I just read an article that asks the question 'Is The Last Airbender Racist?'
The Last Airbender, meaning the live action Avatar movie. For me personally, I'm really confused. How is it racist? I can't figure that point out. Apparently the casting of the main characters as white Caucasians is racist.
I don't see how that's racist...O.o They could cast anybody as the main characters, the only thing I care about is if they're actually good actors...Which I don't think they are.
I dislike the casting not because the races are wrong. But because THEY DON'T LOOK LIKE THEIR CHARACTERS! Nor do they act like their characters. And sure, the kid you plays Aang is a black belt in some martial arts...uhhh, so are about a thousand or more other kids in America it's not something strange to come across I've met a lot of black belts who were kids. He seems rather emotionless and not all cheerful like he should be.
And AASIF MANDVI!? WHY!? I love Aasif Mandvi...but on the Daily Show, only in comedic places, as a COMEDIC CHARACTER. Why? Because he's a COMEDIAN.
And Dev Patel...he's just not the Zuko type and I've never seen him to be fierce like Zuko. He has the same mad/serious face that Nissy has that I just can't take seriously because they don't really look mad they just look like they're trying to hard to something.
So people shouldn't be protesting that it's racist protest to GET BETTER FREAKING ACTORS! None of them fit their parts. In fact, if Dev Patel was short he could be Aang, or even Sokka, BUT HE CAN'T BE ZUKO! It just doesn't work. He's not even a very good actor or he's just too new. He wasn't that good in Slumdog Millionaire, in fact, that movie wasn't even very good at all either. He could've been totally better, but the story wasn't even good and a lot of it was random. You could say that they had to do with the questions, but the questions were random! >.>
Well, sorry about that little rant, but seriously...People are complaining about the wrong things.
