Rooney Mara to play Tiger Lily in Pan- Page 3

[best12bars]

Posted: 3/15/14 at 8:05am

Fighting racism with more racism will never work.

[Taryn]

Posted: 3/15/14 at 7:43pm

Insisting that minority roles go to underrepresented actors instead of white actors isn't racist. It's fighting for minority representation.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 3/15/14 at 8:11pm

I'm always glad these threads appear to remind me how tough the world is for white people.

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 3/15/14 at 8:19pm

Great. Another opportunity for a battle of political sensibilities that I care absolutely nothing about. And I'm saying this as someone who cares deeply about politics, fairness, and equality.

But Jesus Christ! Tiger Lily in Peter Pan! I can't muster any kind of indignation about this role going to someone who isn't "indigenous" ("indigenous" of Neverland, whatever that means).

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 3/15/14 at 8:34pm

But you cared enough to post about your superiority.

[Liza's Headband]

Posted: 3/15/14 at 8:59pm

PRS, are you black?

[larrystyles]

Posted: 3/16/14 at 12:45am

I am so sure that hundreds of Native American actresses auditioned for the role of Tiger Lily. But Nepotism Mara was SO talented and her talent was so much greater than any Native American that auditioned that she was definitely the best fit.

That is, assuming they allowed Native Americans to audition. Which, LOL, if you believe that.

Hollywood is racist. I don't know how anyone can deny that.

[BroadwayNYC2]

Posted: 3/16/14 at 1:07am

I'm still not getting the nepotism

[SweetLips]

Posted: 3/16/14 at 2:34am

Because I live in this technicolour bubble, I have NEVER thought that the person playing a role was the wrong 'origin'. If their talent didn't equate to what I thought the role required, then I am critical about their performance, not their nationality.
PS. Just finished season 3 of Once Upon a Time and it ends with Peter Pan and the Lost Boys and Captn.Hook--hope there's season 4-it's so clever and great writing.

[Jungle Red]

Posted: 3/16/14 at 3:26am

I just think if you're gonna scream RACISM then it needs to be about EVERYTHING.

OH MY GOD like it is so racist of British Vivien Leigh to play Southern Belle Scarlett O'Hara because Vivien Leigh is British.

Just like, OH MY GOD, Rooney Mara is American and she played a Norwegian woman. Rooney Mara is stealing all the roles from deserving minorities! DIE ROONEY, DIE!

And OH MY GOD was Nicole Kidman not available to play that sad tormented mother in A CRY IN THE DARK? How dare Meryl take that part away from some deserving Australian woman? Meryl should give back her Oscar nomination because that's just RACIST.

Don't even get me started on DW Griffith.

[Jungle Red]

Posted: 3/16/14 at 3:28am

And let's yell RACIST because how many times has Nicole played an American, British, French, or whatever else she's played? She should ONLY play Australians because she is uncapable of playing anything else. THAT'S RACIST.

Her OSCAR is tainted with the racist blood of Viriginia Woolf.

[Jungle Red]

Posted: 3/16/14 at 3:31am

If you're going to claim something as absurd as this, be prepared for me to poke holes in the absurdity of your argument.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 3/16/14 at 10:35am

Can you not edit your own posts?

If you're not trolling and think that a British person playing a Southerner is racism, it would probably behoove you to pick up a book or something.

Also, one of Jungle Red's previous screen names was run off after he said someone was "acting like a n*," so I'd gently suggest we not take our queues on how to deal with issues of race from him.

I'd say that you were just being a jagoff and that no one could be this dumb, but it is you, after all.

[Kad]

Posted: 3/16/14 at 10:53am

"Professor Stacy L. Smith and her team analyzed 500 top U.S. box office films released in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2012 for the racial and ethnic representation both behind the camera and in more than 20,000 speaking roles.

They found that in 2012, only 10.8 percent of speaking characters were Black, 4.2 percent were Hispanic, 5 percent were Asian, and 3.6 from other (or mixed race) ethnicities. Comparatively, over three-quarters of all speaking characters were White (76.3 percent).

Broken down per film, the analysis found that in nearly 40 percent of all movies released in 2012, Black characters comprise less than 5 percent of the speaking cast, while only 9 percent of movies met national demographic trends and had Black actors comprising 12 to 14.9 percent of the cast."
Hollywood continues to be a bastion of homogeneity where people of color are underrepresented, according to a new study from the University of Southern California at Annenberg.

[Kad]

Posted: 3/16/14 at 10:56am

"Since the Academy Awards was founded 85-years ago:

Only one woman of color (1%) has ever won the Academy Award for Best Actress
Only seven men of color (9%) have ever won the Academy Award for Best Actor
Only one woman (1%) has ever won the Academy Award for Best Director"


Where’s the Diversity, Hollywood? 85 Years of the Academy Awards

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 3/16/14 at 3:37pm

I don't know if PRS is black but her BBC sure is.

ETA "OH MY GOD like it is so racist of British Vivien Leigh to play Southern Belle Scarlett O'Hara because Vivien Leigh is British."

I am going to go way out on a limb here and guess you don't have a grasp on the differences between race, ethnicity and nationality.

Like many others in this thread.

Updated On: 3/16/14 at 03:37 PM

[Jungle Red]

Posted: 3/16/14 at 4:31pm

I know what the differences are. I just don't see how someone can find Rooney Mara playing a fictional character from a fantasy world racist.

My earlier arguments (and I apologize for not making one long post) were in part because of how absurd I find that argument.

Next time I watch (which will probably be never) MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA, should I focus on the fact that the stars are Chinese instead of Japanese, because that somehow diminishes their performances?

Or can I overlook the fact that both countries are in Asia?

I'm over this stupid argument. There are better things to do than argue who should really play someone in a movie.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 3/16/14 at 4:46pm

I could not possibly care less about anything Neverland related but I agree with you completely. White people have always done a great job with roles, so why should things change now? I don't even know why women get jobs. That Hunt guy from Year of Living Dangerously is doing fine playing a woman on TV. And he's white!!!

[Taryn]

Posted: 3/16/14 at 4:58pm

Yeah, it's much better when no one argues over representation and nobody is held accountable. That way white people get everything and it's all normal!

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 3/16/14 at 5:07pm

People are just in denial that white is the default and has been since the dawn of man. It's like the saying goes, don't fix what ain't broke and a broken clock is right twice a day.

[Liza's Headband]

Posted: 3/16/14 at 6:35pm

"Tiger Lily Doesn't Equal Human Torch" Updated On: 3/16/14 at 06:35 PM

[Kad]

Posted: 3/16/14 at 7:27pm

"I just don't see how someone can find Rooney Mara playing a fictional character from a fantasy world racist."

Then you have a very narrow understanding of why people have an issue with it.

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 3/16/14 at 7:43pm

None of you will be seeing this movie.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 3/16/14 at 7:52pm

So stop talking about it! Case closed!

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 3/16/14 at 7:57pm

Slam!