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avatar, avatar: the last airbender, the last airbender

I kinda want to cry. WITH ANGER.
AVATAR

From SequentialTart.com - editorial that ties the Last Airbender casting to the Josh Tyler article. Good reading!

An hilarious entry on The Playlist about the casting and about the fans. XD

AND! AND.

PLEASE NOTE - SLAGGING RATHBONE OFF IN THE MTV ARTICLE'S COMMENTS WILL DO NOTHING MORE THAN HAVE PEOPLE DISMISS US AS EASILY AS HE DISMISSES RACIST ISSUES. Please carefully think about what you say if you comment. Focus on the movie-makers, not the actors!

The best part about this is being people who aren't even interested/familiar with in the Avatar series are voicing their anger over this --
Jackson Rathbone Talks Upcoming Last Airbender Film

"Airbender" has already begun to face a bit of controversy over the casting of white actors like Rathbone, Ringer and McCartney to play Asian characters — a concern the actor was quick to dismiss. "I think it's one of those things where I pull my hair up, shave the sides, and I definitely need a tan," he said of the transformation he'll go through to look more like Sokka. "It's one of those things where, hopefully, the audience will suspend disbelief a little bit."(bold is mine)

Okay. Okay.

Okay.
1) I know MTV Films is a producer of this movie.

2) I can clearly see the market they're appealing to, based on the article's comments:

I think all this talk about Asian actors is silly. I'm sorry, but... it's an American show. I never got that they were supposed to be Asian. LOL.Also: *FACE. PALM*

3) I appreciate the fact that MTV has said "the casting of white actors...to play Asian characters" (bold is mine).

So there you have it YET AGAIN, folks. Avatar is Asian. Yeah, not just the food, culture, clothes, mannerisms, beliefs, combat, architecture, music, hairstyles, landmasses, art, writing - THE CHARACTERS ARE ALSO ASIAN. But apparently it's not a big deal to have an all-white main cast?

you can feel my rage?***

KEEP WRITING LETTERS:
aang_aint_white!

KEEP CONTACTING THE MEDIA:
Email addresses here!

KEEP INFORMED:
Link roundup here!

And most importantly: KEEP TELLING YOUR FRIENDS!


***DISCLAIMER: (Can you believe I have to Disclaimer this??) No, I don't hate Jackson Rathbone, or judge him or think he's a horrible human being. I know he's just an innocent sweet darling 24-year old child actor who can't catch a break and is struggling to get a movie role, poor underappreciated fella!

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	tallycola 2009-01-16 05:38 am UTC (link)
	I didn't have any hard feelings on Jackson Rathbone either, until I read that quote. What a boneheaded thing to say. I'm just waiting 'til he pulls a Twilight and says he's 1/16th something-or-other to make it all okay. Also, way to alienate your built-in audience. BAH. (Reply to this) (Thread)(Expand)

	glockgal 2009-01-16 05:43 am UTC (link)
	He's not alienating anyone. He's just making it easy for his fans to feel all right with equating ethnicity to a pricey tanning salon appointment. *takes a breath* (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)(Expand)

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reference please? - kidkoala, 2009-01-16 10:17 pm UTC (Expand)

florahart 2009-01-16 06:27 am UTC (link)

Just for fun, I just asked my 13 year old son, who is white and, you know, a teenage boy, if he had any particular sense of the racial backgrounds of the characters in this, or what race would rationally be cast in a live-action movie, because he likes a lot of manga/anime-type things so is familiar with the source material. I didn't tell him why I was asking. After he got done telling me the show is lame (I have no opinion, as I have never seen it), he was all, well, main guy, I would say is Asian-and-white mix, just because of some of the things that come up. The rest of them, I think are like, Eskimo or Inuit or some kind of group that's north Asian. So I would think they would cast at least Japanese or Korean actors or something. I don't know whether he's right about the north thing, because again, ain't seen it, but my point is, I sort of think if a 13 year old white boy can work out that an Asian cast would make sense in five seconds, the adults doing the casting maybe need some remedial thinking exercises. Heh. (Reply to this) (Thread)

glockgal 2009-01-16 06:34 am UTC (link)

