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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
As a result, he has scenes where Martin Freeman plays a clever but put-upon everyman completely out of his depth in the face of the sheer, majestic power of Cumberbatch's character's ego.
Bilbo and Smaug are John Watson and Sherlock Holmes, respectively, and the Actor Allusion in that is fantastic.
edited 5th Dec '14 8:22:38 AM by TobiasDrake
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Exactly. While I understand that it is always great when a certain actors get a shot at important roles, because most of them are reserved for white people (it is really a crime that Zoe Saldana is painted over in most of her big roles), for the character the race isn't really important. He could be anything. They could have painted BC blue for the role for all I care (but what for?).
The hatred for BC is simply hype backlash. Concerning being culturally aware, your either watch the movies or you don't...but I highly recommend watching Sherlock, simply because it is a very unusual show.
I haven't seen Cumberbatch in enough stuff to get a good bead on how he'll be as Strange. The only things I've seen him in ar Smaug - who is a theatrical ham, but not in the same way - and very recently Sherlock, in which he plays a very particular kind of character.
Granted, my favorite version of Stranger's personality is probably the way Straczynski wrote him, and that was mostly (from what I saw) mostly just so he could play off of Spider-Man.
A character in the original Star Trek series explicitly calls Khan a Sikh after studying his facial features and his last name is Singh. It's true they couldn't find an Indian actor to play him but the intent was always there.
Having said that I think BC as Dormammu would be a better fit. He can do a menacing voice pretty well if Smaug is any indication.
edited 5th Dec '14 8:58:49 AM by kostya
http://www.giantsizemarvel.com/2009/01/strange-sunday-dr-strange-masked.html
Blue Doctor Strange you say?
THEY GOT KHAN'S NATIONALITY WRONG BUT THEY ALSO DID THAT IN THE PAST SO IT'S OKAY
Yep, that's enough, we can stop with the black people now.
edited 5th Dec '14 9:02:43 AM by Wackd
Maybe you'd be less disappointed if you stopped expecting things to be Carmen Sandiego movies.
Not you specifically, the people going "well he was kinda Hispanic" and "he was grown in a tube" or, that most wonderful of tone-deaf arguments, "he could've been [insert rainbow color here] for all I care!"
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Didn't say that...but diversity is not only black and white. There are many different shades to it, and it might be more important to add more shades first. Don't you think so?
And for a racebend for Dr. Strange, Black wouldn't be my first choice. Or my second. Because I think that an important element of the character is that he suffered next to no seatbacks in his life until he suddenly lost what was the most important to him. Since Racism is still rampant at some places, a black Dr. Strange would have suffered some of it growing up, thus altering his character.
edited 5th Dec '14 9:13:20 AM by swanpride
Don't we have both Luke Cage and Black Panther coming up as lead roles for black characters? And Daredevil, being a Catholic Irish-American, is also a minority.
"All you Fascists bound to lose."We have two black people in starring roles for upcoming features - one full-length feature film and one television show.
I'm not saying the MCU hasn't been distressingly monochrome in its leading roles to this point, but progress is being made.
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"All you Fascists bound to lose."The Irish have a history of oppression and bigotry in the United States that rivals the plight of early Asians; sometimes referred disparagingly as "A n-word turned inside out" and other colorful descriptions.
To my knowledge, that ended quite a long time ago, though; we stopped hating other flavors of white people well before we stopped hating non-whites. Some modern quasi-bigotry such as red hair being an Acceptable Target may be lingering elements of anti-Irish prejudice.
edited 5th Dec '14 9:16:24 AM by TobiasDrake
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How much would we all laugh if it turns out this information was misreported and Cumberbatch was playing Dormammu instead?
I wonder if MCU Umar is going to try and rape the hulk like her comics version did...
edited 5th Dec '14 8:18:36 AM by Canid117
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