Are you sure it's not because it glorifies Xenophobia (to the point even a young child has come to referring to members of another race as "monsters"), and portrays a group of government affiliated soldiers as the "good guys" even whilst they perform systematic genocide on that entire race - ultimately destroying their entire home (including a rather visceral scene where the children of that race are burned alive whilst their mother tries desperately to protect them)?
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Are you sure it's not because it glorifies Xenophobia (to the point even a young child has come to referring to members of another race as "monsters"), and portrays a group of government affiliated soldiers as the "good guys" even whilst they perform systematic genocide on that entire race - ultimately destroying their entire home (including a rather visceral scene where the children of that race are burned alive whilst their mother tries desperately to protect them)?
Harmful depictions of Arabs?
What are you waffling on about?
Does Frozen get the same level of cultural dissection based on its stereotypes of scandinavian and indeed English protagonists , antagonists
(the trope of the evil and cowardly upper class white English man as depicted by the lord of 'Weazeltown')
and other actors?
* see also most Star Wars movies (amongst others) where the baddies are often played by the common trope of the upper class white Englishman.
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I literally said "what Vox identifies".
You don't even read full sentences, let alone the links referred to. It's almost like you prefer to make rash prior judgments. What do they call that?
You appear to concur with vox's lunacy given that you managed the extraordinary reach to towards Alladin contributing to 'Islamophobia' even though the fictional city of Agrabah would not have been much different if Aladdin was set pre in a time frame pre the birth of Muhammad.
And there was no mention of Islam in the film.
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Well they did release a white coco pops to address this very issue
and no before you ask, they aren't rice krispies they are actually white coco pops
which has nothing to do with this
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-53060894
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It's truly amazing that we have a whole industry to find offence where none exists or was intended.
There's no known link between accusations of racism and white coco pops. All of the links came afterwards.
No white coco pops were not released because of racism, I cant quite believe that you think they did that. Madness.
The aliens did nothing wrong, they have to produce offspring somehow. Using face paint though that's just crossing the line.
Burke was the only one willing to fight for the aliens' social justice. They didn't even show him any gratitude for it. It's really sad.
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Damn, good call. May do the same.
I wonder if Robert downey jr has or will be forced to address that issue.
Or Ben Stiller for that matter!
And I guess we've seen the last of Team America as well
It’ll be interesting to see how that is perceived in due course.
From memory, the ‘joke’ is supposed to be at the actor being so serious as to undergo treatment to make himself black (i.e. laughing at method actors in general and how they could do something inappropriate to pursue their art)... rather than RDJ ‘just blacking-up’, per se.
He spoke about it on Joe Rogan's podcast saying even the idea for the film would be scrapped nowadays. However, he's had a lot of support from black actors and friends in recent years when people have tried to have a go at him, usually interviewers or journalists trying to 'gotcha' him. The film is essentially about how wrong 'blacking up' is but some people won't understand that, nor do they want to.
Isn't the whole black face in that film the joke? It's all about how absurd it is.
It's not like he's portraying a black person in a serious role.