How is this an amazing cast? There are literally only two actors out of this entire cast that are actually great actors, I have never even heard of the rest of these people.
I feel like you are only saying “Its an amazing cast” Because there are so few white people.
Angela Basset: Academy Award nominee and Golden Globe winner, with enough award nominations/wins to necessitate her own wikipedia page for awards alone. Lupita Nyong’o: Academy Award winner. Chadwick Boseman: Joseph Jefferson Award nominee; already showed his stripes as Black Panther in Captain America: Civil War. Sterling K. Brown: Emmy Award Winner for The People Vs. OJ Simpson and actor in the Golden Globe nominated television show This Is Us Florence Kasumba: Already had a bit part in Captain America: Civil War; was praised by many critics for her one scene being a scene-stealer Forest Whitaker:
^ that’s all from a single movie. Danai Gurira: Tony-award winning writer, plays Michonne on The Walking Dead, one of the most popular series out there today Michael J. Jordan: Featured actor in popular shows like Friday Night Lights, The Wire, and Parenthood in addition to frequent appearances on film. Daniel Kaluuya: The star of Get Out, which currently boasts a 99% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, and has been in the press pretty much constantly upon release. He was also featured in an episode of the acclaimed series Black Mirror. John Kani: An actor, playwright and director; while he hasn’t had as much work in America, he’s prolific enough to have a theatre in Newtown Johannesberg named after him.
Winston Duke and Letitia Wright have fewer credits to their names (the former has a consistent role in the well-received Person of Interest; the latter has been cast in Black Panther and Ready Player One in what is hopefully the beginnings of a bright career), but I don’t mean to belittle their successes by leaving them out, and those who aren’t as well known SHOULD be given a chance by big franchises. Lesser known names tend to get big after starring in Marvel movies. I sure as hell didn’t know who Chris Evans or Chris Hemsworth were prior to their flagship titles.
But even putting aside how important it is that this film is led by black creators, just because you don’t know these people doesn’t mean that they’re not critically acclaimed in their field, who haven’t put in the work. They have, and they’ve been recognized for it. Consider checking out some of their work before you decide whether or not only two of them are great actors.
Excuse me, police? I’d like to report a murder
Fake nerd boys haven’t seen Civil War or The Force Awakens. And son, you don’t know who Forest Whitaker is? Did you get frozen several decades ago and just get thawed out? Are you ok? Do you know who the president is????
sometimes i remember that hawkeye is canonically deaf in the comics and the mcu erased his disability. that they ignored his abusive childhood and gave him a family – erasing his attachment issues. in the comics hes this self-destructive goofy disabled depressed guy who drinks coffee by the pot just to stay awake and is always covered head to toe in band-aids. sometimes i remember that the mcu erased everything about clint barton but the bow and arrow. and it ruins my whole day.
clint barton is that dude who couldn’t figure out how to untangle the wires on his playstation so he Cut some of the wires and then phoned tony stark to come fix it
Chris asked to meet with me last fall, in late September. We sat down in an office in MIT Admissions. “For the spring admissions video,” he said, “I basically want to make a two-minute trailer for the new Iron Man with Riri Williams.” This sentence, and the conversation that we had afterward, was what would eventually turn into the video you all saw posted on Tuesday… [+]
“In the first episode, Danny breaks into unsubtitled Mandarin upon
learning [Jessica Henwick’s character] is a martial artist, apparently assuming Asian women he
casually meets on the street are happy to speak Mandarin with a white
stranger.“
So, I have a few things to say about the current Magneto…mess. It took me some time to figure out what I wanted to say. So first, everyone needs to go and read a summary (or the actual comic) of Uncanny X-Men 199. I just read it recently, and I’m certain that this colors my thoughts.
Super short version: One of the subplots is Magneto taking Kitty Pryde to the US Holocaust Memorial Museum to try to help her find out what happened to her great Aunt. It turns out that he knew her in Auschwitz under her married name, which is why he didn’t realize until someone else came forward. He’s being remembered by the other survivors as someone who worked hard to keep as many people around him alive as he could. (then Mystique shows up to arrest him and starts a fight IN THE MUSEUM…I hate Mystique, TBQH, but this is a bit of an aside.)
So today, I wake up and hear that Magneto is joining Hydra. HYDRA. The fascist organization that AT THE LEAST collaborated with the Nazis, and depending on which continuity you like, are actual Nazis. They are lead by the Red Skull, a literal Nazi.
This is the same writer, Nick Spencer, who decided that Captain America, a character modeled on the golem to try to prod America into fighting the Nazis and saving the Jews of Europe, was not just Hydra, but had ALWAYS been Hydra. This was shitting all over Jack Kirby’s legacy, as well as that of Joe Simon (I only prioritize Kirby due to his real life anti-Nazi exploits). It indicated a lack of care for a legacy character that was placed in his care.
And now he’s at it again.
In between, he had villainous “social justice warriors” and had Sam Wilson apologize to a white guy for bringing up race.
Nick Spencer is a white supremacist.
I tend to not drop these accusations lightly, but he’s established a pattern. Even aside from his on-the-page garbage, he’s been particularly awful to fans on social media who object to his “creative” choices. In general, his behavior has been worse towards minorities, of course, and this is after controlling for the fact that minorities, Jews in particular regarding Cap and Black people re: Wilson are the ones directly hurt by his terrible actions.
@marvel, you need to fire him. He is dragging your most popular characters through the mud for some cheap publicity and to promote his hateful agenda. I, previously, maintained a subscription to Marvel Unlimited, bought several monthly comics in addition to that, and regularly bought the collections. And that’s just the business that the comics division got from me. That’s all over, until Nick Spencer is no longer writing for Marvel. As much as I hate to do so, I will not be buying Miss Marvel, I will not be buying Spider-Man, and I won’t be buying X-Men. I CERTAINLY won’t be touching any of the garbage Nick Spencer has touched until the damage he’s done has been undone. You just blew up the continuity recently, but you already need to do it again, just to salvage the fundamental nature of several of your most popular characters.
“Mr. Evans is not representing his views as Captain America”
i’m pretty sure tho that if steve “i don’t like bullies” rogers had a twitter, he would retweet all of chris’ tweets and probably punch trump in the face too
“his views as captain america” CAPTAIN AMERICA WAS CREATED BY JEWISH MEN TO SHAME THE UNITED STATES INTO PUNCHING NAZIS. BECAUSE “SON OF IRISH IMMIGRANTS” “POOR AS FUCK” “LIVES IN MANHATTANS GAYBORHOOD” STEVE ROGERS TOTALLY LOVES FASCISM RIGHT.
ARE THEY SERIOUS?
Do they honestly think Captain America would be okay with Donald The Fascist!?
They don’t wanna alienate the fans that are nazis (Lotta hydra lovers out there)
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