Vaderisnothayden said:
V said:
Vaderisnothayden said:
But I was pissed off about Samuel L Jackson being Nick Fury. I think it's racist to change the race of a character, at least if the character is well-established, important and popular.
No, its racist to say that every comic book character should only be played by actors of the same race. Skin color doesn't matter, talent does. I think Denzel Washington would be an outstanding Two-Face, but people like you would never get past that he's not the same color as the character from the comics.
Vaderisnothayden said:
And why are they not using the classic character that was important for so long instead of some recent invention?
They did.
And he was terrible. The Ultimate version of Nick Fury is not only black, but is modeled after Jackson. They couldn't have chosen a better candidate.
No, its racist to say that every comic book character should only be played by actors of the same race. Skin color doesn't matter, talent does.
I'm sorry but that's absolute bullshit. Characters should be kept faithful to what they are. Black characters should not be made white and white characters should not be made black, etc. There's nothing racist about insisting on some faithfulness to the source material.
And so what if an attempt at doing the original Nick Fury went wrong before. That hardly proves it has to go wrong. With a different actor and a different script it could be quite different.
And if they want to do Marvel they should do proper Marvel, not this "Ultimate" bullshit.
Being truly faithful would be getting the core of the character right, whether or not the actor is the same race. It's the inside that counts, not the outside. And if you want them to be your idea of faithful, that's exactly what they're doing by casting Jackson- black actor for black character. But you still can't get past the fact that the Ultimate Fury is black. You want Fury to be white because that's the only way you will accept him.
Just because the original Fury was white doesn't mean they're chained and bound to making the character white in the movies. The original Hulk had gray skin, the original Batman killed criminals, and the original Wolverine was a highly-evolved wolf but all those characters changed over time, just like Fury. Doesn't matter if the Ultimate Fury's been around for a much shorter time, it's a version of the character than Favreau chose to go with. And rightfully so, because the Ultimate Nick Fury is basically Sam Jackson as a comic book character, and Jackson playing him in the movies is pretty goddamn faithful.