TAKEN FROM THE LOVE LIFE OF AN ASIAN GUY (facebook) because everyone needs to know
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rupert-ian — 9 years ago(April 06, 2016 07:52 PM)
It's 2016 and the cool thing to do now is cry racism, bigotry, profiling, xenophobia, transphobia, etc etc etc any time someone feels like the world doesn't bow to them and tell them how special they are.
Everyone is a victim. Nothing is ever anyone's fault. Every time a person does wrong it is because they were oppressed, discriminated against, and just not made to feel special enough.
It's disgusting, and the left-wing politicians love it and clinch to it in order to get more and more votes.
The only answer (according to these leftist SJW types) can be reverse discrimination, like that will fix anything.
Until people learn a simple concept called accountability, the world will just continue to fall into this "woe is me" left-wing hell hole, while the real evil people take advantage of it and continue their slaughter.
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Jayne_Doe_Cobb — 9 years ago(April 08, 2016 05:45 PM)
It's 2016 and the cool thing to do now is cry racism, bigotry, profiling, xenophobia, transphobia, etc etc etc any time someone feels like the world doesn't bow to them and tell them how special they are.
Everyone is a victim. Nothing is ever anyone's fault. Every time a person does wrong it is because they were oppressed, discriminated against, and just not made to feel special enough.
It's disgusting, and the left-wing politicians love it and clinch to it in order to get more and more votes.
The only answer (according to these leftist SJW types) can be reverse discrimination, like that will fix anything.
Until people learn a simple concept called accountability, the world will just continue to fall into this "woe is me" left-wing hell hole, while the real evil people take advantage of it and continue their slaughter.
Just make sure you don't offend anyone, apparently nothing else matters.
Refreshing to read such plain truth. Imo you should have added 'misogyny' to the list first btw., as it's what's being cried about the most nowadays. Anyway, I applaud you for this post. -
amigajoe — 9 years ago(May 06, 2016 12:03 PM)
Sounds like YOU are the one that's whining here; especially since your reply has absolutely nothing to do the original post. You seem to just be looking for an opportunity to bleat about a subject you're entirely ignorant of. I don't even agree with OP (The Forest is just a backdrop for a cheap horror movie, not a documentary about mental illness in Japan) but pointless 'reply' is just stupid.
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Holder_Matador — 9 years ago(November 09, 2016 09:03 PM)
I agree, I dont get how this is the same as the example he gave.
A more appropriate example would be that an Italian film director made a movie about an Italian visiting New York and cast an Italian actor. OMG that is so racist.
While I agree that there aren't enough good roles for minorities and women in movies I massively disagree with the concept of "whitewashing". It's called an adaptation, they're not trying to say other cultures dont exist, quite the opposite, they want these things (such as Ghost in the Shell) to be available to a wider audience. Hollywood versions of Ringu and Ju-on made the originals waaaay more popular in the western world.
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queentulawanda1 — 9 years ago(April 24, 2016 11:48 PM)
Perhaps no one cares about mental illness issues, but they should. And Aries-Girl84 isn't a sorry-for-themselves person. Can't you understand she's desperate for this problem to get publicity so that Japan can come out of the stone age about mental illness? For heaven's sake, they locked their Empress up in the palace because she was depressed, never allowing her to be seen!
The forest in this film just illustrates that the Japanese don't want to confront a national crisis. They'd rather ignore it and let the mentally ill solve the problem themselves by walking into a forest to die. Out of sight. This is how wild animals deal with death!!!
I must say here that I don't think the makers of this film didn't even have a clue about their action, and that's a pity. I'm not Asian, but those of you who haven't lived in Asia wouldn't understand this issue. In China, the mentally ill are put away. If you're a baby girl with ANY illness such as autism, Downs Syndrome or other handicaps like deafness or blindness- you're murdered, either by a Dying Room (Google it), or just starved or drowned. These atrocities are usually committed by a relative. You must be born "perfect" in order to be considered useful. And that's something worth putting on the silver screen if anything is. -
queentulawanda1 — 9 years ago(April 24, 2016 11:56 PM)
Perhaps no one cares about mental illness issues, but they should. And Aries-Girl84 isn't a sorry-for-themselves person. Can't you understand she's desperate for this problem to get publicity so that Japan can come out of the stone age about mental illness? For heaven's sake, they locked their Empress up in the palace because she was depressed, never allowing her to be seen!
The forest in this film just illustrates that the Japanese don't want to confront a national crisis. They'd rather ignore it and let the mentally ill solve the problem themselves by walking into a forest to die. Out of sight. This is how wild animals deal with death!!!
I must say here that I don't think the makers of this film didn't even have a clue about their action, and that's a pity. I'm not Asian, but those of you who haven't lived in Asia wouldn't understand this issue. In China, the mentally ill are put away. If you're a baby girl with ANY illness such as autism, Downs Syndrome or other handicaps like deafness or blindness- you're murdered, either by a Dying Room (Google it), or just starved or drowned. These atrocities are usually committed by a relative. You must be born "perfect" in order to be considered useful. And that's something worth putting on the silver screen if anything is. -
inuimari — 10 years ago(December 17, 2015 04:43 PM)
As a Japanese guy (well this is my opinion only), I really don't care. Most Japanese people won't care either.
