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Thursday, July 1, 2010 at 12:00am
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| End Time: |
Sunday, July 4, 2010 at 11:30pm
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In front of ALL movie theaters
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Description
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WHAT: Boycott/Protest the racist casting of “The Last Airbender”.
WHERE: Any movie theater near you.
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WHEN: Any time between the July 1st premiere and onwards.
WHY (short version): It’s racist.
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WHY (long version):
By now you have probably heard about “The Last Airbender” film, based on the Nickelodeon cartoon “Avatar: The Last Airbender”. The cartoon is based on Asian and Inuit cultures and t here
are of course Asian and Inuit characters.
Paramount’s official casting call for the heroic characters solicited applicants who were “ Caucasian
or any other ethnicity.” This led to the four principal ac
tors being Caucasian.
However, the original Caucasian actor for the film’s main antagonist dropped out due to “scheduling” – and was replaced by Dev Patel, a South Asian actor.
Buy Ampicillin For the inconsequential background actors, Paramount’s casting call requested “Near Eastern, Middle Eastern, Far Eastern, Asian, Mediterranean, and Latino (Racebending.com).”
The casting of this film is RACIST.
There are tons of talented actors of color working in the industry, yet Paramount has specifically chosen to favor and cast white actors as the leads even if these characters are not
white.
“The Last Airbender”, “Dragonball”, “Prince of Persia”, “21″, “Genghis Khan”, these are just some recent movies that have casted white actors in Asian roles (yes, Mickey Rourke as Genghis Khan). Yellowface, stereotyping, and all sorts of discrimination against Asians and Asian Americans have been happening for decades in Hollywood and it needs to end NOW.
Blackface is wrong.
And so is yellowface. Levitra 10 mg precio All actors of color deserve the opportunity to be considered in roles just as much
as white actors do.
WHAT YOU CAN DO:
PLEASE, boycott and protest against this film.
YOU can make a difference. Don’t buy a ticket to see this movie. Buy Kamagra Online And if you can, please go out to a movie the ater close to you during the opening weekend and protest in order to educ
ate people on the issues of discrimin
ation at hand. Foro levitra Hold up posters, hand out info sheets, or just talk to people about what’ s at
stake here. EVERYONE needs to help in order for change to happen.
This isn’t just a movie, it’s real people, working actors, children, everyday people who are being misrepresented and marginalized on screen and in their lives because of movies like this…
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To learn more about this issue and similar issues and how you can be involved, please visit: www.racebending.com
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