nomoretexasgovernorsforpresident:
So not seeing this piece of shit.
Modern Day Yellowface in Cloud Atlas
aka: “Um, excuse me, but your fake slanty eyelid was applied crooked.”
and also: Why hire Asian American men when we can put white guys in yellowface?
as well as: Warner Bros trying to be all “edgy” and “diverse” in the trailer by making the only Asian actors sexualized voiceless clones.
maybe: Someone needs to tell Jim Sturgess (21) to stop trying to become the most famous young white actor with the most high profile whitewashed/yellowface roles
and because someone is going to say it: It doesn’t matter if it is “artistic” and putting the Asian actress in whiteface doesn’t even things out when you have a fistful of white guys in yellowface as the only representation of Asian men.
why not: Hire a well known Korean American hapa actor like Daniel Henney, the same way you hired Halle Berry, if you really wanted to “go there”?
how much: Money did you spend on make up and why do all these “Asian” guys have hooded monolids? Because they look terrible.
last word: This is from the same studio that wanted to whitewash Akira, Death Note, Bleach, and cast Tom Cruise as a 16 year old Japanese mecha driver in All You Need is Kill/We Heroes All. And then put several Asian male characters in yellowface.
easier: To come up with excuses to defend this rather than examine how practices like this perpetuate racism and discrimination.
(Someone please turn creepy Elrond in yellowface into a meme.)
What the hell?
There was some pretty ugly discussion on this on Facebook, but I will reiterate my stance that yellowface is NEVER okay and that despite the whole “reincarnation” thing or whatever it is, Asian actors could have and should have been used.
Some things never seem to change.
