Multicultural nonsense... black lead.... for white women to admire...
Hope it bombs.
shareI'm not exactly woke. Indeed, it's the opposite: I heavily dislike wokes. But I'm afraid I'm gonna disagree with this thread.
I think historic matters.
The problem in nazi movies was not that a couple of movies portrayed a Jew as a disgusting character, but that Jews were systematically portrayed as disgusting characters. The same, the problem with woke Hollywood is not that a few movies had a black lead, but that white males are portrayed as disgusting negative characters (cucks or psychopaths) while non-white and females are systematically portrayed with positive characteristics.
Nolan is one of the very few western directors that didn't go woke, not until now at least. Could this movie be a symptom of Nolan going woke? Yeap, it could be. Or it simply could be that he used a black lead. Historic matters. If Nolan hasn't gone woke until now, let's not jump to conclusions because he used a black lead in one movie.
Why not an Asian lead? Western society loves to put blacks on a pedestal. Not interested in seeing a black lead... had enough of this rubbish.
shareHollywood still doesn't like to cast Asian leads in action movies, unless it's some stereotypical Kung Fu stuff. And romance between an Asian male lead and a white woman? Almost never.
shareHollywood doesn't cast Asians unless there is a deal to get profits in China then they'll happily bring one aboard and censor anything China demands. Actually maybe that's the whole reason why most movies don't have many Asians in it, because of China. They don't want any other Asians to appear unless it's Chinese. By Asian I mean not in the UK sense since they consider East Indian and other parts of Asia as Asian. I'm talking South Korea or Japan similar features. Sure they're more of a minority (6%?) than blacks (13%) but heck I think blacks get portrayed more than hispanics which are a larger minority (18%?).
shareThe key element is that East-Asians are successful. In general wokeness is a celebration of ethnic groups that are despised because of their lack of diligence and their high crime index. The most successful an ethnic group is, the less likely they'll be worshiped by Wokes.
That's why Blacks are considered the New Chosen People in the Woke book, followed at some distance by Hispanics and Muslims, and with East-Asians being almost as low considered as White males.
I don't think Muslims are worshiped by wokes yet. In fact.... I'm not sure they ever will be, since they do not abide by the the whole females are goddesses concept, in fact.... in hard core muslim countries, females are often used as property.
shareI get your point but Asians aren't good actors. Those who do well are often mixed race.
Those with small eyes are at a disadvantage to convey emotions to a western audience.
Unless the emotion is looking tense, like Ken Watanabe is good at conveying, they're not versatile enough.