How is this not whitewashing?

The asian director responsible for the casting apparently cared about diversity.

It's not whitewashing, since he's not a Chinese character and Europeans have been traveling in China for centuries.

My guess is the chinks want to sell their historical drama to the west so the hired a famous Hollywood actor.

>film hires a big hollywood actor for their role to appeal to western audiences who spent the most money on this shit

I don't think it's whitewashing at all user, they want to make money

THE WHITE MAN BUILT THE WALL TO KEEP OUT DRAGONS FAGGOT! LEARN BASIC HISTORY YOU SHIT!

Hes a white adventurer/mercenary in China. Did you think it was only Chinese on the Silk Road?

Im pretty sure this is a film targeted at Chinese audience and he was offered a shitload of money to be a known face.

Because it's part of China's pissing contest with Hollywood. They're hiring Hollywood actors to show how much money they have and how Chinese productions can compete and even surpass Hollywood productions. They have been doing it for a while, see Jackie Chan's movie with John Cusack and Adrien Brody. The difference is that Matt Damon got a push on his career after The Martian so he's not as washed up as the previous Hollywood actors working on China. In a way, that mean China feel more secure with its position as the new center of the world

>It's a white liberals crying about whitewashing when Asians dont give a fuck episode

> it's because chinks are tired of not being able to tell characters apart.

>How is this not whitewashing?

It's a movie with Monsters you idiot OP.

It's not some historically accurate depiction of history.

Please kill yourself OP you SJW tumblr faggot.

Then why did Cred Forums complain about black people in Hobbit?

Shut you whore sjw mouth OP.

Because blacks are supposed to be Orcs in Middle Earth.

>white character in the books
>played by a white guy in the film adaptation

Tolkien is on record stating that niggers are supposed to be the orcs

which book?

>Plays a Roman Merc
>"Why isn't he Chinese tho"

Because whitewashing is something you do to houses, and complaining about white people is something sociologists do to justify why their university floats their escort bill.

>they are (or were) squat, broad, flat-nosed, sallow-skinned, with wide mouths and slant eyes; in fact degraded and repulsive versions of the (to Europeans) least lovely Mongol-types.[15]

What do you gain from lying on an anime imageboard?

romans werent white though

It's a white character being played by a white person.

He's the equivalent of the West having some Chinese kung fu guy in a movie.

Then what were they? KANGZ?

>Then why did Cred Forums complain

Caring this much about what kids on Cred Forums think

For the 1000000000th time, you retarded sausage lovers, it's an Asian production and they decided they wanted the white guy in it. It's not whitewashing if the yellows do the washing

The original Romans were Mediterraneans.
In the time of the great wall they were anything from celts and germans to semites and beduins.
A white Roman is perfectly plausible.

brown, same as greeks or turks

Nah, orcs are tortured elves. Tolkien specifically mentions dark skinned men who also pledged allegiance to Sauron.

nice

>they decided they wanted the white guy in it
they could got some better then mark wallberg then

>be op
>be absolutely fucking retarded
>don't do a cursory google search
>don't realize it's a chinese made film that specifically created that character as a white man
>it was never an asian character
>start seizing because mom didn't give you all three tendie dipping sauces
>shit and piss yourself while screeching.

You liberals are becoming more and more like Cred Forums, you realize that, right? Now you're basically telling all mediterranean Europeans that they are some kind of brown sub-species of caucasians.

It is whitewashing tho
It's just not necessarily a bad thing

Are you being retarded on purpose? Turks are a recent immigration after Islam. That happened after the roman empire, they were the ones who conquered the byzantine empire long after the fall of rome.

>tho
Ladies and gentlemen, the kind of person that cries about a Chinese director casting his Chinese film as he pleases.

It's not tho, you extremely retarded and impressionable faggot

>It's whitewashing because of my seething hatred for whitey

fuck off

i think people calling it whitewashing are genetic gimps too but saying "tho" is so fucking common you can't single out a person based on that shit alone

neck yourself, secondary retard

>not casting Idris Elba as a European mercenary
#OscarsSoWhite

How the fuck is it whitewashing you moron? It's a chinese film whose director decided he wanted a white character because they wanted a more diverse cast, to appeal to the western market.

Do you call every movie with one black character amongst a white cast blackwashing?

>tho
AY YO HOL UP

Those sweet sweet (you)'s my friend

>not even the Chinese want to see a fuckugly chink as their main character

>libs call for more diversity in movies
>get triggered when Chinese add white guy for diversity

Literally children

>B-but the director decided !
What the director wanted is irrelevant you ignorant faggots

Whitewashing is the act of casting a white guy for the role of an historical non-white figure

This is exactly what's happening here, and even tho I said it's not necessarily a bad thing and I have no problem with that, it didnt stop all of you to get insta-triggered

>WAHHHHH THEY'RE ACTING LIKE BABIES SO I GET TO ACT LIKE ONE

>Historical
>Giant monsters

Tho yur right, it doesn't fit with this fictional movie about a character written to be white tho

>unironically admitting that you watch some youtube hack

youtube.com/watch?v=S3yon2GyoiM&t=463s
The proper term is "wogs".

>its a fantasy movie
>its made by the Chinese
>actual Chinese people don't give a fuck
It seems as though they are actually excited to have a big Hollywood actor in a Chinese film. Meanwhile, western liberals can only see it through a lens of hate.

Damn those Chinese.. always whitewashing history!

>Thinking one white guy in an Asian fantasy movie is whitewashing

Newsflash: white people travelled to China, so even if it were a historic movie, it wouldn't be whitewashing.

What are you even replying to? Are you having a stroke? Should i call a doctor?

