Why is Edward Carnby asian??

That`s not altogether true, it`s not about raceism, it`s about authenticity.
Daredevil took alot of heat from the comic`s fans, both for casting M.C.D as wilson Fisk and in general. It`s not racist for fans to expect an accurate continuity between two mediums' portrayal of the same charecters; especially when fans have invested years into following the continuity of the charecters. Now if this was an original work then race, skin color , and ethnicity would be moot points; But in this case there are pre-existing fans that must feel recognized or the film well be abandoned by fans like Daredevil and Judge Dredd were.

Halle Berry was not right for the part of Catwoman. And, The Rock wasn't right for the part of that coach in that Gridiron Gang movie (or whatever it was called) since the coach was white. The Rock is Polynesian. Especially since it showed the actual coach of the team at the end of the movie in the credits. The guy was white. Why was a Polynesian playing a white guy? Polynesians look asian (because their ancestors are asian).

It's like saying Bruce Willis should have played the part of Carl Lee Hailey instead of Samuel L. Jackson because Bruce Willis was in his game in the mid '90s, and he's probably would have done a great job, though he's not black.

Or instead of of blacks in Boyz 'N the Hood, it should have been white people. Where's the line drawn?

If the original characters from a book, or a comic book, or a prequal, sequal, original, etc., were one color, then that's the color they should be unless the character themselves is of a particular race. Like all the old movies with white people playing black people, or white people playing asian people, or hispanic people, or Native American people, or Indian (India) people etc.,

It's not racist for people to play a part designated for a particular race. It is a bit racist when you have someone of another race playing a part that's been previously designated a particular race. It's also somewhat idiotic, and unexpected, and doesn't really help in the long run.

If an all-black school is doing Hamlet, and all they can get to play those characters are black people then that's fine. Same if it's all all-white school and they are doing a play of A Raisin in the Sun -- it's understandable, and not construed as racist. You deal with what you got.

However, those sort of standards shouldn't be present in a film, where there are plenty of actors of all races to play a part.

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Well ya so anyway he was white in the first movie he needs to be white in this one, Kingpin is also DD's father so ya they screwed that up and turned that movie in to somethin stupid, I hated batman cuz Harvy dent was Billy D and then Tommy lee jones. Its all stupid.
Sure our opinions dont mater to any of them at all and thats why all these movies are crap or are going to be crap. For once I would like the studios to just listen to the fans, I dug the first one it was fun to watch(unless tara reid was on screen)but now they turn it in to something that i wont even try to watch due to their lack of intelligence and respect for fans.

Also this isnt about race its about continuity, its about making a movie that people who liked the first one will watch or fans of the comics or books or whatever came first. I am sure he's a fine actor and all that jazz and he was great in Die Another Day but hes not Carnby and unfortunately I will never want to see it due to him not being white and I know that sounds bad when put that way but its just a simple fact, You cant take the punisher and make him black, mexican, asian or whatever he has to be white cuz thats what he is.

Its just a slap ...no, a Punch in the face to fans.



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I agree that anybody should be able to play a character - when a character is written as "black" we often get these degrading "token black guy" types and such - but the whole Sigourney Weaver in Alien thing is a good example, the character was written as a male, and Sigourney asked to audition for the part and we got a very strong willed woman character who went down in history.

So, yeah, I think that whatever somebody is written as in the script shouldn't affect somebody's chances of getting the role, whatever race.

However, when you have a movie which is a sequel, and the character was American in the original, I do think a bit of consistency would make sense there. Same if, for example, Edward had parents or children, they'd have to be cast as Asians too, in my opinion, just for that realism.

But what the heck.

They won't, this will blow just as hard and most likely be a lame ass sci-fi movie.

okay girls...Who cares if the main protaganist in what we know is going to be a mediocre at best movie is Asian instead of White? I mean, if we are really going to get into it then we could say things like, "Wolverine isn't 6'2, what the hell?!", or "Daniel Craig is blonde, he's not allowed to be James Bond!"...when we all know that both Hugh Jackman and Daniel Craig were amazing in those respective roles, and while Rick Yune is by no means a terrific actor, neither is Christian Slater. I mean, Michael Clarke Duncan was great as Kingpin, when in fact, Kingpin is a white character. I mean really, this whole argument in itself is pointless and sets any kind of racial movement back 10 years.

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