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So, apparently there are a number of “Hunger Games” moviegoers who had a problem with the ethnicity of some of the characters depicted. One of them, Rue, was played in the movie by a young black actress, which caused great consternation among the racist Twitter-ers of the world. Despite the fact that the actress matches the physical description of the character provided in the book, these angry Tweetsters seemed to think that casting a black actress violated their internal, Caucasian idea of the character.
I didn’t realize there were so many layers to the racist onion. Apparently, once you’re in deep with racism, you can ignore any non-white input. You can ingest fiction in one medium, filter out all the dark-skinned people, then be mad when the character’s appearance in another medium doesn’t match your racially-Photoshopped expectations. You win, racist Twitteristas. You’ve discovered a new realm of bigotry, and I stand in awe of these bold new horizons of intolerance and xenophobia. Kudos.
Daredevil didn’t bother me, I thought his Kingpin was excellent. (Ditto, the new take on Nick Fury. Nick is awesome.)
The idea of a black Norse god kinda bothered me. Seemed to “PC”
It didn’t bother me that Ford Prefect was black so much as he seemed to be sullen. Ford should never mope around like this guy did.
So where do I fit in your scale?
Well, the Marvel movies’ Norse gods are really just aliens who inspired Norsemen centuries ago. Having humanoid aliens with the same range of skin tones and other physical characteristics as humans doesn’t bother me none. Plus, Idris Elba is always awesome. Yeah, Mos Def wasn’t great in “Hitchhiker’s”, but I liked Martin Freeman. It is not for me to judge your placement on the chart, Ed, unless you are on the far right column (in which case I will only stare at you in bafflement).
1) Didn’t care. Daredevil sucked, the others didn’t contain iconic characters.
2) Didn’t care. Mos Def was awesome as Ford Prefect. I was more disappointed with Zaphod.
3) Uhh…what?
…and Ben Affleck and Colin Farrel were bigger problems with that movie than Michael Clarke Duncan (pbuh)
Yeah, “Daredevil” wasn’t great.