A Wrinkle in Time Salt - AKA "why is the main character black?"

  • 🏰 The Fediverse is up. If you know, you know.
  • Want to keep track of this thread?
    Accounts can bookmark posts, watch threads for updates, and jump back to where you stopped reading.
    Create account
Status
Not open for further replies.
I miss the time when going/ not going to see a movie was just that, and not seen as racist/sexist/SJW/PC. I get the feeling that this movie might not do well. That seems to be the trend of Disney live action movies lately.
 
Nekromantik said:
I get the feeling that this movie might not do well. That seems to be the trend of Disney live action movies lately.
Click to expand...

That's why currently Disney is super invested in their live-action remakes of their animated classics, nobody gives a shit about their original live-action stuff unless it's Marvel/Star Wars or already part of an established franchise like Pirates.
 
I can't believe they're casting Idris as Roland Deschaine in the new Dark Tower movie. I like the guy just fine, but he's NOT ROLAND!!! You can't just CHANGE the main character's race, especially when it will directly conflict with the ENTIRE storyline! WTF are these morons thinking? And I'm definitely NOT racist, so don't even go there. And I can't freaking believe Stephen King doesn't have the balls to stand up and say, "No F-ing Way!!. Roland was NOT BLACK!!!" Making Roland black changes the entire backstory of Roland, and for those of us who have perseveered through the years and invested more than just money into these stories, this change ruins it completely. Where I was once very excited to see the Dark Tower saga FINALLY made into a movie, now I can't imagine even watching it. Ever. First they had Javiar Bardem slated to play Roland. Thankfully that fell through. Javiar is NOT Roland, either. Then they said Russell Crow would play Roland. That could work! Should be Hugh Jackman, but oh well. Now it's freaking Idris Elba, who is the furthest thing from Roland possible. It's stupid to have him play Roland, and it's going to cause the film (s) to flop miserably. The old-school fans will say, "WTF? They're making Roland black? How can they expect that to work?" It has NOTHING to do with racism. What if they had a white guy play a black character from a popular book? That wouldn't go over so well, would it.
 
A wrinkle in time, the book with more Catholic symbolism then most books ever? Hell ya, black people love that shit. Just throw Goku and Beyounce in there and you got a smash urban hit.
 
This one'll be a slow burn. The production is led by a director who clearly has gone into the film with something of an agenda. From the Entertainment Weekly interview bit (archive):
Director Ava DuVernay, fresh off of heavy projects like the civil rights drama Selma and her criminal-justice exposé 13th, was drawn to dabble in uncharted sci-fi territory upon discovering author Madeline L’Engle’s novel as an adult. DuVernay hadn’t read the novel — “I went to school in Compton and it wasn’t on my reading list,” she jokes — but the director, for whom time and energy on any project is a precious investment to say something, was impressed with the progressive ideas that L’Engle buried in her beloved 1962 novel.
Click to expand...
Also:
“The first image [I had in my head] was to place a brown girl in that role of Meg, a girl traveling to different planets and encountering beings and situations that I’d never seen a girl of color in,” she explains. “All of those scenes struck my fancy, and then it was also something that [Disney VP of production] Tendo Nagenda said to me, which I’ll never forget. One of the things that really made me want to read it was when he said, ‘Ava, imagine what you would do with the worlds.’ Worlds! ‘Planets no one’s ever seen or heard of,’ he said. There aren’t any other black women who have been invited to imagine what other planets in the universe might look and feel like. I was interested in that and in a heroine that looked like the girls I grew up with.”
Click to expand...
Additionally:
“I wanted a black Mrs., a white Mrs., and a Mrs. that was not either[.]"
Click to expand...
And get this: the not-either one is Oprah.

I do have to wonder what executive decisions went into this. I hope they didn't see the list of titles and go "yay we even get sequels if this doesn't totally suck"; Wrinkle is relatively light on the Christian iconography and eschatology compared to what comes after it, but we're already talking about a book that openly quotes Bible verse.

The best thing might be for it to quietly fizzle. At least one thing going for Disney is that Madeline L'Engle is dead so she can't quip about this one (following the last attempt at an adaptation back in 2003 an interviewer asked her "did the film meet your expectations?"; her response was "Yes. I expected it to be bad, and it was.").
 
Why is it that some of these people are incapable of liking fantasy series unless it stars people of the same race as them? Or that they're incapable of writing/creating settings with characters outside their race? It's mind-boggling.
 
There's more salt going on from members of this thread than from outside sources. Stop sperging no one gives a fuck they made some little white girl black.
 
Beaniebon said:
There's more salt going on from members of this thread than from outside sources. Stop sperging no one gives a fuck they made some little white girl black.
Click to expand...

b-but I can't fap to darkie lolis

friedshrimp said:
Why is it that some of these people are incapable of liking fantasy series unless it stars people of the same race as them? Or that they're incapable of writing/creating settings with characters outside their race? It's mind-boggling.
Click to expand...

These people have no concept of reality vs fiction. Furthermore, they have almost no empathy and thus can't relate to a filthy fucking white male with the same problems they have (to be fair, the alt-right faggots have trouble relating to niggos who go through the same shit they do). In short, autism emote, everyone laughs and shake their heads, donate to Null's patreon since his mommy lost her job
 
Cubanodun said:
That effect in the end with the logo look straight ripped from Quantum break, this is the kind of thing kid's read in school in america? here we are were obligated to read things like this
Click to expand...
100 years of solitude was required at my school but more plebians schools require stuff like Wrinkle in Time and garbage Catcher in the Rye.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top Bottom