A high percentage said that they would.
And that's the type of thinking that boggles my mind. Has Hollywood wrapped our minds so much that we're just letting them do anything? I mean, seriously. First, you've got Eddie Murphy and the lot dressing up like Neo-Mammies, then we see Frank Miller changing the history (can someone please explain to me how Persians are black again??) to one of the most important battles of the ancient world and now, with this new 10,000 BC movie coming out with what, two or three people of color all swarthied up, we've got even more blatant disregard for historical and cultural accuracy.
JEEZ! Is it too hard to just do it right? Just this once? What could you lose?! Wouldn't it be awesome to be THAT studio who totally went against the inane materialism and blind assimilationism that Hollywood encompasses to created THE MOVIE of the century. That movie (which has yet to be made) that was truly color-blind and STILL had actors of color. That movie that didn't stereotype, that tried to get history right, no matter how hard or pointless it seemed?
No, I guess not. Cuz it surely hasn't happened yet.
(Or maybe I'll stop being lazy and make it myself).
So, I guess what I'm asking you, all of you out there in the land of Ones and Zeroes..Would you support cinematic racism?
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The thing that gets me, is that the film was filmed in portions of Namibia and South Africa...and that there was also location filming in New Zealand....but the main protagonist is a guy who (looks) white, and the main female protagonist is a girl who everyone would probably think is white. (Her mom is Brazilian, I don't know the mom's ethnicity, though)
It's really annoying. Just once, I would like to see a story where the two main characters in a film about the dawn of man or civilization included a bunch of colored folk.
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