Drizzt Movie?

[Dausuul]

Because black face paint on an actor has some ugly connotations in the US.

Well, I know that, but... seriously? You really think people would find the paint (which would look quite different from traditional "blackface") offensive yet be perfectly okay with doing the exact same thing using CGI? What if you cast an African-American actor in the role?

Were I making such a movie, I'd be much less worried about the connotations of makeup versus CGI, and much more worried about the connotations of "black matriarchal elves = evil, pale non-matriarchal elves = good." If you can swallow the whole concept of drow without comment, it seems pointless to complain about the use of chemical rather than digital means to produce them.

 

[Roland55]

Now that was good. Hadn't seen it ... and enjoyed it [video posted by Wickett].

Thank you.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Well, I know that, but... seriously? You really think people would find the paint (which would look quite different from traditional "blackface") offensive yet be perfectly okay with doing the exact same thing using CGI? What if you cast an African-American actor in the role?

Actually, a lot of black actors were used as Klingons, FWIW, and given the blackness of Drow blackness- coupled with their SG: Atlantis Wraith-esque straight white hair (yes, I know that the Drow came first, but I'm examining this from the non-gamer perspective), I don't think too many of my kinfolk would object...unless somebody bothers Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton about it.

And if that actually gets strawman-ed into being a problem, then whatever visual interpretation of C.J. Cherryh's Foreigner books- if we're lucky enough to witness such a thing- will be animation, not live-action.