The Zelda movie has its cast
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So is every other side character going to be black?
If they want to make the Garudo desert tribe of all women warriors black then I'm all for it.
Because their prophecy about a male leader being born turns out Ganondorf who gives Hitler, Mao, and Stalin a run for their money.
The shitposting would be glorious.
Aww man, they’re gonna go full Shaniqua for the Gerudo aren’t they?
Bunch of black lesbians.
I'm sure they'll hire the same black lesbians they had in that Black Panther movie.
Breath of the Wild literally started it. Made a bunch of lithe, Arabic-esque theives into hulking gorilla women obsessed with as much jewelry, makeup, and being high T as possible. If you had a "functioning" society of nigger women, it would look like them.
People just forgot about it because "uohg muscle mommy" and "twink link" memes.
I kinda wanted Urabosa to smash my skull with her muscular thighs, ngl
You can have your kinks, no hate. But we can both acknowledge that Urbosa is literally a full 180 gorilla compared to Gerudo of the past.
Ganondorf was fucking huge compared to his harem of women, and he is a manlet next to her and most of the modern Gerudo.
She’s just a little tall she’s still got a great body!
Don’t worry, Gannondorf will become the victim of the oppressive white king who won’t let Gannon diversify Hyrule
And it will end with the Garudo migrating to Hyrule and establishing their own insular enclave in the middle of the city with zero intention to change their ways because "it's their culture".
It'll be a bold move to turn the literal incarnation of envy and hate, whose very existence guarantees that every nation and corner of the world he touches is destroyed, into a black guy.
Its almost the Angry Birds movie level of accidentally based.
Two conventionally attractive white leads? This is a win even if/when they end up being leftist retards.
Inb4 "Hyrule was the baddie/colonisers all along" and the "poor, oppressed Garudo" dindu nothing wrong when Ganon tried to take over the world.
Not losing as badly as expected doesn't mean you're winning.
It's still gonna be shit.
I can agree with this. But I still revel in the impotent fury of the leftists who are definitely raging at these white heteronormative beauty standards on display here. Even if it ends up being a retarded girl boss situation, the cultural Marxists will view it as a step backwards.
Casting young actors is a good idea. I can't say either scream Link or Zelda to me, but no race swap or tranny.
The Nintendo x pics are better, the link casting is meh, but workable, the Zelda casting with blonde hair is far closer looking than this pic.
Just dye his hair blonde like Link, put him in a costume, and it's decent.
All of the early Links were brown haired, it was only after OoT became so massive that blonde became the default.
The Legend of Zelda Famicon NES box art
Zelda A Link to the Past box art
Both debatable / not consistent across official art. First brown-ish, SNES dark blond.
[Zelda A Link to the Past box art for the GBA version blond] (https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/zelda_gamepedia_en/images/a/aa/ALttPFS_JP_Box.jpg)
The GBA version came after Ocarina of time, so I would agree they lightened Link's hair.
Edit : There is official The Legend of Zelda art where Link has solid brown hair, or blond hair.
Brown :https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/zelda_gamepedia_en/images/f/fa/TLoZ_Link_Carrying_Treasures_Artwork.png
Blond : https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/zelda_gamepedia_en/images/8/86/TLoZ_Link_Kneeling_Artwork.png
So not ''all'' but certainly ''many'' depictions of early Link with brown hair.
In Zelda II, Link's hair is more consistently brown or light brown. In the 1980's Zelda cartoon, Link has dark brown hair... but on the DVD release cover ( published in 2005 ) they put Link with dark blond hair : https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/zelda_gamepedia_en/images/2/28/LoZ_DVD_cover.jpg
And let's ignore the pink hair in the actual SNES game, which I always assumed was part of his hat when I was a kid...
I remember someone saying that was a deliberate choice for visual clarity and it was meant to be light brown per the manual.
Either way, he has been brown enough in his early days that you don't really need to wig him up to portray him, as long as its not heavy dark brown. But its good to get the confirmation from all the sources, appreciate that.
I think a lot of it has to do with Japan themselves, both their variation on limited hair colors (despite them basically all having black hair, they use dozens of colors to depict it in their media) and their historical stigma on blonde hair. By the time of OoT maybe they were less afraid to run with it.
I haven't heard of this. I know back in the 80s blonde hair on real people was seen as a punk/gyaru style, unless you're talking about something else.
Blonde isn't a natural Japanese hair color, so the only people with it have bleached it intentionally. The most common people to do so are teenage/young adult delinquents trying to standout, who were very much unliked by basically everyone for a lot of reasons. It ranged from begrudging tolerance to outright stigmatization.
While they have somewhat relaxed their views on it to not assume the person it an outright criminal for having it, similar to how the West softened on tattoos/piercings/hair dye ourselves, it still has a stereotype associated with it. Enough so that modern Japanese media uses it as a shorthand for standard character types quite often, even in universes with all sorts of hair colors also present.
These are very collectivist, social cohesion people. It being associated with punks and other hoodlums isn't nearly as easy for them to brushoff as it is for us.
I think Link looks innocent but ready for n adventure. That's really all we need for Link. He'll wear a wig and have prosthetic ears.
The person they were all recommending looks more like a zora.
I’m not familiar with Zelda since I didn’t have a Nintendo but I do think it’s sad that normal common sense casting has to be applauded. Honestly nowadays I’m surprised when they cast as you would expect.
It's only a problem with established white-skinned characters, which the left views as blank slates ripe for updating.
True.
There should be no live actions of these sort of games IMO.
Isn't Link supposed to be blond?
In the artwork around the NES games he had brown hair, I don’t think he became blonde until OOT.
His hair was blond, or at least dirty blond, since at least LttP. Also, both he and Zelda have very vibrant blue eyes.
I'm also curious if they'll make Link a lefty again or stick with the new right-handedness.
Wigs exist, and male hair typically darkens with age due to testosterone increases.
Ocarina of Time I think was the first game he was blonde in, and it becoming so massive made every Link after him also do so.
Even in the games where his hair was pink the directors confirmed it was actually brown and just done for visual clarity.
A live action Zelda movie will probably be better than the CD-i Zelda games, but that's about it.
They're pulling one over on you. Zelda is going to be the girl boss and Link will be an extra in his own movie.
Probably. But both of them being white and not gay is still a big defeat for like 90% of leftists.
While obviously I'm against it on principle, having a single fucking time where Zelda isn't a useless retard making everything worse despite having the power of fucking "Wisdom" would be refreshing. If they accurately adapted her, she would end up being offensive on the opposite end for being a drooling retard.
Its hilarious that her most useful incarnation came in Tears of the Kingdom where she just mindrapes herself for eternity to give Link the Master Sword in the future. The bar was that low.
I'm supremely disappointed they don't just make this an animated movie.