Hollywood Making Cr@p for the M@sses: A Video by Taualumna

[33girl]

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.

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.

[Taualumna]

Originally Posted by 33girl

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.

But 33girl, aren't racist attitudes stupid to begin with?

[33girl]

Originally Posted by Taualumna

But 33girl, aren't racist attitudes stupid to begin with?

They are many things, stupid being one of them. But on that same tack, you could argue that it makes the movie dangerous to watch because racist attitudes are dangerous.

[MysticCat]

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.

Well, apparently those "many" need to have things dumbed down for them since they don't seem to understand what "dumbing down" (as opposed to pandering, playing to prejudices or the like) actually means.

[Drolefille]

I'm more concerned about using the @ as if it were a letter of the alphabet. Unless you were trying to say Cratp and Matsses.

And just because it caught my eye, to make a movie about hate crimes against Catholics you'd first have to find and choose one to make a movie on, or do a documentary style about a pattern of occurances. This would have to have a compelling story, we don't make movies over the boring crap (or was it cratp?). But it would totally become a movie if someone could actually write a good one. And America would watch it as much as they watch any crime drama these days.

But comparing it to the Holocaust? Irresponsible and illogical. It's just shy of a self-Godwin. The two are NOT comparable.