Nate (post: 1372411) wrote:I know you didn't mean it this way, but you just implied there's no talented Asian actors.
Here's the thing. The characters in the show? Asian. Why would he cast white people? That makes as much sense as casting a white person to play Rev. King, hence my last post. I find it difficult to believe no Asian people tried out for the roles, and I refuse to believe there wasn't at least a handful of talented Asian people who could have played the roles.
Since no one has offered a plausible alternative to why Shyamalan defiantly cast white actors in Asian roles, I can only conclude that it was a racist decision. Since I would be ashamed to support something blatantly racist, I can now safely state I will not be seeing this movie no matter how good it is.
If you want to see it that is cool and if you think his decision is not racist, that is cool as well. Just saying that so nobody thinks I'm going all judgmental or anything.
Yah, totally didn't mean it that way... I meant that he probably saw some talent in the actors he chose..
Its obvious that Dev Patel, and the guy who plays Fire Lord Ozai, have some Indian in them. (I mean India indian). And Uncle Iroh also has that appearance.
and in my opinion, the Water Tribe are indians, (like North American Indians) not Asians... :/ and are darker skinned, makeup can do wonders! But that's beside the point.
The difference here is this was a cartoon. I would think if they did a movie on Rev King. They would put a black person there...
but its not, and a lot of the people in the cartoon had white complexion. So...yah. haha...
It really doesn't matter though, because its a movie.
And I think people really are making too much out of it.
. But I don't mean changing yourself, just mentally placing yourself in that position). 
