The Official "Ask A Brotha" Thread - Part 1

[E-Man]

The goat is there to be loved.

 

[Lencho01]

Alright. It was on the cover, but I didn't see it in the first issue.

 

[RockSP]

Didn't Bassett turn down the role?

I recall an interview where she says something like "they didn't offer it to me for me to turn it down."

Even she knew Storm shouldn't be 70 years old...

 

[terry78]

It's still kind of a hard role to cast because Storm is African but she has very....I wanna say, almost Angelina Jolie-esque facial features and looks very model like. I know it's not realistic in a real world setting, but you know. Basically she would look like Iman over anything.

 

[Pink Ranger]

It's still kind of a hard role to cast because Storm is African but she has very....I wanna say, almost Angelina Jolie-esque facial features and looks very model like. I know it's not realistic in a real world setting, but you know. Basically she would look like Iman over anything.

That's more to the limitations of how she is traditionally drawn in the comics. Until very recently, Storm has basically been drawn as a Danish woman who happens to have very dark skin and long, straight, white hair.

I don't think it was meant to be any kind of slight by the artists, I think the first ones to draw her did not have the ability to capture the facial features of what a black woman realistically looks like, and it just carried forward from there.

 

[chamber-music]

Its a shame there is no actresses that looks like model Jourdan Dunn because she has some of the features artists have drawn Storm having.

Angela Bassett pulled the short straw and sadly the only comic character she is probably going to play in her career is Amander Waller in that flop Green Lantern
movie.

 

[Arach Knight]

1) I fail to see how Marvel could be criticized for "angst" when DC publishes some of the most depressing stories in the industry (looking at Kyle's girlfriend cut to pieces and shoved in a fridge and Sue Dibny getting raped ON PAGE). Do I need to go on about The Dark Knight Returns or Watchmen?

2) Angela Basset would have been the superior choice. Her acting chops are par for the course. Not to snub the work of Halle, but she seemed lost with her approach to the role.

3) Anyone crying about changing a character's race in a film can go sit a corner for timeout. When Chapel and Terry were made White in the Spawn film, no one cried about the film being "too White." When Fox, who is modled after Halle Berry, was made White, no one batted an eye. A french woman plays Talia, a White man plays Bane, who cares, right?

But let a Black man play Heimdall or the Human Torch and auddenly it's ruining accuracy and legacy. It's utter crap. These are fictional characters, not real life figures and heroes.

On that note, White people even get cast in the roles of real lif people of color. Harrison Ford in Extraordinary Measures (in rea life, a Taiwanese doctor). Damn near all of the MIT students in 21 (mostly Chinese in real life). Freaking Ben Affleck as Tony Mendez, a MEXICAN! And he won an academy award.

So you know what? If Marvel is cool with a Black Human Torch, I say it should slide.

4) Why would anyone elect to refer to a woman as anything but her actual name or some term of endearment?

 

[chamber-music]

I like and read both Marvel and DC. I don't think Marvel is any more angst than DC is.

Batman is the crown prince of angst and all sorts of horrible stuff have happened to DC characters that made them more angst ridden as well.

Speedy (Mia Dearden was a child prostitute and is HIV positive)

Arsenal/Red Arrow/Speedy (Roy Harper was a heroin addict, suicidal alcoholic, his daughter was murdered)

Superman and Big Barda - made to make a porn film.

Sue Dibny and Nightwing - raped

Tim Drake - dad killed

Batman - parents, son and sidekick killed.

 

[Manic]

and now Wonder Woman is another in a long line of Zeus' bastard love children (thanks, New 52)

 

[Pink Ranger]

I guess with Marvel, the angst is more natural because it's built into the characters, so it's not like it comes out of nowhere. Whereas DC, with the exception of Batman, it's not really organic to any of the characters. So when some of the actions described above happen, it's like, "whoa, this kind of came out of nowhere," and seems more like shock value than angst.

 

[Manic]

I think another factor is that most of DC's most popular characters are adults, but a lot of Marvel's most popular characters are (or were) teenagers. Angst is a lot easier to notice when Spider-Man, most of the X-Men, and a quarter of the Fantastic Four are under 20.

 

[Warhammer]

I think some of the people who were upset the most about what he did was black women, not because of the fact that he cheated but because of the fact that not one of the other women were black.

True. The movie Obsessed was the epitome of a black woman's biggest fear.

^ We're all judging you for either:

A. Not having a job and thus spending your afternoons picking apart FAMILY FEUD.

Or

B. Actually being gainfully employed and CHOOSING to watch FAMILY FEUD and pick apart it's racial makeup.

Uh, the Steve Harvey Family Feud is hilarious. Whenever I catch it, I am always dying.

