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Originally Posted by Citizen Rules (Post 2062859)
It was still way snarky.
That is, if you weren't so eager to shoot from the hip that you could see it. |
Originally Posted by tgm1024 (Post 2062868)
Yes. At myself. That was the point.
That is, if you weren't so eager to shoot from the hip that you could see it. |
Re: Are audiences so sensitive and offended by movie content nowadays?
Are MoFos so sensitive and offended by post content nowadays?
re: Steel, yeah uh I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that I don't find the concept of a New York City public school having such a level of racial diversity to be particularly implausible. |
Originally Posted by Iroquois (Post 2062909)
Are MoFos so sensitive and offended by post content nowadays?
re: Steel, yeah uh I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that I don't find the concept of a New York City public school having such a level of racial diversity to be particularly implausible. |
Re: Are audiences so sensitive and offended by movie content nowadays?
https://council.nyc.gov/data/school-diversity-in-nyc/
And funding mostly is directed to mostly white schools too. |
Originally Posted by Iroquois (Post 2062909)
Are MoFos so sensitive and offended by post content nowadays?
re: Steel, yeah uh I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that I don't find the concept of a New York City public school having such a level of racial diversity to be particularly implausible. Frankly, I'd expect to see a lot more black and Hispanic kids in a NYC public school. Having two of each ethnic group just to "represent" seemed a bit corny (much like the cartoon I mentioned which was set up with a relatively equal ethnic dispersment as its main theme). But it's not a problem or anything, just something I observed and which I think is driven by a goal to be politically correct. For me, the bigger issue is this need to change established character's ethnicities just to fulfill some kind of diversity quota. We used to call it tokenism (which is a negative because it's a focus only on a person's skin color to force diversity rather than focus on who a person is). But now tokenism is something positive in our "woke" modern world... (minorities should be proud to be exploited just to fill a quota and be used for the color of their skin rather than the content of their character - or their acting ability). There are ways to enhance diversity in entertainment media, but forcing the issue doesn't seem to be a good one. |
Originally Posted by Captain Steel (Post 2062960)
Frankly, I'd expect to see a lot more black and Hispanic kids in a NYC public school.
UES you’re gonna see a lot more white kids. Parts of Queens, there will be tons of Asian kids. Etc., etc. |
Originally Posted by hell_storm2004 (Post 2060114)
If it wasn't A24, it probably wouldn't have been made. I don't think millennials fight for anything in the past. Millennials are just an easy target. The only thing that would get millennials' knickers in a twist would be Android Vs iOS (for the record, I am team Android)!
It's not as bad as it sounds.... It has taken a lot of fight to get to where we are today. But there is still a looooong way to go. |
Re: Are audiences so sensitive and offended by movie content nowadays?
No one was willing to compromise on the American setting and American characters and that too having the movie in English. Could have made it is one thing, did it is completely another. Fox and Disney or Sony and Disney approached her for the rights with those options she said no. It got shelved for a while, along came A24. In the industry, they are the only ones a little bit against the grain so to speak. To the major players, profit is the key. Selling a Chinese movie in America is still hard, but these companies do not realize the changing demographics of the US. The farewell turned out to be an overwhelming success critically.
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Re: Are audiences so sensitive and offended by movie content nowadays?
But there are movies made with Chinese casts, in all Mandarin that are made all the time. I watch a lot of that cinema, and a lot of those movies are not made by A24. So wouldn't they be willing to take on such a script and have it in all Chinese? Sure they are not American companies, but is that really a big deal, since several Chinese and Hong Kong movies are still successful in box office?
Were the filmmakers who wanted to make it not willing to have it be made by a non-American company at all? Plus why would you go to Disney and Fox for something like this? Those companies make fast food entertainment. Taking a script like The Farewell to Disney, is like going to McDonalds' and trying to order dom perignon. So wouldn't the filmmakers want to try other companies, than Disney or Fox, which would likely turn them down on such a script? Was A24 literally the third company they went to, or was there more in between? When you say it got shelved for a while, that makes it sound like the filmmakers gave up after only giving the script to two companies. |
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