"whitewashing" garbage

Vonhelmet said:
A female character would be a tougher sell as Bourne or Bond, simply because both those characters are supposed to be double hard, and once you put them up against men the odds shorten considerably. Short of casting the girl who plays Brienne of Tarth or some MMA fighter, that just isn't going to work. Even then, while Gina Carano is indeed double hard, she would still get destroyed by someone like Dave Bautista.
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Jimbo's actually pretty fragile, especially emotionally. His demeanour/way with women is a way that he deals with his detachment issues etc, he's practically dead inside. Just the way Mi6 likes it.
 
Hater said:
Jimbo's actually pretty fragile, especially emotionally. His demeanour/way with women is a way that he deals with his detachment issues etc, he's practically dead inside. Just the way Mi6 likes it.
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Well, yeah, emotionally he's a mess, but physically he's rock hard.
 
Vonhelmet said:
Well, yeah, emotionally he's a mess, but physically he's rock hard.
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Yeah. Die Another Day.

Physically a female Bond could work, the purple haired fatty crowd would even wet themselves at a female Bond who objectifies men, but I just can't see a female Bond being able to portray the emotional issues the character has. Of course I'm just a random with an opinion posting on an Overclocking forum, maybe a Director would have ideas on how it could be done.
 
Hater said:
As long as it fits into the story and into the character then who cares.

ie) A black Bond? Sure. A female Bond? No.
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Both of them would require the character to be fundamentally changed from what it originally/currently is. Personally I have no issue per say with either, but I don't see the point of making a Bond film with a black/female Bond when the are already well established black/female figures in the Bond universe whose stories/adventures I would kind of like to see. It would be awesome too see Charles Robinson (the black guy who outranks Bond in the Brosnan films) in action, or see a prequel showcasing some of the stuff Julie Walters "M" character got up too back when she was a field agent.
 
Vonhelmet said:
My point is that Star Wars has been for kids from the very start, and certainly from ROTJ onwards.
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I think that's why Rouge One was so popular and arguably a better movie than Star Wars 7. It felt like the most grown up movie since ESB and shows how good Star Wars can be when not solely aimed at kids
 
robgmun said:
I think that's why Rouge One was so popular and arguably a better movie than Star Wars 7. It felt like the most grown up movie since ESB and shows how good Star Wars can be when not solely aimed at kids
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Completely agree. It's why I enjoyed it so much more. There's supposed to be a war against an evil oppressive empire and yet...theyre not that evil or oppressive! Rogue One showed othwrwise.
 
VincentHanna said:
None I think, it's unclear exactly when she changed her name, but her IMDB listed roles prior to being cast in Nashville in 2012 was just a host of a kids show and an unaired pilot



I can only go by what she's said - This interview is from 2014
https://www.thestar.com/entertainme...says_changing_her_name_changed_her_luck.html#
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i'm flat-out confused by her; she claims no one was interested in her as an Asian and needed to change her name to magically get a role? so it was just her name that was the issue, not her race?
aside from that, she claims hollywood is horribly racist, but apparently her scruples don't prevent her wanting to work there. hmmm.
 
wolfie138 said:
i'm flat-out confused by her; she claims no one was interested in her as an Asian and needed to change her name to magically get a role? so it was just her name that was the issue, not her race?
aside from that, she claims hollywood is horribly racist, but apparently her scruples don't prevent her wanting to work there. hmmm.
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I genuinely used to work for a place that would simply throw out applications from people with foreign sounding names.

Is that not racist then?

and did I endorse it by working there?
 
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