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[quote=Anonymous]Let's try fixing up the HTML flags that I screwed up...

[quote=Anonymous]What about movies with AA leading men who are the heroes?

Eddie Murphy
Samuel Jackson
Jamie Fox
(Whoever else...I haven't been to the movies in a decade)[/quote]

Add Denzel Washington, Will Smith, Wesley Snipes, Duane (the Rock) Johnson, Lawence Fishburne, Vin Diesel, Ving Rhames and it's one of the more well represented minorities.

[quote]Name a movie with a hero who is Latino or Asian (aside from Jackie Chan).[/quote]

Now these are the under-represented minorities.  Aside from the martials artists like Jet Li and Jackie Chan (retired), there are very few Asian men in leading or hero roles.  In 1967, it was innovative to have George Takei as a minor heroic character in Star Trek.  40+ years later and it's still one of the few big Asian characters and he's still a supporting character role.  John Cho, Daniel Dae Kim are amongst the few Asians that have managed to break into non-martial arts movies and they are still very low supporting characters.

Likewise, there aren't that many Hispanic males that are given significant heroic or leading roles.  Antonio Banderas is one of the few that made it out of the supporting character category.

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[b]Or name a movie with a female hero.[/b]

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Sigourney Weaver in "Alien."[/quote]

Angelina Jolie in Lara Croft:  Tomb Raider
Angelina Jolie in Mr. and Mrs. Smith
Halle Berry (Storm), Famke Janssen (Marvel Girl/Phoenix) in the Xmen franchise
Scarlett Johannson in the Avengers/Captain American franchise
Charlize Theron in Aeon Flux
Charlie's Angels
Jessica Alba in the Fantastic Four franchise
Carrie-Anne Moss in Matrix
Linda Hamilton in Terminator 2
Emma Watson in the Harry Potter series
Jennifer Lawrence in the Hunger Games franchise

Sure they're fewer and farther between, but there are many female heros in action adventure flicks.  Even more if you want to include the Chinese martial arts films like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Forbidding Kingdom, Hero, etc.

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