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I really used to like Will Smith until he decided to be that guy.
He had to be that guy, because there wouldn't be any snu-snu for him if he didn't.
I really used to like Will Smith until he decided to be that guy.
Hollywood is massively Jewish.
articleI don’t think Oscar voters are necessarily racist. I think studio executives, who are largely white, gravitate toward stories that reflect their lifestyle. I think many older Oscar voters — who make up a large number of the Academy’s membership — tend to prioritize films where the hero looks like them unless it’s a story where race specifically comes into play.
GITS, there's really no big reason for the characters to remain Japanese. The milieu in which the movie is set doesn't necessarily require ethnically pure characters. As opposed to something like Mulan... where they went to great pains to cast Chinese talents for the voices...
the industry has a bad history of being hostile to towards christians and muslims. In fact the like the music industry, the movie-making is literally a place where one has to hide their religiosity.
@niky
You completely miss my whole point about how religiosity is viewed in entertainment industry, but starters here are a few example of what I'm talking about:
http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/25/entertainment/mayim-bialik-religious-thr-feat
http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2014/03/20/kevin-sorbo-why-is-hollywood-so-afraid-god/
And the list goes on and on of musicians and actors who have experienced the hostility of some sort of simply being religious.
Anyhow sagas continues, and and native americans are the new focus of the "racist oscars"
http://www.highbrowmagazine.com/5548-why-do-oscars-ignore-actors-color
Racial quotas are never fair. They're unjust towards people who should have been nominated.
That is not to say that everyone who deserved nominations this year got one... but personally... the issues with the Oscars run much much deeper than simple racism or sexism.
I think the straw that broke this camel's back... and possibly the lowest point for the Oscars, was when Palthrow won for Shakespeare in Love... a movie in which she was not at all bad, but not an Oscar-worthy movie or performance at all. The sheer backroom politics involved is absolutely sickening.
Why others want to keep going about the sexism or racial route to this all is beyond me.
Its quite simple, as Tom Woods rightly said in one on his best speech its all about power and a superiority complex. In the end these people to understand that movie making is more than just art, but this also a business and a business where consumers decide which performers succeed or not.
BTW, the speech I'm talking about...
http://tomwoods.com/podcast/ep-508-are-racially-disparate-outcomes-caused-by-discrimination/
All I'm gonna say is that they messed up not nominating Edris Alba for his role in Beasts of no Nation. I mean he just played that role of a child soldier commander to 100%.
By post #158 there was plenty enough content to learn if you didn't know already that these awards are far from given out based purely on quality of performance. People get sympathy awards, long service awards, racial balance awards, back scratch awards, etc, etc. Whatever sells, or appeases someone rich and powerful, but doesn't look completely on the nose and corrupt (ie. has at least some credibility).All I'm gonna say is that they messed up not nominating Edris Alba for his role in Beasts of no Nation. I mean he just played that role of a child soldier commander to 100%.
I don't believe that there is inherent or dormant racism because of the amount of white Academy members. I'm also not 100 percent sure that taking votes away from Academy members who have paid their dues and maybe are retired now and have done great service — maybe they've not won a nomination, which would have given them immunity to the new rules, but they have served proudly and this is their industry, too — to strip their votes? I'm not 100 percent behind that."
Spielberg also thought Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was a good idea.
I always found "liberal Hollywood" and "the liberal media" to be hilariously misguided, given that most of the private money bankrolling them comes from the likes of Murdoch.the typical fare of "liberal" Hollywood
This by far the most flawed study done on Hollywood. In fact the study should be discredited on the basis that it doesn't take demand into consideration:
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/hollywoods-diversity-problem-goes-deeper-than-the-oscars/
Also, Furious 7 should never be used as barometer and I point to the fact that movie success is mainly attributed to the fact it was built on a already successful franchise as oppose to diversity.
The most successful director in history makes one bad movie so his opinion must be invalid amiright?Spielberg also thought Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was a good idea.
