Scarlett Johansson to star in "GHOST IN THE SHELL"

[Neil Tyson]

my exact point

which has been proven wrong time and again. refer to Great Teacher Onizuka, and no, all asians or most asians don't draw themselves like that.

 

[Brandsdale]

Breh I posted receipts about this earlier. There are actual white people in Ghost in the Shell. They are drawn differently from other characters and are even referred to as white by the non-white characters. This isn't some race neutral shyt. Here's an example below....

A scene from the original movie when there's a white dude in it.

One of the characters reacts...

The Major (female on the right) replies...

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A lot of us have expressed our opinions about the Nina movie already. Safe to say, most of us won't be supporting it.

i hear you my only point is that the people who did the casting dropped the ball. It seems like this is based of confusion of the character and they jumped they gun on the ScarJO idea in light of the marve movies on some "oh scarjo does martial arts in these movies and has sex appeal, lets just hire her and call it a day". It was the easiest decision at the time without doing ground work on the character, the culture of japan surrounding this anime and felt that scarjo would recieve north american appeal from audiences where as a lesser known, but talented, asain actress wouldnt

nikkas still gotta be held accountable for whitewashing tho best believe

 

[Knicksman20]

If she was younger Kelly Hu might've been able to play this role even though she's not Japanese:

 

[Jazzy B.]

They draw big eyes because it's easier to do expressions that way. Again, a decision that has more to do with the very medium than with any sense of white-washing. Outside of that there are no "Caucasian" features beyond the hair/eye color, which again, is because it looks better on paper. It really isn't any different than Naruto wearing bright orange/blue clothes (which is the same color scheme of Goku's clothes btw, as Naruto's design was largely a homage to Dragonball).

So expressions can't be done with the positioning of eyebrows and the shape of a mouth?

It can only be done with big blue eyes backed by blonde hair?



Didn't Dragonball do it with Yajirobe, the only character who was definitively "Asian looking" (made a powerless character BTW )

You damn well know they can definitely draw them Asian and do the "expressions" if they wanted to, but that would contradict the White fantasy

 

[Brandsdale]

If she was younger Kelly Hu might've been able to play this role even though she's not Japanese:

dem titties

 

[Neil Tyson]

So expressions can't be done with the positioning of eyebrows and the shape of a mouth?

It can only be done with big blue eyes backed by blonde hair?



Didn't Dragonball do it with Yajirobe, the only character who was definitively "Asian looking" (made a powerless character BTW )

You damn well know they can definitely draw them Asian and do the "expressions" if they wanted to, but that would contradict the White fantasy

Naruto looked asian despite the blue eyes and blonde hair that's why so far it's been said that he's mixed.

 

[Brandsdale]

Naruto looked asian despite the blue eyes and blonde hair that's why so far it's been said that he's mixed.

fam im sorry but you contradicting yourself

in retrospect Naruto a fukkin Aryan white boy. In Boruto grown up he even looks like Aaron Carter

 

[Jazzy B.]

Naruto looked asian despite the blue eyes and blonde hair that's why so far it's been said that he's mixed.

 

[Neil Tyson]

fam im sorry but you contradicting yourself

in retrospect Naruto a fukkin Aryan white boy. In Boruto grown up he even looks like Aaron Carter

No, actually I'm not. I said he looks mixed.

 

[Ninjaz In Paris]

had white actors wearing makeup to appear asian

In each of the three (or four) different stories, the characters were played by the same cast of actors. One story takes place in Asia in the distant future, so they slapped make-up on a bunch of white actors to have them appear Asian, most notably Halle Berry being turned into an old Asian man (yes, no joke). Additionally, both Halle Berry and Korean actress Doona Bae also play white characters in the movie and as said there is some gender-swapping as well.

brehs...

 

[Rapmastermind]

Love Scar Joe, really do but the whitewashing has to stop. "Ghost is the shell" is JAPANESE PERIOD. There is no debate, there is no dispute and people trying to defend it exactly why Hollywood continues to get to called out by Asians, blacks and other minorities. There's rumors they are trying to whitewash "Akira" too which is why it's in development hell and will be D.O.A. if they go through with it. "Gods of Egypt" should be the final wake up call. Just like how disasterous "Dragon Ball" Was, I mean you have a franchise that's HUGE that could of generated Hundreds of millions at the box office and serveral sequels but Hollywood decides White Washing the characters was a better idea.

Does any of this mean the movie can't be good? Of course not but I expect anime fans to reject it and those are the fans this movie needs because they know the source material. There are plenty of asian actors that could of been cast for the role and the movie has other characters that you could of casted as White if you really wanted to. Of course Scar Joe is a known name but that doesn't excuse this. This idea that audiences would not have watched a Japanese and or Asian lead is B.S. It would be like casting a white woman in makeup for "Memoirs of a Geshia" but did they do that? No they didn't, they had an Asian lead because that's what the source matieral was about.

Just because that was autobiograhpical and this is a cartoon doesn't change my point. "Ghost in the Shell" source material is why Scar Joe is a miscast for this role. The whole story takes place in Japan and deals with Japan's advancement in technology and all the characters have Japanese names. We are in 2016, we have progressed. This isn't the 1950's so yellow face is unnessary just as it was back then. It's also been leaked they were trying to use CGI to make characters look more Asian. Even if they didn't go through with it, the fact that it was even considered is pathetic. These are the same excuse they try to use against Black Actors (Sony Leak) as far as Box Office and using Non-white leads. The Girl from "Pacific Rim" would of been perfect for this role:

 

[Neil Tyson]

its gonna flop anyway, wouldn't see it off principle.

 

[Dwolf]

If she was younger Kelly Hu might've been able to play this role even though she's not Japanese:

Shes almost 50 and Chinese

 

[Birnin Zana]

Why didnt they just hire the asian chick from Pacific Rim???

Breh, a bunch of folks are literally asking that question right now.

Real talk, they could've had Rinko Kikushi as Motoko, Batou as a well-known white dude (out of everyone in the movie, he's the one character I could def see people think he's white), ScarJo playing key supporting role in the story (foreign diplomat working with section 9), a few more asian actors for the rest of section 9, and well known non-asian actors to fillup the rest of the important cast (dignitaries, main villain, ScarJo's boss, whoever) and barely anyone one would complain. They could even take some liberties with Batou by saying that his brain is actually from a japanese or asian dude, but he nearly died and the people who save him had to go to black market to get the body he has now.

Instead, they pulled their hollywood bullshyt once again. Now, their movie is getting bad press right as it just started filming.

 

[NZA]

japanese do need to stop depicting their people with caucasian features if they dont want it to be so natural to white wash them later. it's easy as hell to write them out of their own stories when the live action adaptation is ready. hell, street fighter v is the most aryan game ive seen in years and it features two japanese women that nobody would think were japanese, and a mulatto brazillian who looks nothing like her black brother. they are kinda obsessed with whiteness