While sometimes the Wonderbread casting of popular culture makes it difficult at times to distinguish between pop culture and 'white' culture, White people of various nationalities do have legitimate cultures that are not interchangeable with any other. THIS. I think where it runs into the most problem is in the United States, to be honest, and it has to do with how the country was colonized and ideals under which it operates. Britain, Australia, most of Europe, and Canada handle it a lot better than we do.
If you cast an Asian Emma, you'd have to change the other elements of the cast and setting as well, so that it would become an entirely different interpretation of the story. You couldn't pretend that it made no difference
Yeah, the more I think about it, the more I don't understand why that doesn't bother me on Merlin. They made Gwen black for no apparent reason, and they give no explanation as to why Gawain or Aglain were black either. Or why Lancelot is Hispanic (He's played by Issac from Heroes). It's the only only show I can think of where they just went, "Oh well, we're gonna keep most of this the same, but we're going to change this. And not explain why. Because we can. It's all legend anyway." Sometimes I get the feeling they hide behind the magic and talking dragons because they didn't want to explain that they just really liked the actress.
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THIS. I think where it runs into the most problem is in the United States, to be honest, and it has to do with how the country was colonized and ideals under which it operates. Britain, Australia, most of Europe, and Canada handle it a lot better than we do.
If you cast an Asian Emma, you'd have to change the other elements of the cast and setting as well, so that it would become an entirely different interpretation of the story. You couldn't pretend that it made no difference
Yeah, the more I think about it, the more I don't understand why that doesn't bother me on Merlin. They made Gwen black for no apparent reason, and they give no explanation as to why Gawain or Aglain were black either. Or why Lancelot is Hispanic (He's played by Issac from Heroes). It's the only only show I can think of where they just went, "Oh well, we're gonna keep most of this the same, but we're going to change this. And not explain why. Because we can. It's all legend anyway." Sometimes I get the feeling they hide behind the magic and talking dragons because they didn't want to explain that they just really liked the actress.