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  1. |Creative Differences Blog| » Disney, are you sure about “Chihuahua”? on 13 Jul 2008 at 9:05 pm

    [...] of a chihuahua playing priest on a pyramid pushes people’s buttons, as you can see from this Racialicious.com discussion forum and this commentary on the blog Hazme El Chingado [...]

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  1. TierList E wrote:

    DBZ-

    Oh, no- that looks well nigh ridiculous. Stereotypes about whitewashed anime or not, Dragon Ball characters do *not* fall into that. They’re one of the least caucasian looking anime that gained a big american fanbase. It’s as goofy as making Ash and Brock off pokemon white.

    Maybe if you just wanted to be obnoxious about it you could’ve put in black haired hispanics and be kinda passable, the white look (at least for Goku) is not working out.

  2. Persia wrote:

    The Dragonball movie has looked so ridiculous for so long that I really can’t be bothered to be upset about the casting any more. They seem to have been peeling off everything that was interesting and fun about the anime and manga and replacing it with a generic story we’ve all seen a thousand times before.

  3. BORED KIDZ!!!!! wrote:

    I’m surprised Racialicious hasn’t said anything yet about the Mena Suvari casting controversy. She’s white but she’s playing a character based on a true story that revolves around a BLACK woman.

    Disgusting. I found out about it on Jezebel yesterday.

    Let’s not forget that Kristen Kreuk, a white skinned woman, was casted to play an INDIAN MUSLIM in a dumb movie, Partition, last year.

    Laaaaaame.

  4. TierList E wrote:

    For funsies I went by Google to cement myself to the Incredibly Not White DBZ cast. (ex. http://webpages.csus.edu/~jy23/goku,gohan,bardock,andgoten.jpg), and I was reminded of the super saiyan images, and I couldn’t help but to sigh a bit- of all the wacky hair/eye colors anime has given you, they had to show an ‘evolutional ascension’ of sorts with blond hair and blue eyes.

    But at the same time it is a bit different, in the sense that blond hasn’t been in the Masculine Warrior! archetype since Siegfreid.

  5. Rob Schmidt wrote:

    If you’re getting too many links, give us some guidelines on what to suggest. It isn’t obvious to me why you post or don’t post something.

  6. Latoya Peterson wrote:

    @Rob –

    I am talking about emailed tips like “Racialicious should write about this event! this thing that just happened! this really racist thing I saw!” It’s great to get these emails, but we normally get a couple a day, and we got about 50 this week. That was ridiculous. And it’s all different stuff!

    Del.icio.us wise, we go through and review the links that we are sent, but only post a few of those. Some of them aren’t really relevant or only have one good line, or we might have covered it already, or we might use it to plan a post on a larger trend. Some are old. Lots of reasons. We read all of them, so keep sending them, but unless one of us (me or Carmen) is like “yes yes yes” we try to keep the links on the shorter side.

  7. macintyre wrote:

    Wow, that story about Philly polygamy is intense.

  8. Philly Phil wrote:

    i recently saw the preview for Beverly Hills Chihuahua and it left my jaw on the floor! Who the hell thought it would be kosher to bastardize the Aztec culture (again) for the sake of a talking chihuahua movie?

    Then again, I work with kids over here in Chicago and some of my Latino students are more than ready to shell out money to see it. Sigh.

  9. marge twain wrote:

    Someone wants to see that Chihuahua movie?? I saw the preview in the theater last weekend and there was a lot of groaning in response.

  10. marge twain wrote:

    Re: Bobby Jindal for VP: I find it curious that for the first time ever all these women are being floated for the Dem. VP spot and various women/minorities have been talked about for the Repubs. Like the parties have realized for the first time that we exist and we vote and others might vote for us.

  11. marge twain wrote:

    here’s that Jezebel story:
    http://jezebel.com/5011611/why-cast-a-black-actress-in-your-movie-when-you-can-get-mena-suvari-in-cornrows


    In an interview with Premiere magazine, Mena says of the decision to have cornrows: “It was in conjunction with [director] Stuart. I think we just wanted to kind of establish Brandi as a particular kind of girl from a particular place. I think that we felt that it would be, like, Providence, Rhode Island, with a mix of cultures. That’s kind of what we were going for.”

  12. Philly Phil wrote:

    wow! 50 years seems excessive! i don’t know. maybe it’s just me.

    but check out the cast of voice actors they got for that Chihuahua movie! Salma Hayek, Edward James Olmos, George Lopez!! CMON, MI GENTE! WE DON’T NEED A PAYCHECK THAT BAD!!