Any Other White Fans Of The Wiz?

[MostBoringManInTheWorld]

A lot of people certainly didn't have a problem with a Latino Alexander Hamilton.

And I'm sure a lot of people certainly did.

 

[toobfreak]

Do you like only all-white or all-black movies, shows, plays, etc., depending on the context?

I'm white so I tend to watch white movies, but it doesn't matter too much the colors or nationalities of the actors, what matters is their believably that it makes sense they are what they are.

If I watch a movie that is mostly about a time and place dominated by blacks, I expect most of the people to be black. But if I watch a movie from a time and place that I know was dominated by white people, a time and place when blacks were all but unknown and was reflected that way in all previous iterations, I expect the characters to be white.

I don't expect the lead character to now somehow to be magically transformed into a black person. Where did she come from? Where is her family? TV or movie, it bothers me when a person is inserted into a cast being black or white simply because they are black or white.

Kind of like all these commercials where every time, every family has friends and neighbors of all sexes and colors. Real life just doesn't work that way.

Nature did not intend people from the other side of the world to be moving everywhere; the only reason why there is such a hodgepodge of nationalities now so mixed up in the big cities is because someone is forcing them that way.

Put another way, I was born in America, and I could not afford to move all the way to Africa even if I wanted to. So how are all these people coming here?

 

[ChristisKing]

Do you like only all-white or all-black movies, shows, plays, etc., depending on the context?

Or do you like entertainment with a variety of races as well?

It depends what it is.

 

[Auld Phart]

That is not the point and you know it. The Wiz of Oz was published by a white guy in the year 1900 about a time when simple white country people of Kansas encountered a tornado and were swept off into an adventure. The movie made on the book in the '30s came to the theaters about 30 years before all restrictions on blacks even voting were entirely removed and at a time when movie audiences were probably about 95-98% white. There is no question that the characters in the novel would have been white.

Substituting a black girl in there for Dorothy made absolutely no sense at all, historically, geographically, or any other way. Even today, Kansas is about 88% white or to a much lesser degree, hispanic.

I don't remember any blacks in any of the silent versions either.
(Oliver Hardy played the Tin Man in one IIRC.)

 

[Auld Phart]

A lot of people certainly didn't have a problem with a Latino Alexander Hamilton.

And I'm sure a lot of people certainly did.

was Hamiton Latino?

 

[Roshambo]

Never heard of it.

Every now and than I get lucky and get a DVD that are really good I never heard of.

Look it up.

 

[Mack The Finger]

Look it up.

I would but I don't know how.

BTW: Any up date on Trump and Epstein ?

 

[Roshambo]

I would but I don't know how.

BTW: Any up date on Trump and Epstein ?

Epstein is dead; are you aware of this fact?

 

[Crepitus]

Annie, Ariel,... A lot of others that I can't currently think of.

Feel free to prove those were specifically designed for white people.

 

[Crepitus]

That is not the point and you know it. The Wiz of Oz was published by a white guy in the year 1900 about a time when simple white country people of Kansas encountered a tornado and were swept off into an adventure. The movie made on the book in the '30s came to the theaters about 30 years before all restrictions on blacks even voting were entirely removed and at a time when movie audiences were probably about 95-98% white. There is no question that the characters in the novel would have been white.

Substituting a black girl in there for Dorothy made absolutely no sense at all, historically, geographically, or any other way. Even today, Kansas is about 88% white or to a much lesser degree, hispanic.

But it is the point. Fantasy characters can be played by anyone.

I mean how many times has Jesus been cast as a Jew?

 

[ChristisKing]

Feel free to prove those were specifically designed for white people.

That's how they were in the original.

I mean how many times has Jesus been cast as a Jew?

He was a Jew.

 

[Auld Phart]

But it is the point. Fantasy characters can be played by anyone.

I mean how many times has Jesus been cast as a Jew?

I mean how many times has Jesus been cast as a Jew?

every time

or did you somehow miss him being called, 'King of the Jews'?

 

[toobfreak]

every time or did you somehow miss him being called, 'King of the Jews'?

Maybe in the next iteration, they can hire Robert DeNiro to play Jesus as a mob boss...

He can make Pontias Pilate an offer he cannot refuse.

 

[Crepitus]

That's how they were in the original.

And that means what, exactly?

He was a Jew.

When was he ever played by one?

 

[Crepitus]

every time

or did you somehow miss him being called, 'King of the Jews'?

Played by a jew, kid.

 

[Auld Phart]

Played by a jew, kid.

why you calling me a kid, junior?

By Monday, I'll be 76.

I doubt anyone as immature as you act can be over 60

 

[ChristisKing]

And that means what, exactly?

It means that they're supposed to be white.

When was he ever played by one?

Not my point.

 

[Crepitus]

It means that they're supposed to be white.



Not my point.

Why?

 

[ChristisKing]

Why?

They were written that way. You know that.

 

[Crepitus]

They were written that way. You know that.

Show me where it says in the little mermaid script the the character must be white.