I'm all for race-neutral casting, even in historical films, such as the cracker Angelina Jolie portraying mixed baby Mariane Pearl in the new film about islamic nuts beheading her husband, the journalist Daniel Pearl. But sadly, such casting always favors white actors, never black. Will Danny Glover ever get to portray Patton? Let's hope that's the next step forward.
In passing, I will gratuitously state that Jolie is the most overrated bombshell ever. Her sex appeal rates a near zero with me, and in accounting for all the tattoos defacing her body, I'm actually repulsed.
2007-06-22
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My sister, who has fine film sense, reports that this movie is outstanding, and that Jolie's performance is "phenomenal."
Unbelievable..
The only American institution where Paul Hue will acknowledge endemic anti-black discrimination is in "liberal" Hollywood.
Corporate America, the justice system, the military etc...are all color-blind, right Hue?
At least the conservatives at these institutions are, right?
What a joke.
I am not denying that there is still bias and discrimination in entertainment but I will submit that they are more advanced than other segments of American society.
Halle Berry mainly plays race-neutral roles unless doing a biography like Dorothey Dandridge..
Same with Denzel Washington.
Laurence Fishburne's role in "Mystic River" was written for a white actor. The character's name was "Whitey Powers".
I agree that blacks are gaining quite a bit in casting, and someday will get to play white historical characters, just as all the actors so far who have played Jesus have been honkies.
Madonna had a black Jesus in her "Like A Pryaer" video.
A lot of so-called "Christians" went nuts.
Any christian who opposed casting a black person as jesus is an ignorant bigot. I recall kooky christian opposition to Jesus appearing in a sexy video hosted by Madonna, who has always blasphemed (calling herself Madonna, wearing crosses), but not opposition to the racial casting of Jesus in a sexy video.
If Madonna was really courageous, she could have included Mohammad in one of her videos! The reaction by kooky muslims would in comparison demonstrate one of the great threats to civilization today.
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