Green Lantern Script Review

[Octoberist]

the dude is awful reviewer, bottom line. The only good thing about him are his resources aka spy work.

 

[04nbod]

best part: Alan Scott
I hope that his role doesn't change

 

[Katsuro]

How about no drug dealer or just not mentioning the race? I don't even see why it is mandatory to have that scene in the script anyway (the part about the person being a drug dealer). It is very minor.

May I ask where you were able to read the script. I mean, you must've read it to know what role the dead drug dealer plays in the script, in order to call it minor.

Seriously, I doubt they just randomly flash to a scene of a dead latino drug dealer. We have no idea why it's in there, and what role it plays in the plot. Could be very important, at least that he's a drug dealer.

 

[Keyser Soze]

May I ask where you were able to read the script. I mean, you must've read it to know what role the dead drug dealer plays in the script, in order to call it minor.

Seriously, I doubt they just randomly flash to a scene of a dead latino drug dealer. We have no idea why it's in there, and what role it plays in the plot. Could be very important, at least that he's a drug dealer.

I've not read the script. But the impression I got from how the comments were worded was that the drug dealer is just in the background for the introduction of Hector Hammond, who happens to be performing an autopsy when he's recruited to do the SIGNIFICANT autopsy...on Abin Sur.

 

[Katsuro]

I've not read the script. But the impression I got from how the comments were worded was that the drug dealer is just in the background for the introduction of Hector Hammond, who happens to be performing an autopsy when he's recruited to do the SIGNIFICANT autopsy...on Abin Sur.

If that were the case, how would the audience ever know the character was a meth dealer? I cant imagine it's written on his toe tag or something. I can only assume his profession of dealing meth comes in to play somehow, or it wouldn't be mentioned.

 

[dnno1]

May I ask where you were able to read the script. I mean, you must've read it to know what role the dead drug dealer plays in the script, in order to call it minor.

Seriously, I doubt they just randomly flash to a scene of a dead latino drug dealer. We have no idea why it's in there, and what role it plays in the plot. Could be very important, at least that he's a drug dealer.

I think that is what El Mayhimbe reported in his review of the script. He said that he was referenced at the bottom of page 27. If it is just a dead body, then it must not be all that important... unless he's supposed to be this guy:

 

[Dark Knight]

Another positive script review for GL.

http://www.latinoreview.com/news/green-lantern-story-details-and-casting-update-5395

LOL...El Mayimbe is a riot!

Glad he liked the script and it's even more proof that this film will most likely kick arse! They just need to get someone else to direct than the in experienced Berlanti.

By the way what Mayimbe says is true about that unecessary stereotype. Most meth heads and speed freaks are caucasian.

 

[Dark Knight]

Another positive script review for GL.

http://www.latinoreview.com/news/green-lantern-story-details-and-casting-update-5395

LOL...El Mayimbe is a riot!

Glad he liked the script and it's even more proof that this film will most likely kick arse! They just need to get someone else to direct than the in experienced Berlanti.

By the way what Mayimbe says is true about that unecessary stereotype. Most meth heads and speed freaks are caucasian.

 

[Crook]

Yes, so let's make him white to perpetuate that stereotype.

His rant was moronic.

 

[The Guard]

By the way what Mayimbe says is true about that unecessary stereotype. Most meth heads and speed freaks are caucasian.

So what you're saying is that the writers actually chose NOT to go with a stereotype...and he's still *****ing.

 

[Keyser Soze]

So what you're saying is that the writers actually chose NOT to go with a stereotype...and he's still *****ing.

I think the point is that it seems unnecessary for the dead guy on the slab to be given an ethnicity. But then again, if its just Hammond reading a clipboard saying "Male, late 20s, Hispanic...", then I don't really see the big deal either.

It's a rather silly issue for us all to be getting worked up about. Like I said before, surely we can think of other things from the script review to discuss.

 

[TheVileOne]

El Mayimbe has no credibility after his many bogus script report with terrible analysis.

 

[dnno1]

...But then again, if its just Hammond reading a clipboard saying "Male, late 20s, Hispanic...", then I don't really see the big deal either.

