Mickey Rourke is Genghis Khan

[terry78]

Have we learned nothing from John Wayne?

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=65436

 

[Ratcrawler]

Wasn't Steven Segal gonna play Genghis and then they realized..."Wait...wasn't he...Asian?"

 

[Nivek]

Why Hollywood, why?

 

[Monsieur Xavier]

Don't tell me he ditched the role of Conan father for this...if this movie is ever made.

 

[matrix_ghost]

Have we learned nothing from John Wayne?
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=65436

Yes.
That that no ethnic actor but a white person can play Genghis Khan.
Name me ethnic actor who would have the support of the producers funding a 40 million movie.
If it didn't happen with Prince Of Persia and The Last Airbender , it sure as hell ain't gonna with this.

 

[DorkyFresh]

this is exactly why i keep raising a stink over white people playing ethnic roles in the Dragon Ball and Last Airbender threads. this is ridiculous!!! they couldn't get Chow Yun Fat or Ken Watanabe??? even if they couldn't why make it without an Asian male as the lead??? isn't the point of making this movie to portray a MONGOL? Mickey Rourke is looking more and more freakish now-a-days, but he looks FAR from Asian. Bruce Lee is probably rolling in his grave right now.

Hollywood is becoming *****tier and *****tier as the years go by...

 

[Project862006]

^ those are not even the same buddy TLA = fantasy world

DBZ - goku is a damn alien

this is a historical figure

completely different

 

[TruerToTheCore]

 

[akfj]

At least it's not Chaka Khan.

 

[Timstuff]

^ those are not even the same buddy TLA = fantasy world

DBZ - goku is a damn alien

this is a historical figure

completely different

Agreed. Having said that though, this movie is doomed. While we're at it, let's have Phillip Seymour Hoffman play Martin Luther King Jr! After all, makeup has gotten a lot better now, so a White actor can play a Black man without it being offensive, right?

Seriously, NO major studio in this day and age would EVER consider casting a White actor as a Black historical figure like MLK, George Washington Carver, or Booker T. Washington and using makeup to make him look "role appropriate." If they did, they'd be run out of town. And yet with a role like Gengis Khan, it's pretty much assumed by default that the actor playing him will be White wearing "squint makeup." This absurd, offensive double standard needs to stop.

 

[san15]

^ those are not even the same buddy TLA = fantasy world

DBZ - goku is a damn alien

this is a historical figure

completely different

I think what DorkyFresh is talking about is when Hollywood makes movies that are asian influenced, caucasians are usually cast to play LEAD roles instead of asian actors. Therefore if I want to watch a movie about asian culture (regardless if it’s fictional or historical), I expect to see asian people playing lead roles.

 

[Bruce Malone]

Wow so i guess after his career was resurected he feels its time to put it back in the ground?

 

[That-Guy]

Facepalm.

 

[SuperFerret]

Come on, we all know that asian actors can't do anything but martial arts movies.

 

[matrix_ghost]

I think what DorkyFresh is talking about is when Hollywood makes movies that are asian influenced, caucasians are usually cast to play LEAD roles instead of asian actors. Therefore if I want to watch a movie about asian culture (regardless if it’s fictional or historical), I expect to see asian people playing lead roles.

This.
Hell with Rourke playing Khan Hollywood might as well blackface white actors and make a MLK movie.

 

[DorkyFresh]

I think what DorkyFresh is talking about is when Hollywood makes movies that are asian influenced, caucasians are usually cast to play LEAD roles instead of asian actors. Therefore if I want to watch a movie about asian culture (regardless if it’s fictional or historical), I expect to see asian people playing lead roles.

well said, san15! ^5

 

[terry78]

People say that we as black people cry racism all the time, but we don't have white guys playing our roles, do we?

 

[Gilpesh]

People say that we as black people cry racism all the time, but we don't have white guys playing our roles, do we?

The funniest part of Be Kind Rewind was Danny Glover trying to explain to Jack Black why he couldn't play a black guy.

 

[DorkyFresh]

People say that we as black people cry racism all the time, but we don't have white guys playing our roles, do we?

*ahem* tropical thunder...

 

[Silver Knight]

This is funny.

 

[Ghostvirus]

Wow so i guess after his career was resurected he feels its time to put it back in the ground?

Thus proving people really don't change.

I remember all those jokes about Minorities being the first to die in entertainment. I used to laugh.

Now I notice when here someone is going to die on TV or film. Who dies? The minority most times more then not.

 

[Raiden]

Agreed. Having said that though, this movie is doomed. While we're at it, let's have Phillip Seymour Hoffman play Martin Luther King Jr! After all, makeup has gotten a lot better now, so a White actor can play a Black man without it being offensive, right?

Seriously, NO major studio in this day and age would EVER consider casting a White actor as a Black historical figure like MLK, George Washington Carver, or Booker T. Washington and using makeup to make him look "role appropriate." If they did, they'd be run out of town. And yet with a role like Gengis Khan, it's pretty much assumed by default that the actor playing him will be White wearing "squint makeup." This absurd, offensive double standard needs to stop.

Exactly. And if Hollywood claimed that they don't have any Asian actors to play Genghis Khan, well then how about Chow Yun Fat? Mickey Rourke playing Khan is just as absurb as back when John Wayne used to play him.

 

[Hunter Rider]

I'm surprised so many are remotely shocked, there is no Asian actor who is considered bankable in the US, so if there is to be a Genghis Khan movie then it was going to be this way or not at all.

 

[SuperFerret]

Thus proving people really don't change.

I remember all those jokes about Minorities being the first to die in entertainment. I used to laugh.

Now I notice when here someone is going to die on TV or film. Who dies? The minority most times more then not.

They shouldn't be doing those things that get them killed. Maybe if they listened to that loud black woman in every theater telling them to "not go in there", they'd survive.

 

[Apollo]

And if it's a Hollywood film about the Asian culture you throw it in the garbage, and watch a Zhang Yimou Film instead! t:


This reminds me of the time I went to Hong Kong, and Jackie chan was starring in "The American Empire" where Jackie was George Washington.