Comments on: An Impassioned Plea

By: CursedCanaaniteWoman

CursedCanaaniteWoman — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 02:39:53 +0000

I know right! It’s sooooo terribly racist and anti-White to protest the removal of Asian and Native American cultures from a movie based on a cartoon based on their cultures and the heroes made in their image in the first place!

Seriously, no one’s being racist to Whites. They’re just protesting whitewashing.

By: night hawk

night hawk — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:39:21 +0000

BRUCE LEE is rolling over in his grave. Shame. Dev Patel is a cover up for the original Zuko, which was going to be played by Paul McCartney. God forbid an Asian, or any person of color can save the world.

By: ME

ME — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 23:30:26 +0000

i kinda agree with the article.
i mean the point of making a movie based on a book or show is for the movie to portray the book/show..
i have no problem with race or anything like that but thats the main reason why i hate seeing movies based off crap..
becuase when i watch it i cant help but want to scream..like was i reading a different book or movie because im pretty sure that wasnt suppose to happen…
and what they did is like if when they made the movie pendragon for loor they cast some white lady when in the book loor is clearly of african descent…but they probably wouldnt do that why? because it would be too obvious but changing asian characters to white ones is much easier…

soo epic fail with the cast choice but hopefully they got the plot right

By: All races

All races — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:23:08 +0000

I completely agree! Why have a story line based on some asian cultural believe/fantasy and cast a complete all “Non-Asian” cast? DAh!!

By: asian person

asian person — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:19:52 +0000

All!!! Bottom line & of end of story: the movie/book/cartoon – Avatar: The Last Airbender was/is based on an asian children’s story book created/writtne by “ASIAN PEOPLE”, hence should be cast and presented by a predominantly asian cast – “Period”!!!! Dah!!

By: chata21

chata21 — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:49:39 +0000

noone’s telling you not to be proud. Racism is bad. Period.

But seriously, for a major movie like this, they couldn’t even cast a single decent Asian actor?… Also, I think his re-casting of Zuko shows some kind of forced compromises – I would almost respect Shyamalan more if he stood behind his original casting. Now it looks like he only did it to appease the fans, and that he made a mistake in the original casting. If he truly thought he cast the best actors for the part, then he would not back down…. And in fact, he would make a statement defending it as a non-racial issue. Yes, I agree it’s about the best actor, but cmon. I think the casting called for “Caucasian or any other ethnicity.”

By: chata21

chata21 — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 01:46:02 +0000

It’s not about backwards racism: this is clearly an ethnic period film, and so should be cast by the correct ethnicities.

Then again, what else is new? Tamlyn Tomita played a second-generation daughter in Joy Luck Club (about Chinese women). Because, after all, all Asians look alike, right?

And, I doubt they tried very hard and looked beyond race. I’m sorry, but the American film industry does NOT work that way… they’re still trying to make money. Only “B” films can actually say they don’t cast according to race, because it’s not mainstream.

By: Knight_Gambit

Knight_Gambit — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 21:34:38 +0000

Over at FaceBook a new Group was made AGAINST Racebenders “All For Avatar”

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=155823106882

I Joined

By: goku

goku — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 19:25:38 +0000

the superb acting in “dragonball” and “speedracer” shows that white people obviously play better asians. can’t wait till they cast kevin spacey as the live action fat albert because he’s a “better actor.”

By: Jessica

Jessica — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 20:23:09 +0000

When you say it is an American show for American kids, that is true, but let’s not forget that America is not a country of just white kids. And what did you mean the characters don’t look asian? Do all asian people look the same? Also, Asian americans do not speak in subtitles, they speak in English. Your comments alone are very disturbing and racist all together. In addition, the cartoon was widely advertised by Nickelodeon as set in a “fantastical Asian world”. If it wasn’t meant to be any such race, they wouldn’t have called it that.
White people in America don’t really know what racism is or what it truly feels like. Racism is so deep rooted in America that most people do not truly recognize it or tend to ignore it and call it something else. Until we, as Americans, all recognize this racism will never end. Also, please remember American is not primarily white.