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Post by Deleted on Mar 4, 2017 4:32:21 GMT
A movie comes out that has a white actor playing a Chinese character, and this causes people to protest. Even a campaign is made to boycott the offensive casting. How likely would something like that effect the movie's box office?
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Post by coldenhaulfield on Mar 4, 2017 8:50:08 GMT
 Is this what you're thinking of? For the record, it's from a show (Twin Peaks) rather than a movie so it never had a box office run. And the gentleman she is playing, Mr. Tojamura, is of Japanese (not "Chinese") descent. Not sure how the storyline was received by fans of the show. Edited to add: I found this article you might find interesting as well; it describes the actress's experience with this: Piper Laurie On Her Big Twin Peaks Secret |
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Post by moonlight91 on Mar 4, 2017 13:06:14 GMT
I don't think it effects box office numbers as much as people think. Mainly because the protests come off as hypocritical since no one complains when a white character is race bended or even gender bended. In X-Men Apcolyspe, Storm was changed from her Kenyan roots into some Egyptian thief and no one batted an eye or it had effects it box office numbers (the movie had other problems). Part of acting is to become another person where that art is starting to die out as it's starting to become a requirement not to offend groups who were never going to see the film to begin with. These people aren't considering box office draws overseas where some actors are going to be more recognizable, therfore more profitable. It seems movies that had the racial controversy like Gods and Kings, Avatar and Dragonball had more problems going on that people refuse to address in which race was the easier target to point out.
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Post by coldenhaulfield on Mar 4, 2017 18:20:48 GMT
I don't think it effects box office numbers as much as people think. Mainly because the protests come off as hypocritical since no one complains when a white character is race bended or even gender bended. In X-Men Apcolyspe, Storm was changed from her Kenyan roots into some Egyptian thief and no one batted an eye or it had effects it box office numbers (the movie had other problems). When did they she wasn't Kenyan? Pretty sure thievery and nomadism are the character's original backstory; there's no inconsistency with the comics in X-Men: Apocalypse along these lines. |
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Post by politicidal on Mar 4, 2017 20:09:29 GMT
I think it depends on the severity of the controversy and the film itself together in some fashion. That stink over Doctor Strange barely made a dent since it's a Marvel movie after all while something more glaring like say, Johnny Depp as Tonto in The Lone Ranger would increase the already likely risk of it being a box office bomb.
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