There's a new movie coming out this weekend called 21 based on a book of real life MIT students that took down vegas with their card counting skills. The problem is that the movie is cast with Caucasian leads but the real students were Asian American. Hollywood apparently doesn't think that Asians can sell a movie. Just when I thought we were progressing in the race department, we get kicked back down.
I've seen trailers for this movie and thought about seeing it BEFORE I found out the truth.
Race has everything to do with one's character so how can they just switch it out and pretend that it isn't important and just erase it out of the film?
Rascism in the USA
Tuesday, May 6, 2008 | at 8:20 AM |
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i guess it's all about marketing. that is so messed up though. i wonder what the original kids think about all this. i wonder if they get any % of the profit at all.
I've read that they were ok with it but it probably had to do with money like most things. but even if they signed off on it, it doesn't make it right that hollywood thinks it's ok to just switch races because they don't think it's marketable.
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