rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

i love the l.a. confidential movie but the point is ppl don't realize there are a lot of good book-to-film adaptations simply because they don't realize how many movies are based on books

russell crowe & guy pearce also do very good non-american performances in it.

giggling a bit at the idea of canadian mos def tbh

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There it is.

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the point is ppl don't realize there are a lot of good book-to-film adaptations simply because they don't realize how many movies are based on books

the point is LA Conf is a signal example of a packed, bustling book being made into a dull, dumb movie, you pwned yourself

Now this is an oddly timed subject: Lady on the flight next to me into boston here was reading LA Conf the entire way.

(I, on the other hand, finished a collection of Batman Confidential reprints)

Quite exciting, I know

Also, Whilce Portacio's art hasn't exactly improved over the years

white jazz should be a movie but its totally unfilmable

God its been a loooooooooong time since I came across the name 'Whilce Portacio'

say it quickly and it's like laughing

didn't he go back to the Philippines for like 10 years and become a dentist?

xp I'm not sure I know how to pronounce it correctly!

Lenny Kravitz is v. v. pretty

kind of can't believe there are straight women who aren't attracted to him, he should break through all kinds of anti-black and anti-Jewish bigotry

like "whyce" iirc

the point is LA Conf is a signal example of a packed, bustling book being made into a dull, dumb movie, you pwned yourself

not in my experience! one of my fav 90s movies precisely because i can never stop watching it once it comes on cable. (dumb maybe, but not dull.) it's also very pretty.

like, you say that the casting and reaction to it was "something that needed to be discussed" as it is now an issue that has been covered, accounted for, sorted. that might make sense if it was the casting of a dumb movie that was the actual issue---it wasn't, and the real problem is extant and ongoing.

tbh, i'd agree if the article was showing that this is something that was transparently much, much bigger than the sample size it looked at. It may well be but showing that there are at least eight prejudiced kids on Twitter doesn't necessarily expose the baseline racism of America.

In August 2000, Portacio fell into a diabetic coma as a result of a failing pancreas. He woke up a week later, thirty pounds lighter, and unable to walk, stand or even draw. Only six months later was he able to pick up a pencil and draw. According to his blog, "My mind could see what I wanted to draw but my hand couldn't accomplish it."[6]

In 2006, Portacio returned to his artistic duties at Wildstorm on Wetworks vol. 2, which was being written by Mike Carey. Unfortunately, Portacio's reputation for being unable to maintain a steady work schedule caught up with him again as Wetworks vol. 2 suffered from numerous delays and Portacio ended up leaving the book with issue #6, but he continues to illustrate cover art monthly since leaving as the book's interior artist.[citation needed] The new Wetworks series was short-lived though, lasting only 15 issues. He also began art duties on the new monthly DC Comics series Batman Confidential.

http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/Batman%20Rules%20of%20Engagement%20Andy%20Diggle%20Whilce%20Portacio%20and%20Richard%20Friend.jpg

the way he did bruce wayne's face always seems so off

Also, speaking of filmic adaptions of books, can I just say that it drives me nuts that my dad the retired English teacher favors the first two Harry Potter films the best, since they were the "closest" to the books in that Chris Columbus pretty much just had the cast reading the book line by line onscreen? I mean, really, effing Alfonso Cuaron did the third flick, and he goes for the drab Columbus ones.

Note that this is a piece with my father's rather clueless and hilariously reactionary political stances, so there you have it.

Whilce looks like such a friendly chap in the pic on his Wiki page tbh

Also presumably it was made clear to Chris Columbus that Home Alone or no Home Alone, if he tried anything "interesting" with the first two Harry Potter films, he'd never work in this town again.

Vague relevance to this thread = the awesome decision to cast Cho Chang as scottish, increasing her dimensions to 2.

Yes!

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/320219/20120327/hunger-games-movie-racist-tweets-twitter-racism.htm

racist-tweets-twitter-racism

http://i.imgur.com/LvEaB.jpg

what was your first reaction?
a) i wonder if that's factually correct, it could be an interesting point
b)the guy who made that image is slyly pushing his racist agenda

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41HPBwSUFaL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1kgroh2z11qzetw0o1_500.jpg

got to be weird knowing you are the image of "ok to murder"

ha, right? like you wake up one morning and you're the killable meme.

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from what i heard it somewhat reminded me of a case that happened in my neck of the wood
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affaire_Fredy_Villanueva
>some (20?)kids were playing dice in a park
>police arrives and talk to one of em who had a warrant
>they restrained him roughly/got in a scruffle
>his brother apparently tried to defend him/ tried to steal the cop's gun that was in it's holster/never got closer than a couple of feets from the cop: contradicting testimonies.
>cop felt threatened and shot him 4 times , kid died.

in both cases death could have been avoided if the gun toter would just have menaced the kid. it would have been even better if they would have talked to know each other if they didn't already, but that's not the job of a vigilante anyway.

Amazing comment on an article about Britain's jailed Twitter racist:

"timwookey

12 minutes ago

I tell racist jokes all the time.Although I am still unclear as to whether that makes me a racist."

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(apologies to whiney in advance)

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it hurts to imagine the work someone put into making that one note joke

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btw, I've been remembering this one a bunch lately, as long as we're on the topic: http://simpsons.wikia.com/wiki/Toys_%22L%22_Us

"Behind the laughter Edit
It's an obvious parody of the Toys "R" Us toy stores. The letter "L" was chosen to make fun of the stereotype that Asians cannot distinguish "L" and "R" sounds."

Really shocked that the writers of simpsons.wikia.com don't understand the definition of the word "parody"

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rolling "is that what i think he said" thread

there isn't "holy fuck" enough in the world for that

well the fact that he said it rates like a 2 on the "holy fuck" scale, but the fact that he said it into a microphone...

I can't see what other word he can claim to have been going for.

"negotiator" seems to be the comment-box apologist's choice

I actually buy "negotiator" more than that "blah people" nonsense as it kinda almost makes sense, but damn, abandoning that word in midstream was idiotic. It's great to see Republicans hoisted by their own "teleprompters are Communist" petard anyway.

exactly, I mean I think Santorum's an idiot too, but no way did he mean to singlehandedly destroy his campaign right there

pretty sure he's just in it for the lulz right now