What? They couldn't find a thin asian actress??
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Remember how fat the hoe was from Last Jedi? These people abhor beauty.
I’m not sure she was all that big. They did everything they could to make her look that way though between that haircut and the potato sack they put her in.
It was the perfect trifecta to piss off Chinese audiences.
Fat ❌
Frumpy ❌
Black love interest ❌
You forgot Vietnamese
Asia's massively racist towards other Asians, China especially.
She isn't even really ugly. I have seen her properly made up for an event.
She surely isn't stunning, but they did their absolute best to make her look not pretty.
Because they think a woman being just 5% pretty would ruin her character. Like that would make her somehow fail at being a character.
The real issue is they're concerned that people aren't forming families irl, which are necessary to keep the machine of society running. However, instead of recognizing that many of the other things they're doing economically and socially are huge contributors, they're hyper focused on trying to solve the problem exclusively in the realm of media, because they refuse to even consider that their lust for power and profit could be at fault, and especially the role that pervasive surveillance plays in infringing upon opportunities for romance. Despite how hard they've pushed to try and normalize the idea that being watched is sexy, most people will never actually agree with them on that point.
Sorry, but there's nothing sexy about some perverts at the NSA peeping freely whenever they feel like it.
That's not even getting into safety concerns regarding your children, when unknown strangers can track and watch them anywhere and everywhere.
I remember her having the fattest face I'd ever seen on an Asian woman.
Never seen it.
Don't. Unless you want to watch an unlikable fat frumpy tattooed Asian lesbian go through a non-redemption arc where we learn to accept her for who she is because she's already beautiful, while Michelle Yeoh does martial arts in a whole bunch of "oh that's so random!" scenes that make very little sense. Plus a butt plug and dildo fight, because ha that's so random.
Yeah that's a big no.
Yeah. My thoughts as well, just with the addition of, "I can understand why this won awards." Normies are so used to generic slop that a somewhat clumsily executed sci-fi story must be mind blowing for them. The whole thing felt like a Heroes mashed together with invader Zim. Just aping things from the early 2000s is enough to stand out these days. It wasn't excellent, but it sure must have seemed unique if you're used to Hollywood's usual faire.
I feel bad for child actors, it's why I prefer anime and animation for stories that include children over live action.
Why? Because it'd extremely rare a child actor has the talent that can match up to a seasoned adult actor and even harder if you're trying to find a child actor that looks like the character you envision.
They fail to match up in any way, and they suffer the kind of backlash they have no experience to cope with, remember Anakin from phantom menace? From the look of it by comparison they cast Ozai quite well.
So since this is going to be a dumpster fire, unfortunately her career is probably already over, as she was cast for the wrong role in appearance alone.
I also can't help but feel it's not good for kids' mental health to be forced to act out traumatic and awful things.
Call me "but think of the children", but we are totally accepting of the fact that certain roles are emotionally difficult and demanding for adults. Yet we chuck in kids into stories about genocide and shit? Horror movies?
don't undersell yourself, you're objectively correct, just look at "Elliot" Page who was in Hard Candy
even mild movies break them (to a smaller extent, but still), look at Macaulay Culkin or Shia LaBeouf
They can break adults, see Heath Ledger when shooting TDK, so what hope do others have?
Sadly I don't think Hard Candy is what broke Ellen Page, she probably was assaulted multiple times in the Hollywood backrooms.
I remember a story I read a long while ago when she was at her peak about a fan who met her at like a meet & greet and she was visibly shaken and recoiled when any of the male fans came to meet her. It wasn't a "I'm better than you" thing more the response you'd expect from an assault victim.
I don't think the roles are nearly as traumatic as the actual rape that goes on in Hollywood. I wouldn't let my children go anywhere near showbiz if I had any.
Ah, I see, we have another raging lunatic here who just showed up to screech like an absolute fucking monkey.
You can tell by their handshake icon.
Those lazy ass 10-year-olds, to the coalmines with them.
She's not even a child actress. The actress that plays Azula is a slightly overweight 21 year old in this live action.
There's no shortage of skinny 21 year old Asian chicks that can pass for younger.
Then she killed her career early anyway, I just thought she was younger from the thrumpy look like some girls have just before puberty and then after thin out.
The only age-reliant plot points are the Water Tribe's, really.
Aang's story can just be they test and confirm the Avatar at 16 or somewhere instead of as a child. They're ascetics so you don't need to shoehorn in any childhood romances or experience, he can still be "innocent" to those things given his harsh monk upbringing.
Zuko and Azula can just be... older. If anything, Zuko should have been older in the first place, given his relations with Mai.
The water tribe, though, they'd need to explain why Katara isn't pregnant and continuing their very thinned bender bloodline, and why Sokka, son the the lead hunter, is so free to go off and do as he wishes. Do those two plot elements, and yeah, Avatar can be basically moved 1:1 up 10 years of age for everyone.
Well, if crazy bitch is the mark they certainly nailed the fat asian HR manager at some tech firm look.
She looks so menacing. /s
Not just that, but they couldn't find one with even a little "resting bitch face?" The Thing the character is generally seen having? She's a fucking psychopath and psychopaths look it.
Im telling you.. hollywood find the weirdest looking asians. They look nothing like the asians you see in actual asian media lol. They look like goblins.
The stupid that is this show burns so badly I couldn't stand it whenever Azula came on screen. They changed her from a child prodigy into some sort of disappointment for her father but yet still somehow "perfect". In the cartoon this was never the case. Mai and Tai-lee became fat synchopants instead of reluctant allies of Azula.
This is the classical Schrodinger's feminist again. She's both oppressed and empowered at the same time.
I've watched as the standards have changed. The women that were considered overweight when I was young are now considered "impossibly thin and unhealthy" by young MEN today.
I will wait for E;R to torture himself with it before I see any video of this show. If he doesn't I guess I'll have to remain ignorant. The director should tell her to scowl more.
So is this some kind of goof? Netflix must have watched the hilarious abomination of a movie and decided they were going to double down on failure.
Just a reminder. If you're paying for a Netflix subscription this is on you.
Be better. Cancel.
THAT is what they cast? I can't wait for Ty Lee to be a 300 pound buzz cut blue haired tumblrina.
I’m more shocked at the other images. Bitch can fling fire and LIGHTNING but she’s running around with a bow and arrows. Fucking what?