Is nothing sacred ?

[ichi]

The Scorpion King still scores pretty high on the 'idiotic race casting' , an Asian as an Egyptian princess ?

Watch The Conqueror starring John Wayne as Genghis Khan, or Tony Curtis as Ali Baba (1952).

Now that's good casting

ichi

[Ronin]

On a simular, but different note.

How did Arameic people look like for 2000 years ago?
I've even seen blond blue-eyed people play Christ.

hahah...precisely....

watch "Dogma" for some serious laughs concerning that subject

[KukriKhan]

Next their gonna make a white version of Amos and Andy I suppose.

Been done. The original radio cast were white guys 'talking' black.
http://www.midcoast.com/~lizmcl/aa.html

[Idaho]

Oh please, some of my favorite actors are black. Im just a real big Honeymooners fan. How would you like a black remake of the Benny Hill Show? I just cant see who ths film would appeal to other than diehard cedric fans. Because I think its ludicrous to make a black honeymooners movie it looks like your trying to label me as a racist.

Benny Hill? I would be amazed that anyone would remake that crap in any format.

The point is how much this reflects the division in your society. A film either has to be a 'black' film or a 'normal' film. They are just doing a remake of a sit-com standard - big deal. The fact that in order to reflect reality and public taste in the US the film has to market it self to one audience or the other. You have 'black music' stations over there. 'Black charts'. It is so every present that you don't even notice.

Do you think when a Fistful of dollars was made all the Japanese Americans were saying that it broke some sacred Japanese only seal on the story?

Can you begin to see how this looks to outsiders? You have black areas where black people live. I spoke to one american and he told me that black people were discouraged from buying houses in white areas as this brought property prices down as it would then be seen as a 'mixed' area, and hence less desireable.

I have another friend who recently moved over to the US. He likes the place but says that it is a divided nation. He says those divisions are striking and reminders of the division are visible everywhere.

[Fragony]

It is strange that a white show goes black, why not stick to the source material. What is next a black James Bond?

[Steppe Merc]

Heck, it would be horrible to even change that he was British. I hope the next guy is someone good, though I'd prefer if they brought back Sean Connery.

[Don Corleone]

Can you begin to see how this looks to outsiders? You have black areas where black people live. I spoke to one american and he told me that black people were discouraged from buying houses in white areas as this brought property prices down as it would then be seen as a 'mixed' area, and hence less desireable.

That's illegal, and if you knew half as much about America as you claim to, you'd know that. This 'one American' either was referencing the 1960's, or he has an axe to grind. Are there black neighborhoods & white neighborhoods? Yes. But by far there's more 'mixed' neighborhoods, especially in the suburbs, then any other kind.

I have another friend who recently moved over to the US. He likes the place but says that it is a divided nation. He says those divisions are striking and reminders of the division are visible everywhere.

Yes Idaho, your one friend has revealed our deep dark secret. He alone tells the truth, that we still have lynchings, that blacks and whites hate each other and we can't get along, and that even in employment, we're still essentially an apartheid state. Give me a freaking break. Before you go making such pronouncements, climb down out of your ivory tower, fly over here and spend a few weeks driving around. Get outside the cities (which tend to be segregated, not just along white/black lines, but irish/jewish/italian/german lines), and get out to see how middle America lives . Go bowling, watch a minor league baseball game, go out to a dance club in a small city. I think you'll be surprised by how wrong you are.

[GoreBag]

It is strange that a white show goes black, why not stick to the source material. What is next a black James Bond?

It was being considered for a replacement for Pierce Brosnan. It really lit a match under my arse.

[ichi]

It is strange that a white show goes black, why not stick to the source material. What is next a black James Bond?

Mr James T Bond

[doc_bean]

On the other hand, the Ashton Kutcher vehicle 'Guess Who ?' is apparently a remake of 'Guess who's coming to dinner ?'

There are also a couple of movies that inverse the race role sin society, Boomerang does this without drawing too much attention to it iirc. But there was also a movie, I think with John Travolta, that focused on this.

[Don Corleone]

It was a terrific movie & it was called 'White Man's burden'. I think it exaggerated things slightly, but as it only had 1.5 hours to make the point it was trying to make, it kind of had to.