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  • Zephyr@sh.itjust.workstoMemes@lemmy.mlBatman vs The Woker
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    16 days ago

    I feel like I hear this argument about casting from every side. If it’s done one way it’s woke and another way it’s white washing. Like 95% of the time I couldn’t care less. 5% of the time the casting is extremely distracting from the story which is what I care about. Like hypothetically if someone cast Hitler as an African, Indian, or Chinese person in an otherwise period correct film it would be super distracting. Similarly if someone cast like a white dude as Bruce Lee’s character in like a remake of Enter the Dragon and like Kareem Abdul-Jabbars characters like with Peter Dinklage I would have a really tough time paying attention to the film like the original.

    Casting most of the time isn’t too sensitive for myself, but there are certain conditions where the casting kinda has to be a particular way for the story to work. Like if you have a film. That’s supposed to be set in Bejing and everyone is Italian with a thick Italian accent it’s just not happening for me.




  • Once again I disagree. The general circumstance that someone or a group wants something that another individual or group does not want to give is just an aspect of being alive. It can be as simple as simple as a predator and prey to someone getting mugged to a genocide, X wants something Y doesn’t want to give. Now how is that not an aspect of reality?





  • They could just run. I doubt Russia would kill all 39M Ukrainians, Israel on the other hand most definitely is trying to kill all Palestinians. Russia just wants a buffer zone between them and NATO as well as those very valuable natural gas deposits and of course a port that doesn’t freeze shut every winter. Also to boot the Kievan Rus originate in that area so it’s kinda like taking back their ancestral land.


  • Born to drug addict and alcoholic parents, father was in jail, mother died of an OD, left home with nothing at 17, couch surfed, got a job, put myself through college, got a better job, improved my life. Don’t hold any grudges against my parents, they had their own struggles. I wished someone was there to help them the same way people were there for me. Life now is just me chilling and doing my own thing. You’re free to keep making up weird stuff or maybe those ideas are coming to your mind because that’s where your head is at.


  • The world is big, just because you’re personally experiencing something doesn’t mean everyone else is having the same experience, that everyone lives in the same country, and so on. For instance Palestinians are willing to fight and die for their land even though the individuals don’t own all of the land, same for Ukrainians in Ukraine. It’s not like every last soldier owns all the land they are defending.



  • I’ll repeat what I’ve said. I brought up land and you said land doesn’t matter so to get the point across I moved on to something I think does matter to you personally. Of course to others their land is like their life and they are willing to kill and die for it, since you’re not currently in that circumstance I had to equate it to something.



  • I mean I explicitly and strongly disagree with that synopsis for whatever it’s worth. In its most general sense it’s just an aspect of reality. A gazelle wanting to keep its life and a lion wanting to eat the gazelle. Group X wants something group Y doesn’t want to give. In a lot of circumstances it is evil but not all. Like conceptually this shouldn’t be a highly contested thing, it’s about as everyday as the sum rising and setting.