The FF series has a multi-racial cast =/= multiracial cast is responsible for it's success just like white male lead =/= white male lead is responsible for it's success. Isn't it possible that movie going audiences are just entertained by fast cars, tough guys, hot chicks, danger etc....you know...all the things that entertained movie goers in the past?Probably the only high-profile movie that even comes close to criticizing religion this year is Spotlight, and that's more political than religious in nature. As for Furious Seven, while it may be building on a successful franchise, it builds on a franchise that started with a fully multi-racial cast (and an arguably multi-racial lead, in Vin Diesel) that tapped into the rich cultural background of the street scene at the time. No token ethnicities here... these people were here because this was a culture they belonged in. Granted, the first movie was dreck, the second was even worse dreck... but from there, the series really took off.
The two lead characters may be 3/4 white, but that doesn't change the fact that ethnic diversity makes the movies accessible to many international audiences.
None of the other "street racing" movies have incited the imagination like the franchise, and it's partially because of this relatability and the lack of it in the clones.
The argument that they won't film it because nobody will watch it is pretty much a wash. Producers are conservative... they refuse to take chances with things they are unfamiliar with. As I pointed out earlier in this thread... they are willing to take more chances on traditional white-male led franchises that bomb than anything else. Only when the hit:miss rate equals out for male:female led movies and white:non-white movies can you state that we've hit the demand-led limit for non-white or non-male centric Hollywood movies.
The FF series has a multi-racial cast =/= multiracial cast is responsible for it's success
The most successful director in history makes one bad movie so his opinion must be invalid amiright?
The FF series has a multi-racial cast =/= multiracial cast is responsible for it's success just like white male lead =/= white male lead is responsible for it's success. Isn't it possible that movie going audiences are just entertained by fast cars, tough guys, hot chicks, danger etc....you know...all the things that entertained movie goers in the past?
Sounds a bit like your projecting the outcome with your feelings instead of facts. How on earth does a bunch of guys running around with accents from the British Isles make for convincing Greeks?I don't know that you can separate the two. As I said, the ethnicity of the cast was simply proper given the setting in which the movie operates. It's a believable cast... which is part of why the movie works so well.
I'm not arguing that the ethnicity of the cast is responsible for the success of the movie... rather, if you want to make a movie in a specific setting, you've got to populate it with characters that audiences will believe exist in those settings. No whitewashing. No tokenism (which, honestly, is just as bad)
Which is part of why "Gods of Egypt" is bombing horribly at the box office. Gerard Butler may pass for a Greek... but no way in hell is anybody going to believe he's an Egyptian. The whole thing comes off as just lazy casting.
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As I've said previously... what it points to is that producers simply aren't taking as many chances on films that don't have white male leads... and even in films that demand non-white non-male leads, like Stonewall or 47 Ronin, they insert them anyway... for... uh... insurance.
As I've said previously, also... it's only when the hit-to-bomb ratio equalizes that you can actually say that Hollywood has reached its saturation point for movies with other ethnicities or female leads.
Not that the producers are beholden to fund movies they don't want to fund. It's their money they're gambling with, they have a right to be picky. But again, as I've said before and as @Tornado points out: They're leaving a lot of money on the table by not chasing those niches and audiences.
a few interesting articles...The global nature of hollywood:
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20130620-is-china-hollywoods-future
http://www.businessinsider.com/hollywood-is-making-films-for-foreign-markets-2012-9
why impossible for black films to succeed on globally:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/george-lucas-tuskegee-airmen-red-tails-280638
http://www.ew.com/article/2007/03/01/why_arent_afric
http://reason.com/blog/2012/04/23/foreign-markets-curse-of-the-black-cast
Now does that point to a hollywood that is racist? clearly not.
I simply don't buy the whole "leaving money on the table argument".
Now does that point to a hollywood that is racist? clearly not.
EWBut as the success of Smith’s The Pursuit of Happyness (pictured) or Tyler Perry’s films (or, in the case of female-driven movies, The Devil Wears Prada)shows, those fears are misguided, a self-fulfilling prophecy. If the studiosmade more high-quality dramas with African-Americans, rather than broadgenre films, maybe international audiences would be interested. The industry certainly won’t know if it doesn’t try.
George LucasThey don't believe there's any foreign market for it and that's 60 percent of their profit...I showed it to all of them and they said 'No. We don't know how to market a movie like this.'
At least Leo finally got his Oscar. And all he had to do was make out with a bear.
And obviously any opportunity to bash the catholic church (and I am not a catholic) is worthy of an oscar. There were better movies nominated this year that was worth a closer look in the Best Picture race.