How is this any different to the Grudge? I'll admit that it's pretty weird that the protagonist will find so many people that speak fluent English-speaker in Japan. -
wartengu — 10 years ago(February 09, 2016 07:48 AM)
Most people in Japan these days speak English. The younger generation want to be like Americans and speak English. The good thing about having a suicide forest, dead bodies make good compost for the plants. Too early to crack a smile?
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Mattfinbell — 10 years ago(April 04, 2016 06:57 PM)
inuimari
As a Japanese guy (well this is my opinion only), I really don't care. Most Japanese people won't care either.
How is this any different to the Grudge? I'll admit that it's pretty weird that the protagonist will find so many people that speak fluent English-speaker in Japan.
then why do people or mainly Japanese people hate Airbender? Since the characters look white or half white
HAHA yeah a lot of Japanese dont speak English so!
VariaIronhawk
The sister is living and working in Tokyo, soooooo, it really is not such a stretch. See, when you don't know the story, it's easy to criticize.
True but not in upper education
inuimari
This " LOVE LIFE OF AN ASIAN GUY " can F Off.
Just got banned from his site cuz I told a girl not to be so judgmental. He basically said that a lot of Asian parents beat their kid. Some posters said that that is abuse and they recanted how abusive their parents were. And this one chick went on dissing all those people who were saying it was abuse. I told her not to be so judgmental and then I got banned. I wasn't even using a swear word. And some of the posters were saying that people who are saying that spanking their kids is abuse where pu&&y white people. SMH.
He's okay with child abuse but is now complaining about mental health among Asians? WTF, man. Total hypocrite. According to this ridiculous site, "tone policing" is a real thing and it's bad. What the. There's nothing wrong with being nice to people online and your assumed minority status (as in people assuming they are in a more disadvantaged class than those they are speaking to) does not make it okay for people to be a b1tch online.
yeah some chinese and Japanese can be anal about that
Kumagoro
The guy quoted in the original post is totally off base.
John Wayne as Genghis Khan is indeed bad, even beyond whitewashing, because it's a white man posing as Asian.
How many chinese actors were in the biz at that time?
Phoenix_07
Scarlett Johansson in Ghost in the Shell is NOT whitewashing, because she WON'T play Motoko Kusanagi in "yellowface" (or whatever it's called), she'll play a reworked character with a different name for the American version of the same story, just like Naomi Watts in The Ring. Remember when Kurosawa used to set Western literature in Japan using Japanese actors? Was that out of racism?
Whitewashing goes more into just putting someone in yellowface. Taking a Japanese movie and remaking it with White actors is pretty much whitewashing. Why is that necessary? Why can't Americans just watch something in its original form? Why is there a need for an 'American version'? Look at just about every remake of a Japanese/Asian movie. Do they have other races casted as the lead, or even have a role? Why was The Grudge even remade when it's also set in Japan with the same story?
Yet the Japanese worship whites all the time
why is it with Ernie Hudson who played one of the title characters never go back lash but the main character Justin got all of it?
Why do Japanese draw there characters white looking?
stephenmonachello
First off, Genghis Kahn played by John Wayne and Scarlet Johansson playing Major Motoko Kusanagi in "Ghost in the Shell are examples of "White Washing" as they are whites playing Asian characters just like Mickey Rooney in Breakfast at Tiffany's.
for gods sake they white wash the characters in Dragonball z and airbender Chinese and Japanese people dont have round eyes and wavy hair
This film is not an example. This about an American going to find their twin in a legendary suicide forest in Japan. This is not white washing. This is just someone wanting a bigger story about a horror film. According to you this could not happen, but it could only happen to someone of Japanese decent. This is just another example of people wanting to complain about something or everything.
but again why would all the japanese be speaking english and be more aggressive or more loud as the case may be
Space_Wolf57
No actual Japanese person would give a sh!t about this. Chances are the writer is a "whitewashed" Asian himself.
well which racial group cares about Dragonball Z Airbender the last avatar
to me it seems its always the Koreans no other oriental group cares so much
skane110-1
Have you ever heard of "The Last Samurai"? That is way worse than this. I mean, the Samurai are such a hugely important and sacred thing to the Japanese and they are legendary so, to have a white guy play the last samurai is so completely wrong and offensive.
Oh how is it offensive?
the book Young Samurai and Shogun are based off a white guy who got ship wrecked in Japan
Will Adams
this is scotts review of the film. I trust him since he has made a life in Japan and he is Japanese
Kinda the same story like William Adams
Noelitede
I do think it's beep up to pick a real social issue and make a horror film about it. I'm also kind of fed up of all this movies starring white actors unnecesarily, when the movie is set in Asia like The forbid -
pajamawolfie — 10 years ago(December 19, 2015 06:36 PM)
I heard of the Aokigahara suicide forest a few years ago via a documentary, and I know that the suicide rate in Japan is rather high. However, as I am not Asian, so I don't really have much of a say about it. The only reason I wanted to see it was because I'd heard of the forest before.
Perhaps Japanese movie company will make their own version / a similar film addressing this issue. If they didn't want to do a movie on the forest before, maybe they'll do one to counteract the imminent train wreck that is the Hollywood version.
ScarJo in
Ghost in the Shell
is one thing: she'll get asses in movie theater seats. But that's a
science fiction
film.
The Forest
toys with, as you've said, a Japanese national crisis, and is cast in poor taste.
At least film is being released in January, which is when companies put out the movies that suck, so it'll probably be in the bottom of the $5 DVD bin in less than 2 years.
There is no objective reality and that's
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