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Gene Luen Yang on Last Airbender

Posted in AUDACITY with tags , , , , , on May 26, 2010 by Cbruhs

Well the enormous whitewashed fuckery of a film Last Airbender is due out in theaters July 2nd. Here’s Gene Luen Yang’s take on the whole situation. I’m a huge fan of his graphic novel American Born Chinese, so I wanted to post and link here.

While I don’t agree that the overall impact of racist movies isn’t that important, I too fully support a boycott of Last Airbender, and admire the work of groups like Racebending to educate and advocate for just and equal opportunity in film and TV.

Check out more from Gene over at his site.

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The Last Airbender: More Gripes

Posted in AUDACITY with tags , , , , , , , on March 11, 2010 by aznheartthrob

I know the whole “there’s no lead Asians” in the movie thing has been beaten to death. This isn’t what I was thinking about when I decided to write this. I just rewatched Slumdog Millionaires again and goddamnit it makes me so damn angry I ALMOST HAD TO USE KANYE FONT but decided against it. Hollywood takes the most famous Indian American director ever, M. Night Shyamalan, throws in the most famous Indian Brit actor today, Dev Patel, tosses in $250 million (for the trilogy, yea, they’re making three) and what you get is The Last Airbender. Really? You know how much Slumdog cost to make? $15 million. You can make 16.7 Slumdog Millionaires for the price of 3 Last Airbenders. To this day I still don’t know why M. Night would turn down Life of Pi for this crap just cause of the twisted ending stigma that he blew up in his last two movies anyway… And the freaking protagonist of Life of Pi is from the same damn city as M. Night: Pondicherry, India. How much more of a cosmic hint do you want M!

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