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[nkarafo]

So the producer admits he is racist.

Good to know.

 

[oagboghi2]

It's on a popular streaming service, so the movie will do fine. Keep bitching in your echo chamber, though.

Uhh it's not that hard to not watch a movie dude.

And why should I care what "gamers" do

 

[dr_octagon]

they don't like white bread, it needs to be more toasty

 

[Spukc]

White people bad

 

[GeorgPrime]

Can we cancel this racist movie? xD

 

[Clear]

Think you guys are reading more into this than there actually is to it.

They need an audience-proxy character to basically be told what's going on and why. Said character obviously cannot be offed until they've finished being Basil Exposition, meaning that they are going to get a fair amount of screen time. Using Johnny in his typical goof mode kinda makes him Jack Burton (BTILC) and would have a major impact on the overall tone, making him the hero wouldn't be ideal either as it risks being very Chuck Norris.

Basically its a crutch for sloppy writing, where they are basically creating a character to fulfil a certain function.

Note the quote is "white actor be" not "white actor play" the hero of the story, very significant.

 

[Guileless]

This seems like post hoc rationalization to try and get some good press from critics who will not be predisposed to liking this kind of thing.

 

[Batiman]

Yeah he’s always been kind of a joke but honestly wouldn’t the solution be to hire a biracial dude like Keanu to play him? Pretty sure that with a name like Daniel Pesina and his bro Carlos the arcade game actor might be actually Latino?

Keanu is biracial?

 

[MrMephistoX]

Keanu is biracial?

Yup he’s half Chinese and Hawaiian.

 

[Batiman]

Yup he’s half Chinese and Hawaiian.

I forgot about that. I’m pretty sure he had Portuguese in him as well somewhere. People always said I looked like him and I always say I wish

 

[abstract alien]

So, did they completely ignore the source material, or are they trying to get woke points? That is a baffling statement.

 

[Gunslinger]

I just hope liu kang is the main hero like it was supposed to be.

 

[Kamina]

Yup he’s half Chinese and Hawaiian.

He doesnt look chinese at all, like, at all.
Are bis parents hawaiian, or “hawaiian”?

 

[Mato]

He doesnt look chinese at all, like, at all.
Are bis parents hawaiian, or “hawaiian”?

According to Wikipedia, his mother is English and his father is Hawaian Native American/Chinese. So he is probably about a quarter Chinese.

 

[Diatribe1974]

Yup he’s half Chinese and Hawaiian.

Well, he's like a lot of us in that he's a mutt. Yeah, he's got Hawaiian, Chinese, Irish, ect, ect, ect all floating around his gene pool. Doesn't matter in the end, he's Neo. He's John Wick. He's Hollywood's nice guy.

 

[Soodanim]

Remember when this movie came out and no one cared after two days? I had forgotten it existed until this thread was bumped

 

[Marvel]

Kano was my hero of that movie.

 

[SJRB]

I appreciate the irony of not wanting to use Johnny Cage as a main character because he's a white guy and apparently that's bad, but end up having a white guy be the best character in the entire movie by far anyway.

 

[stn]

This movie is absolute trash either way, and I say that as a long-time MK fan.