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Anonymous says:
"As for your ridiculous Perry White analogy, I had no idea that MAN OF STEEL was set in the 1930s." ... It's not about that. It's about seeing the characters on the big screen as they are in the comics. Perry White is not black in the comics, just like Johnny Storm is not black in the comics. It's not about skin color from my side. It's about the authenticity of the characters. I cried rivers, when I found out that Bane was not going to be hispanic in the movie. Or Tonto not Native American.
brevoortformspring replied:

I’d really like to see those buckets, for I suspect thou dost protest too much.

And in terms of presentation, is there anything about Perry White or Johnny Storm that makes it impossible for those characters to have been black? I don’t think so. Of all of the problems one could have with MAN OF STEEL, I don’t think the casting of Perry White would or should even make the top 50. 

But you feel the way you feel. So if you don’t want to watch those movies, or read those comics, or whatever, that’s totally up to you.

Saying “it’s about the authenticity of the characters” and citing the 1930s is only a hair’s breadth away from telling me that it was wonderful when all of those black folks lived somewhere else where you didn’t need to see them all the time–separate but “equal”.

It’s not the 1930s, or the 1960s anymore. The world has changed, time has marched on, deal with it.

Brevoort spittin’ that hawt fire

Also, of the seemingly infinite problems I had with Man of Steel, the casting of Perry White was not one of them. One of the all-time best comic movie castings in terms of Fishburn’s acting style and personality.

#comics #superheroes #movies #man of steel
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