>Right from the start we wanted to diversify the cast, and it’s hard when you’re working with Vikings. [Laughs.]
>You want to be more inclusive and provide a broader representation. And at that point, you have to look at the source material as a very loose inspiration. And then take it from there and go with your gut. Say, “You know what? None of that stuff matters.
>Just because the character was blonde and white in the comic book. That doesn’t matter. That’s not what [that character] is about.
Taika Waititi is doing the new Thor? Holy shit there's a chance it might actually be good.
Nicholas Walker
This is becoming a parody now.
Anthony Sullivan
I think that's a little flippant of an attitude, completely honestly. I feel like that shows a certain disrespect for the source material.
Then again, they're just comic books. It's not like someone's making a movie of the Gospel of John and turning Jesus into a Korean.
Nathaniel Sanchez
>We want diversity
Can we have an Asian Male character be one of the female character's love interest?
>lol no
Owen Parker
But they made Heimdall black
Daniel Gray
Isn't Valkyrie also like a spirit that inhabits a human host body?
Alexander Robinson
Movie has Karl Urban as Skurge the Executioner. I give no fucks for the other casting choices.
Connor Torres
And Jeff Goldblum as the Grandmaster. That trumps all for me.
Samuel Hill
Meh. The Thor movies are the best place to do this sorta stuff with. They aren't good, so there's nothing to lose by doing this here.
William Martin
>Diversity
Then why is it almost always black people
You rarely see them doing this for a hispanic/asian
Benjamin Fisher
I'm not bothered by these kinds of changes, especially since they've already made Idris Elba Heimdall, but this attitude will only ever be applied towards white characters. There is always a tinge of hypocrisy when they try to play it off like this.
Why can't they just say something like this particular actress stood out and brought something unique to the directors vision, and that's why she was cast? Why do they have to first and foremost make it about diversity quotas.
In any case, the leaked plot seemed pretty alright, better than the first two, so I'll give this movie a chance. The Dark World could have been much better than it was though too before they butchered it. The ideas and themes of The Dark World were actually pretty interesting and would have made for a satisfying character arc for Thor and Asgard
Parker Johnson
One of the most tedious posts I seen on Tumblr involved a girl being mad at Master of None because of how they point out that Asians and Indians have almost no major actors right now, and that blacks have more representation than them, which made this Tumblrer rant at how it was trying to set people against black people because Indians and Asians have it easier.
Gavin Foster
It's the current zeitgeist of the west. Saw a documentary about it the other day about how Sweden's fire departments being majorly fucked thanks to diversity quotas. When the higher ups were asked about their now sub-par performance they stated that fire department weren't about putting fires out, but talking to people.
Mind you Sweden is the extreme, they're the ones with a feminist foreign policy.
>Why can't they just say something like this particular actress stood out and brought something unique to the directors vision, and that's why she was cast? Because that's how the Indian kid was cast as Zuko, and we all know how that turned out.
Isaac Perry
Dev Patel was one of the only good things about The Last Airbender, though.
Jacob Nelson
But that Indian kid was the best part of the movie after his uncle. Everything else that was bad.
Justin Sanders
The movie would had been shit even without that casting.
Camden Wilson
>Thoughts, Sup Forums.
My thought is that the trend of saying "it's okay to erase the cultural identity of a people if they happen to be white" is disgusting.
Justin Diaz
>a few years back race bending characters were justified by saying the actors stood out from the rest who auditioned, despite not sharing the race of the character >now they just don't even hide the fact that it's fucking diversity quotas
Liam Watson
Brownwashing is apparently okay. God forbid Marvel cast or create a white character today.
Alexander Gomez
He was still bad in the roll, and had he not been cast, then the Fire Nation wouldn't have been turned into India. I can still remember all the bitching people made because all the white kids had to beat up a bunch of evil Indians.
Bentley Gutierrez
They do, people just don't get pissed about it or notice it. It's conformation bias.
Zachary Ward
>Right from the start we wanted to diversify the cast, and it’s hard when you’re working with Vikings. Fucking guarantee they won't be saying this about Black Panther
Justin Morgan
Are they seriously trying to make Valkyrie a black women? This is a joke at this point if so.
Blake Hughes
>Why can't they just say something like this particular actress stood out and brought something unique to the directors vision, and that's why she was cast?
No one will believe them. They'll still claim it was about diversity.
Lincoln Adams
Ancient One.
Landon Martin
Why is this board filled with Sup Forumstards? Listen white people rule the world, even with regards to roles you're overrepresented. If anything this evening the scales.
If you get triggered by that what does that tell you?
Carter Thomas
Why would they need to say it? All the leads will already be black!
Josiah Green
I want them to turn more white girls into Asians. Where are the hot Asian girls?
Cooper Perez
That's not very diverse
Nolan Thompson
>Fucking guarantee they won't be saying this about Black Panther
They should kill off Prince Whateverhisnameis and replace him with a white guy as the new Black Panther just to troll everyone.
Dylan Mitchell
She's mixed tho.
