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⌈ Secret Post #722 ⌋

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Think about it, what's more effective: Complaining annoymously to the people on the internet you've never met, thus giving the movie MORE publicity than it already has; or shutting up, pretending it doesn't exisit and not going to see it?

The first choice that's more effective. The second way the movie tanks for no reason anyone knows, and the studio assumes it's because fantasy's on the way out or something. Or maybe they figure the problem was they didn't have more teenybopper stars in it. Certainly not that anybody cared that they made all the characters white.

The first way it's known that people who were interested in the movie to begin with are offended by the whitewashing, there's an actual discussion about whitewashing somewhere (as opposed to it being done a lot and nobody cares), AND when people don't go to see the movie that's known as a possible reason for it.

I really don't think talking about how the cast is white is going to be tempting too many people to go see the movie or that that kind of attention is going to help them. There's no reason to assume that somebody who talks about the problem on the Internet will then go see the movie, while somebody who couldn't care less if the characters are white (or justifies it on the Internet) will stay home.

"I really don't think talking about how the cast is white is going to be tempting too many people to go see the movie or that that kind of attention is going to help them."

What about the people who've never heard of Avatar, who decide to go see the movie because they want to see what everybody's shitting themselves over? What about the people who weren't going to see the movie, but decide to do it for the lulz, like with Twilight? What about the people who would actually prefer the movie to be completely white (coughStormFrontbastardscough) and support it because of that?

Indirected ranting does no good. DIRECTED complaints, on the other hand, do wonders. Big difference.

You're talking about the asshats of society. Nothing would stop THEM except for a straight jacket. Decent people, with their priorities straight? I don't think they'd be stupid enough to support a racist movie just to see it with their own eyes; the glossies and newspapers and INTERNET BLOGS will show them plenty.

What about the people who've never heard of Avatar, who decide to go see the movie because they want to see what everybody's shitting themselves over?

I don't think there's so many of those people that it cancels out the negative by a longshot. I just don't think this kind of discussion would inspire some army of people willing to pay 11 dollars for a movie just because they heard the casting was considered racist by a lot of people. That really doesn't sound like much of a risk at all to this. Same with the virulently racist audience who would go to see a movie simply because the characters were changed to white and people complained. That just seems like deciding to tacitly approve of what was done because you're afraid of something that's really not a realistic threat.

These are directed complaints.

People who want to see something "for the lulz" can download it off the internet for free.

That's certainly what I'm going to do.

Missing the point of http://aang-aint-white.livejournal.com/ much? If your FList is going about it as aimlessly as you make it sound, I suggest you point them to there. Oh, and stop bitching about how they're doing it wrong without suggesting more effective alternatives, plzkthx.

What about the people who've never heard of Avatar, who decide to go see the movie because they want to see what everybody's shitting themselves over?

I think those people do what I do and watch the anime.

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