The publicity was all about the Mandarin. And that was why I wasn't going to see it, because it's hideously racist, and I couldn't fathom it--why did Kingsley let them cast him? Why did Shane Black--who'd been on record as previously saying that the Mandarin was hideously racist--turn around and make this movie? And then it turned out it was _all on purpose_, that Kingsley was deliberately cast as someone with the "wrong" ethnicity and that Black was making the movie to deliberately point out how hideously racist it was! Such AMAZING trolling.
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Date: 2013-05-06 04:59 pm (UTC)The publicity was all about the Mandarin. And that was why I wasn't going to see it, because it's hideously racist, and I couldn't fathom it--why did Kingsley let them cast him? Why did Shane Black--who'd been on record as previously saying that the Mandarin was hideously racist--turn around and make this movie? And then it turned out it was _all on purpose_, that Kingsley was deliberately cast as someone with the "wrong" ethnicity and that Black was making the movie to deliberately point out how hideously racist it was! Such AMAZING trolling.