Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2015 3:30 pm
Michelle Rodriguez tells minorities to stop steal white superhero roles and build their own.
Holy shit, Michelle Rodriguez is a voice of reason, and judging by the responses she's getting, a lot of people agree. Sure, she's getting ripped by the usual suspects, but I'm kind of amazed by the amount of support her comments are receiving.
And I should point out the worst thing she says is that minorities are "stealing" the roles. That word I disagree with completely. It's the studios who are simply trying to make their movies more diverse to appeal to a larger audience, which is understandable, but they are alienating another part of the audience in the process.
It's an interesting corner white people have been put in because if they show any disappointment in someone being cast in a role that doesn't stay true to the source material, they're branded a racist. That's EXACTLY what happened when Michael Jordan was cast as Johnny Storm. Anyone who got upset that the studio was changing his ethnicity, and thus the entire dynamic of the family and source material, was a "racist".
And I single out white people because most comic characters were born in the 50s and they're all white. The more diverse characters are newer.
Change is good and change is fine, and more diversity needs to be added to the mythology of super heroes, but have a reason for it other than trying to sell a couple of tickets. Why can't we make some new characters?
I mean, why did they make Falcon the new Captain America in the comics? Just to make Captain America black? Why not just write better Falcon stories and make him more popular and worthy of his own series and movie? War Machine got his own series. Ditto for Storm and Black Panther. Ditto for Power Man (Luke Cage), and hell, the Avengers were NEVER better than when Luke Cage was leading an Avengers team that included Wolverine and Spider-Man. There's an Avengers team right now that's made up of all black people. Blade had his own series and movies. Blue Marvel is the latest Marvel equivalent of Superman. Etc. Etc. Etc. Etc.
There is a ton of content there, why aren't they pushing those character higher?
Holy shit, Michelle Rodriguez is a voice of reason, and judging by the responses she's getting, a lot of people agree. Sure, she's getting ripped by the usual suspects, but I'm kind of amazed by the amount of support her comments are receiving.
And I should point out the worst thing she says is that minorities are "stealing" the roles. That word I disagree with completely. It's the studios who are simply trying to make their movies more diverse to appeal to a larger audience, which is understandable, but they are alienating another part of the audience in the process.
It's an interesting corner white people have been put in because if they show any disappointment in someone being cast in a role that doesn't stay true to the source material, they're branded a racist. That's EXACTLY what happened when Michael Jordan was cast as Johnny Storm. Anyone who got upset that the studio was changing his ethnicity, and thus the entire dynamic of the family and source material, was a "racist".
And I single out white people because most comic characters were born in the 50s and they're all white. The more diverse characters are newer.
Change is good and change is fine, and more diversity needs to be added to the mythology of super heroes, but have a reason for it other than trying to sell a couple of tickets. Why can't we make some new characters?
I mean, why did they make Falcon the new Captain America in the comics? Just to make Captain America black? Why not just write better Falcon stories and make him more popular and worthy of his own series and movie? War Machine got his own series. Ditto for Storm and Black Panther. Ditto for Power Man (Luke Cage), and hell, the Avengers were NEVER better than when Luke Cage was leading an Avengers team that included Wolverine and Spider-Man. There's an Avengers team right now that's made up of all black people. Blade had his own series and movies. Blue Marvel is the latest Marvel equivalent of Superman. Etc. Etc. Etc. Etc.
There is a ton of content there, why aren't they pushing those character higher?