Ethan Garcia
That was to not piss of the chinese, plus they tried to score brownie points with the feminists.
Here's one of the guys behind the movie talking about it:
>Right from the start we wanted to diversify the cast
DROPPED R O P P E D
Hollywood is such a joke.
Levi Rivera
Diverse means anti white, so it's very diverse by that definition.
Alexander Jenkins
I bet it ends up getting banned in China anyway because supernatural.
Bentley Wright
This is what I don't get. It's almost always black people. As if black people are the only non-white people who exist.
Not that I care. At the end of the day I think forcing diversity is retarded, especially in something like Thor where you're dealing with Vikings.
Evan Martin
Nobody cares if a nigger gets a role in a movie, people just get pissed when characters start being racebent only to pander to tumblrfags, like you.
>white people rule the world >le white people don't need to work hard to achieve success meme
Jeremiah Phillips
>Diverse means anti white
No it doesn't.
Jacob Turner
Make your own media like China and Japan and Bollywood do.
You don't see people clamoring for white people in Jackie Chan or super sentai stuff
David Barnes
I've been on Taika Waititi kick lately. I honestly can't even get worked up about faux Viking negroes. Shit's gonna be fun and would most likely be the first objectively good Thor movie.
Jayden Jones
You're missing the joke here, user.
Aiden James
>>You want to be more inclusive and provide a broader representation. And at that point, you have to look at the source material as a very loose inspiration. And then take it from there and go with your gut. Say, “You know what? None of that stuff matters.
Hey guys remember when everyone lost their shit because the characters in The Last Airbender were cast as white people because "IT'S SHITTING ALL OVER THE SOURCE MATERIAL THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO BE ASIAN WAAAAAH"?
Jayden Hill
gay. But doesn't matter, probably won't see it.
James Allen
>tfw Skurge is the reason youre watching a movie about Thor Based.
Benjamin Smith
I always figured Aang was actually white anyways. A world full of culturally diverse people, but no whiteys? Suspect.
Angel Gutierrez
When westren leftist use the word, it does very much.
Ryan Perez
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Jeremiah Ward
>>Right from the start we wanted to diversify the cast
WHHYYYYYYYYYYYYY!?!?
No really, why is this a thing?
Sebastian Gomez
Fucking hollywood
Alexander Cruz
1 He's right 2 Valkyrie is a title 3 I don't think this character is going to deal with having taken over someone's body and life 4. Shut up she's Dani Moonster 4a. i'm taking slightly off problematic marvel fanservice over technically correct and have 1 scene where you die fox fanservice
Matthew Cooper
And nobody was clamoring for it.
Hudson Wilson
While Valkyrie IS a title, there is no way the character in this film isn't a black Brunnhilde
Liam Powell
I thought that was so dumb. Everyone in the main cast of the cartoon always looked either white or ambiguously brown. Only a few people really looked asian.
I swear I feel like race relations have went backwards 50 years in the last five years. Every damn thing is about race anymore, no matter where you go online or in the news. No one will shut the fuck up about it.
Noah Gutierrez
Why is an Indian woman some light skinned black?
Joseph Bailey
Your ancestors certainly did their fair share of rape and murder which gave you a privileged position, that we can agree on.
Sure, but unlike western powers the chinese don't oppress people of color. At least not like the US and Europe. Have you seen the attitude of muslims lately?
Julian Reyes
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Jaxson Reed
To lift marginalized groups of people up to the standard of white people, the horror I know.
Jack Martinez
>Mikasa is the only Asian in a world of white people >Mikasa's actress is the only (part-)white one in a cast of Asians
James Moore
>the chinese don't oppress people of color Am I being baited right now
Logan Campbell
>Sure, but unlike western powers the chinese don't oppress people of color.
Okay, but what about Tibet? Last I heard they're getting oppressed pretty badly over there.
Jayden Perez
I'm a western leftist. Diverse means an array of different types, including white. I want white people there too.
Just like when I say I'm "anti-racism", contrary to Stormfag beliefs, that's not a secret codeword for "anti-white", I mean I oppose it, against white people and others, which is why I loathe tumblr types who cry about racism except when it's happening to white people.
Xavier Watson
mfw
Luis Gomez
I blame this piece of shit for destroying Shu Watanabe's career. Fuck Attack on Titan.
Josiah Moore
This. You don't even see western Indians/Asians crying about not being represented. While you cannot turn on your TV without seeing some black face on the screen. It's fucking nuts.
>our ancestors certainly did their fair share of rape and murder which gave you a privileged position, that we can agree on.
Maybe if your greedy chimp ancestors hadn't sold you to slavery you could still be living in Africa and dying of AIDS or Ebola. Also, a nigger trying to talk about murder and rape. o i am laffin
Ryder Harris
>To lift marginalized groups of people up to the standard of white people
How? By handing them shit they didn't work for that other people would be better suited for? That's not lifting them up, that's coddling them.
You aren't lifting anyone up. You're bringing everyone down.
Jackson Bell
I mean they do it to asians, sure, but to them they're not POCs. That's what I meant.
