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Oh my goodness, how precious would Newt be as a frizzy-haired black man? It would have been so lovely to have a black man in media filling a role other than "big aggressive strong man" or "aged wise mentor". I love Eddie, but oh boy, that would've been awesome! (My brain went right to a black man because "Scamander" is a pretty English last name, but he could be of just about any race, really. Perhaps it was originally more "exotic", but an ancestor changed it to something easier to pronounce).
As far as Leta goes, it just feels like they wrote the movie specifically to build her up just to kill her off. So much screen time is spent developing her and then just... poof! no more Leta! Time for some Scamander manpain! And now our two most prominent WoC are Picquery (who was barely in both movies) and Nagini (who has maybe three lines and the only thing we know about her is her condition). And as for MoC... there's literally one. And of the two (presumably) Jewish women, neither of them mention being Jewish at all and one of them is evil now *sigh* And neither of them are played by Jews (that I know of).
I suppose it makes sense from that perspective, but I'm kind of hoping that Jowling Krowling is gonna pull the rug out from under us with another unnecessary twist and let her live. It's the one time I'd welcome that specific brand of bad writing.
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Date: 2018-12-07 01:33 am (UTC)Oh my goodness, how precious would Newt be as a frizzy-haired black man? It would have been so lovely to have a black man in media filling a role other than "big aggressive strong man" or "aged wise mentor". I love Eddie, but oh boy, that would've been awesome! (My brain went right to a black man because "Scamander" is a pretty English last name, but he could be of just about any race, really. Perhaps it was originally more "exotic", but an ancestor changed it to something easier to pronounce).
As far as Leta goes, it just feels like they wrote the movie specifically to build her up just to kill her off. So much screen time is spent developing her and then just... poof! no more Leta! Time for some Scamander manpain! And now our two most prominent WoC are Picquery (who was barely in both movies) and Nagini (who has maybe three lines and the only thing we know about her is her condition). And as for MoC... there's literally one. And of the two (presumably) Jewish women, neither of them mention being Jewish at all and one of them is evil now *sigh* And neither of them are played by Jews (that I know of).
I suppose it makes sense from that perspective, but I'm kind of hoping that Jowling Krowling is gonna pull the rug out from under us with another unnecessary twist and let her live. It's the one time I'd welcome that specific brand of bad writing.