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Should actors only portray their race/gender/sexuality/religion?

Cultural appropriation is nonsense.

It’s ACTING. Make believe.

:rolleyes
 
GAJ said:
Link to 50 casting mistakes, many of which are lame as there must be many worse than on that list but this one was funny.

33. Sean Connery – The Hunt For Red October

Let’s get this out of the way: Sean Connery is perfect in The Hunt For Red October and the film wouldn’t be half as good without him.

Now that we have that out of the way, can we all agree that he is also totally miscast as the Soviet Union’s best submarine captain?

Now, that isn’t to say that Connery couldn’t convincingly play Marko Aleksandrovich Ramius if he tried, but the actor makes no effort to conceal his thick Scottish accent, which sticks out like a sore thumb amid all the characters speaking in Russian accents aboard his sub.

The only reason Connery gets a pass for this is because he’s Sean freaking Connery.


https://www.goliath.com/movies/10-worst-movie-casting-decisions-ever/
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Climber said:
TBH, those clickbait sites are assemblies of some of the dumbest, most poorly thought out, crackerjack idiot lists I have seen.

I think they're being generated by people who have absolutely zero basis to be doing them in the first place, they are generating these lists for the advertising on the pages and just writing blather to get people to keep clicking.
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Pretty much the equivalent of the magazines you see at the supermarket checkstand. No steak all sizzle.

I thought the way the director (John McTiernan, someone who is a god among men because he also directed Die Hard) got around that whole using a shitload of non Russian actors thing was kinda neat how they had the political officer speaking Russian until the camera pushed in real close. Then they flipped the switch, pull back out, and the whole boat is speaking the King’s from then on.

You wanna talk an odd casting. Harrison Ford And Liam Neeson in K19. Worse that they tried to do Russian accents that they couldn’t consistently pull off throughout the movie.
 
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The president we need but don't deserve
 
Whatever you do, don’t watch the ‘Up the Down Steroid’ South Park episode I saw again today...
 
aminalmutha said:
Hollywood needs to put Terry Crewes in every film they make. That dude rules at everything.
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TheRobSJ said:
This is the most inarguable statement in this whole fucking thread.

OG triple OG.
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Eldritch said:
I love that dude so much, I even forgive him for playing for the Redskins.
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HappyHighwayman said:
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The president we need but don't deserve
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Kinda ironic that y'all pick the black dude trying to silence Black Lives Matter as your chosen bro.

Wait.

No it isn't. That's purposeful.
 
For the record, what he wrote:

If you are a child of God, you are my brother and sister. I have family of every race, creed and ideology.

We must ensure #blacklivesmatter doesn’t morph into #blacklivesbetter
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a little tangient to the topic, but when i was younger, i sorta took william shakespear’s words ‘all the world’s a stage’ to heart, became curious, and bought stella adler’s book ‘the art of acting’. it’s one book i probably use and have applied more than any other. found it oddly and especially useful when i got into the business world. i swear i could write a thesis on the applicability.

that said, while i appreciate the skills of a portion of those involved in the entertainment industry, in its most prominent incarnation - what they produce is a product. and like all products, most decisions are made based solely on their revenue potential. WRT actors, ironically, in order to portray those of a different background (of whatever nature) other than their own, significant coaching is required from those from that specific background (well known part of the process). so in addition to asking if it’s okay for an actor to portray someone they are not, i’d also ask why someone who was that person of unique background would agree to facilitate that (probably explained by use of the word ‘industry’).
 
Johndicezx9 said:
For the record, what he wrote:
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Yeah, he also said this:

Crews said he saw a “dangerous self-righteousness” developing from the movement, where certain people “really viewed themselves as better.”

“It was almost a supremist move ... where their Black lives mattered a lot more than mine,” he said.
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littlebeast said:
a little tangient to the topic, but when i was younger, i sorta took william shakespear’s words ‘all the world’s a stage’ to heart, became curious, and bought stella adler’s book ‘the art of acting’. it’s one book i probably use and have applied more than any other. found it oddly and especially useful when i got into the business world. i swear i could write a thesis on the applicability.

that said, while i appreciate the skills of a portion of those involved in the entertainment industry, in its most prominent incarnation - what they produce is a product. and like all products, most decisions are made based solely on their revenue potential. WRT actors, ironically, in order to portray those of a different background (of whatever nature) other than their own, significant coaching is required from those from that specific background (well known part of the process). so in addition to asking if it’s okay for an actor to portray someone they are not, i’d also ask why someone who was that person of unique background would agree to facilitate that (probably explained by use of the word ‘industry’).
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Why would people facilitate coaching / consulting of actors? It's all about the money. Sometimes that consulting can be deadly.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Me
 
TylerW said:
Yeah, he also said this:
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And, so what?

I don't agree with white supremacists, and I'm white. Who are any of us to tell him how to feel? Doesn't seem like a big deal to me.
 
bojangle said:
And, so what?

I don't agree with white supremacists, and I'm white. Who are any of us to tell him how to feel? Doesn't seem like a big deal to me.
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Crews can feel how he wants. And folks can support him if they want.

I just think its ironic that the black actor that a lot of people here unilaterally support is the black actor that likes to tone police the black lives matter movement.

So I pointed it out.
 
I think it had much more to do with roles that he played in movies and tv shows than a couple of tweets.

#deepthinkingbarfers

:teeth
 
I understood what he meant. He essentially didn’t want the movement to turn into the Black Panthers or something along those lines. But I suppose if you’re just super woke and are always looking to be outraged over something, I suppose you could take it as some anti BLM statement. I dunno my mind isn’t wired to perceive things that way.

It’s reactions like that why a lot of high profile people pretty much only say “thoughts and prayers” on their social media now since that seems to be the only non offensive to anyone statement you can make now.
 
Saying “Prayers” just supports and furthers the ingrained systemic racist patriarchy of the white cisgendered male propaganda agenda and anyone who is willing to support such a cause is a bigot who deserves what they get.

/sarcasm
 
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