But if it continues on with "...ice dealer...", it leaves the impression on many that this is normal (and that is not the case with all Hispanics). El Mayhimbe has every right to be pissed off about this and he is playing it right by using his position as a script reviewer and the fact that Hispanics make up a significant market of moviegoers to leverage that out of the script. That is not moronic, that is called using whatever clout you have.

It's a rather silly issue for us all to be getting worked up about. Like I said before, surely we can think of other things from the script review to discuss.

Isn't it?

 

[Ceb-Man]

I like what I read from this script. Hal Jordan is GL. Even Alan Scott is in there!

 

[DarkSuperman]

I like what I read from this script. Hal Jordan is GL. Even Alan Scott is in there!

Yeah, scott being in there is pretty sweet. I never expected to see that happen. Imagine, once the GL trilogy is complete they could even go back and do a 1930's Green Lantern movie with Scott vs Solomon Grundy or something.

 

[The Guard]

Here's the thing...

I missed the part where the dead guy on the slab is holding a sign that says "All meth dealers are Latino". Or anything in the dialogue that indicates that this is the case.

So what the hell is he basing this "racist" thing on?

Or are writers simply not allowed to utilize race at all anymore? I fail to see what the real issue is, other than the fact that one man took exception to a criminal's race, and spun that into something else entirely. There is nothing there, that I can see, that argues that all meth dealers are Latino, or that all Latinos are criminals. Nothing.

 

[solidsnake86]

He needs to get over himself, should me and every other italian be pissed off with our roles being relegated to the mafia. If thats the case we should be up in arms with the batman mythos as a whole for perpetuating stereotypes.

 

[Crook]

???

Mafias ARE Italian. Any story depicting otherwise is just false. Maybe you meant gang-affiliated/criminals?

 

[solidsnake86]

I meant to say organized crime, I'm just used to saying the mafia.

 

[DarkSuperman]

why are we still talking about that when they're so many other cool things to discuss?

 

[protocida]

You know what i've been thinking? On the current comics, Alan Scott was the white king of checkmate. The checkmate is also present on ''Green Arrow: Escape from the Supermax'', where one of the kings is murdered.

Conected universes, anyone?

 

[Katsuro]

But if it continues on with "...ice dealer...", it leaves the impression on many that this is normal (and that is not the case with all Hispanics).

What? How? How does a character being a specific race and having a specific, um... profession, mean all members of that race do it?

Let me ask you, what race should the meth dealer be? Again, we have to assume, since we haven't read the script, that the meth dealer being a meth dealer needs to be there, so what race should he be? We're not allowed to portray Latino's poorly, so what race can we portray poorly?

 

[The Guard]

Exactly.

 

[dnno1]

What? How? How does a character being a specific race and having a specific, um... profession, mean all members of that race do it?

It's called stereotyping. It happens all the time. I'm sure you've heard of that. Don't play coy.

Let me ask you, what race should the meth dealer be? Again, we have to assume, since we haven't read the script, that the meth dealer being a meth dealer needs to be there, so what race should he be?

I don't know why it would be important to have one in the script. This story is about Green Lanter/Hal Jordan, a former Airforce and currently private aircraft test pilot who becomes Green Lantern. Hector Hammond was a con man now turned criminal, not a forensic medical examiner. Outside of a few issues that addressed it back in the 1970's, rarely did the Green Lantern series address drugs let alone ice dealers and street pharmacists. To answer your question there shouldn't be one in the script at all.

We're not allowed to portray Latino's poorly, so what race can we portray poorly?

The ones that don't exist. Next question please.

 

[The Squirrel]

It's called stereotyping. It happens all the time. I'm sure you've heard of that. Don't play coy.



I don't know why it would be important to have one in the script. This story is about Green Lanter/Hal Jordan, a former Airforce and currently private aircraft test pilot who becomes Green Lantern. Hector Hammond was a con man now turned criminal, not a forensic medical examiner. Outside of a few issues that addressed it back in the 1970's, rarely did the Green Lantern series address drugs let alone ice dealers and street pharmacists. To answer your question there shouldn't be one in the script at all.
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It's good to know that you are the writer who was hired to write the script that you can make that call.