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Massy2k6

#1 June 25, 2009, 07:13:34 am

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Heres a trailer sorry dont know how to embed vids - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0ZjjMBXMpk

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"The Last Airbender is an upcoming 2010 live action fantasy film based on the first season of the Emmy-winning animated television series Avatar: The Last Airbender. The movie is the first film in the planned The Last Airbender trilogy.

In a world where the four elements can be controlled by people known as "Benders", the Fire Nation is waging a ruthless, oppressive war to control the other great nations. The only hope for stopping the brutal war led by the Firebenders rests on the shoulders of a reluctant young boy named Aang (Noah Ringer). The last known survivor of the peaceful Air Nomads, also known as Airbenders, Aang is also the world's "Avatar". The "Avatar" is the physical re-incarnation of the world itself, with the power to manipulate all four elements. Aided by a protective teenage Waterbender named Katara (Nicola Peltz) and her bull-headed brother Sokka (Jackson Rathbone), Aang begins a perilous journey to restore balance to their war-torn world." - wiki

This movie doesn’t look all that great to me but it did grab my attention when I heard about how the casting triggered a lot negative fan reaction, apparently to a lot of these fans having white actors playing the leads is completely racist. In my opinion they can cast who ever the hell they want, but that’s just me!

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Jackson Rathbone one of the white actors, also the guy who plays a vamp in Twilight dismissed the complaints, saying "I think it's one of those things where I pull my hair up, shave the sides, and I definitely need a tan. It's one of those things where, hopefully, the audience will suspend disbelief a little bit." wiki

These fans also have their own site dedicated to the issue www.racebending.com and if you head over to Youtube there is a ridiculous amount of vids from individual fans asking everyone to boycot the movie.

Heres an example, this is video #22
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPQzT2_TgvE

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Sludgelord

#2 June 25, 2009, 08:05:09 am

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holy shit. i thought you were blowing this completely out of proportion but the part where the goatse guy opens up his asshole and inside it's playing the scene where all the black people are eating fried chicken and watermelon in the senate from birth of a nation was out of control.

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Mongoloid

#3 June 25, 2009, 08:16:39 am

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This shit gets so old, man. They did this when goku was cast white, they did this for will smith's last like 3 characters.
People need to fuck off and stop being so sensitive. Unless it is culturally relevant, (which I guess it could be because I don't know anything about this show), it shouldn't matter at all.

IIRC Avatar is set in some other fictional world, and thereby shouldn't have chinese, black, or any ethnicity relevant to the real world anyway. I swear to god these overly paranoid types are even worse that racists themselves.

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Barack Obama

#4 June 25, 2009, 08:31:03 am

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i really care about avatar the last airbender

i am literally 7 years old

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Farren

#5 June 25, 2009, 08:33:37 am

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what is this shit about?

no I'm the last airbender

*farts at an angle

DEUCE: MEETING THE URINE UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL AND REALIZING IT'S JUST LIKE ME AND MY PREJUDICES THIS WHOLE TIME WERE COMPLETELY FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF PTTTTHTHTHH GOD IT'S EVERYWHERE DEUCE: FUCK THIS TASTES LIKE PISS PANTS: WHERE IT SHOULD TASTE LIKE COTTON CANDY OR PICKLES DEUCE: OR AT LEAST LIKE URINE NOT PISS

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Barack Obama

#6 June 25, 2009, 08:46:47 am

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Quote from: Coxswain on June 25, 2009, 08:33:37 am

what is this shit about?

no I'm the last airbender

*farts at an angle

google'd it and it's some anime on nickelodeon

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Farren

#7 June 25, 2009, 08:54:12 am

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well in that case I'm so boycotting this racist shit. now Nickelodeon will never get my hardearned live anime movie dollars

DEUCE: MEETING THE URINE UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL AND REALIZING IT'S JUST LIKE ME AND MY PREJUDICES THIS WHOLE TIME WERE COMPLETELY FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF PTTTTHTHTHH GOD IT'S EVERYWHERE DEUCE: FUCK THIS TASTES LIKE PISS PANTS: WHERE IT SHOULD TASTE LIKE COTTON CANDY OR PICKLES DEUCE: OR AT LEAST LIKE URINE NOT PISS

