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[JKTrix]

Ouch! cried aloud with mirth and merriment

I respect your desire to instigate social change, I just think that this movie is so incredibly insignificant, it's not worth getting one's knickers into a twist.

Word. I'm probably the biggest Dragonball fanboy here* and I didn't really care that Goku was white. I never expected the movie to be particularly faithful to the franchise ever since I first heard about it so long ago. But yeah, movie, insignificant, what Ouch! said.

Good on you for wanting some 'proper' racial recognition.

*and I will gladly challenge anyone who...challenges!

[Jessweeee♪]

Can't we just talk about Goku's hair?

[Obsidian]

Speed Racer is in theaters now, Dragon Ball in the works, and Evangelion now forcasted for 2009... Depending on DB's sucess, I guess we will be in for an era of Hollywood Anime Remakes.

Just cryogenicly freeze me until Mobile Suit Gundam comes out, 'kay?

[JKTrix]

Not to mention Akira and Ghost in the Shell. We're already in the 'anime remakes' era, which seems to be a byproduct of the 'Comic Movie' era.

[Breine]

JKTrix cried aloud with mirth and merriment

Not to mention Akira and Ghost in the Shell. We're already in the 'anime remakes' era, which seems to be a byproduct of the 'Comic Movie' era.

I suppose it is. Hollywood is just running out of ideas.

It'll be pretty interesting to see where this movie goes, and yes Jessweee is right... the hair looks kinda meh xD

[Ouch!]

I'll just continue to salivate over Rebuild of Evangelion, m'kay?

[Lord Rimoah]

Ouch! cried aloud with mirth and merriment

And while I applaud your enthusiasm, I just think that if you're aiming for some significant social change, you're starting in the wrong place.

I believe this as good a place as any. And I'm not trying to start some radical social change, this would be a start. It's always that which seems insignificant is in all actuality very significant.

Ouch! cried aloud with mirth and merriment

While I'm very much against racism in any form, I can't bring myself to care very much that Goku is being cast as a white male. It's Hollywood. It's been bastardizing stories for decades. It's one of those things to which I've grown accustomed and have even come to expect.

And that's exactly why this needs to be brought to attention. Of Course you wouldn't 'care' it's just a fan-based film that people are salivating to see only because it's from paper to live-action. The fact that it has Asian roots and Asian actors and ONLY an American Caucasian is cast in the lead role (a god-like hero), is rather racist. And by 'growing accustomed' to such things is why racism and unfairness continue blot this world. It may SEEM 'insignificant' to you and others, but THAT'S EXACTLY how and why they keep doing it.

Hollywood does indeed basterdized, polarize, and standardize a lot of negative images. Halle Berry in "Monster's Ball"; The "Blade" movies series where as the original Blade never needed a "serum" so Hollywood wanted to give him a crutch, his own "kryptonite" if you will to make him more... 'mortal' I guess... But why does Blade (an African American Superhero/Role Model) look like he's shooting Heroin in the first two films, and smoking Crack in the third movie?

Ouch! cried aloud with mirth and merriment

I respect your desire to instigate social change, I just think that this movie is so incredibly insignificant, it's not worth getting one's knickers into a twist.

Basically, you're politely trying to get me to be silent. It is that which seems insignificant that is often significant...

If I remain silent then nothing will happen, if I say something and this is as "insignificant" as you say, then nothing will happen... however by the responses thus far, that is indication that something has happened...

You can ignore what I've brought to the table, but you can no longer not acknowledge it. In the future you can choose to ignore this conversation should it arise again in another medium, but you have to acknowledge it to ignore it... That is the seed I'm sowing in people's minds. The more people acknowledge it the less they will (hopefully) accept it.

Think about it... Before "Seat-belts" were a law enforced procedure people never gave it much thought, now it's practically subconsciously written into the act of driving itself. Note a valid point, but I trust you understand my meaning.

My aim is not to be racisit, I'm not... But to point out how I see that this demographic casting IS racist. I'm sure Dragon Ball will be a... HOPEFULLY Good movie... But remember: People that become complacent are easy to control.

Thank you for your time...

[scrumpleberry]

Breine cried aloud with mirth and merriment

JKTrix cried aloud with mirth and merriment

Not to mention Akira and Ghost in the Shell. We're already in the 'anime remakes' era, which seems to be a byproduct of the 'Comic Movie' era.

I suppose it is. Hollywood is just running out of ideas.

It'll be pretty interesting to see where this movie goes, and yes Jessweee is right... the hair looks kinda meh xD

It's twoo.

I'm not massively excited tbh :/ I don't think it'll be spectacular and the characters lack the punch of the original from that Shonen Jump scan.