There has been very little released about A Mighty Heart (the movie with Jolie as Pearl). They JUST released a picture of her recently, in fact. Whose to say there won't be outrage, and you're assuming people are fine with that casting just to support your argument. I think casting opposite races for roles is just about always wrong in an accuracy way, and its no different with either movie for me.
Would you have a problem if people were outraged over Jolie's casting?
I could care less if people were outraged over Jolie's casting. Same with Halle. The larger issue of me is that people go ape**** when this news about Halle is reported, and this board was the first I had heard about it, and I've read about Jolie's movie at least a couple weeks ago. And I don't remember seeing anybody bemoaning that decision.
Just a preference. I don't really see much past Halle as being anything other than an ok actress, but there is a lot of potential in Jolie. She's a good actress, but she has yet to really show it.
You might could say the same for Halle. I think she does all right in smaller, more dramatic roles-Losing Isaiah, Introducing Dorothy Dandridge for example, but she seems to disappear in the larger, more glossier films.
There most certainly was an outcry about Wayne playing Genghis Khan, and the movie's financial and critical bomb was further testiment to that. Using this going 'far back' argument is pretty pointless as well, as race relations back then were quite different than now.
The point I was trying to make here is that there has been a long history of this racial swapping of roles, and the majority of that has been done by white people. I don't think the argument is pointless at all esp. when people wail like this type of thing has never been done before regarding whites taking on the roles of non-whites. They act like this Halle thing is new and it isn't.
I never paid attention to The Mummy, so I can't speak about that.
And besides, Nefertiti wasn't BLACK, she was Egyptian. And there is a difference. Its a shame people assume African = Black, and fail to consider Egypt's location near to middle eastern territory and the effect that had on Egypt's racial make-up.
Egypt is in Africa hello. Egypt was a multi-racial civilization, but it had black rulers at various points and black hands were a part of developing Egypt. White, and probably Arab, historians, aided by Hollywood,etc. have done a good job of whitewashing that history. Nefertiti was black. Look at her statues, pictures. She looks more like Iman than Rachel Weisz.
Oh boy. Tin foil hat time.
Brando got an Oscar for playing a mafiaso don, Hopkins got an Oscar for playing a cold-blooded killer, Cage got an Oscar for being a loser alcoholic, Douglas got an Oscar for being a cold-blooded Wall Street exec, De Niro got an Oscar for being a dim-witted, prone-to-violence boxer, etc, etc. So don't give me this crap about Washington getting it because he's a gangster cop because its nothing more than paranoia. And Halle Berry may have been Bob's "sex toy", but last time I remember, that movie wasn't a porno or a long string of sex scenes. Looks like you're the one giving the backhanded comment once again to support your angsty opinion.
I'm entitled to my 'angsty' opinion just like you. 
Now you're bringing up a set of crappy movies? You must be desperate. What does the quality of those movies have to do with this argument? In case you haven't seen Catwoman, it was a retched pile of crap, and with X3's short running time and lengthy character list, VERY FEW PEOPLE got much of screen time.
The point here is to refute one of your fellow travellers that Halle has some stranglehold on Hollywood execs and that she has forced her way onto this picture. She is a 'star', but her track record is spotty, and it's debatable how much pull she really has. I doubt it's equal to the amount of magazine covers she's on.
Considering films with 'majority black casts' are aimed at black people, how are white people supposed to support them, or honestly why would they need to support them? Yes, whites control the cameras, but they're also 70% of the population, so it's more of a statistical anamoly than a racial one, which I am sure disappoints you.
White people can support them by paying to see them or watching them on TV just like black people do for shows/movies with majority white casts. Of course the mainstream media never calls such shows or movies, 'white' or 'Euro-American' shows or movies.
Of course you think that.
Interesting that this got soo much flak despite the fact that it was an honest mistake. See, there is a difference. People are ok with changing a white character to black, but not vice versa. Where was the outrage of changing the Kramden family's race in that dreadful Honeymooner's remake? Now make an all white Jefferson's remake and you'll get quite an outcry, and you're an idiot of you think otherwise.
Some people are okay with changing characters from white to black, and some aren't. Will Smith got some flak for portraying Jim West and the movie was panned. The Honeymooners changeover didn't do anything to reflect in its box office, etc. I think sometimes changing a character is fine if it fits the story, but usually I think a lot of the suits just want to show how 'diverse' they are and place a black, brown, or yellow face on a character to be 'contemporary' or 'hip.' Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't.
Some characters-white, black, yellow, brown, red-are easier to switch. Some, like the Jeffersons-one of the big selling points of which were they were a black family moving to an upperclass, predominately white apartment aren't. So much of the Jefferson's humor was based on racial stereotypes, jokes, assumptions, etc.
It was a mistake and from what I read, one that was hard to avoid. They apologized and made amends. What more do you want? For them to refilm the movie? Insert a CGI black man into the movie? Get over it and move on!
Move on? Of course. Whenever a fanboy vents, but someone responds to him/her, you always get that 'it's just a movie or TV show' and then 'move on'. I didn't make this thread. I merely made a comment. You responded to it. It got me thinking so I made additional post. How exactly did the WTC movie people make amends? Are they going to put a picture at the end of the film of the real heroes? Are they going to at least mention them in the rolling credits or at the beginning? Will there be a disclaimer that the characters in the movie have been changed? I'm curious.
and today she feel like playing a white person so she does it!!!!!!
