>Alex Garland’s upcoming scifi spectacle Annihilation looks absolutely stunning and it’s set to star a cast of fantastic lead actresses as they embark on a perilous adventure into a strange, mutated land. But some fans of the novel the movie is adapting have an issue with the film’s white heroines*.
>In Jeff VanderMeer’s 2014 novel Annihilation, the first book in the Southern Reach Trilogy, few details are given about any of the explorers who enter Area X aside from their professions. There’s the Biologist—the book’s protagonist—the Psychologist, the Anthropologist, a Surveyor, and a number of strange, horrifying creatures that hunt them as they try to figure out what’s causing Area X’s odd biological phenomena. In Authority, VanderMeer’s second Southern Reach book, though, we do learn a bit more about the Biologist, specifically that she’s of Asian descent and visibly so:
>“The biologist’s hair had been long and dark brown, almost black, before they’d shaved it off. She had dark, thick eyebrows, green eyes, a slight, slightly off-center nose (broken once, falling on rocks), and high cheekbones that spoke to the strong Asian heritage on one side of her family. Her chapped lips were surprisingly full for such a thin frown.
>Similarly, we learn that the Psychologist from Annihilation was born to a Native American mother and a white father:
>“From bottom left, clockwise around to the right: a square etching of the lighthouse from the 1880s; a black-and-white photograph of two men and a girl framed by the lighthouse; a long, somewhat amateurish watercolor panorama showing miles of reeds broken only by a few isolated islands of dark trees; and a color photograph of the lighthouse beacon in all its glory. No real hints of the personal, no pictures of the director with her Native American mother, her white father—or with anyone who might matter in her life."
>Hollywood has a long-established history of pretending that people of color simply don’t exist. Source material in which characters are explicitly described as being people of color is glossed over and big-name, white stars are cast in lead roles for a variety of bullshit reasons that all boil down to the fact that the industry has a deeply-rooted, infrastructural racism problem.
>You can make all the excuses you want about why Emma Stone, Ed Skrein, Natalie Portman, or any of the other dozens of other white actors who’ve been cast as people of color, have been allowed to do so but again, the real answer is all too simple and impossible to ignore.
>Get it together, Hollywood.
FYI, Natalie Portman is half Russian and half Israeli, both of those are in Asia Proper
And I have seen tons of half Native American / half White people who look fully white
Oh and here is the photo of the trained chimpanzee who wrote this article
Wyatt Cook
>whitewashing >picture of a kike ????????????
Matthew Morris
I'm 100% sure the people complaining about whitewashing didn't complain about this.
Easton Williams
>Natalie Portman is half Russian and half Israeli Hershlag is 100% Ashkenazi Jew
Ian Lewis
I was on your side until your autistic commentary at the end. Fuck off
Brandon Smith
Obviously
Charles White
>Facts are autistic
Found the autist
James Butler
>Ashkenazi Jew >ashkeNAZI Jew >NAZI JEW Oh shi
Carson Scott
>WHITE stars are cast in lead roles for a variety of BULLSHIT reasons that all boil down to the FACT that the industry has a DEEPLY-rooted, infrastructural RACISM problem.
Charles Garcia
Ashkenaz means German
Zachary Perez
>chink >green eyes
Ayden Williams
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Liam Wright
I don't know enough about Dark Tower to judge if they would have cause to complain about it or not. However, assuming they did have cause to complain, can it still be possible that both whitewashing and blackwashing is wrong?
Brody Jenkins
>can it still be possible that both whitewashing and blackwashing is wrong? Yes. There should be racial segregation.
Colton Morales
>Sephardic Jew >sepharDIcJew >DICK JEW Oh shi
Elijah Harris
KHAZAR MILKERS
Brayden Russell
>don't learn what race people are until 2nd book
garland has said on multiple interviews that the movie was already set to be done (budgeted, cast, written, etc) before the sequel books were released and he's not even read them or going to be making them into films.
Brayden Gomez
> white washing
They changed a hispanic character to Asian....
The biologist and psychologist are white with some mixed heritage.
So it all evens out.
The biologist is played by a POC (portman). Even if it's the wrong one. Her usband is played by a hispanic
Mason Diaz
Who cares about whitewashing, he stole roadside picnic, stalker and made it worse.
Dylan Hernandez
100% pusy mistress
Alexander Lee
>FYI, Natalie Portman is half Russian and half Israeli, both of those are in Asia Proper Ok yeah, that makes sense >And I have seen tons of half Native American / half White people who look fully white Hmm me too >Oh and here is the photo of the trained chimpanzee who wrote this article
got to agree, annihilation was a massive nothingburger of a book
Oliver Scott
>t. nigger
Zachary Martin
>hershlag >white
Camden Perry
>can it still be possible that both whitewashing and blackwashing is wrong?
That is the point to the thread, why is it ok to ignore a "white" character cast as a poc, but bemoan a "poc" character being cast as someone who isn't poc enough.
This is the shit that makes their side hard to even agree with since you go "Yeah there is a race problem but we have taken great strides to fix it and things are or were pretty good and getting bette." But then then a group of affluent white chicks rile up the hornets nest and now we have to deal with that mass of fucking idiots.
