Well crap. I was hoping that despite everything it would be watchable.
So I can see where M. Night is coming from in saying that Zuko is the real hero/star
I can too, but that doesn't make his choices any better. Either he cast someone from his own race as the pivotal character, and cast the other characters Default White, or he cast the bad guy of 2.5 movies brown.
Is Iroh Indian?
What if he'd made the other Fire Nation people white, or random races?
Well, the real problem with Dev Patel being cast as Zuko is that he'd make a way better Sokka.
Oh man! You are so right.
Mal's been checking out the photos of the actors on his McDonald's stuff, and had a bit of a hurdle accepting that those kids were Aang and Katara. He's still really dubious about Sokka.
Is Iroh Indian?
Yeah, the whole Fire Nation is Indian.
Oh man! You are so right.
I think it was a friend of mine who said that, and as soon as she said it, I couldn't not think it. He'd be perfect.
the whole Fire Nation is Indian.
And Persian and Maori. They're the only and exclusively not-white Nation.
Despite being the lightest-colored characters in the cartoon.
Liveblogging Eclipse. I haven't worked out how this isn't irritating for the other people in the theatre.
oh dear- Ebert gave it half a star.
Wow, that was brutal. And I'm mildly surprised that apparently he's seen the show and knows it reasonably well--he doesn't mention the racebending, but he does hammer on the gorgeous look of the animation and the influence of Miyazaki and just how thoroughly the film's visuals have failed to draw anything worthwhile from all that juicy lovely precedent.
He does mention the racebending, JZ. There's a whole paragraph on it:
His first inexplicable mistake was to change the races of the leading characters
I've read a couple of reviews saying Dev Patel is the best thing in the movie, but not enough to make it worth seeing. And that the after-the-fact 3-D was worse than Clash of the Titans.
ETA - Not Ebert on Dev Patel, though.
Does anyone know the backstory of how the movie rights were sold? I'm surprised that the creators of such a visually stunning tv series would have sat idly by for so much fail.
The movie's production company is Nickelodeon.
