[ SECRET POST #3493 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3493 ⌋

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But no.

[(Anonymous)]

Hang on. "Most Asians" use a completely different alphabet/writing system. And most Asian languages are largely independent of one another, there is NO generalization that can fairly be made here.

The director, who himself is Asian, took creative license with the pronunciation to make it sound like what he believed would be more Asian. I agree he's wrong to do so - there was no need for it, because it wasn't based off of any existing language/culture/real life place. But at least he was Asian and made that call with good intentions.

And on an unrelated note, while this film was awful and the whitewashing cringey... the Aang kid legitimately did look just like Aang, whitewashed or not. That was one thing I had trouble being mad about.

Re: But no.

[nonnymouscawitz]

I've always felt kind of guilty because I definitely think the whitewashing was awful, but if there's a single kid out there who looks more like Aang than Noah, I've yet to see them. Of course, I'd rather he not look anything like Aang if it meant he'd be able to act...

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[ketita]

Can you really justify Sokka and Katara, though? That was total bullshit. They don't even look like the characters.

Re: But no.

[nonnymouscawitz]

...I didn't justify them? At any point?

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[ketita]

eh, I'm half asleep. Probably if everything else had been done well and just Aang was cast as white for the resemblance of the kid, it might have been justifiable (though obviously some people would have shrieked about making the hero white). As it is, I think it's just a fluke. But I do agree that kid really looked like Aang.

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[nonnymouscawitz]

Yeah, like I said to the anon, it still would have been really awkward if Aang was the only whitewashed character, given his main character status, but it might have been slightly less awful.

Re: But no.

[(Anonymous)]

To be fair, the kid's facial features were pretty.. ambiguous. And Aang, with his pink skin tone and blue eyes hardly looked as obviously not-white as... actually, everyone else in the entire cast. He looked like Aang and iirc he was even a lauded youth martial artist. I wouldn't have minded his casting so much, if Katara and Sokka had had non-white actors.

Re: But no.

[nonnymouscawitz]

I think it would have been awkward anyway, but if Aang's casting was the only weird thing I think it would have been... less bad. I hesitate to say 'good' because whitewashing is pretty definitively NOT good, but less bad. At least, if the kid could act. Poor guy looked like Aang and did his own stunts, but he could not act.