[ SECRET POST #4444 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4444 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom]


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[Mary Skelter]


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[The Final Table, Charles and Rodrigo]


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[Altered Carbon]


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[Katie Perry/Orlando Bloom engagement]


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[Fandom: Fruits Basket]










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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

And my comment that they were not all evil, in fact most of the non-white characters were neutral if not outright good.

[(Anonymous)]

The movie is full of racist caricatures of Indians, some of whom are villainous caricatures. There's a pretty complete lack of characters portrayed with any kind of depth or sensitivity, and all of the Indian characters with actual agency are villains. And people have pointed out the specific details of this many times in the thread.

[thewakokid]

YES, and in fact I myself have pointed out the stereotypes, but the origional comment I was arguing about, the point I am making which is somehow being missed is that the while there are many angles you could criticise the move from and still claim it as racism, the "people of different cultures presented as evil caricatures" is not one of them. Because the majority of the characters that are from that culture are not evil.

[(Anonymous)]

First, I would suggest that presenting characters of different cultures as evil caricatures would still be bad and racist even if other characters from that culture were depicted well. It's not a good thing to depict characters from different cultures as evil caricatures.

Second, as regards the actual movie, I think all of the Indians are presented as racist caricatures (I can't think of any counter examples off the top of my head, at least) and the ones who are most important to the plot and have the most agency are specifically villainous caricatures. So it's not really a great situation by any standard.