FOFL first off, I loooove that your son is all "THIS SHOW IS LAME" considering he was originally the target market Nickleodeon was aiming for. Proving once again how badly out of touch market researchers can be. *hee* Your boy just cracks me up, I love it! Second - yeah see? He can easily connect that Asian-based fantasy world = Asian characters; it's not a difficult connection! Though according to some people, even though 99.9% of the show's entirety is Asian/Inuit based, they still don't get what's so wrong about casting all-white actors for the main characters. I just. I wish more kids were like yours, babe. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)(Expand)

(no subject) - tallycola, 2009-01-16 06:42 am UTC (Expand)

	*seeing red* jedifreac 2009-01-16 06:36 am UTC (link)
	So apparently I'm bad at suspending belief. (Reply to this) (Thread)(Expand)

	Re: *seeing red* tallycola 2009-01-16 06:43 am UTC (link)
	Pretending Will Farrell could be a figure skater for an hour and a half is suspending belief. Believing white people dressed up as other ethnicities and prancing around talking about "honour" and "my people" is just embarrassing! (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)(Expand)

Re: *seeing red* - tallycola, 2009-01-16 06:45 am UTC (Expand)

Re: *seeing red* - glockgal, 2009-01-16 06:44 am UTC (Expand)

	notrafficlights 2009-01-16 06:37 am UTC (link)
	But he's a sucky actor and I want to slag him offffff ;_; (Reply to this) (Thread)

	glockgal 2009-01-16 06:47 am UTC (link)
	Ohhhh go on then. I can't resist your incredible slag-powers! *coy* (Reply to this) (Parent)

kcchiefs91 2009-01-16 07:03 am UTC (link)

ha! hes hardly a child actor since he's in his early twenties and he plays a Cullen in the Twilight franchise so hes not going to be hurting for work in the future or face time in the media. I can understand why he's excited about expanding his acting resume its just to bad he's doing it with this movie...which any person should know takes more then a haircut and a tan to suddenly look Asian. good lord Edited at 2009-01-16 07:05 am UTC (Reply to this) (Thread)

	glockgal 2009-01-16 07:11 am UTC (link)
	I know he's 24. But I still need to disclaimer before anyone jumps down my throat for wanting to take jobs away from young white actors and give them to all those well-known, popular young Asian actors. So unfair! Yeah, it's too bad he felt he could give an opinion on white-washing Avatar. But, he did - quite blase and dismissive - and now it's there for everyone to read. (Reply to this) (Parent)

quietrevolution 2009-01-16 08:23 am UTC (link)

NO SRSLY, HOW DO YOUR RLY FEEL?!?!?! As much as the term makes me cringe, I think the white privilege mindset causes a lot of the "Huh, who's Asian?" comments. I'm happy though, that the Avatar situation hasn't spurred an event like this though: my friend was filming a documentary this past week on cosplayers in Tokyo and filmed a fistfight between a Japanese man and a white guy dressed as an anime character. The Japanese man basically went up to the cosplayer and told him that he was disrespecting Japan's culture and he should leave Japan, then the Japanese guy punched him in the face. Considering we don't get much violence here, that's pretty shocking. The entire situation is pretty shocking actually seeing as most adults, men especially, here are disinclined to let their emotions get the best of them in public. (Reply to this) (Thread)(Expand)

trevorfrost 2009-01-16 12:27 pm UTC (link)

Wait wait? Did he hit him cause he was Cosplaying or cause he was Cosplaying in an offensive way? I don't know if its true or not but I have always heard that over in Japan, that most of mainstream Japan dislikes Anime and its fans both its Japananese fans and mainstream American fans. Having to do with the very exaggerated way most Anime deal with Japanese culture. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)(Expand)

