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Thursday, June 23, 2016
Sunday, May 1, 2016
Quoran Answer Transplant: ScarJo's Personal Responsibility?
Is Scarlett Johansson equally responsible as the production company for whitewashing Ghost in the Shell by accepting the role?
Question details: Considering
she doesn't need the role, she has the money, the fame, and the
respect. She's not a struggling actor desperate for her breakout role
who can't afford to lose this opportunity. She can pick whatever role
she wants. Shouldn't the blackfaced actor be held as responsible as the
showrunner?
The answer is an unequivocal NO,
she is certainly not EQUALLY responsible as the production company,
that's ridiculous. People are inclined to put actors and actresses up on
pedestals but remember, they are employees NOT bosses. All those things
you mention in the question details: doesn't need more money, more
fame, more respect, etc. is technically true, but so what? Who says she
must rest on her laurels or even be discerning about what scripts she
accepts? Those decisions are hers alone.
On the other hand, is she absolved of any and all wrongdoing? Unequivocally NO yet
again. As an A-list actress she has some influence at the very least
insofar as she can draw attention to any issue simply by pointing a
finger. If she cared to she could have turned down the role and publicly
spoken about the subject of whitewashed casting in Hollywood. I'd
believe that she's never heard of the Ghost in the Shell franchise but
that's irrelevant. When she saw the name of the character she'd be
playing, Motoko Kusanagi, it should have raised an eyebrow. But
apparently it didn't, at least not high enough to prompt a reply of "I,
um, I think I'd be miscast for this role".
Saturday, April 30, 2016
Quoran Answer Transplant: Japanese Fan Reaction to Johansson as Kusanagi
How do fans in Japan react to Scarlett Johansson playing Motoko Kusanagi in Ghost in the Shell?
While
this is a fair question to ask and I don't wish to marginalize the
reactions of the very people from whose nation the Ghost in the Shell
franchise came from, I'm afraid their answers are being taken the wrong
way and used to prop up some of the wrong-minded reasons some people
support Scarlet Johansson's casting.
Friday, April 29, 2016
Quoran Answer Transplant: Scarlett Johansson as Major Motoko Kusanagi?
How do Ghost in the Shell fans feel about Scarlett Johansson as Major Motoko Kusanagi?
I'm angry and disappointed.
Again
and again and again we see roles that could/should go to Asian
actors/actresses get passed on to beautiful whites. If there was ever a
AAA Hollywood movie where the monstrous gamble of casting an
Asian American woman to play the lead might have good odds, it's a
fucking adaptation of a popular anime franchise. There is a fan base
already built in!
One of the arguments I see supporting Johansson's casting is, "Motoko
Kusanagi doesn't HAVE to be played by a Japanese or even an Asian
looking person because the character has an artificial body that also
doesn't even look Asian".
This is irrelevant and the reasoning is specious.
This
isn't about Johansson's acting ability (she has it, that isn't under
contention). This isn't about "looking like the character from the manga
or the anime".
"Anime characters never really look Asian any way, ya know?"
Sure,
but they don't really look like white people, or even real humans
either. This is a drawn medium, the characters you see are
representations of human beings, and usually not photo-realistic ones,
either.
Tell me this looks like an actual white person you've ever met. |
If you
actually want to argue that Lisa Simpson's ethnicity isn't white, you
can stop reading now and go fuck yourself. In the Simpsons universe,
this art style of human represents a white person.
This represents an Asian person. |
If you really don't think Asian-ness has anything at all to do with the character of Motoko Kusanagi
then what was that whole CGI facial alteration thing about? It amazes
me, the lengths to which Hollywood will go to avoid having to ACTUALLY
use an Asian. They were seriously about to give Johansson the Sergeant
Lincoln Osiris treatment. Do the guys in Hollywood even realize that the
movie Tropic Thunder [2008] was a satirical piece aimed at them?
"They had one good part in here for a black man and they gave it to Crocodile Dundee." |
Tuesday, April 26, 2016
Quoran Answer Transplant: Hotness - Good or Bad?
I'm still alive, everyone. |
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