Last Airbender casting

[silverthunder]

On the controversial subject of the casting of the Last Airbender movie... yukinoomoni made a good post on the subject here.

She links to an article that is amazingly well-written and which I think everyone should read. It presents a very compelling case for not seeing the movie. However, there are a lot of points brought up in the comments on yukinoomoni's post that are fairly compelling as well. I think it's worth taking note of those.

I don't have a firm stance on this issue: I hate the racism in the casting and don't want to support it. However, I love ATLA and want to support it. And if the movie flops, you can be fairly sure it will hurt the potential further development of the animated series.

In the end, I'm going to see the movie, and I'd be lying if I said it wasn't mainly because I really just want to see it. You can think whatever you like about me for making that decision.

Comments

[silverthunder]

You would think, but it feels like I need to justify this one with something else, because of the racial casting controversy.

I don't think the movie's going to turn out to be that good, because the ignorance shown in the casting is pretty telling. But we'll see.

[sunhawk6498.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm going to wait and see what people say about it b/c I don't have a good feeling from the previews. It feels like someone him a synopsis of the series and told him to work from there. An interpretation or adaptation of Avatar so to speak instead of live action version of the series which is what I'm really looking for.