Group Criticizes Helen Keller Casting

bwright6 said:
I for one think Abigail Breslin is a good casting choice. I'm biased toward her, however! I will admit that it would be nice to see a deaf/blind/deafblind person as the role, but it can't always be that way. Kate Winslet, for example, plays several nationalities when she's really British. *shrug*
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Can Kate Winslet play a role of a black women?
 
shel90 said:
Can Kate Winslet play a role of a black women?
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I have seen movies where black people play a role for white people on a historical documentary. I've see some
Williamsburg acting as one of the colonists (not the servant or slave) and it didn't bother me at all. Hey, Eddie Murphy played as a white man before.

BUT, I do think she'll have to paint her face and If anyone seen old movies where people painted their face to appear black. I thought it was terrible thing to do.
 
Lighthouse77 said:
I have seen movies where black people play a role for white people on a historical documentary. I've see some
Williamsburg acting as one of the colonists (not the servant or slave) and it didn't bother me at all. Hey, Eddie Murphy played as a white man before.

BUT, I do think she'll have to paint her face and If anyone seen old movies where people painted their face to appear black. I thought it was terrible thing to do.
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Can white people play the roles of black people and act barbaric and goofy and all the other negative inaccurate stereotypes of black people? Because that's what a lot of actors do with deaf or blind characters. Stumbling around, being disoriented. It's as if someone were to play the typical Mammy or Jim Crow character. It goes beyond a white person playing a black person or a hearing person playing a deaf person. Most hearing or sighted actors still play the equivalent of a Jim Crow character when acting deaf or blind.

Another thing is if there were two equally qualified and talented actors auditioning for a black role and one of them was white and the other black, which do you think would get hired? And how about with the same between a hearing and deaf actor?
 
CJB said:
Can white people play the roles of black people and act barbaric and goofy and all the other negative inaccurate stereotypes of black people? Because that's what a lot of actors do with deaf or blind characters. Stumbling around, being disoriented. It's as if someone were to play the typical Mammy or Jim Crow character. It goes beyond a white person playing a black person or a hearing person playing a deaf person. Most hearing or sighted actors still play the equivalent of a Jim Crow character when acting deaf or blind.

Another thing is if there were two equally qualified and talented actors auditioning for a black role and one of them was white and the other black, which do you think would get hired? And how about with the same between a hearing and deaf actor?
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That's what I was getting at.

hey, i don't even like a black person playing as a white man.

As long as they are not trying to act like something they are not, then I think it is fine . like the black people who played the historical white man.. they are not trying to act like a white man by stereotyping them. they simply played a role using their own emotions and feelings as if they really were there and that's all to it.
 
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Or like Dr. House when he play as a man who have difficult walking. He is a good actor and I think it is because he tried to express his own emotions of what he would be like if he really was that way in real life. Instead of stereotyping how a person act like if they have trouble walking.
 
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