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Originally Posted by Taualumna
They say that they made the main characters white rather than keeping them Asian to appeal to the masses because the masses don't feel comfortable watching Asian male leads that aren't foreign. To many, this is dumbing the movie down.
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No, that is pandering to racist and prejudiced attitudes. Dumbing down is entirely different. If they really wanted to dumb the movie down, the kids wouldn't count cards (too much math). The girls would shake their tits in the dealer's face or something.
Just changing a story doesn't constitute "dumbing down." The
Nick Perry story was supposed to be the basis for the movie
Lucky Numbers, but it was completely changed. I don't think that was dumbing it down, but changing it to appeal to a wider audience. If you didn't "get" Nick Perry (which you probably didn't unless you were from here) and the gravitas of HIM doing the fixing, you probably wouldn't get the movie. I mean, even though we keep hearing about how homogenized our country has become, there are still regional differences.
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