Yes, it happens also that Hollywood choose actors “Blacks” for characters “Whites”

sivertime — Wed, 07 Jun 2017 16:15:59 +0000

Can we call it “Blackwashing”?
Considering the very fiery comments that followed our article on “whitewashing”, this practice of choosing white actors for “color” characters, it seemed to us a logical step to find counterexamples. And we speak of counterexamples, which serve as exceptions in an industry, still undermined by the problems of representativeness of minorities. But yes, whitewashing can also work upside down.
Will Smith => Robert Neville (I’m a Legend)
There are several adaptations of Richard Matheson’s novel SF. But the 2007 version is the first that sees a Black actor in the skin of the last survivor , alias the scientist Robert Neville.
Morgan Freeman => Red (The Evadés)
Again, in the original work of Stephen King (“The Redemption of Shawshank”) , the character in question is White . Even red-headed with freckles and blue eyes, considering his Irish origins.
With Chris Evans, we held more or less a human Torch physically faithful to the comics. The reboot “Fantastic Four” made the choice to innovate by granting the role of Johnny Storm to Michael B. Jordan.
Idris Elba => Heimdall (Thor)
He is the guardian of the Bifröst, the passage that connects Asgard with the other planets. Heimdall has two radically different faces according to the comics and MCU : in the first case, he has a big boom and is rather Viking, while it is Idris Elba who ensures the taf to the cinema.
Dwayne Johnson => Hercules
It will have escaped anyone that Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is far from resembling the average Greek, let alone Hercules, despite his physical half-God.
Pam Grier => Jackie Brown
If Quentin Tarantino remained faithful enough to the original novel “Punch Creole” in his transcription of the characters, he allowed himself a little freedom as regards that embodied by Pam Grier : in the book, Jackie is White, with short hair And blond.
Will Smith => Agent J (Men in Black)
You ignore perhaps, but before being brought to the big screen, “Men in Black” is a comic book series of the 90’s , originally published by Aircel Comics, before falling in the Marvel catalog. And J as K, were two Caucasian characters. After the success of the film in 1997, Marvel released new issues, this time with Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith headlining.
Michael Clarke Duncan => The Caïd (Daredevil)
For the coup, the series is a chouia more faithful to the comics in regards to the character of Wilson Fisk aka Le Caïd. In fact, the production of the film “Daredevil” has tried to enlist a white actor for the role of the godfather of Hell’s Kitchen , but the tests with different wrestlers proved inconclusive. And Michael Clarke Duncan took the opportunity.
Halle Berry => Catwoman
She is one of those lucid actresses who have trashed their own film . Halle Berry nevertheless marked the fans forever in his latex costume , despite the little resemblance to the original version of the comics.
Samuel L. Jackson => Nick Fury (The Avengers)
The story here is a little more complex than for the other examples. Originally, the SHIELD boss was one-eyed, but also white, with a nice gray-haired cut on the temples. But in the early 2000s, Marvel decides to reboot the character via the Ultimate arc, and wants to redesign it to the image of … Samuel L. Jackson . On learning the news, the actor’s agent threatens to file a complaint, before changing his mind. Samuel L. Jackson is indeed excited by the idea, to the point of negotiating a possible role to come on the big screen. He may not have both his eyes but he’s got pif!

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Movies that make you live the zonzon without really going, and that’s so much better

sivertime — Fri, 17 Feb 2017 18:10:54 +0000

Out of curiosity, we want to know how it goes. How you live, what you feel. While knowing that it is shit … And these (successful) movies show us well.
Watching movies is also a way of living things – if only by proxy – that we do not know. And, eventually, we do not want to know. Grief, pursuit, dismissal, deceit, sickness … or prison. The majority arrive unfortunately to almost everyone, sooner or later, while going to prison, normally one can avoid it. So to learn more, we can watch these films, which give us different points of view, tell us different stories.
The escapees
Andy Dufresne is a banker and a good man. By mistake, he finds himself in jail, sentenced twice to perpetuity (history of being safe, huh), found guilty of the murder of his wife and her lover. In Shawshank, he met Red, with whom he became friends. But also the brutal chief warrant officer, Captain Byron Hadley, ready to beat up the detainees to death … Given his template, his pedigree, his cv, Andy is also the target of other inmates . Bad weather. Finally, it will not go too bad and I let you reread the title to find out more.
a prophet
Nine Césars in 2010, following the Grand Prix of the jury of the festival of Cannes of 2009, it already poses the trick. In this film by Jacques Audiard, we see a young delinquent of 19 years old Malik arriving in a prison controlled by a Corsican clan and its leader, Cesar Luciani. Before surviving, getting accepted, attracting by the protection and the network of the old, Malik humps for him. It then changes completely of scale … until to take the top . The evolution of the character amazed us, as well as the risks of placing a man in prison, with wolves much worse than him.
Midnight Express
The lure of gain, and the risks that go with it. William Hayes enjoys his vacation in Turkey with his girlfriend, Susan. Then, on his way home, to the States, he said to himself that it would be nice to bring back a little souvenir, and to make a penny … Two pounds of shit on him, that the airport controllers find before That he did not embark. Ouch. First sanction: 4 years. Second for the example: 30 years . In a prison in Istanbul, known to be so far from an all-inclusive hotel in the Seychelles that a real Australian chocolate bread, here at home. The worst part is that it’s inspired by a true story, the autobiography of Billy Hayes.
The Prisoner of Alcatraz
To give a feeling of freedom, of poetry, to a film that happens between four walls is a challenge. Inspired by the life of Richard Stroud, we see a Burt Lancaster simply exceptional … At first young and revolted, full of hatred, his incarceration will push him to change, to find calm and redemption , via his passion for the birds. Which brings him the feeling of freedom he so badly needs. Add the music of Bernstein, and you swim in full beauty.
American History X
The disasters of hatred, of blind vengeance, the destruction of a family. To chialer. After his father firefighter was killed by a black LA dealer, Derek Vinyard becomes a neo-Nazi skin. And when two blacks try to steal the case of his late father, he stumbles without blinking . Boum, 3 years of taule … and small miseries that make him understand that he has dismayed. When he leaves, he wants to start from scratch, except that his little brother Danny has followed the same path … Fuck, bitch of life.
The green Line
You love a prisoner, John Coffey, you hate a guard, Percy Wetmore, you admire the guardian, Paul Edgecombe, you want to kill a devil, William Wharton: you have emotions in this film adapted from a novel by Stephen King. Without crumbling, all the human cruelty, the injustice of life, judicial errors are there . Alas not totally compensated by mercy, tolerance, respect, given the atrocious end of several characters, including our John Coffey, whom we will never forget. Which one did you most?

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Yes, it happens also that Hollywood choose actors “Blacks” for characters “Whites”

Movies that make you live the zonzon without really going, and that’s so much better