Today's PC-Conniption moment is most compelling, as it really leaves one wondering, 'is there anything that the PC-ers don't like'?
On April 1 of this year, the TV show, The United States of Al, debuts. Here's the gist of it.
The show is framed as a warm-hearted comedy about the friendship between a Marine combat veteran (Parker Young) struggling to readjust to civilian life in Ohio, and his Afghan interpreter, Awalmir (Adhir Kalyan), who served with his unit and has just arrived to start a new life in America.
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The midseason series 'The United States of Al' is coming under fire, and an executive producer has tweeted a staunch defense
A new CBS sitcom is coming under fire for its handling of an Afghan character.
The Big Bang Theory producer Chuck Lorre's latest – the midseason series The United States of Al – is being criticized for casting a non-Afghan actor in its titular role, and for the character's depiction in general, while one of the show's executive producers has issued a staunch defense.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/chuck-lorres-new-cbs-sitcom-slammed-for-handling-of-afghan-character
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Apparently, the really really special people, PC Liberals, think that it is a supreme
liberal sin to cast a man as an Afghani when he is in fact, not an Afghani.
'Back in the day'. when foreign born actors like Gretta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich
played leading roles as American women, nobody seemed to care!
Look at the progress American Progressives an PC people have given us since then 🙄 🤔
@Earl-of-Trumps
Are they implying the character as played was somehow racist?
Not sure what the big deal is here.
PC does go too far at times. Nobody would deny that. Not even libs like me.
I think you are making a mountain out of a taco.
@earl-of-trumps saidEven in the silent era (when her Swedish accent was not audible), Greta (spelt thus) Garbo rarely played Americans, being cast much more frequently as a European character. After the coming of sound cinema, Garbo played Swedes in Anna Christie, Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise) and Queen Christina, Russians in Grand Hotel, Anna Karenina and Ninotchka, Frenchwomen in Romance, Inspiration and Camille, a Dutch spy in Mata Hari, a Hungarian in As You Desire Me, a Pole in Conquest, and an Austrian in The Painted Veil.
'Back in the day'. when foreign born actors like Gretta Garbo and Marlene Dietrich
played leading roles as American women, nobody seemed to care!
Even in her final film, Two-Faced Woman, which placed her in a contemporary American setting, the character has a Swedish name. The film was a flop, in part because audience preferred the more exotic version of her persona.
@earl-of-trumps saidI don't get it. Aren't all actors playing characters?
Today's PC-Conniption moment is most compelling, as it really leaves one wondering, 'is there anything that the PC-ers don't like'?
On April 1 of this year, the TV show, The United States of Al, debuts. Here's the gist of it.[i]
The show is framed as a warm-hearted comedy about the friendship between a Marine combat veteran (Parker Young) struggling to readjust to ...[text shortened]... to care!
Look at the progress American Progressives an PC people have given us since then 🙄 🤔
Cancel cancel culture.
@wildgrass saidEdit: I just looked into this a bit and it looks like 2 people (yes, literally 2) were complaining on Twitter and then the media caught on with the whole "oh no someone's trying to cancel something else, we better write 100 articles" and then more people glommed on and now we're here. If we ever want to get past cancel culture, this kind of story needs to be ignored.
I don't get it. Aren't all actors playing characters?
Cancel cancel culture.
@earl-of-trumps saidMy God! An actor playing something else than himself!
Today's PC-Conniption moment is most compelling, as it really leaves one wondering, 'is there anything that the PC-ers don't like'?
On April 1 of this year, the TV show, The United States of Al, debuts. Here's the gist of it.[i]
The show is framed as a warm-hearted comedy about the friendship between a Marine combat veteran (Parker Young) struggling to readjust to ...[text shortened]... to care!
Look at the progress American Progressives an PC people have given us since then 🙄 🤔
The horror!
@sonhouse saidI am not sure what their big deal is either.
@Earl-of-Trumps
Are they implying the character as played was somehow racist?
Not sure what the big deal is here.
PC does go too far at times. Nobody would deny that. Not even libs like me.
I think you are making a mountain out of a taco.
Actually, I am trying to show that the PC-ers are making a mountain out of a mole hill.
@wildgrass saidLOL that's been the point all along, dude.
I don't get it. Aren't all actors playing characters?
Cancel cancel culture.
Try casting a straight person playing a gay. They hit the roof on that one, too.
Don't look at me, they're not my people.
@earl-of-trumps saidWell if someone was going to jail for it then yes it would be a mountain out of a molehill, but given that it’s a bit of griping and given that it’s fair comment.
I am not sure what their big deal is either.
Actually, I am trying to show that the PC-ers are making a mountain out of a mole hill.
Why wouldn’t you cast an Afghan in the role, then you can get forget about the actor contorting themselves into a caricature of an Afghan. Maybe even right some funny dialogue and get a few laughs that way. It’s just an idea.
The post that was quoted here has been removedWhen a biopic of (national founder) Muhammad Ali Jinnah was produced in Pakistan in 1998, the title role was played by Christopher Lee (the film's director, Akbar Ahmed, remarked that "We finally chose Christopher Lee because he bears a striking resemblance to Jinnah" ).
Controversy in Pakistan apparently focused not on the fact that the country's founder was being played by a white man, but on the fact that he was being played by an actor associated with vampire movies!
This sort of controversy is acceptable.
There are enough Persian speakers in the world to easily be able to see through a non-Afghan playing an Afghani on TV. It may even be the case that he does not have the physical appearance of an Afghan.
How would most Europeans feel if there was a show where a Greek was playing a Welshman on TV, and every time he had to speak Welsh, he sounded like a total foreigner..? It would be a bit silly and confusing.
I do not see the issue.