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Choose Your Wonder Woman
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12/03/08
I rest my case
12/03/08
As for Newsrama's poll, I can't see any of those ladies working out.
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Gabrielle Union?
12/02/08
If the argument is that she must be white because her backstory is explicitly tied to her ethnicity. (i.e. Wonder Woman only makes sense if she is Greek. Shaft's story makes no sense if he is not black) then that makes more sense. Will Smith should not play The Godfather. Roger Craig should not play The Black Panther.
Of course given that the Amazons were likely actually Iranian or Central Asian, Wonder Woman should, in fact, not be Greek or white.
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Why do you hate superheroes?
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But god, why would there ever be a wonder woman movie? It's a ridiculous character pulled out of some guy's ass to make a quick women's rights buck. There are better characters out there.
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Well considering that being "black" is actually a part of Shaft's character, then that would be stupid. And could you come up with a slightly more exploitative character? yeesh
And Beyonce as WW. She's a descent actress when she's not mugging for the camera. If they come up with a good backstory that will appease the "she's greek, therefore white" morons, it could be done.
12/02/08
Your alternate point about Shaft is ill-advised because his race was actually integral to the character. The same isn't true for Wonder Woman.
Be careful of those "I don't mean to sound X" statements, when you use that preface, what's about to come after usually is X.
12/03/08
"Be careful of those "I don't mean to sound X" statements, when you use that preface, what's about to come after usually is X."
I'm glad someone said it. You can include "some of my best friends are X" as well.