She both looks identical, and is an excellent actress, but yes in another timeline (or a future yet unseen!) that would be the ideal person to take on the role, I can't unsee them as Zelda at all.
She both looks identical, and is an excellent actress, but yes in another timeline (or a future yet unseen!) that would be the ideal person to take on the role, I can't unsee them as Zelda at all.
...disney's aggressively-diverse casting of historically-eurocentric characters brings out the ugly in a lot of people, unfortunately; meanwhile, casting a major franchise this straight is i think...
...disney's aggressively-diverse casting of historically-eurocentric characters brings out the ugly in a lot of people, unfortunately; meanwhile, casting a major franchise this straight is i think something only a japanese corporation would attempt today, due to cultural differences...
Your framing implied what I think is the opposite of your intent. I don't think the observation is particularly helpful regardless but the "should I say it" makes it seem like you find the diverse...
Your framing implied what I think is the opposite of your intent. I don't think the observation is particularly helpful regardless but the "should I say it" makes it seem like you find the diverse casting a negative, not that it's unfortunate that others do.
...it's telling that overtly blonde-hair/blue-eye/fair-skin casting of established protagonists is conspicuous in today's media landscape; whether that's telling of the source material, the...
...it's telling that overtly blonde-hair/blue-eye/fair-skin casting of established protagonists is conspicuous in today's media landscape; whether that's telling of the source material, the culture to which it's being adapted, or the culture which is producing the adaptation i think warrants contemplation...
...there's an ethnic sameness to both link and zelda which carries a lot of cultural baggage, baggage which proactively-diverse casting seeks to redress, and also baggage which the japanese market largely ignores, whether by ignorance, indifference, or choice...had this film been produced thirty years ago or (hopefully) thirty years hence with the same faithful casting choices, it'd've been wholly unremarkable, either due to ignorance of demographic inclusion in the former case or (hopefully) irrelevance of cultural redress in a more-inclusive world...
...but we're here, now, in an early-twenty-first-century global culture which feels more divisive and intolerant than any era of that sixty-year window, so the choice is conspicuous, really either way...while avi arad isn't ike perlmutter, his track record isn't exemplary either and he's earned his share of controversy, too...
...there's nothing in the lore which compels zelda + link's ethnicity to be cast any particular way, so i ask: could disney have pulled off this casting without comment?..if not, why do sony (columbia) and nintendo get a free pass?..japan carries an entirely different set of cultural baggage which isn't entirely pretty either; should it be subjected to the same scrutiny?..
...when does proactive diversity become irrelevant?..when should historic media be respected?..what assumptions in the adaptation of historic media belie biases in the interpreter?..
...i think these questions are all topical to salving today's clash of cultures, questions made conspicuous by this casting decision...
I have not seen anyone remarking on the ethnicity of the two actors except you. I didn't find it particularly conspicuous. I don't think Disney would have done any different, personally, as I...
I have not seen anyone remarking on the ethnicity of the two actors except you. I didn't find it particularly conspicuous. I don't think Disney would have done any different, personally, as I think the complaints about their "diverse" casting vastly overstate what actually happens.
But I don't understand doing a whole hypothetical about how fraught this casting would be if it were Disney, if it were in the past or future, etc. Especially when there was manufactured controversy about the casting in this movie. It was just about gender, not race.
It just feels like buying into the faux outrage by pulling it into a different situation and validating it rather than deconstructing it, debunking it, etc. I really don't understand your approach here.
Crazy how much range Chris Pratt has, I didn't even recognize him as Zelda at first
Is this a joke I'm not getting? Zelda will be played by the actress Bo Bragason.
Just a stupid joke about how Chris Pratt was in like every movie for a while (and how his casting felt out of place in the other Nintendo movie.)
It looks surprisingly good.
Well excuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuse me princess
Oh man the breath of the wild cut is one of the best videos on YouTube.
She both looks identical, and is an excellent actress, but yes in another timeline (or a future yet unseen!) that would be the ideal person to take on the role, I can't unsee them as Zelda at all.
...do i say it?..i'm going to say it: you can tell it's not a disney film by the ethnicity of the casting...
I don't get what you mean, could you explain? And why don't you think you should say it?
...disney's aggressively-diverse casting of historically-eurocentric characters brings out the ugly in a lot of people, unfortunately; meanwhile, casting a major franchise this straight is i think something only a japanese corporation would attempt today, due to cultural differences...
Your framing implied what I think is the opposite of your intent. I don't think the observation is particularly helpful regardless but the "should I say it" makes it seem like you find the diverse casting a negative, not that it's unfortunate that others do.
...it's telling that overtly blonde-hair/blue-eye/fair-skin casting of established protagonists is conspicuous in today's media landscape; whether that's telling of the source material, the culture to which it's being adapted, or the culture which is producing the adaptation i think warrants contemplation...
...there's an ethnic sameness to both link and zelda which carries a lot of cultural baggage, baggage which proactively-diverse casting seeks to redress, and also baggage which the japanese market largely ignores, whether by ignorance, indifference, or choice...had this film been produced thirty years ago or (hopefully) thirty years hence with the same faithful casting choices, it'd've been wholly unremarkable, either due to ignorance of demographic inclusion in the former case or (hopefully) irrelevance of cultural redress in a more-inclusive world...
...but we're here, now, in an early-twenty-first-century global culture which feels more divisive and intolerant than any era of that sixty-year window, so the choice is conspicuous, really either way...while avi arad isn't ike perlmutter, his track record isn't exemplary either and he's earned his share of controversy, too...
...there's nothing in the lore which compels zelda + link's ethnicity to be cast any particular way, so i ask: could disney have pulled off this casting without comment?..if not, why do sony (columbia) and nintendo get a free pass?..japan carries an entirely different set of cultural baggage which isn't entirely pretty either; should it be subjected to the same scrutiny?..
...when does proactive diversity become irrelevant?..when should historic media be respected?..what assumptions in the adaptation of historic media belie biases in the interpreter?..
...i think these questions are all topical to salving today's clash of cultures, questions made conspicuous by this casting decision...
I have not seen anyone remarking on the ethnicity of the two actors except you. I didn't find it particularly conspicuous. I don't think Disney would have done any different, personally, as I think the complaints about their "diverse" casting vastly overstate what actually happens.
But I don't understand doing a whole hypothetical about how fraught this casting would be if it were Disney, if it were in the past or future, etc. Especially when there was manufactured controversy about the casting in this movie. It was just about gender, not race.
It just feels like buying into the faux outrage by pulling it into a different situation and validating it rather than deconstructing it, debunking it, etc. I really don't understand your approach here.
Sorry if this seems like an attack, but holy periods man. Is there a reason you type like that?
I've seen them type that way in other comments. I believe it's just a personal writing style.
most of those are ellipses, like there could be more said for that specific part, but its left blank