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Yollam (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-14-06 12:20 PM Original message |
Disney's Racist New Film "Eight Below" |
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Atman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-14-06 12:24 PM Response to Original message |
1. Actually, there is supposedly a "shortage" of Japanese actors. |
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Yollam (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-14-06 12:29 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. I don't mind using the outline with American actors... |
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Nicholas D Wolfwood (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-14-06 01:15 PM Response to Reply #4 |
14. Well, "based on" isn't the same as saying "is a true story". |
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LostinVA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-14-06 01:23 PM Response to Reply #14 |
19. And, it may even be "inspired by true events" |
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Kerrytravelers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-14-06 12:32 PM Response to Reply #1 |
5. Somehow, I doub that if the casting directors wanted to find people of |
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Yollam (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-14-06 12:44 PM Response to Reply #5 |
8. Shit, even Chinese pretending to be Japanese is better than this. |
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MadMaddie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-14-06 12:25 PM Response to Original message |
2. Hey Yollam....Thanks for the heads up!! |
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jilln (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-14-06 12:26 PM Response to Original message |
3. Thanks for the info |
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porphyrian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-14-06 12:38 PM Response to Original message |
6. Is there anything Disney doesn't do that to? |
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_testify_ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-14-06 12:39 PM Response to Original message |
7. I agree completely... |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-14-06 12:45 PM Response to Original message |
9. To be fair, it does say 'based on a true story'. It doesn't say it |
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mcscajun (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-14-06 12:45 PM Response to Original message |
10. Disney films have had a long DISassociation with the truth. |
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Yollam (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-14-06 12:56 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. At least "Pocahontas" was animated... |
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Johnyawl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-14-06 01:10 PM Response to Original message |
12. Not just Disney - Hollywood does this crap all the time |
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LostinVA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-14-06 01:25 PM Response to Reply #12 |
20. There actually was also a US team who did the same thing |
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Yollam (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-14-06 01:26 PM Response to Reply #20 |
21. Not aware of that story, but this is based on a Japanese expedition. |
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LostinVA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-14-06 01:29 PM Response to Reply #21 |
23. What? Why would a Japanese team steal an Enigma? |
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Johonny (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-14-06 01:11 PM Response to Original message |
13. Oh great |
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Connie_Corleone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-14-06 01:15 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. But there's a slight difference. |
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Celeborn Skywalker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-14-06 01:18 PM Response to Reply #13 |
16. At least Pacino was playing someone of the same race |
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Yollam (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-14-06 01:19 PM Response to Reply #13 |
17. That was a fictional character - and it stayed Cuban. |
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meganmonkey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-14-06 01:21 PM Response to Original message |
18. Disney is crap |
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Guy Whitey Corngood (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-14-06 01:27 PM Response to Original message |
22. It is my understanding that in that Geisha movie the actors |
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applegrove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-14-06 02:05 PM Response to Original message |
24. Wake up! Hollywood will not put a black woman in a film with |
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