Originally Posted by
DochaDocha
I think this is a really complicated issue that I can't sufficiently cover in one post, so I'll try to keep this pretty high level. I don't think every movie that comes out needs to cover every representation bucket. I don't have a big problem with movies that are "too white" unless the sheer amount of whiteness just seems wrong. Like, that Tom Cruise is the main character in a movie called The Last Samurai still rubs me the wrong way. Or, while I think the early uproar about Resident Evil 5 was stupid and largely generated by people who really didn't follow gaming or the series, it at least sparked the creation of Sheva Alomar who was exactly what the game needed. If you're just trying to tell a story and it happens to be four white protagonists and a white villain, I kind of shrug it off. But if you make movies that take place in NYC and all the meaningful cast are white, that doesn't ring NYC to me. And if you're making a stable of movies like Disney is with Marvel and non-white characters are so few and far between, yeah, that's a no-no, too. In short, if you're talking about a small group of characters for a movie, then being "too white" doesn't seem like a problem, but as that fictional universe expands outward it can only feel authentic if it becomes more and more diverse.