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	bzzinglikeneon 2009-01-16 09:46 am UTC (link)
	Oh Jackson. *headdesk* All I can think is that he just doesn't know, like how I didn't know. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	glockgal 2009-01-16 04:12 pm UTC (link)
	I know. And I tend to mass-forgive young people (under 25's) when they say stupid things for that very reason. Did I know any better when I was 24? At least when we were young, we said something dumb to our friends in a small area. His voice happens to span across web servers, fans, countries.... (Reply to this) (Parent)

trevorfrost 2009-01-16 12:12 pm UTC (link)

WOW! Seriously? I mean WOW! I just have no way to explain the dumbness of the words that were coming out of his mouth.. In fact I think I just personally lost a few brain cells reading them. I'm White and yet I still grok this whole thing, why doesn't he? Maybe its cause I'm Gay and have to deal with idiotic sterotypes as well. Or maybe he's being stupid cause the merchandising/commercial department for the Movie are brainwashing him... I'd like to think thats the case cause it really hurts my brain otherwise. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	glockgal 2009-01-16 04:14 pm UTC (link)
	Ahhh, he's just being an actor, eh. Again, my concern isn't Rathbone at all. I'm more surprised at MTV and their gleeful posting of his quote - essentially, he's saying 'Yellowface is okay, right true fans?!?!' and MTV is like *THUMBS UP* (Reply to this) (Parent)

jaded_moon 2009-01-16 02:31 pm UTC (link)

You know, and this is a little off topic but it applies at the end of the statement, I swear, but in the first "interview" session the creators had with M. Night (I think this is where I encountered the statement), M. Night said that it was a weird feeling knowing that the kid they will eventually cast as Aang (or the other characters) is just sitting in class not knowing that he'll become known specifically as Aang worldwide, and probably the rest of his life. So when I read, "I know he's just an innocent sweet darling 24-year old child actor who can't catch a break and is struggling to get a movie role, poor underappreciated fella!" I couldn't help but remember M. Night's comment and apply it to Rathbone. It's an interesting concept. Not only is he eternally Jasper now, but, if the casting holds, he's Sokka. I can just imagine, some years down the line, someone going, "Oh, you were Sokka! But... you aren't Asian... How did that work?" There are always controversies surrounding the choices actors make when they're struggling to catch their big break. Some people think those choices are inexcusable, despite the outcome, but others think that such choices were necessary in order to make it where they are now, and that the actors shouldn't be held accountable for what they had to do years ago. Regardless of either argument, I wonder how many actors have points docked off their reputations for making poor choices in the beginning of their careers? And I really wonder how they, the actors, feel about those choices, after all these years. And if, in studying different actors while trying to become one, any of the up-and-coming ones are considering the consequences, however minor, of their roles today. Sorry for being a little off-topic, but I couldn't resist. :/ (Reply to this) (Thread)(Expand)

	jaded_moon 2009-01-16 02:50 pm UTC (link)
	Edit: ...however minor or major. I was momentarily thinking of just the movie industry where a faux pas like this would mean little so long as the movie and merchandise sold well. The fans, however, would consider it a major blunder. ;) Obviously. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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	drakemobius 2009-01-16 02:33 pm UTC (link)
	your 'YET AGAIN' link is to your 'edit entry' URL. Hrmmm. keep on fightin' miss (Reply to this) (Thread)

	glockgal 2009-01-16 04:19 pm UTC (link)
	Thanks bebe. Fixed! It just points to my last post about what the Nickleodeon VP said about Avatar. XD (Reply to this) (Parent)

caterfree10 2009-01-16 03:48 pm UTC (link)

