[ SECRET POST #3493 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3493 ⌋

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Comments

[kallanda_lee]

Shame he wasn't, you know, actually Asian then. But nothing could have saved that movie.

[diet_poison]

Really. That's enough for the movie to be a disaster

ETA: to clarify, casting a white cast. Nope, that's dumb, I'm out.

I don't think they all have to be Asian? they weren't all based on Asian cultures, were they?

Even if Aang alone had been white it wouldn't bother me that much because his character *looks* white in the show (I know, he's not). but all of them? really?

[(Anonymous)]

All of them except the villains!

[(Anonymous)]

They were all supposed to be pretty Asian-culture-centric. Water Tribes are Inuit, Fire Nation is Japan, Earth Kingdom was China, and Air Nation was Tibet, basically. The dragon guardian firebenders were a bit more Amerindian, iirc, I want to say. The swamp benders and sandbenders were the most unusual... sandbenders looked more like Arabian desert inhabitants, if anything, and swamp benders - I don't even know.

Larger world aside, the main ATLA cast definitely should have been....not white.

[(Anonymous)]

The kindest interpretation of the swamp benders is that they're a hybrid culture similar to that in the Mississippi River Delta in Louisiana. The unkindest is that they're a straight-up Deliverance stereotype.

[(Anonymous)]

The swamp benders are either a hybrid culture similar to that in the Mississippi River Delta in Louisiana or a straight-up Deliverance stereotype. I can't decide which.

[diet_poison]

Is Inuit considered Asian?

[kallanda_lee]

I'm usually not that hung-up on these things, but this is a case where it actively bothered me. Not even out of some principle, but because these were not the characters I loved.

And Aang - it bothered me he never smiled? Animation!Aang does quite often, despite all the shit happening to him.

[diet_poison]

He never smiled?? wow wtf. that's...totally contradictory to his character.

[kallanda_lee]

Okay, so maybe not never....but like, I seem to remember him always looking sulky, though I haven't seen it since the release.

And yes, he did not feel like Aang to me at all (racial issue aside).

[(Anonymous)]

they managed to get EVERY character's personality wrong in that movie. No exceptions.

[kallanda_lee]

No disagreement there.