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Post by Wadaad on Jun 9, 2005 21:51:30 GMT -5
portrays your ethnicity in a stereotypical way? I wouldnt, but it never seizes to amaze me how many real Arabs in holywood go for the terrorist role...how many blacks go for the ghetto, low-class act, and how many Italians go for the wise guy mobster...etc
Say theres a movie coming out and they ask you to star as the actor/actress playing the role of the "insert negative ethnic stereotype here" for a million bucks...would you do it?
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Post by mike2 on Jun 9, 2005 22:07:23 GMT -5
Would I play an olive-skinned, black-haired, heavily bearded, overly-hospitable, restaurant owner with a hideously long unpronounceable surname by day, bouzouki-playing, Turk-hating, Greek mafioso oil tycoon by night? Yes. Yes, I think I would. That would be the greatest role ever.
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Post by vela on Jun 9, 2005 22:09:17 GMT -5
What if the movie has a moral to the story being told.
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Post by Ponto Hardbottle on Jun 9, 2005 22:26:01 GMT -5
What is worse? Playing up to a stereotype of one's ethnicity, like, me dressed in leather pants, yodelling with a bucket of milk in one hand and a cow's udder in the other or someone like Mr. Cohen pretending he is some Caribbean accented British black or that Indian Britain playing an Iraqi nutter. I think I will go back to my fondue.
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Post by Wadaad on Jun 9, 2005 22:29:11 GMT -5
What is worse? Playing up to a stereotype of one's ethnicity, like, me dressed in leather pants, yodelling with a bucket of milk in one hand and a cow's udder in the other or someone like Mr. Cohen pretending he is some Caribbean accented British black or that Indian Britain playing an Iraqi nutter. I think I will go back to my fondue. lol no question about it, I rather play my own ethnicity's stereotypes than have some outsider do it |
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Post by MC anunnaki on Jun 10, 2005 0:57:35 GMT -5
Have you guys noticed how Iranians are rarely, if ever, displayed in movies, even as bad stereotypes? It's like the Middle East contains Arabs and Arabs only. Not that I mind though, I'm glad Hollyweird forgot all about us.
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Post by Ilmatar on Jun 10, 2005 5:31:56 GMT -5
Well, anunnaki, I saw a TV miniseries on the life of Empress Soraya produced by RAI a couple of years ago. She was played by an ex- Miss Italia turned actress Anna Valle. I can't remember if Reza Pahlavi was played by someone with actual Persian roots, though. As for me, I would never in a million years be casted as a typical Finn, since I'm not blond enaugh. I'd rather be casted as an evil Russian spy, and that's the way I would want it.  |
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Post by MC anunnaki on Jun 10, 2005 5:41:57 GMT -5
You Finns are deathly pale, you almost make the Swedes look swarthy. |
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Post by Soomaal on Jun 10, 2005 5:44:49 GMT -5
portrays your ethnicity in a stereotypical way? I wouldnt, but it never seizes to amaze me how many real Arabs in holywood go for the terrorist role...how many blacks go for the ghetto, low-class act, and how many Italians go for the wise guy mobster...etc Say theres a movie coming out and they ask you to star as the actor/actress playing the role of the "insert negative ethnic stereotype here" for a million bucks...would you do it? Hell Yeah!! I would play a moryaan in a minute. |
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Post by Ilmatar on Jun 10, 2005 6:24:17 GMT -5
You Finns are deathly pale, you almost make the Swedes look swarthy. Yes, Swedes get the famous "Marabou tan". Actually the best way of spotting a Swede in Turku (well, Åbo) in Summer is to look at the tan. Blonds with a beautiful, golden brown tan are Swedes, pink, pale ones Finns. I do, BTW, tan, but only after lying still on the sun for days wearing a SPF 15 sunlotion. |
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Post by Platypus on Jun 10, 2005 14:07:41 GMT -5
one difference btween ScandiGermans and BrittoIrish is that the former usually are sun tanned while the second group have a tendency to go red or freckly first time under the sun. maybe northern europe receives proportionally more sunrays than Britain. whithout being warmer. or that Britain is simply more cloudy.
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