One final marketing stunt by Paramount Pictures in order to promote the highly controversial live action Ghost in the Shell movie has seemingly backfired as the internet has taken the opportunity to troll the whitewashed production, an unsurprising turn of events considering how loud the negative criticism has been.
A special image generation website was launched (originally introduced by a 30-second promotional ad featuring non-Asian Scarlett Johansson) where visitors could upload their own image and input some text above the phrase “I Am Major”, leading to some rather humorous results (with some refreshingly opting to stray away from the whole whitewashing concept).
The aforementioned promotional ad:
Some of the graphics that visitors have produced using the website:
Those still somehow interested in seeing the film can watch Ghost in the Shell in theaters come March 31st.
What’s really funny about this is that most Japanese audiences don’t actually care. Western movies and actors/celebrities have been arguably more popular in Japan than their own for decades. This is not a problem to them. Most of the people raising hell over this are white people who think that they have the God-given right to get offended and speak for a certain group that they’re not a part of, and whose actual views they have no real understanding of.
What’s even funnier is that the GitS series has a lot more wiggle room than most anime/manga adaptations to make these Hollywood decisions completely justified. First off: the Major wasn’t even given a confirmed nationality to begin with, and the 95′ movie wasn’t even meant to be based in Japan. Even “Kusanagi Motoko” has been outright confirmed to only be a code name, not her given name, so that can’t be used as an argument. Even if it was, the Major’s a cyborg with a completely synthetic body. That body could have the physical features of anyone from any nationality instead of just being based on the owner’s original body, or anyone from their place of birth.
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I know everyone have different opinions, but I think it’s generally a fact that white people are generally more attractive. I.e. non-white people should consider to stop reproducing and let white people naturally spread all over the world, and everyone is happy.
Just joking of course. Or do I…
I pretty much expect Hollywood to f♥♥k up every Japanese production they try to westernise, so no real surprise when Hollywood went full on racist with the casting of GitS. There just is no way I can believe that there weren’t plenty of English speaking actresses and actors of Asian lineage available to cast this movie properly.
Why don’t these people give a f♥♥k about Black L?
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