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TV’s Frink said:

dahmage said:

Whatever’s going on in your guy’s private threads makes no sense to me. Maybe you should all stop being in private threads?

It’s more fun guessing what they’re talking about though.

I’m imagining Christopher Reeve in whiteface.

There was a discussion about Jimmy Kimmel’s comments about a black Superman. It was suggested the reason why Superman being cast by a black person is a bad idea, is because Superman’s appearance is iconic. The importance of making the character on film recognizable and instantly believable and such.

Then someone had the idea of hiring a black actor for the role (to be inclusive of minorities) but to use realistic white makeup to keep to the character’s expected appearance. That idea was just about universally panned. I cited RDJ from Tropic Thunder as a white person realistically made up as black, but that was dismissed as deliberately humorous. I couldn’t disagree, having not seen the film.

 
Somewhere in there, it was pointed out that there are in fact black Supermen (John Henry Irons’ “Man of Steel”, and Superman from Earth-23), and that just about ended the discussion with people saying Kimmel is ignorant about the existence of such characters.

I also said that more black characters should be created rather than taking current iconic characters and making them black. I likened it to rebooting Star Wars and casting a black Luke Skywalker. But at least one person said they didn’t understand why whether someone was famous or not would be important to race-swapping them.

TV’s Frink said:

chyron just put a big Ric pic in your sig and be done with it.

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Dude what the fuck if warbler wanted his pm thread public he would have posted it in the forum

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Possessed said:

Dude what the fuck if warbler wanted his pm thread public he would have posted it in the forum

+1

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Hahahahaha priceless.

All of it.

But especially the idea of hiring a black actor in whiteface, and chyron posting everything in public.

I love this forum.

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Collipso said:

what is a pm

Apparently it’s something that allows you to bitch about something else, in private (temporarily).

Hey chryon, what have you all been saying about me?

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TV’s Frink said:

Hahahahaha priceless.

All of it.

But especially the idea of hiring a black actor in whiteface, and chyron posting everything in public.

I love this forum.

It’s not like it’s some big secret. It was just some random conversation we had.

JEDIT: Seriously. It’s not like I’m betraying confidences by saying we talked about what Kimmel said. People even suggested we could talk about it public but we just didn’t anyway.

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Collipso said:

what is a pm

Hey chryon, what have you all been saying about me?

Never you mind. 😉

TV’s Frink said:

chyron just put a big Ric pic in your sig and be done with it.

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Still though, you did share Warb’s position and quoted some things he said, things that he decided to leave private for a reason. Like Possessed said, his private thread is private. Or would you like me to basically post the first 20 posts of the thread here?

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Just to get out ahead of this, every single post I made on the subject of Superman was a penis joke.

Project Threepio (Star Wars OOT subtitles)

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Collipso said:

Still though, you did share Warb’s position and quoted some things he said, things that he decided to leave private for a reason. Like Possessed said, his private thread is private. Or would you like me to basically post the first 20 posts of the thread here?

Not everything everyone ever says in a private setting is automatically sensitive to the point of secrecy. Some things are sensitive. Some are not. Talking about Kimmel or Superman is not sensitive.

TV’s Frink said:

chyron just put a big Ric pic in your sig and be done with it.

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chyron8472 said:

Collipso said:

Still though, you did share Warb’s position and quoted some things he said, things that he decided to leave private for a reason. Like Possessed said, his private thread is private. Or would you like me to basically post the first 20 posts of the thread here?

Not everything everyone ever says in a private setting is automatically sensitive to the point of secrecy.

K.

Brb gonna go look through some other PM threads and repeat everything you’ve said.

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Fine. I removed references to who said what, aside from myself.

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chyron just put a big Ric pic in your sig and be done with it.

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Now everyone can see how ridiculous your thoughts on the matter are.

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Not sensitive per se, chyron, but the interpersonal dynamics weigh heavily in favor of not dumping conversations from a more private setting into a public one. I really didn’t see the point of regurgitating it now. As Billy Joel said, it’s a matter of trust.

(CatBus is telling the truth, believe it or not)

The blue elephant in the room.

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I’m glad all the PM threads I’m in died months ago.

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DominicCobb said:

Now everyone can see how ridiculous your thoughts on the matter are.

As though people here don’t already think my thoughts on things are ridiculous.

TV’s Frink said:

chyron just put a big Ric pic in your sig and be done with it.

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I had a brilliant solution to the whole problem. I’m selling the rights, so if anyone’s interested, PM me. I’ll be sure to publicize it two days later.

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yhwx said:

I had a brilliant solution to the whole problem. I’m selling the rights, so if anyone’s interested, PM me. I’ll be sure to publicize it two days later.

You can double your money by offering redaction for a nominal fee.

Project Threepio (Star Wars OOT subtitles)

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chyron8472 said:
I cited RDJ from Tropic Thunder as a white person realistically made up as black, but that was dismissed as deliberately humorous. I couldn’t disagree, having not seen the film.

It’s been awhile since I’ve seen that film, but I’m pretty sure RDJ was literally playing a white character that wore black face. He wasn’t playing a black guy I don’t think.

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Yeah, the movie is about actors making a war movie in a jungle in Asia and accidentally getting mixed up in a real conflict.

RDJ plays a white, blond, blue-eyed, Australian method actor who was cast as a black character. As a method actor, he stays in character the entire duration of the shoot, so he’s always in blackface, acting as his character. Early in the movie there’s a montage of his other roles, so the audience and all the characters are fully aware that he’s a white Australian in blackface going overboard with his method acting.

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ChainsawAsh said:

Yeah, the movie is about actors making a war movie in a jungle in Asia and accidentally getting mixed up in a real conflict.

RDJ plays a white, blond, blue-eyed, Australian method actor who was cast as a black character. As a method actor, he stays in character the entire duration of the shoot, so he’s always in blackface, acting as his character. Early in the movie there’s a montage of his other roles, so the audience and all the characters are fully aware that he’s a white Australian in blackface going overboard with his method acting.

In the movie he says he doesn’t drop character until after the DVD commentary. I’m the commentary for Tropic Thunder, RDJ is in character the whole time.

Don’t do drugs, unless you’re with me.