God, I felt physically SICK after reading just what was relayed on dA through one of the people who I watch. I'm not touching the article, or else I'm afraid I'll go off on all the idiots there who are sure to follow Rathbone-head no matter how much stupid he spits out of his mouth. Needless to say, My Rahm icon's coming out to play. >_> I- I just- I have no words. I seriously just want to bitch slap that man for this bullshit! I REALLY want to send a letter tailored specifically to him calling out his soaking in White Privilege. Thing is, I'm not sure how composed I'll remain, so I'll probably wait at least a week so I can be somewhat sane with my words. And besides, MY TEN YEAR OLD NIECE THINKS THE CASTING IS SHIT. A FUCKING TEN YEAR OLD CAN SEE THAT THIS IS WRONG. WHAT THE HELL. I really wish I was going home this weekend so I could share this with her and then laugh as I relay her reaction to my friends online as I show that the target demographic doesn't approve of this bullshit. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	glockgal 2009-01-18 06:59 pm UTC (link)
	I too a peek at the comments to the article and LO AND BEHOLD! The comments of sanity outweigh the ignorance! CAN IT BE?? *clasps hands in joy* A FUCKING TEN YEAR OLD CAN SEE THAT THIS IS WRONG See and this is why I can't excuse youth for ignorance; it really just amounts to, well. Ignorance. And the blissful one at that! (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)(Expand)

(no subject) - caterfree10, 2009-01-18 07:46 pm UTC (Expand)

sanspantalons 2009-01-16 07:43 pm UTC (link)

I will suspend my disbelief re; The superpowered bending arts. The flying bison. Katara's hair-loopies not driving her nuts every morning. Toph not being declared supreme ruler of the Earth Kingdom. The Deus-Ex Machina Lion-Turtle. I will, sadly, not suspend my disbelief re; The Producers/Directors/Casting Agents being completely unable to find competent, fitting young actors of at least approximate ethnic origin to the characters they're playing. Because... yeah, suspension of disbelief can only stretch so far. edit; Because I should mention, sorry. Was linked here by a friend and had to chime in on the '...ugh.' Edited at 2009-01-16 07:52 pm UTC (Reply to this) (Thread)(Expand)

	caterfree10 2009-01-16 08:43 pm UTC (link)
	Oh my Agni, YES. QFT right here! I can suspend my belief for the FANTASY elements, not the racial aspects that are CLEAR AS DAY int he series. Also, love the "Toph not being declared supreme ruler of the Earth Kingdom" part up there. :D (Reply to this) (Parent)

(no subject) - glockgal, 2009-01-18 07:01 pm UTC (Expand)

	kadymae 2009-01-16 08:17 pm UTC (link)
	Thanks for linking my editorial! (Reply to this) (Thread)

	glockgal 2009-01-18 07:02 pm UTC (link)
	Thank YOU for writing it!! I love seeing more and more online news sites picking this story up, it makes me happy. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	_yggdrasil 2009-01-16 08:54 pm UTC (link)
	Mtv.com refuses to load for me, so I apologize if this is answered at the website itself but ... aside from a throwaway comment about "some people aren't in love with the all-white cast", has anyone associated with this movie directly responded to all the people writing in? (Reply to this) (Thread)(Expand)

	ali_wildgoose 2009-01-17 12:23 am UTC (link)
	The Entertainment Weekly article and SciFi Wire article did...not sure about other news sources. (Reply to this) (Parent)

(no subject) - glockgal, 2009-01-18 07:04 pm UTC (Expand)

lizamanynames 2009-01-16 10:50 pm UTC (link)

"I think it's one of those things where I pull my hair up, shave the sides, and I definitely need a tan, That is the single most goddamned offensive thing I've read in this whole thing. I mean, I personally am offended. In my world, when somebody says something that atrocious, if they obviously didn't mean to be hurtful but are just bloody ignorant, someone takes them aside and explains to them politely but FIRMLY why saying that is NOT OKAY. It's the verbal equivilant of picking your nose in public, dude. So in other words yes, he's a child actor. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	glockgal 2009-01-18 07:05 pm UTC (link)
	It's the verbal equivilant of picking your nose in public, dude. So in other words yes, he's a child actor. HA. EXACTLY what I was thinking. What makes me even more "WTF" is the fact that MTV blithely kept it in the interview...so like. They also think it's just perfectly fine he said that? Wow. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	dietotaku 2009-01-17 01:42 am UTC (link)
	if jackson seriously thinks a tan is IN ANY WAY equivalent to an actor of the appropriate ethnicity, i have to wonder at what grade he dropped out of elementary school. i mean, has he even SEEN a caucasian with a tan standing next to a naturally dark-skinned person? NOT. THE SAME. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	glockgal 2009-01-18 07:06 pm UTC (link)
	Nat the same at all, man. Not the same. It's amazing that this has to be spelled out to some people, innit? (Reply to this) (Parent)

