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I think you're free to take your money and buy the entertainment you prefer. Is it political soapboxing, or trying to make show business fairer? Because if Hol

I think you're free to take your money and buy the entertainment you prefer. Is it political soapboxing, or trying to make show business fairer? Because if Hollywood listened to your preferences, minority actors have less oppportunities for roles. I was watching "A Gentleman in Moscow", a series about an aristocrat living in house arrest in a luxury hotel in 1920s-1950s Soviet Russia. Everyone in it spoke English since it is an US/UK production, and there were black and Indian actors in it, I guess because of "DEI". I found it awkward at first, but I thought "I guess this is progress, better get with the times.". No one moaned about all the Russian characters speaking English, the show didn't have any race-related topics (a movie about the KKK with black Klan members would be incongrous), but with actors of different color skin? That series had lots of IMDb reviews complaining about "political soapboxing"... I must be one of those people^W sheep who don't mind being oppressed by the woke-mafia, huh? As an addendum, I find it obnoxious if people insist straight actors can't play gay characters, or genteel actors playing Jewish characters. It's called fucking acting! Scarlett Johansson should've been able to play a fictional Japanese cyborg in Ghost in the Shell without idiots complaining about it...

hot_gril 2y ago
"I think you're free to take your money and buy the entertainment you prefer" doesn't really jive with "I guess this is progress, better get with the times" or "Scarlett Johansson should've been able to play a fictional Japanese cyborg in Ghost in the Shell without idiots complaining about it"
- netsharc 2y ago
  I didn't sulk and stop watching that series even though the black/Indian Russians were awkward for me in the beginning (ooh let's cancel me, I'm admitting the sight of minority actors was awkward for me), and I didn't care about "white-washing" and I didn't boycott Ghost in the Shell.
  - hot_gril 2y ago
    I disliked the ATLA movie before even seeing it because most of the characters didn't look like the original. This isn't some moral stance, there is simply such a thing as bad casting in a live adaptation. The movie sucked for plenty of other reasons of course, but even if it didn't, this would've detracted from it. Idk if anyone was actually not watching the Ghost in the Shell remake over the casting. The characters look right. If someone out there is upset that the main character wasn't played by someone Japanese, I don't get it, the original character didn't even look Japanese.
AmericanChopper 2y ago
> I must be one of those people^W sheep who don't mind being oppressed by the woke-mafia, huh? I don’t think that at all. I believe very strongly that nobody should ever feel the need to apologise for liking something. I simply don’t like this political ideology at all, I think it’s turning everything into monocultural forum for activism, and I’m not interested in the entertainment it’s producing. If you used a bit less prejudgment you’d be able to see it’s possible for me to have a distaste for this kind of product without being a horrible bigot.
- mpalmer 2y ago
  I think you should give way more thought to why you don't like current entertainment. Why are you so convinced it's the racial composition of the cast that makes the content bad? There are plenty of reasons TV and movies are bad these days. With the glut of new shows, writing and directing in particular seems to be suffering. The Witcher (for instance) fell off a cliff after its first season, and its shittiness had nothing to do with "DEI" and everything to do with Netflix's belief that cheaper creative doesn't hurt the bottom line. What if more than one trend is happening at once?

hot_gril 2y ago

"I think you're free to take your money and buy the entertainment you prefer" doesn't really jive with "I guess this is progress, better get with the times" or "Scarlett Johansson should've been able to play a fictional Japanese cyborg in Ghost in the Shell without idiots complaining about it"

netsharc 2y ago
I didn't sulk and stop watching that series even though the black/Indian Russians were awkward for me in the beginning (ooh let's cancel me, I'm admitting the sight of minority actors was awkward for me), and I didn't care about "white-washing" and I didn't boycott Ghost in the Shell.
- hot_gril 2y ago
  I disliked the ATLA movie before even seeing it because most of the characters didn't look like the original. This isn't some moral stance, there is simply such a thing as bad casting in a live adaptation. The movie sucked for plenty of other reasons of course, but even if it didn't, this would've detracted from it. Idk if anyone was actually not watching the Ghost in the Shell remake over the casting. The characters look right. If someone out there is upset that the main character wasn't played by someone Japanese, I don't get it, the original character didn't even look Japanese.

AmericanChopper 2y ago

> I must be one of those people^W sheep who don't mind being oppressed by the woke-mafia, huh? I don’t think that at all. I believe very strongly that nobody should ever feel the need to apologise for liking something. I simply don’t like this political ideology at all, I think it’s turning everything into monocultural forum for activism, and I’m not interested in the entertainment it’s producing. If you used a bit less prejudgment you’d be able to see it’s possible for me to have a distaste for this kind of product without being a horrible bigot.

mpalmer 2y ago
I think you should give way more thought to why you don't like current entertainment. Why are you so convinced it's the racial composition of the cast that makes the content bad? There are plenty of reasons TV and movies are bad these days. With the glut of new shows, writing and directing in particular seems to be suffering. The Witcher (for instance) fell off a cliff after its first season, and its shittiness had nothing to do with "DEI" and everything to do with Netflix's belief that cheaper creative doesn't hurt the bottom line. What if more than one trend is happening at once?