'Annie' remake: casting of black lead provokes negative Twitter posts

Everyone hasn't come to know it. There is a generation or perhaps 2 that this will be a new experience for.
Did you know they did an australlian version of annie, and rudely used austraillian actors. I think it played in several countries, probably went and used local actors in all of them instead of shipping the original cast and crew around the world.

 

You're the only one who even mentioned today's events being anything like in other decades. Not sure why you're arguing a point only you made.

 

Oooof....sounds terrible.

I sure hope Marvel gets these rights back in house soon before too much garbage like this buries the franchise.

 

What's Annie?

 

Aren't you the one calling blacks racist all the time? Therefor you're in no position to call them racist using your logic.

 

Yes, and the people who created Annie were whites who made her white with red hair.

I'd bet if a white man were cast to play Shaft, you liberal pusses would soil yourselves.

 

LOL Ironic. I'm a "liberal puss" because I don't care what race Annie is.

 

Take it up with Sony. That seems to be their stance.

 

I dislike that particular actress, but I'm not going to see it anyway, so they can cast who they like.

 

Perhaps you should read the rest of his post. He thinks Annie can be black, but that it's absurd to say she should be black. It really doesn't matter.

 

It's pronounced Kwah - ven - zha - nay. Believe it or not, there's actually a video.

[video=youtube;n7rR-qRVLD0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7rR-qRVLD0[/video]

By the way, her mom is named Qulyndreia and her sisters named Qunyquekya, You're on your own with those two.

 

I'm not racist, BUT.....what exactly is the deal with these crazy names? Obviously there is some kind of cultural thing with the names that I'm not aware of. How in the world is that one even pronounced? I would hate to be a school teacher these days. And I think she'll make an adorable Annie (a name I can figure out!)

 

Thank you Stuart for the phonetic assist above.

 

HERE'S a link that might explain it - and it's from Salon.com, so that our sensitive liberal readers can safely peruse it without fear.

As a teacher - well, you get used to it after awhile. The kids seem to have adapted to some of their peers having weird names, although a significant amount of them just ask the teachers or their friends to use abbreviated names instead. I've run across a few doozies over the years. We once had a kid named Teddybear. No, it wasn't his nickname, that was ACTUALLY on his birth certificate. I actually worry sometimes that he'll get teased for the rest of his life, so I really have to wonder what parents are thinking sometimes. Then again, Frank Zappa named his kids Moon Unit and Dweezil, so it's not as if blacks have a monopoly on oddball names.

But yeah, there are times I feel like we should have a law that a parent shouldn't give their kid a name that sounds like a chemical formula.

Hey, all part of the service!

 

The disagreement between you two is over your wording. Rephrase to make it clear that,

a) you don't think a black kid should play Annie
b) neither do you think a black kid should not play Annie.

and the disagreement goes away.

 

Whew! Thank Allah you're a moderate. I'd hate to see you in full patriot mode.

 

Interesting as always. Perhaps you can elaborate on your conservative views of Jews?

By the way, Idris Elba IS British, unless they moved Hackney to somewhere else. If you are privy to information indicating otherwise you should contact Her Majesty's government.

 

You mean like blond haired blue eyed Brad Pitt playing Achilles? John Wayne as Genghis Khan? Mickey Rooney as Japanese? Marlon Brando as Japanese? Peter Sellers as Chinese? Jeffrey Hunter as Jaysus? Not to mention the conga line of palefaces who have portrayed Amerindians? etc etc etc


Seriously ma'am, you really shouldn't drink and then post.

 

White guys already played J. Edgar Hoover, who was black, and as queer as a three dollar bill.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...-hoover-black/2011/11/20/gIQAZcu3kN_blog.html

Annie and Daddy Warbuck were Depression-era characters. Do they really belong in the year 2014 regardless of their race?

 

Of course he's British. There are millions of black British people. It takes an astounding ability to deny reality to conclude otherwise. He's good looking, too.

In a multicultural world we should expect to see Jesus and even characters like Annie and Santa portrayed in different races and ethnicities. Why should people care about the race of fictional characters?

 

Wait. A white Jesus, Moses, and Noah ? LOL



Because this is exactly what the ancient egyptians looked like.



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Did you have any problems with Jim Cavilzel playing Jesus ?

 

You were the one who mae the statement
"we are living in ugly times" and I was arguing that we do not live in "ugly times." That is the point I am making.

 

The poster is correct hence your non-sequitur.

 

So what? As a racist republican, I don't care when whites play blacks. I only care when blacks take WHITE actor/actress jobs.