I swear I'll stop spamming your inbox with edits! vejiicakes 2009-01-17 08:22 am UTC (link)

Not on my computer at the moment, but I have further news on this (maybe it's old at this point, but basically: if source to be believed, there's reason to believe that Aang was the ONLY character who got ANY sort of open casting call, and all the other mains were closed auditions. Also, I'm in the midst of compiling a pretty lengthy image post of yellow-(and otherwise just Asian)-face in Hollywood over the decades. Just because wow, this is so not an isolated, and therefore NOT inoffensive, situation. Seriously, I want to see people like the cast-defenders and Rathbone react with this kind of frivolity had the source material been a fantasy!African canon. Seriously. Edited at 2009-01-17 10:26 pm UTC (Reply to this) (Thread)

Re: I swear I'll stop spamming your inbox with edits! glockgal 2009-01-18 07:08 pm UTC (link)

OOOOHHHHHH historical references will give me pleasure. Lots of pleasure. *wiggles eyebrows* had the source material been a fantasy!African canon. Seriously. God, y'know? I hate that it's had to come to that sort of extreme, but sometimes it seems like the only time Americans pay attention is when you show black vs white. It's like no one quite understand that there's a HUGE, MASSIVE GREY AREA. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)(Expand)

Re: I swear I'll stop spamming your inbox with edits! - vejiicakes, 2009-01-18 07:16 pm UTC (Expand)

vejiicakes 2009-01-17 08:33 am UTC (link)

And incidentally, surely someone has brought up already that if Rathbone is supposed to be evidence of cashing in on the "Twilight" craze, it fails. Because the actor who played the main character's Native American BFF is: 1) infinitely more popular than the character Rathbone played, not the least because of his greater character role in the books but also the character totally had actual SCREENTIME and SPEAKING LINES 2) a far more appropriate 16 years old 3) being considered for replacement for his role in the later Twifilms (where the character becomes all serious and rapey), because it was thought he came across as too much of a cheerful jokester type of every!guy. Gosh, that doesn't sound like Sokka at ALL... Edited at 2009-01-17 08:34 am UTC (Reply to this) (Thread)(Expand)

	mangagirl 2009-01-17 03:07 pm UTC (link)
	I just feel the need to add; 4) has a blackbelt in karate, won gold medals, and ranked #1 internationally for traditional weapons (and some other stuff, but dude, swords?) when he was 11. I didn't see Twilight (or finish reading any of the books) to have first hand experience with 1-3, but now I'm wondering even more what kind of blinders the casting department had. o_O (Reply to this) (Parent)

(no subject) - glockgal, 2009-01-18 07:11 pm UTC (Expand)

	insipid_paragon 2009-01-17 05:17 pm UTC (link)
	I came across this article this morning and thought you might find it interesting, in light of the Avatar debacle. The End of White America? by Hua Hsu. I'm particularly intrigued by the distinct lack of mention of Asian cultures in the non-white American mix discussed here... (Reply to this) (Thread)

glockgal 2009-01-18 07:20 pm UTC (link)

I just read it - thank you for the link! - and then discussed it over a length of time with my sister (who's ten times more educated/aware of social issues than I am). I was unsurprised to discover she wrote a letter to the paper about some of the points brought up...she writes a lot of angry letters, ehehehe. But I did find the essay to be like. It was almost like a Racial Issues 101 for people who've never had to encounter racial issues before/are in great denial racism exists. Y'know? Because it cushions the racism. I think to peeps like you and I, it's like "Duh of course"; but the fact that it bounces back and forth between white grievances and minority rights, it seemed to say "Look, you're Caucasian and you may be rich or poor, but here's how it looks for the rest of America." Anyway, the only thing I really objected to (and I can't help but wonder if it was taken out of context and therefore how MUCH of the quotes were taking out of context?) was the whole "It's hard to blond haired blue eyed actors to get a job now, poor babies! Even this Hispanic marketing firm agrees with us! I did find the case of United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind interesting. There are some good quotes in that article, despite its many problems. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)(Expand)