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Farren

#8 June 25, 2009, 08:55:11 am

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hey fuck you Nickelodeon I was gonna take all my friends to see this too now what are we gonna do

DEUCE: MEETING THE URINE UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL AND REALIZING IT'S JUST LIKE ME AND MY PREJUDICES THIS WHOLE TIME WERE COMPLETELY FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF PTTTTHTHTHH GOD IT'S EVERYWHERE DEUCE: FUCK THIS TASTES LIKE PISS PANTS: WHERE IT SHOULD TASTE LIKE COTTON CANDY OR PICKLES DEUCE: OR AT LEAST LIKE URINE NOT PISS

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Barack Obama

#9 June 25, 2009, 08:57:10 am

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get real drunk and half-seriously dare each other to show your dicks

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Frisky SKeleton

#10 June 25, 2009, 09:28:08 am

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this definitely reinforces the stereotype that white people like to eat shit for money

I USE Q'S INSTEQD OF Q'S

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Guana

#11 June 25, 2009, 10:03:34 am

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That trailer reminds me of the star wars kid

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tuxedo marx

#12 June 25, 2009, 10:15:12 am

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phew i'm glad they have provided a gallery of macro images to express my frustration

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Vellfire

#13 June 25, 2009, 12:57:26 pm

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we're just getting asians back for this, it's only fair

we should make a few of the women men too to even it out

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Massy2k6

#14 June 25, 2009, 01:08:49 pm

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Quote from: Velfarre on June 25, 2009, 12:57:26 pm

we're just getting asians back for this, it's only fair

Thats f*cked up and kinda funny.

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Vellfire

#15 June 25, 2009, 01:12:24 pm

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Quote from: Massy2k6 on June 25, 2009, 01:08:49 pm

Thats f*cked up and kinda funny.

these are my feelings towards this avatar movie

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Vellfire

#16 June 25, 2009, 01:15:28 pm

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holy fuck these icons

"THE LOGO HAS CHINESE IN IT?!" and "THE WORD 'AVATAR' COMES FROM SANSKRIT AND IS A RELIGIOUS CONCEPT IN HINDUISM"

how about "SOME NERD WANTED TO MAKE HIS OWN ANIME AND PUT IT ON NICKELODEON"? Is that a good icon? We can use lolspeak if you want.

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cowardknower

#17 June 25, 2009, 04:35:35 pm

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girlfriend says: the two white characters there are from the ice nation which is a northern nation so it makes sense that they are white. i would cast them as eastern europeans or something. the other guy is from the fire nation, so it'd make sense if he were darker because it was close to the equator and very hot there.

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Dale Gobbler

#18 June 25, 2009, 04:56:30 pm

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You guys are making a big deal about this. I thought that it looked pretty epic at first, but way too serious and dramatic. Then I saw who's directing it. Aang isn't the Avatar, Sokka is! What a twist!

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Ghost_Aspergers

#19 June 25, 2009, 05:23:22 pm

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I think complaining about the fact that the cast is white is pretty racist.

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crone_lover720

#20 June 25, 2009, 06:29:40 pm

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Quote from: coalFURNACE on June 25, 2009, 04:35:35 pm

girlfriend says: the two white characters there are from the ice nation which is a northern nation so it makes sense that they are white. i would cast them as eastern europeans or something. the other guy is from the fire nation, so it'd make sense if he were darker because it was close to the equator and very hot there.

Actually, the the movie's white characters resemble Inuit tribes in the cartoon. Your girlfriend doesn't seem to understand melatonin or simple genetics. The fire nation is a strict and militaristic society that resembles Japan, the Earth nation resembles China, and the air nation once resembled Tibet. The culture of these nations is a big part of the series, so it is understandable that hardcore fans are upset.

What no one has mentioned so far is that they made one of the main characters - a blind tomboy, a butch, and the greatest Earth-bender of all time - a male in the movie. Also, the Avatar is no longer a vegetarian, and the Earth and Water kingdoms now resemble western Christian nations.

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