SlaverTickler
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In closing...
I agree that this isn't the place to debate the "Black Wonder Woman" issue, but I will say this. I don't think it would be anymore correct to cast a black actress as Wonder Woman then it would be to cast a white actress as Storm. The fact that many years ago most (actually all) Super Heroes were nice shiny white folks doesn't excuse taking what I've read and watched for over 30 years and altering it just to be politically correct. It wasn't right when Al Jolson performed in black face 60 years ago, or when Liz Taylor was painted up for Cleopatra, it isn't any more right to do it today by casting a black actress as Wonder Woman and take a job away from a white actress who should play her. What will happen when the little black girl who sees the movie goes to pick up the comic and sees Wonder Woman is still a blue eyed and white, she'd know she'd been lied too.
As a comic fan I would feel this way about any comic character. I read book called wanted, and when I saw the movie I told everybody Halle Berry should have been in the roll of Fox, as she was pretty much drawn to look just like her. Then again the entire movie was nothing like the book so in the long run it doesn't really matter. I just hope you can see my vew of this (of topic topic) doesn't come from bigotry, but passion to see whats on the page on the stage.
Speaking of the "page" did you read chapter 10 yet?
Yes in the past, you and I fell out over potentially using two black actresses in the role of Wonder Woman and this is NOT the subforum to regurgitate it. I don't remember your analogy of using Halle Berry for Storm's character so that's why I didn't address it. I probably unsubscribed so you and I didn't implode a perfectly good thread; that's my new way of avoiding hijacks and locked threads. I'm getting too old for arguing with some of you around here.
When XMen and most of the comics were created, America was pretty much at its worst in the racism department. I'm not good with the history of comics in this country but I'm thinking there weren't too many black superheroes in the comic books back then. But that doesn't mean that it couldn't change in the 21st century. And that's the bottom line Slaver IMO; what you see as discrimatory and borderline racist, every black/African American/whoever member that has posted here sees it as special and something to celebrate.
I agree that this isn't the place to debate the "Black Wonder Woman" issue, but I will say this. I don't think it would be anymore correct to cast a black actress as Wonder Woman then it would be to cast a white actress as Storm. The fact that many years ago most (actually all) Super Heroes were nice shiny white folks doesn't excuse taking what I've read and watched for over 30 years and altering it just to be politically correct. It wasn't right when Al Jolson performed in black face 60 years ago, or when Liz Taylor was painted up for Cleopatra, it isn't any more right to do it today by casting a black actress as Wonder Woman and take a job away from a white actress who should play her. What will happen when the little black girl who sees the movie goes to pick up the comic and sees Wonder Woman is still a blue eyed and white, she'd know she'd been lied too.
As a comic fan I would feel this way about any comic character. I read book called wanted, and when I saw the movie I told everybody Halle Berry should have been in the roll of Fox, as she was pretty much drawn to look just like her. Then again the entire movie was nothing like the book so in the long run it doesn't really matter. I just hope you can see my vew of this (of topic topic) doesn't come from bigotry, but passion to see whats on the page on the stage.
Speaking of the "page" did you read chapter 10 yet?