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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The whitewashing of Avatar the Last Airbender. That was horrific.[/quote]

+1.
Hollywood whitewashing is insane nowadays.  There are so many decent Asian actors who are not given a chance it's just criminal.
Add Tilda Swinton in Dr. Strange, Natalie Portman in Annihilation, Matt Damon turning The Great Wall into a stereotypical "white man saves China" caricature, and Benedict Cumberbatch in the Star Trek reboot all as examples of Hollywood anti-Asian bigotry.[/quote]

Tilda Swinton was awesome in Doctor Strange. It’s totally legitimate to be angry about the white washing, but she did a great job.[/quote]

I don't think it's legit to be angry at the whitewashing, entirely.  Or maybe it's more legit to be mad at a more complex issue.  The character as written in the original comics was problematic.  You can't have an asian person play such a bad, overt Asian stereotypical character.  So the decision was to step away from the character, turn it into Tilda's ancient one in stead.  Perhaps it would have been a better decision to cast an Asian character and rewrite in a way that didn't bring in blatantly offensive Asian stereotypes, but Marvel has a bit of a history in trying to re-do past offensive characters.

For example, they used The Mandarin in IronMan 3, but it was done as a ruse - someone was hired to portray a bad guy who called himself The Mandarin (but the real bad guy ws someone else, the person who hired the actor).  Now in Shani-Chi and the 10 rings, they'll bring in some of the lore from the Mandarin comics, but in a way that isn't so offensive.

It's not perfect, but Marvel has been pivoting to more inclusive storytelling.  [/quote]

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