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<blockquote data-quote="Dog Moon" data-source="post: 8109947" data-attributes="member: 23023"><p>Whitewashing is a weird topic, I've noticed. Last two movies I remember there being issues was The Great Wall and Ghost in the Shell. Which ended up being a ridiculous argument. The "white guy going to save the miscellaneous cultural people of the world" has been done before, but the thing is, even the Chinese companies wanted this because they wanted a famous face to put into the move. Matt Damon is a big name and people are more likely to see the movie. I guess not technically whitewashing, but still an issue that some people had though I think they were being done.</p><p></p><p>And whitewashing an anime... Dude, all anime people look the same basically. The only thing that differentiates nationality is basically hair and clothes. And the body was just a shell and they even had the scene with the original Major who actually was Asian. So the whitewashing made no sense.</p><p></p><p>As for this movie, I'm pretty sure their number one thought was: "Who is an attractive, famous actress that people will want to pay to see?" Skin color/nationality was probably number two at best. A Japanese actress, for example, might be a little off to play Cleopatra, but most other nationalities will work well enough. One of my friends has a big crush on her. The worst thing I can say is that her boobs are a little small. But yeah, if she came up to me and asked if I wanted to go out sometime, I would never think "nah, she's kind of blah". Crazy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dog Moon, post: 8109947, member: 23023"] Whitewashing is a weird topic, I've noticed. Last two movies I remember there being issues was The Great Wall and Ghost in the Shell. Which ended up being a ridiculous argument. The "white guy going to save the miscellaneous cultural people of the world" has been done before, but the thing is, even the Chinese companies wanted this because they wanted a famous face to put into the move. Matt Damon is a big name and people are more likely to see the movie. I guess not technically whitewashing, but still an issue that some people had though I think they were being done. And whitewashing an anime... Dude, all anime people look the same basically. The only thing that differentiates nationality is basically hair and clothes. And the body was just a shell and they even had the scene with the original Major who actually was Asian. So the whitewashing made no sense. As for this movie, I'm pretty sure their number one thought was: "Who is an attractive, famous actress that people will want to pay to see?" Skin color/nationality was probably number two at best. A Japanese actress, for example, might be a little off to play Cleopatra, but most other nationalities will work well enough. One of my friends has a big crush on her. The worst thing I can say is that her boobs are a little small. But yeah, if she came up to me and asked if I wanted to go out sometime, I would never think "nah, she's kind of blah". Crazy. [/QUOTE]
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