Summer lovers, they have a blast. Every summer we see movie romances, in superhero movies and kids’ cartoons as well as romantic comedies. One thing most popcorn movie romances have in common: The lovers are white.
Dreaming of some playful changes, I present my first ever re-casting of the summer’s biggest romances:
Batman: The Dark Knight
“Batman: The [...]
Remember the weirdness of “Memoirs of a Geisha”? Chinese actresses playing Japanese archetypes (geishas) at a time when the two countries were at war (World War II), and doing it in English? It was like if Indians shot a Hindi-language Bollywood musical about the Holocaust and cast Christian German actors to play Jewish rabbis. Only “Memoirs” was [...]
Watching Barack Obama give an extraordinary speech at the Victory Column in Berlin, Germany today, I couldn’t help recalling another great African-American who was once applauded in Berlin: Jesse Owens.
Jesse Owens ran for the U.S. Track & Field team in the 1936 Olympics. The Nazis were in power then, so those were called the “Hitler Olympics.” [...]
As powerful as China seems sometimes, it’s worth remembering that every society has areas where it “needs improvement.” Artistic freedom — or lack thereof — seems to be one of China’s week points.
According to The New York Times, some people in China are upset about the success of Dreamworks’ “Kung Fu Panda,” an animated movie [...]
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