[ SECRET POST #2637 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2637 ⌋

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

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 070 secrets from Secret Submission Post #377.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 1 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 1 - too big ], [ 1 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

This is dumb, it should be context-specific. Like if I'm fantasy-casting "Crime and Punishment" why wouldn't I use all white people?

[mekkio]

Now I am thinking of out of context-specific fancasting. Like doing a version of Spartacus but having all the actors being of Samoan heritage. Doing a version of Othello where Othello is played by a Japanese actor and everyone else is Pakistani. A version of Pocahontas where Pocahontas and her people are played by Ethiopian actors and the John Smith and his people are played by Chinese actors.

It would be weird but, you have to admit, it would also be interesting.

[silvereriena]

Dunno if this is relevant but someone on tumblr has been making pic sets where they relocate classic European fairytales into other locations (or sometimes different European locations than their place of origin) and adding short blurbs of the modified stories. They made one of the Snow Queen set in ancient Egypt and Cinderella set in Qing-era China and Thumbelina set in India, to name a few. Just check out the 'relocating the fairytale' tag on their blog. I think they're all pretty awesome.

[tabaqui]

Thumbelina is one of my favorite fairy tales!
*goes to look*

[greenvelvetcake]

I remember having a picture book as a kid full of folk stories that had Cinderella set in pre-Columbian North America.

[(Anonymous)]

Do you remember the title? That sounds fascinating.

[greenvelvetcake]

It was from this really nicely illustrated Christian collection called The Children's Book of Virtues.

[dinogrrl]

Yeah, this. Some context would be nice.

[(Anonymous)]

Just saw a lovely theatrical version of Crime and Punishment with POC in several roles. (Razumikhin, for one.)

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

That's great (and I mean that sincerely). But that's not the same as a fantasy casting, which (at least to me) is about finding the people who most closely match the characters as you imagined as you read the book.

I mean, there's no reason why Idris Alba wouldn't make an amazing Svidrigailov, but I wouldn't pick him in my fantasy casting because I didn't picture the character being a black man in 1800s Russia.

That's why the secret is dumb -- fantasy casting is context-specific.

[(Anonymous)]

Alright, fair enough. Only, to me it seems like the secret is about something set in a fantasy setting which then should not be (real world) context specific?

[(Anonymous)]

This this this.

I loved Idris Elba in Thor, I thought he was the best thing in it. Years before seeing the films though, I read the Norse tales and my mental image of the character was a typically white, blonde/red haired Scandinavian. If I had been 'fantasy casting' the Norse tales on Tumblr, I probably would have picked someone with that colouring. It wouldn't even have occured to me to pick someone of colour for the role, because of the historical context.

Casting from auditions is very different, and picking on the ability of people to play the role and not their race makes perfect sense to me.

[(Anonymous)]

That sounds like a great version assuming the actors were good.

Of course a version with actors who were equally good but white would be equally good and in no way racist.