if you get that trending, i'll give you a dollar.Foo wrote:#OscarsSoSightedzombie wrote:has nothing to do with actors playing as disabled.Foo wrote:#OscarsSoWhite
Disability as a costume
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Re: Disability as a costume
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Re: Disability as a costume
"Who loses his sight" was all I needed there. How would you get Anna really blind person to play themselves before becoming blind?
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Acting. The problem is you are assuming a sighted actor can play a person who becomes blind better than a person who actually became blind. See why disabled folks have a point?showa58taro wrote:"Who loses his sight" was all I needed there. How would you get Anna really blind person to play themselves before becoming blind?
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disabled actors should get more roles. but alec baldwin should not get shit on for playing a blind guy.Foo wrote:Acting. The problem is you are assuming a sighted actor can play a person who becomes blind better than a person who actually became blind. See why disabled folks have a point?showa58taro wrote:"Who loses his sight" was all I needed there. How would you get Anna really blind person to play themselves before becoming blind?
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He was a producer as well as the actor.zombie wrote:disabled actors should get more roles. but alec baldwin should not get shit on for playing a blind guy.Foo wrote:Acting. The problem is you are assuming a sighted actor can play a person who becomes blind better than a person who actually became blind. See why disabled folks have a point?showa58taro wrote:"Who loses his sight" was all I needed there. How would you get Anna really blind person to play themselves before becoming blind?
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so, there's a chance that it wouldn't even have gotten greenlit without his involvement? are you arguing that the movie shouldn't have been made if the lead had to be a sighted actor? i'm not sure what your point was in that?Foo wrote:He was a producer as well as the actor.zombie wrote:disabled actors should get more roles. but alec baldwin should not get shit on for playing a blind guy.Foo wrote:Acting. The problem is you are assuming a sighted actor can play a person who becomes blind better than a person who actually became blind. See why disabled folks have a point?showa58taro wrote:"Who loses his sight" was all I needed there. How would you get Anna really blind person to play themselves before becoming blind?
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A movie about Rosa Parks is more likely to be greenlit if Rosa is played by Tom Cruise rather than a relative unknown black actress. As long as we are in agreement this is the same thing and equally ok, I have no objection.zombie wrote:so, there's a chance that it wouldn't even have gotten greenlit without his involvement? are you arguing that the movie shouldn't have been made if the lead had to be a sighted actor? i'm not sure what your point was in that?Foo wrote:He was a producer as well as the actor.zombie wrote:disabled actors should get more roles. but alec baldwin should not get shit on for playing a blind guy.Foo wrote:Acting. The problem is you are assuming a sighted actor can play a person who becomes blind better than a person who actually became blind. See why disabled folks have a point?showa58taro wrote:"Who loses his sight" was all I needed there. How would you get Anna really blind person to play themselves before becoming blind?
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like i said before, more disabled actors should get roles. casting a white guy as black is not the same as casting a person without disability as a disabled person.Foo wrote:zombie wrote:
A movie about Rosa Parks is more likely to be greenlit if Rosa is played by Tom Cruise rather than a relative unknown black actress. As long as we are in agreement this is the same thing and equally ok, I have no objection.
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zombie wrote:like i said before, more disabled actors should get roles. casting a white guy as black is not the same as casting a person without disability as a disabled person.Foo wrote:zombie wrote:
A movie about Rosa Parks is more likely to be greenlit if Rosa is played by Tom Cruise rather than a relative unknown black actress. As long as we are in agreement this is the same thing and equally ok, I have no objection.
Because skin pigmentation is difficult to replicate, but having no legs is easy!
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this is a great argument. we should stab out alec baldwin's eyes for daring think that he could play a blind guy.Foo wrote:zombie wrote:like i said before, more disabled actors should get roles. casting a white guy as black is not the same as casting a person without disability as a disabled person.Foo wrote:zombie wrote:
A movie about Rosa Parks is more likely to be greenlit if Rosa is played by Tom Cruise rather than a relative unknown black actress. As long as we are in agreement this is the same thing and equally ok, I have no objection.
Because skin pigmentation is difficult to replicate, but having no legs is easy!
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What would you say about Tom Cruise playing Rosa Parks?zombie wrote:this is a great argument. we should stab out alec baldwin's eyes for daring think that he could play a blind guy.Foo wrote:zombie wrote:like i said before, more disabled actors should get roles. casting a white guy as black is not the same as casting a person without disability as a disabled person.Foo wrote:zombie wrote:
A movie about Rosa Parks is more likely to be greenlit if Rosa is played by Tom Cruise rather than a relative unknown black actress. As long as we are in agreement this is the same thing and equally ok, I have no objection.
Because skin pigmentation is difficult to replicate, but having no legs is easy!
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Zombie, you are like 95% there! With my help, 100%!
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i think you know the ridiculousness of that comparison.Foo wrote: What would you say about Tom Cruise playing Rosa Parks?
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i'm not sure that i wanna be there.Foo wrote:Zombie, you are like 95% there! With my help, 100%!
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FWIW, Rosa Parks was light skinned and Tom Cruise is half italian. It can work!
*epic announcer voice* "This Fall...Tom Cruise...in a Michael Bay production...*EXPLOSION!*...*Tom Cruise runs to the front of the bus*...ROSA...(Tom Cruise shouts) My ass ain't movin!"
*epic announcer voice* "This Fall...Tom Cruise...in a Michael Bay production...*EXPLOSION!*...*Tom Cruise runs to the front of the bus*...ROSA...(Tom Cruise shouts) My ass ain't movin!"
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Well, once you remove the gender identities from the equation, it is not so bad.zombie wrote:i think you know the ridiculousness of that comparison.Foo wrote: What would you say about Tom Cruise playing Rosa Parks?
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i can't have a mind of my own. (buzz)feed me what i must believe, mr. foo.Foo wrote:Well, once you remove the gender identities from the equation, it is not so bad.zombie wrote:i think you know the ridiculousness of that comparison.Foo wrote: What would you say about Tom Cruise playing Rosa Parks?
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I do it in more subtle ways!zombie wrote:i can't have a mind of my own. (buzz)feed me what i must believe, mr. foo.Foo wrote:Well, once you remove the gender identities from the equation, it is not so bad.zombie wrote:i think you know the ridiculousness of that comparison.Foo wrote: What would you say about Tom Cruise playing Rosa Parks?
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not really.Foo wrote:I do it in more subtle ways!zombie wrote:i can't have a mind of my own. (buzz)feed me what i must believe, mr. foo.Foo wrote:Well, once you remove the gender identities from the equation, it is not so bad.zombie wrote:i think you know the ridiculousness of that comparison.Foo wrote: What would you say about Tom Cruise playing Rosa Parks?
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It is next level. Does not appear to be subtle, but is subtle.zombie wrote:not really.Foo wrote:I do it in more subtle ways!zombie wrote:i can't have a mind of my own. (buzz)feed me what i must believe, mr. foo.Foo wrote:Well, once you remove the gender identities from the equation, it is not so bad.zombie wrote:i think you know the ridiculousness of that comparison.Foo wrote: What would you say about Tom Cruise playing Rosa Parks?