A thread for discussing representation and diversity in all kinds of media. This covers creators and casting decisions as well as characters and in-universe discussions.
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This week, producer Ross Putnam started a Twitter account called "femscriptintros
", where he puts up examples of how women are introduced in the screenplays he's read. And nearly all of sound like terrible porn or are too concerned with emphasizing said lady is beautiful despite whatever traits she may have. Here's a Take Two podcast made today where he talks about it.
(Edited April 19 2024 to add mod pinned post)
Edited by Mrph1 on Apr 19th 2024 at 11:45:51 AM
... yeah I thought Mileena was a clone of Kitana. So she should be whatever race Kitana is.
So if Kitana's black then sure. Otherwise... no?
Is that who's playing Mileena? Then yes. I think Kitana and Mileena should have the same, or at least very similar looking actresses. I'd accept Natalie Portman and Keira Knightly, for example. Which is totally viable on their budget and not at all a terrible idea.
Edited by Larkmarn on Mar 4th 2021 at 3:05:40 PM
Found a Youtube Channel with political stances you want to share? Hop on over to this page and add them.To be honest the entire franchise is very Asian influenced to begin with, after all it was based on Enter the Dragon. Kano was apparently supposed to be Japanese-American in the original game, hence his karate gi and joint wraps, but his cybernetics made him more ambiguous looking before being reimagined into an Australian Western Terrorist type. While Johnny Cage and Sonya Blade are clearly white, Lui Kang and Kung Lao are clearly asian and Jax is black, most of the ninja clan and other Outworld characters are Ambiguously Brown or otherwise masked so that almost anyone could portray them.
Comics are just words and pictures. You can do anything with words and pictures.I do think the choice to make Mileena black to be particularly weird since of the 4 Palette Swap female ninjas, 2 of them are black. Tanya and Jade (yellow and green) are both dark-skinned and since Mileena is a clone of Kitana, it stands to reason that if all of them are included in this continuity they should probably all be black.
Found a Youtube Channel with political stances you want to share? Hop on over to this page and add them.Lovecraft Country faces colorism scandal as extra details having her skin darkened on set
And the original series was going to star Bruce Lee
but ended up passing him over for a white lead.
Edited by Tuckerscreator on Mar 9th 2021 at 10:49:05 AM
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That was the one. This looks...to be rather In Name Only.
Most of Bruce’s original concept was bought to the series Warrior (2019) but it’s not a 1 to 1.
Edited by Beatman1 on Mar 9th 2021 at 1:50:08 PM
In fairness, he's as half-Asian as Bruce Lee.
Found a Youtube Channel with political stances you want to share? Hop on over to this page and add them.Not to "well actually" this, but Bruce Lee's mother was Eurasian, so he's a bit closer to half-Asian than Carradine.
‘Powerpuff Girls’ Pilot at CW Casts Chloe Bennet, Dove Cameron, Yana Perrault
Bennet (half-Chinese) will play Blossom and Perrault (black) will play Buttercup.
Edited by Synchronicity on Mar 9th 2021 at 1:17:46 PM
Glad they're trying to go for diversity, but I have mixed feelings, and not just because I think the premise is already pretty bad to begin with.
One of Blossom's abilities in the cartoon was that she could speak Chinese, so this makes enough sense. But considering Buttercup's most visible personality traits were being Book Dumb and aggressively fight-happy, I'm not sure this won't end up reinforcing stereotypes further. They'd have to be very careful where they tread here, and if you asked me it'd have been more progressive to make one of the other two black and let Buttercup be the Asian one.
Edited by AlleyOop on Mar 9th 2021 at 2:36:15 PM
Yeah, I recall Cloak and Dagger socioeconomicstatus-lifted the mains precisely to dodge the stereotypes. Rich white girl Tandy became the delinquent and black kid from the streets Tyrone became the well-off and well-educated guy.
Chloe Bennett... No idea who the other actresses are.
Seems like Dawson Casting is in full force here, unless this series is supposed to be about them after they've become adults.
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The games had an Ambiguously Brown depiction for Kitana (Who Mileena is a clone of) for a while until 11 made her Asian. Plus, Kitana’s actress in the original movie is Puerto Rican while Mileena was played by a Caucasian actress in Annhilation, so they’ve been a range of backgrounds.
Edited by CommanderAce on Mar 4th 2021 at 10:39:10 AM
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