Why is he being changed to a girl too? They change characters from white male to black woman with the same frizzy hair every single time.
Representation is incredibly important, to the point were historic figures are being changed. If a character is even the slightest whiter then it should then it is erasing blackness.
But race does not matter and you are a bigot for noticing blackwashing.
Of course the real fun will begin when they do the next round of remakes. They won’t be able to do a “race-blind” casting of Ariel or Charlie or Tinkerbell, because think how enraged all the “their race doesn’t matter” leftists will be if a (now) black character is cast as white (or anything besides black really). If you want to know, look up their frothing rage over the announcement that some of the Lilo n Stitch live remake actors aren’t as tan as they think they should be.
And of course Charlie Bucket — who in this version is a black boy, and is accompanied by his two doting parents.
All the others are white?
Yes. So Charlie ends up in the Easter Room, where there are life-size candy molds of creatures, and one of these life-size molds is shaped like a chocolate boy. Charlie is fascinated by this. Wonka helps him into the mold and gets distracted. The mold closes, and the chocolate pours over his body and he is suffocating and nearly drowning in it. And it hardens around him, which feels terrible. He’s trapped. He’s alive but can’t be seen or heard. No one knows where he’s gone. Then he gets taken to Wonka’s house to be the chocolate boy in Wonka’s son’s Easter basket.
Charlie is waiting for the mold to be cracked open the next day, when the son will get his Easter treat. That’s when burglars come into the house to steal millions of dollars and jewelry. Charlie has witnessed this — there are tiny eyeholes in the chocolate — but they never realized the chocolate boy was alive. So he groans and alerts Wonka and his wife.
Totally a story suitable for mass consumption. I wonder why the editor convinced him to change his race, rofl.
I know it's a bit bad form to mock a child's appearance, but screw your optics, I'm going in!
There are good looking black people. But these raceswaps always pick the most mutant-looking fuckers they can find, it seems like. It's not enough to take an existing character and make them black, they seem to have to take an existing character and make them black and ugly. Now, it's a little different here, as I believe this is a stage production (perhaps she's a really talented singer, I don't know!), not a movie, but the point still stands.
No, I don't think I will. Because I can already picture it. I'm guessing very diverse mutant landwhales wearing so little clothing it's a war crime, and probably some self-mutilators to top things off.
Basically Chaos from Warhammer.
And see as a 80s/90s kids we “diversified” our Lego guys and other action figures by making them amputees the old fashioned way…
Went there. All I saw was "black" "asian", "gay" in each pic.
And one confused white kid in the background looking at the black woman mentioned above
Honestly, next time you’re watching TV, pay attention to the kids in commercials. It must be some kind of trend to cast only the weirdest looking children in anything, even ads, and preferably ones where the combination of their weird looks and stylistic choices like clothes and hair makes them look completely genderless.
It’s just the going thing right now. It’s not as blatant as the apparent requirement that every female adult role be filled by a shambling fatass with a bizarre skin condition, but the goofy androgynous kid casting is quietly on the rise. Ones that stand out in my mind are the “what’s a computer?” girl and the kid from a recent commercial where a dad turns a shed into a giant version of the kid’s favorite snow globe. I don’t even remember what the ad was selling, but then I also could never figure out if the kid was a boy or girl.
I don't watch TV, so I don't see ads. That said, I totally believe it; there's obviously a push to uglify and mutate the kids. It's especially sad to see it in real life. If you're ever driving in a town when kids are getting off school busses, or you drive past a college or something...IRL young peeople are uglifying themselves, and it's really sad. It's so much weirder than past cliques such as even emos or goths. Bad haircuts in bright colors, problem glasses, very fat. They're doing it on purpose, and I'm pissed off that this has been pushed on our society. And as you said, one of the 'in things' seems to be to look as androgynous as possible.
The people pushing this are demons.
it's humiliation
I think they shouldn't change any race, white to black or black to white, but it'd be less objectionable if they actually acted like it didn't matter (and picked the man for the job), as opposed to wanting to make as many characters black as possible.
Nobody gives a shit that Nick Fury was changed to black because it was Samuel L. Jackson.
If it only happened occasionally, and the nonwhites demonstrated merit & talent so the white audience could watch and say "well, I can see why this person won out getting the role irrespective of color", then nobody would have a problem with it.