(no subject) - insipid_paragon, 2009-01-18 08:30 pm UTC (Expand)

	I couldn't resist (Anonymous) 2009-01-17 06:17 pm UTC (link)
	Upon reading Rathbone's response, only one thing came to mind.... 0:10-0:18 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44DrPF5u3Fg&feature=PlayList&p=C5A478118D38D56E&playnext=1&index=23 (Reply to this) (Thread)

	Re: I couldn't resist glockgal 2009-01-18 07:21 pm UTC (link)
	HA. I know, right?!? I mean, the movie just came out recently; HAS EVERYONE ALREADY FORGOTTEN??? (Reply to this) (Parent)

	ravenbell 2009-01-18 01:00 am UTC (link)
	Another link for you from FPS (Frames Per Second) Magazine. They're an animation-centric publication. The article mentions the Avatar whitewashing in the context of discussing a bunch of recent film adaptations of anime. http://www.fpsmagazine.com/blog/2009/01/rant-fund-animators-not-adaptations.php (Reply to this) (Thread)

	glockgal 2009-01-18 07:23 pm UTC (link)
	Hey sweet!! I'll be mentioning this in my next post. Thank you for much for the link! \o/ \o/ \o/ (Reply to this) (Parent)

	amegoddess 2009-01-18 05:40 am UTC (link)
	My god! I need to stay more connected to the internet. >_< What the hell? Poor Avatar, it deserves better then this! -Diana (Reply to this) (Thread)

	glockgal 2009-01-18 07:25 pm UTC (link)
	Srsly, right?! It's mind-blowing, it really is. I mean - forget respecting fans, because no one in Hollywood really does and that's fine, whatev - but the lack of respect for American parents and children is just. Phenomenal! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	endorwitch 2009-01-18 08:13 am UTC (link)
	i hzve only ever seen one episode of the show. so i am not fanatical or anything but all your posts ranting about the casting of white actors seems totally logical to me. okay so i have a mega crush on jackson rathbone but when i saw he was gonna be in this i was all 'what the hell? that aint right!' (Reply to this) (Thread)

glockgal 2009-01-18 07:27 pm UTC (link)

I'm not really fanatical either (and I hope I don't come off that way! Yikes), it's more that I enjoyed the show for celebrating and respecting Asian cultures; now it's all going to hell and it kinda hurts. Nawww, bebe! <3 <3 What amazes me is that MTV didn't think it would be wise to edit out that portion of the interview - so they think it's perfectly okay for an actor to say "I'll get a tan" to play another race? Incredible. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)(Expand)

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singingsun199 2009-01-20 02:13 am UTC (link)

I'm actually all BLAH about his comment. Like, it was incredibl insensitive, but he didn't mean it. So I'm sure eh's not intentionally racist. He just doesn't know what he's saying. At all. Couldn't he have atleast talked about the racism issue. Maybe sympthasized with fans, and then said he'd do his best to be Sokka? Either way, this is just another stupid comment that I'm gonna ignore. Hard to do, but it's possible. Instead I shall try and be happy that he's an Avatard. You know....I can't see why they can't replace him. He'll still get plenty of publicity as a ****** beyootiful sparkly Cullen******. Let's get back to sending our letters and making this issue known. If anything, this is just another oppurtunity to prove our point. Idiot Hollywood. (Reply to this)

	msloserrific 2009-01-24 06:05 pm UTC (link)
	His quote was featured on Racialicious, as well as Angry Asian Man (it was crossposted): http://www.racialicious.com/2009/01/22/avatar-get-a-tan-become-asian (Reply to this)

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