Harry Potter

>neogaf

So when the executives are Whites and they have chosen a black man to portray a specific character why do you bitch and moan and cry on the floor while making endless threads and posts about how HURR DURR character is meant to be white and the blacks are taking over because of SJW tumblrinas?

>Last Samurai
Which is based on a true story...

>white people travelled to China
At this age, they would be as common as black people in 18th century Bohemia... if you know what I mean.

It's not an Asian character remade to be white. It's an original white character, while blacks are simply slipping into roles of white characters because

WE

WUZ

It's not blackwashing because it's White executives choosing a black person to portray a specific the character.

A specific white character

Damon's character was originally written as Asian but they decided they wanted to cast a white Hollywood actor instead.

Any other retarded excuse you have?

Problem? It's objectively a higher level of discourse than fucking 4chin.

That's false. Better luck next time, cuck-ee

>Neogaf
>Level of discourse

I'm sorry you got banned for shitposting, user.

kysf

Pretty hard to get banned when I wont touch that cesspool of 12y old with a ten foot pole

fuck i hate chinks, worst fucking race ever, worse than niggers

Why people keep using the Last Samurai as an exemple of whitewashing ? Are people really so ignorant ?

because you can't fucking sell a movie with only asian actor in europe and US...

>0.5 cents have been added to your stormfront account.

You're talking out of your ass. You have no idea if Damon's character was written as a white character. You made a retarded assumption and tried passing it off as fact. Kys.

He's not even a non-white character. The character is white. His mere presence is what offends Liberals and whites are to blame...despite the film being a Chinese production.

Because they never saw the movie. They take the title I think it's referring specifically to Cruise's character

Yeah they are

Also if I recall right the actual RL character was french, so it's more of a burgerwashing

And no doubt these people don't know that Samurai is plural and isn't referring to a singular Samurai.

>role of an historical non-white figure

So it's not whitewashing, then.

They wouldn't complain about the African Samurai with a similar story to the Frog. They'd welcome it.

There was also an English - or two?- Samurai as well.

The French one actually did bigger stuff than Cruise (who was just there...) and had much bigger balls (because he refused to go back in France even when the Emperor told him too).

Wait, are there any examples of whitewashing?

>Director Zhang Yimou clarified that Matt Damon is not playing a role that was originally conceived for a Chinese actor, he further criticized detractors for not being "armed with the facts" and stated that he believes his film is the opposite of what is being suggested, explaining that The Great Wall is "a film deeply rooted in Chinese culture, with one of the largest Chinese casts ever assembled, is being made at tentpole scale for a world audience. I believe that is a trend that should be embraced by our industry." [16]

Now be quiet, faggot.

John Wayne as Genghis Khan I suppose.

You're not actually counterring any of my point here.

But I'm glad to know you tried

You said he's taking the role of a non-white, I showed you he wasn't, ergo, you've been fucked.

>Whitewashing is the act of casting a white guy for the role of an historical non-white figure
>Matt Damon is not playing a role that was originally conceived for a Chinese actor
There was never a non-white figure. It was a white man cast as a white figure. Now fuck off, you dopey cunt.

>I showed you he wasn't
Read again dummie.

The director never deny that Matt will play the role of a chinese soldier, he instead say that he "is not playing a role that was originally conceived for a Chinese actor"

I dont blame any of you for taking the bait still, it's the point of PR to imply one thing while actually saying the opposite

Now I think you should calm down and stop getting triggered over a word
It is whitewashing and it's not a problem, chinese people fucking love everything western after all, it's not illogic to see them not caring or even embracing it

>NeoGAF
This is what happens when you talk about superhero movies all day. You get dregs like this showing up.

I can't tell if serious or not, but here goes:

1.) It's a work of FICTION
2.) He plays what appears to be a European trader and warrior, and doesn't have a Chinese name, (actual white-washing would have him be CHINESE)
3.) The Silk Road motherfucker, do you History?
4.) It's a Chinese production, with a primarily Asian crew, Chinese director, and most of the actors with the exception of a few are Chinese.

>The director never deny that Matt will play the role of a chinese soldier
>>Matt Damon as William Garin
>>William Garin
>The role of a chinese soldier
This is an anonymous imageboard, you're not on NeoGAF so you don't have to cling to your embarrassing failed arguments.

>The director never deny that Matt will play the role of a chinese soldier, he instead say that he "is not playing a role that was originally conceived for a Chinese actor"

Except the director has literally said that it's a white character. He wrote a white character.

Why do you hate white people so much?

Back you go!

Kill.Yourself.Please.

Because that's not what whitewashing means you fucking retard.

No. Also kill yourself you stupid 'le kys xD' redditor holy fuck I'm mad you trendy faggots actually made that a thing on Cred Forums. Go back to your youtube boyfriend

Retard of the thread.

The fact that the director says Matt isn't playing a role that was originally made for a Chinese actor LITERALLY means he isn't playing a Chinese character, or else they would have had a fucking Chinese person play it.

I'd fucking love to see a movie made about Yasuke.

They could fuck around with history as much as they wanted and I wouldn't care.

The chinks aren't making Matt Damon portray a Chinese person. He's a European trader. It's not like how Hollywood goes out of its way to shoehorn niggers into everything by just changing white people into blacks.

Because niggers don't exist in the Middle Earth universe.

>getting this mad over someone calling you out on your shit grammar and terrible spelling

but they do...

Is this movie any good?

Does Marky Mark talk in English which is subtitled in Chinese?

Not him but people get banned on there just for not being a pro tumblr feminist. It's an absolutely horrible place for media discussion and you know it.

>wahhhh I can't whine about the blacks and gays

I don't think people realize how diverse western china is (communist genocides nonwithstanding) or how far east white people went even before the roman empire.