The only reason its a problem is because clearly inferior people are being chosen - objectively creating an inferior product - purely to force a political agenda on the audience.
How come it never goes the opposite direction? Why didn't they cast Ryan Gosling as T'challa in Black Panther?
I would pay to see Ryan Gosling in blackface
the only thing you'll ever get is (((Robert Downey jr))) playing as a white guy playing as a black guy in a (((ben stiller))) movie
And that was in 2008 back when you could still do edgy shit. RDJ's blackface and Cruise's jewface would both be haram in 2023 hollywood.
A significant tragedy, because Cruise playing Harvey Weinstein opposite RDJ and Ben Stiller parodying pretentious actors was funny in a way movies haven't been in fifteen years or more.
No such thing in film & theatre. Casting directors always cast on opinion, and more often than not engage in nepotism. Additionally, you can always find someone that matches the source material perfectly. Not doing so is a deliberate act.
It only ever goes one way.
No one becomes white.
The last time one became white was in 1987, when TMNT did it to Baxter Stockman.
Hang on, they WANT the blacks to be poor and their only way out of poverty is to be uplifted by a generous capitalist businessman with a race as indentured workers?
It’ll be fine, they’ll just cast Lizzo as Willie Wonka and then no one will even notice how fucked up the story kinda is. Just don’t use real chocolate and candy in the sets or the movie might never finish production.
But please leave this in:
Oompa loompa doompety doo I've got a perfect puzzle for you Oompa loompa doompety dee If you are wise you'll listen to me
What do you get when you guzzle down sweets Eating as much as an elephant eats What are you at, getting terribly fat What do you think will come of that I don't like the look of it
Oompa loompa doompety da If you're not greedy, you will go far You will live in happiness too Like the Oompa Loompa Doompety do
These debates are pointless. Leftists want you dead and gone, your nations and cultures erased, because you are white. They will say and do anything that empowers them to achieve these goals. They will lie and cheat and feign ignorance at every turn, all while things move forward in accordance with their obvious plan.
Either you know the score by now, or you never will. At this late date, the internet posturing by conservatives is tantamount to virtue signaling.
The only interesting question is who shoots first.
Disclaimer: I do not condone violence.
If they weren't doing this to everything not enough people would notice here to care. Why is he being changed to a girl too? They change characters from white male to black woman with the same frizzy hair every single time.
LOL "according to... the author's widow"
Now that's indisputable proof if I've ever heard it.
Yep and not either of his review copies that he sent nor his final draft that was published.
I feel she wanted it to be a poor little black boy, and he disregarded her notion. If even that.
Representation is incredibly important, to the point were historic figures are being changed. If a character is even the slightest whiter then it should then it is erasing blackness. But race does not matter and you are a bigot for noticing blackwashing.
If these swaps are so irrelevant- why not make a film of Mohammad as a gay black man?
I would very much like to see them try.
Aloha Snackbar
If race doesn't matter then let's do a white Black Panther already.
Of course the real fun will begin when they do the next round of remakes. They won’t be able to do a “race-blind” casting of Ariel or Charlie or Tinkerbell, because think how enraged all the “their race doesn’t matter” leftists will be if a (now) black character is cast as white (or anything besides black really). If you want to know, look up their frothing rage over the announcement that some of the Lilo n Stitch live remake actors aren’t as tan as they think they should be.
Totally a story suitable for mass consumption. I wonder why the editor convinced him to change his race, rofl.
Charlie sure as hell wasn't intended on being black lmao, Dahl was a jew hating old man, almost every protagonist he made was a White male.
Felicity Dahl cannot speak for the author she is not the author. And she's probably just looking to gain woke points for clout
looks like some sort of goblinoid creature
If he did make it a black boy, they'd be calling it racist nowadays and might race swap the other way for once.
Its like when they say "the translation change doesnt matter" yet why did they change the translation?
Felicity Dahl sounds like she's just trying to get woke points for clout. She is not the author and cannot speak for the author
Look at that Brazilian faggot. Que viadinho do caralho...
As long as he can sing and dance, put in the hours for the show to take place and keep his education going than I'm happy for him regardless.
That's a lot of work!