Sculptor wrote: ↑Wed Sep 21, 2022 4:54 pm
I saw a lovely tic-tok of some young black girls remarking with amazement that the mermaid was a black girl. For me that was enough to convince me that is was worth making the effort.
'What' is, supposedly, worth 'making the effort', EXACTLY, and, 'what' and 'where' is 'the effort' being, supposedly, made, EXACTLY?
Sculptor wrote: ↑Wed Sep 21, 2022 4:54 pm
However, there is a lot wrong with how things are going at the moment.
How 'what things' are going, at the moment, EXACTLY?
Sculptor wrote: ↑Wed Sep 21, 2022 4:54 pm
There are really good and creative ways to make sure minorities are represented.
'Who' and/or 'what', EXACTLY are/is the, supposed, 'minority' here, EXACTLY?
Sculptor wrote: ↑Wed Sep 21, 2022 4:54 pm
At the moment there is a icky tendency for a sort of pedagogic high mindedness which is being generally rejected as absurd by the public.
'What' are you going on about here, EXACTLY?
Sculptor wrote: ↑Wed Sep 21, 2022 4:54 pm
Even people who are full square behind the idea of extending representation and giving, say, black actors a level playing ground with white.
WHEN 'you', human beings, evolve ENOUGH, and thus mature/grow up ENOUGH, then just how Truly ABSURD it REALLY IS calling 'people' "black" or "white" BECOMES CRYSTAL CLEAR.
But, until then please do NOT let me STOP 'you' from carrying on the way 'you' ARE, and HAVE BEEN.
Sculptor wrote: ↑Wed Sep 21, 2022 4:54 pm
But there is a growing problem which undermines the effort. In RIngs of Power for example as in other programmes (eg Wheel of Time) which have several examples of white characters with black children and black parents with white children.
How do 'you', human beings, ACTUALLY 'separate' so-called "black people" FROM "white people"?
In other words 'what' are the EXACT DEFINING FEATURES, which 'you' base YOUR 'separations' ON?
Sculptor wrote: ↑Wed Sep 21, 2022 4:54 pm
When we watch a drama we enter into a contract whereby the audience suspend their disbelief and pretend that what we are watching is real.
WHO is this, supposed, 'contract' BETWEEN, EXACTLY? Besides, of course, with "one's" OWN 'self'?
When I observe 'drama' I watch 'it' for what 'it' Truly IS. Sometimes 'the drama' is REALLY performed FOR JUST MONEY, and thus Truly STAGED, but STILL REAL, and sometimes 'you', people, MAKE 'drama' for NO other reason than just MAKING 'drama', out of usually LITERALLY NOTHING of ANY REAL importance NOR significance, and therefore I do NOT have to pretend that what I am observing/watching is real or not, either way.
EVERY thing I am observing, or watching, IS REAL. What reason 'you', people, MAKE 'the drama', however, is for DIFFERENT REASONS.
Sculptor wrote: ↑Wed Sep 21, 2022 4:54 pm
This is most important with fantasy programs. So why not cast Morgan Freeman as the child or even wife of a character played by Emma Watson?
'you', people, CAST and IMAGINE non human speaking animals in roles as human speaking 'things'. So, WHY question about NOT casting some adult human being as the child or wife of a character played by ANOTHER adult human being, but NOT LOOK AT just how much of an ACTUAL VARIETY 'you', adult human beings, do CAST, PLAY, and ACT on and in the STAGE of Life?
Sculptor wrote: ↑Wed Sep 21, 2022 4:54 pm
WHy not? Because it would be ridiculous!
There are plenty of so-called "gay men" who PLAY 'wifes', and, plenty of so-called "gay women" who PLAY 'husbands', not just in the REAL life PAID ACTING PERFORMANCE stage of Life but also in REAL life ROLES.
Do you find this RIDICULOUS, ALSO?
If yes, or if no, then WHY?
Sculptor wrote: ↑Wed Sep 21, 2022 4:54 pm
It would stop you in your tracks and the spell of belief would be broken.
