Progressive messaging in media.

So let's spot you that the company could just be lying about what its standards are.

Can you show a single example where the actual product demonstrates that in order to diversify the actors/characters/producers, Disney (or whoever) compromised the integrity of a story in a meaningful way? How about enough to show that it's an actual trend for Hollywood these days? If so, what are they and what supports the claim that it's diversity (as opposed to other factors) that compromises the story?

For example, if I were to try to make the argument that Hollywood panders to white males and against true diversity (something I don't actually believe, FWIW), I might point to such things as how many Hollywood franchises till this day are based around the notion of a White guy as a chosen one (Harry Potter, Star Wars, for example), how often those White guys are propped up by women and minorities who don't get nearly half the credit they deserve, how there are talentless hack White guys who get starring roles way above their skills, etc etc.

I, for one. Am breathlessly awaiting the woke remake of:



if only to hear how somebody's childhood has been violated...

That is not exactly true. It is the best option and highly advisable, but you could probably get away with a standard DBA for the purposes of creating a bank account under a business name, paying taxes, and collecting profits. It would just really open up your personal assets to civil liability or asset seizure. given the small cost of filing an LLC I would not advise the el cheapo DBA route, but you could easily do it and make a bank account while using your SSN for sales tax purposes and EIN for a while.

Let us go for child friendly movies like meatballs. Or how about 16 candles or weird science.

TIL that Bob Clark did Porky's, Black Christmas, A Christmas Story, and "Children Shouldn't Play With Dead things".
I knew about Black Christmas and Christmas Story, but not the others.

"Children Shouldn't Play With Dead things" is kind of the middle evolution between "Die, Monster, Die" and "Evil Dead".

Ring of Power

There you go, trying to force your clown world false dichotomies on me again.

I'm not reading all that. I'm sure you're very impressed with yourself.

Same answer. Ring of Power.

So explain more about how Ring of Power's diversity wrecked the story such that if equally competent white actors/directors were used it would have been much better. (I am at a disadvantage having not watched it).

Is it purely the principle that Tolkein did not envision minorities in these roles, or are we saying that Amazon picked incompetent actors/directors/etc. primarily because they were minorities?

And is Ring of Power the only example you have to talk about what is supposedly a common trend? If so, how do you know it is not an abberation?

The second one.

And that's the first that comes to mind if we're confined to Amazon.

Who's confining you to Amazon? Go crazy nuts and name as many productions as you can that were made inferior in your opinion because minority talent was employed instead of equally competent white talent. And explain why.

We have already been through all the Disney crap. You can just go back and re-read at your leisure. Not rehashing something so you can continue to pretend you don't understand.

No, nobody is on record explicitly stating "we chose representation over talent," if that is what your pedantic ass is looking for.

based on his posting history ole AL appears that he can only weld things close to the ground

You know Middle Earth isn't real, right?

I kind of agree about Rings of Power. They had some racial diversity in the casting (not appropriate for material derived heavily from Germanic mythology) and still managed to lean into some fairly offensive cultural stereotypes.

It's not completely awful despite those things though.

I remember reading that their biggest problem was trying to adapt stories from The Silmarillion while explicitly not having the rights to The Silmarillion, leaving them to pick through the material they did have rights to to find secondary references to the stories they wanted to tell.

But even then, after it aired the biggest plot-related complaint I heard was "they're stretching out the plot too much, the whole first season was basically a prologue."

Do you think it sucked because Lenny Henry was cast in it?

No, I'm looking for specific examples of movies/TV shows where Disney's use of non-whites talent actively in your opinion worsened a project. Some posts back I brought this up, and I don't think you responded with specific examples.

You missed my edit. I don't think it sucked. There's a thread in Media Central where you can see what I thought. The casting was a bit irritating and it was one of a number of things I didn't really like (some of which are because of rights issues that you mention). But overall I thought it was a fairly good show.

it's almost 80 words in a row... I can see how that'd be beyond your capabilities.

point of order:
Tolkein's dwarves are based on Norse myth.

In Norse myth, dwarves are referred to as "Svartalfar"-literally, "black elves". They dwell to the south.

Anthropologically, HR Ellis Davison suggests that by virtue of their metalworking skills, they're Turks and Arabs (hence finding Damascus steel and other OOP artifacts in viking burial sites).

Casting PoC actors in the show is a correction.

Well, it wasn't dwarves that they portrayed as non-white. They made those Scottish.

But I did not know that.

she's got dozens of books that are still in print. totally worth the read, jsut be forewarned that it's a super deep rabbit hole to go down.

Holy shit the 50 year old guy is still complaining about Disney spoiling his stories.

No shit?!? Do tell.

A thousand words still won't camouflage your failure to demonstrate basic comprehension.

I suppose that makes it easier for you to continue believing your original falsehood if you just refuse to read/listen to the response.

It would be a nice change of pace if you'd back up your own claims for a switch though. Not that anyone expects that after all these years of you inhaling lead fumes.

You not wanting to believe it does not prove a falsehood. Only objective evidence does that.

You suppose UA picks robot avatars to symbolize all the irony?

I suppose he picks his avatar because he likes it and he doesn’t tie his whole entire identity to an avatar.