The last time I checked the worlds youth consisted of more than white children. Where are all the children of color in these hollywood blockbuster fantasy films. Before anybody says "the director is staying true to the books." we all know that to make a movie out of a book..things have to be changed, cut out, shortened and alot of the times characters and places have to be changed so don't start in with that. perfect example..in the Lord of the Rings..the books..hobbits are described as brown with woolly hair..kind of like the middle-eastern look but in the movies they magically changed into little white people..like the book didn't have enough of them already.
I've poored over countless serches for at least one fantasy childrens film that had any type of child other than white in a leading roll..the closest I came was Data in the Goonies. Me being the parent of non-white children I find the trend disturbing and dis-heartning. Other ethnisities go to the movies, buy dvd's, and spend good money on merchandice, it would be nice for the rest of our children to look up at the screen and see someone who looks like them on an epic quest...why can't they save the world a few times. This post was much longer but I shortend it for those of you with short attention spans.
2 comments:
Indeed...there is not much ethnic diversity when it comes to main characters. Sure...at times they throw in the token minority...but when it comes to the hero or heroine the choice is usually not to go with anyone else. Unless, of course the story revolves around an urban barber/beauty shop or there is some kind of drug/gang theme...or if it's got samurai/shaolin monks/gurus and karate or kung fu... *sigh*
There's plenty of ethnic diversity in a lot of movies, it really has become a non issue in recent years. Those movies in particular you've singled out are (in my opinion) eurocentric christian shite.
If they're going to make book adaptations, they should make them from books written by people who've been in the real world. I like your blog :) You beat my Zombie Preparedness level, and I've read Max Brook's Survival guide...
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