Have you EVER SEEN a 'fantasy' movie/stage performance?
Have you EVEN heard of the 'fantasy' genre in the movie or theater industry?
Sculptor wrote: ↑Wed Sep 21, 2022 4:54 pm
So why is the daughter of the HIgh King of Numenor(white) and black women - a great performance by the way, but an example of bad casting since she simply does not look like her father in a very profound way.
WHY does this EVEN MATTER and/or BOTHER 'you', "sculptor"?
Also, have you NEVER WITNESSED and OBSERVED the children of a couple who has much lighter OR darker colored skin than that of the parents?
If no, then maybe you should, as they say, 'GET OUT a bit MORE'.
Also, in the example you provided above here, you WERE WATCHING human beings PAID to PLAY A ROLE, just in case you ARE STILL UNAWARE. AND, if this KNOWLEDGE that they are just PAID HUMAN BEINGS to PRETEND to be some 'thing', which they ARE NOT, then MAYBE you will NEED to find some OTHER ACCURATE KNOWLEDGE to KEEP 'you' from STARTING TO BELIEVE that what 'you' are WATCHING and OBSERVING is ONLY JUST A STORY, ABOUT SOME 'thing'.
Sculptor wrote: ↑Wed Sep 21, 2022 4:54 pm
So why not make the entire family of Isildur black instead?
BECAUSE there is NO such 'thing' as ACTUAL "black" NOR "white" 'people' OTHER than in YOUR IMAGINATION ONLY.
And, to PROVE that this is IRREFUTABLY True, I could ask 'you', "sculptor", How are so-called "black people" AND "black people" ACCURATELY DEFINED, and 'what', EXACTLY, SUPPOSEDLY, 'separates' so-called "white people" FROM "black people"?
Now, EITHER;
'you' WILL PROVE True MY CLAIM that "black" AND "white" 'people" exist in IMAGINATION ONLY.
Or,
'you' WILL PROVE MY CLAIM Wrong, and SHOW to 'us' EXACTLY HOW there are ACTUALLY "white people" AND "black people", and HOW they are FULLY 'separate', and DIFFERENT 'things'.
'We' AWAIT YOUR INSPIRING INSIGHTS here.
Sculptor wrote: ↑Wed Sep 21, 2022 4:54 pm
The point is Amazon are imposing a moral point virtue signalling in the most exhibitionist way.
And, SOME are WITNESSING, OBSERVING, and thus SEEING, and UNDERSTANDING MORE of the Truly RACIST perspective, which EXISTED WITHIN 'you', adult human beings, in the days when this was being written.
Sculptor wrote: ↑Wed Sep 21, 2022 4:54 pm
When I watch a series on Netflix or Amazon, I am pleased to see a range of different human groups represented,
And, as long as "sculptor" is PLEASED, then the REST of the human population SHOULD carry on with ONLY 'that', which PLEASES "sculptor", and MAKES "sculptor" HAPPY, correct "sculptor"?
Oh, and by the way, are 'you' NOT ABLE to LOOK AT and SEE the human population as JUST ONE GROUP?
Sculptor wrote: ↑Wed Sep 21, 2022 4:54 pm
but I do not want it to be in my face to the degree that it makes the drama look idiotic.
OKAY.
Did 'you' here THIS, the REST of humanity?
"sculptor" does NOT like so-called "black" AND "white" 'people' to be INTEGRATED in such A WAY, NOR in such A DEGREE, which will make A MADE UP DRAMA STORY look 'idiotic', to "sculptor". So, PLEASE ALL of humanity CHANGE YOUR WAYS, for and to 'what' ONLY PLEASES "sculptor", ALONE.
By the way, 'we' could talk about how one could get MORE PEDANTIC, and MORE RACIST, in one's OWN TINY, MINUTE 'world view' of 'things', but I think this would be a PRIME EXAMPLE of how adult human beings, back in the days when this was being written, could NOT become MORE SHALLOW and NOT be able to obtain a MORE NARROWED view of 'things' than this here.