01-26-2016, 10:55 PM
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#121
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Quote:
Originally Posted by nik-
that is pretty offensive.
Michael Jackson should be played by a light skinned middle eastern woman.
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He actually has a really uncanny resemblance to Teri Hatcher when she is sans makeup.
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01-26-2016, 11:00 PM
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#122
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Wormius
He actually has a really uncanny resemblance to Teri Hatcher when she is sans makeup.
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Hey! You leave Lois 'they're real and they're spectacular' Lane alone!
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01-26-2016, 11:00 PM
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#123
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Wormius
He actually has a really uncanny resemblance to Teri Hatcher when she is sans makeup.
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Holy crap...
Not without makeup, but still a striking resemblance.
I think people would be even more offended by him being played by a white woman than a white man.
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01-26-2016, 11:30 PM
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#124
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Originally Posted by getbak
Holy crap...
Not without makeup, but still a striking resemblance.
I think people would be even more offended by him being played by a white woman than a white man. |
I was thinking of this.
Anyway, Cate Blanchett played Bob Dylan in "I'm Not There" so at least that partially sets a precedence.
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01-26-2016, 11:37 PM
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#125
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Yeah, but she wasn't portraying a black person.
That's not me personally feeling one way or the other. Truly I don't. But its why it'll be an issue.
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01-27-2016, 08:07 AM
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#126
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Originally Posted by Daradon
Yeah, but she wasn't portraying a black person.
That's not me personally feeling one way or the other. Truly I don't. But its why it'll be an issue.
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But it really depends on what part of his life they are portraying. No one can say that MJ was black from like 1990 and on. If you had a black person playing him at that point, in white person make-up, wouldn't it be the same as the reverse?
Wait... that already happened...
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01-27-2016, 10:31 AM
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#127
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In the Sin Bin
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Originally Posted by Wormius
He actually has a really uncanny resemblance to Teri Hatcher when she is sans makeup.
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Scottie from Suits is a dead ringer for white MJ:
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01-31-2016, 08:28 PM
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#128
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Don't know if anyone saw the headlines but 5 of the 9 individual acting awards at the Screen Actors Guild awards went to black actors. Two of them to Idris Elba.
Nominations have been out for a while but I'm willing to bet all the diversity talk hit home.
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01-31-2016, 09:50 PM
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#129
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The Screen Actors Guild awards are nice and all, but I'm more concerned about what the Film Actors Guild has to say...
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01-31-2016, 09:53 PM
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#130
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01-31-2016, 10:14 PM
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#131
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Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger
Don't know if anyone saw the headlines but 5 of the 9 individual acting awards at the Screen Actors Guild awards went to black actors. Two of them to Idris Elba.
Nominations have been out for a while but I'm willing to bet all the diversity talk hit home.
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Only one of those was for a motion picture. Four were for tv shows.
Other than Elba, the movie nominations for the SAG Awards were as lily white as the Oscars.
Elba's lack of a nomination probably had more to do with the fact that his movie was distributed by Netflix rather than one of the major studios than it had to do with his race. The Oscars are notorious for protecting the interests of the big studios.
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02-01-2016, 11:46 AM
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Could you imagine the outrage if two white male comedians made a movie called "black chicks"
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02-01-2016, 01:35 PM
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#133
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Originally Posted by northcrunk
Could you imagine the outrage if two white male comedians made a movie called "black chicks"
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Yeah, it's almost as if there's cultural and historical context that contributes to the discourse surrounding the matter. Weird, huh?
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02-01-2016, 01:36 PM
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#134
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Originally Posted by rubecube
Yeah, it's almost as if there's cultural and historical context that contributes to the discourse surrounding the matter. Weird, huh?
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Does that make the opposite OK?
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02-01-2016, 01:49 PM
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#135
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Originally Posted by MattyC
Does that make the opposite OK?
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How was White Chicks harmful to white people?
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02-01-2016, 01:54 PM
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Norm!
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White Chicks was harmful to everyone. IIRC a full two hour exposure to it cause hemorroids, decrease blood pressure and possibly death.
It was adopted by the State of Texas as a method of execution and was used until the Supreme Court ruled it to be an overly cruel and malicious method of execution.
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02-01-2016, 01:56 PM
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#137
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Originally Posted by MattyC
Does that make the opposite OK?
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Only if it's against white people according to rubecube. Because you know all white people are the same and have the same backgrounds. We were all slavers and colonists and none of us were ever persecuted minority groups from Europe or anything. We asked for it pretty much if you ask the SJW crowd.
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02-01-2016, 02:03 PM
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#138
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Quote:
Originally Posted by northcrunk
Only if it's against white people according to rubecube. Because you know all white people are the same and have the same backgrounds. We were all slavers and colonists and none of us were ever persecuted minority groups from Europe or anything. We asked for it pretty much if you ask the SJW crowd.
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That's a lovely little strawman you've constructed.
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02-01-2016, 02:03 PM
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#139
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Quote:
Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
White Chicks was harmful to everyone. IIRC a full two hour exposure to it cause hemorroids, decrease blood pressure and possibly death.
It was adopted by the State of Texas as a method of execution and was used until the Supreme Court ruled it to be an overly cruel and malicious method of execution.
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I can't really argue with any of that.
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