I am white and I also think it was a monumentally stupid move. Did they never watch the cartoon? Ever? Just like you said - the names are a big hint, even if they were simply looking at a script and hadn't actually seen that the characters weren't white.
That they felt the need to cast the movie differently is just mind boggling. The world has so many different wonderful cultures in it, and to try to push Avatar into a cookie-cutter mold (when the reason most people enjoy it is for the very reason that it doesn't conform to the standard Disney formula) is so many different shades of wrong.
I can't say that I'm a fan of the show myself, as my cartoon love primarily falls to more off-the-wall stuff like Invader Zim and Futurama, but my daughter watched it when it was on the air, and she was appalled when she heard the news blurb on the casting for the movie. I can only imagine that most of the other fans - regardless of age, race, or gender - feel the same way.
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Date: 2009-07-30 03:35 pm (UTC)That they felt the need to cast the movie differently is just mind boggling. The world has so many different wonderful cultures in it, and to try to push Avatar into a cookie-cutter mold (when the reason most people enjoy it is for the very reason that it doesn't conform to the standard Disney formula) is so many different shades of wrong.
I can't say that I'm a fan of the show myself, as my cartoon love primarily falls to more off-the-wall stuff like Invader Zim and Futurama, but my daughter watched it when it was on the air, and she was appalled when she heard the news blurb on the casting for the movie. I can only imagine that most of the other fans - regardless of age, race, or gender - feel the same way.
Lame.