Johnny Depp replaced by Ayo Edebiri in ‘Pirates Of The Caribbean 6’?

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  1. Soupnazi

    Soupnazi Well-Known Member

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    No they really dont.

    And it is not a lie it is an absolutely real phenomena
     
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    Sleep Monster Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Get back to me in a few years and tell me how much you lost. (Kidding! I truly know little about the markets. Just being a stinker.)

    :love:
     
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    Lol, yes.
     
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    I'm not dissing it I'm just wondering why you would watch an imitation when you can see the one with Johnny Depp.

    Same with the little mermaid. I loved that movie as a boy. There's no way that it was anything close to it. I saw the little creepy CGI crab they called Sebastian it's just a crap Sebastian was a character that had expression.

    Again why watch the imitation?
    I agree there's two stories you can tell but they're not interested in that. It's risky. People may not be interested in it. People may not find the character quite as compelling. So they have to connect it to Johnny Depp in order to use his Fame and the phantom of the original to try and sell the imitation.
     
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    Yeah all we have to do is point to Star wars.

    That was a money printing machine. The toys the t-shirts, and wokeness destroyed it.

    The sad thing is they can make a compelling show and put the stuff in it but that's not good enough it has to be hand-fisted and obvious to that everyone can see you know exactly what the message is.
     
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    I made money on the sale of the stock. It had done well for many years, but it has been on a downward spiral. The parks are still doing okay, but the movies have been one bomb after another.

    Disney has gotten away from the formula that made them work, good family entertainment. Their leadership seems to think that politics sells. It doesn’t. In the entertainment business it divides. You can be successful producing products for a target audience, but in Disney’s case they need to keep the base broad rather than looking to change the world.
     
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    It wasn't that white ppl don't like black actors. It's that they are not that interested in black themed narrative and would prefer a white themed narrative.

    That seems. iMean, would you be interested about a movie about Botswana, with a black cast about European colonialism?

    Also, appropriation doesn't necessarily mean admiration.
     
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    I guess Depp was sidelined by Disney for his flirtation with Russia. Recently, a number of Hollywood actors have been replaced for their pro-Russia views.

     
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    It really is about foreign box office. Black casts and themes usually do okay in America but don't sell a lot of tickets overseas. With the huge budgets of films these days, black films carry a lot more risk of loss for studios.
     
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    Very true. iWasnt targeting America, iWas speaking universally as you stated.
     
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    Really? Name some of these Jewish black pirates.
     
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    After Jews were expelled from Spain and Portugal, many of them settled in the friendlier Muslim lands of the Mediterranean (the Ottoman Empire for example). Like their Muslim compatriots who were likewise expelled in 1492, Jews were also looking to get revenge against Iberian Christians by sharing with Muslims the newest military techniques and secrets used by Christians. And they also joined in on Muslim anti-Christian piracy of the Mediterranean,
     
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    Ummm....these are what the typical Sephardic Jews look like. they are definitely NOT black.

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    Anne Bonny was an Irish woman with flaming red hair and by all accounts very attractive. That is the person Ayo Edibiri is going to portray.
     
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    iWas referring to the middle ages, not the pictures you're posting from 500 years AFTER my source lol

    You may as well be saying that the mayans were white because Abraham Lincoln was white

    Besides, those ppl are Turks (note, the fez)
     
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    Most pirates on the Caribbean were white. Mostly English.
     
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    But there were black pirates. Mostly ex slaves.
     
  18. Esau

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    Well, the biblical jews and early dynastic Egyptians were black but portrayed as white in Hollywood. Maybe Disney is trying to make up for centuries of whitewashing history.

    Good on them.
     
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    These are all Sephardic Jews.

    In fact you cannot show us one single photo of a black Sephardic Jew.

    Anyway, back to the actual thread topic.
     
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    erm, no they aren't but iDigress


    Wise choice from you
     
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    I did a lengthy search for "Sephardic Jews" on the internet.

    Thats what they all look like. None of them are black.

    End of story. Back to the topic.
     
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    Your interwebz said so huh?

    Lmao.
     
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