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Noblesse Obliged posted:To be fair Ben Kingsley may have been born one England but he's not a WASP so at least its technically not white washing Yeah I mean his actual name is Krishna Pandit Bhanji so
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Ben Kingsley is like jewish-indian-welsh or something like that. He can play pretty much any ethnicity, and probably has.
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Feb 12, 2019 20:49
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His mom is an Indian who was born in Kenya He's played Gandhi
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Moridin920 posted:His mom is an Indian who was born in Kenya I mean who doesn't know that? It's a great movie.
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Noblesse Obliged posted:To be fair Ben Kingsley may have been born one England but he's not a WASP so at least its technically not white washing Born: Krishna Pandit Bhanji. Checks out. Edit: Beaten like a Gujarati in British India by a British man.
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KiteAuraan posted:Born: Krishna Pandit Bhanji. Be careful, you can get probated for this
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Maybe Disney didn't want to remind people of that time he played Not-Jafar in that Prince of Persia movie they made. Which I just remembered existed and explained the memory I had of "Ben Kingsley playing Jafar" being a thing.
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bring back old gbs posted:no major studio has ever had a film flop because the effects were bad so everybody cuts the FX budget a bit more and a bit more, add in more shots to complete in less time with even less money than before, now cut into that same budget to pay for a 3d conversion, etc. I guess the irony here is isn't that what we want? like a lot of us goons have been harping for years about crappy films with great CGI budgets that succeed despite being utterly mediocre everywhere else. I guess this is The logical conclusion.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unoewKuD9No
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Feb 12, 2019 21:55
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I’m sure it’s already been said, but this truly does look like they outsourced production to Bang Bros. The whole thing looks like a bad porn parody.
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Feb 12, 2019 22:03
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Moridin920 posted:Danny Pudi - Aladdin Are you doing some confused thing where you think the actors need to have ancestry from the right part of the wold.... and then picked the wrong part of the world?
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Feb 12, 2019 22:06
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New lion king should just be the broadway version imo
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Feb 12, 2019 22:07
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Like is Gottfried even gonna be in it? Are they going to superimpose his face on a loving bird?
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Feb 12, 2019 22:09
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the genie should have been played by artie lange is the problem
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Feb 12, 2019 22:10
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I am hearing that Iago doesn't even talk this time around. Which, like, what da fuq?
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Feb 12, 2019 22:10
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"Naomi Scott is a British actress and singer. She is known for starring as Kimberly Hart, the Pink Ranger, in the 2017 Power Rangers movie and co-starring as Maddy Shannon in the science-fiction drama series Terra Nova" Is saying Naomi Scott is not known for anything too real?
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KiteAuraan posted:I am hearing that Iago doesn't even talk this time around. Which, like, what da fuq? Ok Will Smith as Genie makes me laugh, but this...this is criminal.
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Feb 12, 2019 22:14
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George H.W. oval office posted:New lion king should just be the broadway version imo
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KiteAuraan posted:I am hearing that Iago doesn't even talk this time around. Which, like, what da fuq? Iagoin crazy over here!
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Feb 12, 2019 22:28
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Danny Devito should play the tiger/man cheetah.
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Feb 12, 2019 22:30
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remember when adults used to be really into pixar
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Feb 12, 2019 22:35
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It would be interesting to see how they make Jafar a genie and a talking giant cobra at the end. Wait, I already know the answer to this.
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Feb 12, 2019 22:42
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honestly I think the greatest sin is that it looks pale and dull as poo poo, not so much the genie
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SilvergunSuperman posted:"Naomi Scott is a British actress and singer. She is known for starring as Kimberly Hart, the Pink Ranger, in the 2017 Power Rangers movie and co-starring as Maddy Shannon in the science-fiction drama series Terra Nova" She's ethnically half Indian and frankly none of the stars apart from Will Smith cost anything to hire. This eliminates significant monetary and PR risk because they work for pennies and sidestep the common problem of whitewashing as well as filling out the cast with diversity that's marketable. If you look at who's starring and where they're 'from' (family/ethnicity wise-- it's a loaded term but you know what I mean), it's equal representation along the spice road: Tunisia, Turkey, Iran, India, etc. The dude who plays Aladdin was literally born in Cairo. It's a tri-market strategic penetration (heh) film with a US base that will at VERY least make a decent profit domestically while simultaneously being marketed throughout the middle east and India. The Marvel universe tried the same strategy with China with the Iron Man property and it paid off huge. Godzilla is meh but sells both here and in Japan to turn a tidy profit. The story is globally known even without the old animated version and Disney is tailoring it to everywhere it'll possibly work with a hefty marketing and localization budget behind it (which they can afford by having cheap stars, generic costumes, CGI enhanced setpieces, etc.). Big-budget entertainment is increasingly having a global, long-term, lowest-common-denominator focus. Support indie films and masturbate as much as possible instead of paying big studios, kids  Pissed Ape Sexist fucked around with this message at 22:59 on Feb 12, 2019 |
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Grape posted:Are you doing some confused thing where you think the actors need to have ancestry from the right part of the wold.... and then picked the wrong part of the world? his methodology is "if it's brown, write it down"
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Feb 12, 2019 23:02
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lol you guys are arguing about Hollywood casting choices.
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Feb 12, 2019 23:11
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I wonder if the market for these movies is people who saw the originals as kids and unironically now think themselves too mature for animation
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Feb 12, 2019 23:12
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i think the genie looks good
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Nefarious 2.0 posted:i think the genie looks good Did you mistakenly YouTube search "I Dream of Jeannie", hit television series from 1965 to 1970, starring Barbara Eden by mistake, perhaps?
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Feb 12, 2019 23:21
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The worst part of all these re-makes are the original content providers writers/composers are not getting paid at all for their work. For using the same exact songs or lines.
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Big Beef City posted:Did you mistakenly YouTube search "I Dream of Jeannie", hit television series from 1965 to 1970, starring Barbara Eden by mistake, perhaps? oops yeah that's what i did Toughy posted:The worst part of all these re-makes are the original content providers writers/composers are not getting paid at all for their work. For using the same exact songs or lines. good no one should be paid for show tunes
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Toughy posted:The worst part of all these re-makes are the original content providers writers/composers are not getting paid at all for their work. For using the same exact songs or lines. The original writers were just ripping off 1001 Arabian nights, screw em. sucks about the composers though
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Feb 12, 2019 23:36
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Prince Ali, mighty is he, Ali Ababwa, Ha-ha ha-ha!
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Feb 12, 2019 23:40
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Wiggity wiggity prince ali
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why do they call it "live action" when its gonna be like 90% fake cg
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jimmyjams posted:why do they call it "live action" when its gonna be like 90% fake cg So they don’t have to pay money to the original people who wrote the screenplays/songs, look it up
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10 bucks says this movie is so bad Will Smith receives death threats
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Grape posted:Are you doing some confused thing where you think the actors need to have ancestry from the right part of the wold.... and then picked the wrong part of the world? Uh no I picked actors that would be best for those roles Weirdo
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abigserve posted:I wonder if the market for these movies is people who saw the originals as kids and unironically now think themselves too mature for animation They're for people who watched the originals and have kids now, so they take their kids to the re-make. Afterwards they think "well that was pretty bad but at least we got out of the house on a rainy day".
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