3) Anyone crying about changing a character's race in a film can go sit a corner for timeout. When Chapel and Terry were made White in the Spawn film, no one cried about the film being "too White." When Fox, who is modled after Halle Berry, was made White, no one batted an eye. A french woman plays Talia, a White man plays Bane, who cares, right?

But let a Black man play Heimdall or the Human Torch and auddenly it's ruining accuracy and legacy. It's utter crap. These are fictional characters, not real life figures and heroes.

On that note, White people even get cast in the roles of real lif people of color. Harrison Ford in Extraordinary Measures (in rea life, a Taiwanese doctor). Damn near all of the MIT students in 21 (mostly Chinese in real life). Freaking Ben Affleck as Tony Mendez, a MEXICAN! And he won an academy award.

So you know what? If Marvel is cool with a Black Human Torch, I say it should slide.

4) Why would anyone elect to refer to a woman as anything but her actual name or some term of endearment?

That always killed me about Heimdall. I don't give a f*** how big of a Thor fan you are, it's freakin' Heimdall.

 

[Pink Ranger]

True. The movie Obsessed was the epitome of a black woman's biggest fear.

Good god, that movie was hardly subtle about its racial politics, was it? It's like the answer to Birth Of A Nation.

I think all members of the Hype should do our man Idris a favour and pretend that movie never existed starting ...... now.

 

[charl_huntress]

Wasn't he based on Greek American actor Telly Savalas?

Yes, he was, but a lot of people didn't t know that. They just thought he was black. I'm sure the ancestors of Salvalas are rolling over in their graves.

I've never got why people care so much about variation in skin tone. I don't pull out a colour chart when I meet women. There are beautiful light skinned women and beautiful dark skinned women.

House slave vs. Field slave

Most racially ambiguous or mixed actors use their heritage to play a variety of roles so its not all bad.

I'm not sure if that is a good thing or bad thing. For the actors it is, but I feel darker actresses (notice this only applies to women) have a harder time because the powers only want someone who seems...more pleasing to the eye.

Its a shame there is no actresses that looks like model Jourdan Dunn because she has some of the features artists have drawn Storm having.

Wow! She has the perfect features, and that is how I have always pictured Storm.

Angela Bassett pulled the short straw and sadly the only comic character she is probably going to play in her career is Amander Waller in that flop Green Lantern
movie.

Damn! I even forgot she was in that.

 

[E-Man]

I think that we should start kidnapping these ignorant, ghetto people, and trap them in a room to where they can only get out if they write three paragraphs with proper grammatical structure. We need to hire Jigsaw to take care of some of these fools.

 

[terry78]

^But then there will be no one for white people to emulate.

 

[Manic]

They'll move on to the Japanese and Mexicans.

 

[RockSP]

1)
So you know what? If Marvel is cool with a Black Human Torch, I say it should slide.

It doesn't matter if marvel is cool with it or not...Fox has the film rights and can do what they want. But your overall point stands.

4) Why would anyone elect to refer to a woman as anything but her actual name or some term of endearment?

Same reason they'd do that to a man, I guess...

 

[Pink Ranger]

They'll move on to the Japanese and Mexicans.

Bored white kids will begin to emulate Korean rappers.

 

[PyroChamber]

I think they love hip hop culture a lot more in Japan than most do here in the States. Also, speaking of Japan, has anyone heard of Ganguro?

 

[Arach Knight]

Ganguro girl fashion...derived from the Japanese cultural take on what they view as the stereotypical "Californian" aesthetic, hence the bleach blonde hair and the overuse of spray on tanner. It is humorous to see how the Japanese view White Californians.

Then you have Japanese people emulating Black American culture (though it borders on parody).Those belonging to the B-Style movement seem far more genuine in their infatuation than those who follow the Ganguro trend. Then there is the kokujo (derogatory term) movement in Okinawa, in which Women of that region are renowned for primarily, if not exclusively, dating Black men. Fascinating stuff in Japan. And by fascinating I mean more bizarre than an episode of Bokusatsu Tenshi Dokuro-Chan.

 

[terry78]

Now, if we can get the names and addresses of these...whatta ya call 'em..."kokujo" chicks and invite them to the brotha thread....

 

[Pink Ranger]

Now, if we can get the names and addresses of these...whatta ya call 'em..."kokujo" chicks and invite them to the brotha thread....

You'll have to learn how to have sex in a room where 26 Hello Kitties are staring blankly at you.

 

[terry78]

You'll have to learn how to have sex in a room where 26 Hello Kitties are staring blankly at you.

I've dated a Japanese girl and a Korean girl before, it's old hat.

 

[Arach Knight]

I've dated a Japanese girl and a Korean girl before, it's old hat.

I never realized it was a trend.