Thanks for your opinion...When you can give me a LOGICAL comeback, I'll change my position...
tetsuwanatom1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > (standing ovation) > > Astromancer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I can't keep quiet any longer...Why should anyone care??? Because of this. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/foster/sfeature/sf_minstrelsy.html >Why can't someone just enjoy the damned moved and not make it a race issue??? Because the movie sucks. >I understand about our exclusion for the media...but sometimes >enough is enough...I have always felt that if someone has a complaint about such things, make the movies yourself... Oh brother. Okay. Give me 300 million and I'll make that sci-fantasy epic featuring one all Black nation. Saying that there are other things that one could better spend their time worrying about isn't really an answer. We can have more than one issue on our plate. Moreover, if AJ's playing Mrs Pearl is okay, what's to stop someone from deciding it's okay to slap make-up on Hopkins and let him play MLK? Think they wont? > > Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If she's going for the *soul*, the *why darken her skin*? > > Please remember- non-sensical ravings... > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Big conversations on an e-mail chain I'm on, and I suspect, around the country, about Jolie playing Mrs. Pearl. I'd never seen Mrs. Pearl before I saw her on Charlie Rose the other night, and was surprised to see obvious African heritage in her. Then I finally saw a picture of Jolie as Mrs. Pearl, and was surprised to see she had on makeup to darken her skin. Lots of Sisters are upset, others say that Mrs. Pearl is *not* majority Black, and has a right to choose whomever she wants to portray her. Pearl was going for the soul of the actress, not her skin, is the idea. > > What do you think? Is this an issue at all, or a non-issue? > > *********************************** > http://www.playahata.com/hatablog/index.php > > Angelina Jolie is a fair skinned white woman with blue/gray eyes but in a Mighty Heart she is playing an Afro Cuban/Dutch woman, a transformation eased with a wig, dark brown contact lenses and her make-up artist. The cross-racial casting left some upset, with criticisms ranging from, "It rubs me wrong" to it being a "new generation of Hollywood in blackface". > Most don't know that Mariane wanted Angelina to play her, asked her personally, and the two have become good friends. The HuffingtonPost was 1 of 6 outlets at a 20-minute round table with the actress, and asked, "Were you nervous playing someone multiracial?" Angelina fixed her eyes, fiddled with the $15,000 Cartier watch on her wrist, and answered: > "The idea is, if you ask Mariane, because she did address that, and if you did actually want to find somebody that was her exact makeup, she's actually majority Dutch, and she's as black as she is Chinese, and she's Cuban, and she's French. So, it could have gone to many different racial backgrounds, probably, if you went technical on it. And that, you know, is a reality. At the same time, to her, the importance was the essence of her spiritually, and I think that was what mattered and I think that is a question to ask her. But no, if you break down the DNA, it's very complex. > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > "There is no reason Good can't triumph over Evil, if only angels will get organized along the lines of the Mafia." -Kurt Vonnegut, "A Man Without A Country" > > --------------------------------- > Need a vacation? Get great deals to amazing places on Yahoo! Travel. > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > "Let's just saying you know more than you think, but we're not going to help you figure it out." - The Side Street Chonicles by C.W. Badie > > --------------------------------- > Take the Internet to Go: Yahoo!Go puts the Internet in your pocket: mail, news, photos & more. > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > > "There is no reason Good can't triumph over Evil, if only angels will get organized along the lines of the Mafia." -Kurt Vonnegut, "A Man Without A Country" > > --------------------------------- > Be a better Globetrotter. Get better travel answers from someone who knows. > Yahoo! Answers - Check it out. > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > "Lets just saying you know more than you think, but were not going to help you figure it out." - The Side Street Chonicles by C.W. Badie --------------------------------- Get the Yahoo! toolbar and be alerted to new email wherever you're surfing. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
