Margot Robbie frontrunner to Star in 'Ghost in the Shell' movie

[Poetical Poltergeist]

compare a potentially big budget movie to precious brehs

U trying to say precious wasnt big?

 

[Gains]

U trying to say precious wasnt big?

 

[Th3G3ntleman]

acting exist outside of America brehs. There are plenty of Japanese/Asian actresses putting in work in Korea/Japan in a variety of roles a lot of which for the sake of their craft know English so there is no excuse for this shyt in 2014.

Also miss me with the whole "they don't look Japanese where Dey eye slantz" that shyt has been explained before many times. It's a western talking point that doesn't actually exist over there. They fully consider the characters they create Japanese.

 

[hex]

acting exist outside of America brehs. There are plenty of Japanese/Asian actresses putting in work in Korea/Japan in a variety of roles a lot of which for the sake of their craft know English so there is no excuse for this shyt in 2014.

Also miss me with the whole "they don't look Japanese where Dey eye slantz" that shyt has been explained before many times. It's a western talking point that doesn't actually exist over there. They fully consider the characters they create Japanese.

It doesn't exist?

The pioneer of anime was Osamu Tezuka who was heavily inspired by Disney cartoons. Including the "big eyes", and non-Japanese features prevalent in anime.

So there's never been anything overtly Japanese about the way their characters look, regardless of what race they actually are. Like I said playing the white washing card for Japan is extremely bizarre.

Fred.

 

[Jx2]

bytch is a good actress too. she killed wolf. showed us that bush doe in addition to them thangs

Breh a girl in a movie hasn't made me bite my knuckle since I was 12 but god damn WOWS had me sweating in the theater


When she's telling him to cum for her

 

[HookersandIceCream]

They could have used any Asian American actress

Most people that watch WoWS couldn't pick her out of a lineup

 

[Real]

acting exist outside of America brehs. There are plenty of Japanese/Asian actresses putting in work in Korea/Japan in a variety of roles a lot of which for the sake of their craft know English so there is no excuse for this shyt in 2014.

Also miss me with the whole "they don't look Japanese where Dey eye slantz" that shyt has been explained before many times. It's a western talking point that doesn't actually exist over there. They fully consider the characters they create Japanese.

Nobody said there arent any japanese actresses outside of the US.

But who is a female, in her early 20's that speaks english fluently?

 

[Ain't That Something]

C'mon son....you know damn well "Precious" was relatively low budget by Hollywood standards.

"GITS" is a sci-fi epic, that shyt will be $100+ mill easy. They ain't casting unknowns in any of the remotely important parts.

And people know my resume. If you're into foreign movies, I've been in that thread, actively talking about shyt I've seen or am watching. This ain't any boasting shyt, any more than "check my resume on rap" would be for The Booth, or "check my resume on video games" would be in The Arcadium. I actually know my shyt.

Fred.

Breh let's be real let's assume that they don't want to give that role to some no name Jap actress. Isnt the bytch from wolf of walk street a no name fukking actress. In fact I ain't even know the bytch was an wolf of wall street until one of you nikkas said so fear

 

[Real]

Breh let's be real let's assume that they don't want to give that role to some no name Jap actress. Isnt the bytch from wolf of walk street a no name fukking actress. In fact I ain't even know the bytch was an wolf of wall street until one of you nikkas said so fear

Dang...well i guess since you've never heard of her...i guess that makes her a no name

 

[TheGodling]

It doesn't exist?

The pioneer of anime was Osamu Tezuka who was heavily inspired by Disney cartoons. Including the "big eyes", and non-Japanese features prevalent in anime.

So there's never been anything overtly Japanese about the way their characters look, regardless of what race they actually are. Like I said playing the white washing card for Japan is extremely bizarre.

Fred.

Outside of Batou every main character in GITS is Japanese, breh. That's why they have Japanese names. If they weren't meant to be Japanese, they wouldn't have named them Japanese, like for instance Monster (90's Germany, although with a Japanese lead), Gunslinger Girl (Italy) and Baccano! (prohibition America).

The prevalent style used in anime is exactly that, a style. The 'white-washing' arguments mostly come from 'us' outsiders looking at that style and going "But that's not what Japanese people look like though?"

No one stops to think why the hell tons of these characters have natural blue, green and purple hair color. You know why? Because it makes the characters look vivid among the other bright colors commonly used in anime and more strongly distinguishes the characters' looks.

 

[AkaDemiK]

Ken Watanabe can wear a wig

 

[CouldntBeMeTho]

a ghost in the shell live action movie is in the works

I wish they would've gotten a bad Asian bish to play the major tho

 

[Jazzy B.]

We gonna act like Chronicle wasn't an American Akira

 

[TheNatureBoy]

Personally I never got into the anime, so I'm not familiar with the character but I will say for arguments sake that it would be nice to see Hollywood show some diversity when it comes to casting if Margot will be playing the lead character. To the casual movie going public they would need to court she isn't well known and isn't moving tickets off her name alone. My thought is she got the opportunity with Wolf of Wall Street, so why not give an opportunity to someone who might not be that well known so they could potentially blow up with a big role this? If the movie is a success it will largely be based on the promotion, marketing, selling it as a cool sci-fi action flick first and foremost. If the thinking is always we need a big name (i.e. someone white) or else not enough people will go see movie x, the cycle will never change. I know it is largely a mentality that the people in Hollywood reinforce, but I think the casual film audience isn't as concerned as they think. Things don't work in Hollywood, until they do and suddenly every studio is trying to copy a winning format.

With the increase of importance of international audiences, particularly in China and other countries this could have done well overseas with Asian countries with an Asian actress. Transformers 4 did major bank in China, partly because they cast some big name Chinese actresses in it.

It didn't have to be an actress who is strictly Japanese either, most Americans can't tell the difference anyway . Hell they could even have got someone who is half Asian or at least looks Asian. Not knowing anything about the character or what it would require, I'll toss off some names.

Maggie Q

Jamie Chung

Both have martial arts backgrounds

Moon Bloodgood - she at least looks part asian, plus does action on falling skies

Grace Park

Julie Estelle - played Hammer Girl in The Raid 2, just tossing some people out

Having said all that, Margot is hella fine and it is crazy how much she resembles Jamie Pressley

 

[EA]

As a huge GiTS fan, I'm more concerned about the writers and director than the ethnicities of the characters because for all intents and purposes, they could rename the characters and the story wouldn't lose its identity as long as they kept it as close to the source material as possible.

The writers they've got on board however, instil no confidence from me about this at all. The majority of the Marvel movies that Avi Arad has played a part in have been terrible