+41 The casting for the live action How to train your dragon movie is good, and Ruffnut is a great casting choice. amirite?

by roobmilo 5 months ago

I get what you wanted your point to be. But you have to know how it sounds when you through in that, it wasn't made for..., line. It isn't made for you so don't buy it, watch it play it, has been an incredible successful marketing strategy don't cha know. For the most part the people that are upset are upset that it yet another live action remake that noone asked for or wanted. Animated films can do alot of physical comedy and action that just doesn't play in live action without looking tacky. Next we're getting moana live action so be sure to be ready with your next... ah the bigots.... lines.

by Ok_Mouse_9088 5 months ago

I fully agree, them pushing our remakes is the real problem. But all the discourse I've seen has less to do with that and more to do with the casting choices.

by roobmilo 5 months ago

That's because it's the thing they can point to at this early stage. When film studies go out of their way to make it seem like their doing a shot for shot remake then it makes the in your face casting choices the low hanging fruit. But just wait the discourse will change and then the defenders will get loud about the race and body swaps so that people complaining about the tacky action scenes and forced physical comedy will sound like their trying to hide some bigotry

by Ok_Mouse_9088 5 months ago

Who will be playing the Dragon live?

by Anonymous 5 months ago

The funny thing about it is, she's a white passing woman. People have photoshopped photos of her, to make her appear darker to cause outrage.

by claudie35 5 months ago

Don't get it either, considering this is also a movie about dragons and people are whining over skin color

by Silent_Bend 5 months ago

So why don't they make toothless albino? I think an albino toothless would be a great fixture, in How to train your dragon and wouldn't ruin anything.

by Ok_Attorney 5 months ago

They pretty much did do that with the lightfuries (and it's also a cgi animal)

by Silent_Bend 5 months ago

Yeah exactly!

by roobmilo 5 months ago

The backlash is strange to me given the fantastical setting, the fact most of the cast of the animated movie was American, and the female character in question was voiced by a Latina. But some people can only focus on skin color, even on animated characters.

by Anonymous 5 months ago

Yeah, it's so bizarre, like the characters aren't real people, so obviously no real people are gonna match, so maybe it's best to just go with the best people for the job.

by roobmilo 5 months ago

Yes exactly! Also funny because in the books toothless is the size of a cat, unlike in the movie. But no one batted an eye.

by roobmilo 5 months ago