I really only vaguely remember, but it ends with a scene with bureaucrats saying maybe none of the story actually happened. GEE, YOU THINK?

I'm going to pretend, for a moment, that this person was paid to write this review of Taken 2: [link]

I could do the checking required, but I don't want my brand new shiny bubble burst.

That was wonderful.

The footnotes were really really awesome.

That just made me laugh and laugh.

And I really want to see the version with Mr. Pickles.

I was just looking at tonight's TV schedule and saw a listing for the remake, Guess Who.

I think you're undercutting the message of the original by casting Ashton Kutcher as the young man the family's daughter brings home. I mean, racists or not, who wouldn't be aghast at that?

It was a better movie than I expected. Granted, I expected, like, nothing, but still.

I hadn't realised it was still a thing. In an article about whitewashing Argo, Slate brings up The Hunger Games. Since the character in the book was white, doesn't it subtract a bit from their message to use this as an example when there totally are others--picking Hunger Games presumably because it did the best box office doesn't make sense if it's not a good example.

Male actors are still valued higher than female ones. They get better roles and draw higher salaries (Taylor Lautner made more than Kristen Stewart in 2010). Historically, moving behind the camera has been easier for men than women. Meanwhile, black and Latino audiences buy movie tickets at a higher rate than white viewers, but appear less frequently on screen and are rarely stationed behind the camera. And characters of color are still routinely whitewashed, from Argo to the Hunger Games.

While it is clear that the role could have been cast...less white without contradicting the text, shouldn't you better pick an example where we don't know the authorial intent?

Not to dwell on the assumed lack of intersection between white and Latino in the article--they aren't quite dealing with the fact that there are Latinos that look more "Aryan" than Affleck--just that Mendez is not one of them.

Yeah, that was the problem with Argo -- not that someone who looks like Affleck couldn't be Latino, but that they cast so true to life for the other parts! If the real person played by John Goodman had been blond and skinny (for example), it wouldn't have been so glaring.

It seems to me like as much a story about Hollywood clout/politics/what it takes to get a movie greenlit than a story about whitewashing in casting. Which is maybe a more important story -- there isn't an actor who looks like Tony Mendez who can get a movie made.

Not that whitewashing isn't also important.