As for sexuality, oh sure, that's exactly the LoTR needs, gay elves, bisexual dwarves, and transexual hobbits. Because fiction must be reflective of real life....
...although LGBTQ+ community represents less than 1% of the world's population, but must represent FAR more than that amongst movies and TV characters.
Funny you say 'exclusion' as if they're not welcome. Was white people 'excluded' from Black Panther roles? Studios adapting fantasy series should be finding the best actors for roles, rather than making checkmarks on diversity checklists.
In this situation its in the contracts with Tolkien's family to stay true to the descriptions of characters in Tolkien's source material. So, what does Amazon do? They created their OWN NEW DIVERSITY CHARACTERS. Got to admit that's a clever loophole, but everybody knows the bullshit they're trying to pull.
Its funny you said 'ad hominem' at the end here, because the definition of ad hominem is attacking the person making an argument rather than the argument itself.
I know. My point was that that was what I was trying not to do. So, I'm not calling you a racist, but it is hard to make sense of your argument in any other way.
Wut????
That's not what I'm saying. I"m talking about the conditions in society and Hollywood...not that
phile cultists need to have equal representation in film.
There were less non-white straight men in Hollywood in the past, and in many cases, intentionally so. There are much more people from every walk in life in Hollywood, so that reality will be reflected in film.
*Sign* No, there's numerous 'POC' characters in the Star Wars EU books and comic books that was approved and authorized by George Lucas, but Disney de-canconized it. But Disney left the OT canon, and created sequel trilogy and Rogue One, which are filled with POC characters.
Who cares about what's in the books and comics? What percentage of the population knows or cares about that? lol Like, are you really worried about keeping racial continuity from comics and books to movies in a movie that has Wookies and light sabers???????
As far as from what I've seen in the movies...since I've never read a Star Wars book, Lando is the only black dude in the universe.
As for 'Create you own ____ is stupid' why is it again? No one was complaining of the lack of white people in Black Panther. Why not a fantasy series filled with various ethnic races? I'd watch that.
Because it isn't reality. Why would studios invest the time and money in unproven projects and characters when they have mega franchises like Star Wars , Lord of the Rings, or James Bond? Why would they waste their time on some knock off version of black Superman when they can just retell the story to update it to the times ? They're trying to sell tickets.
Your example of the Black Panther is terrible. It's a movie based in a fictional AFRICAN country. How else would that possibly work? How could the king of a fictional African nation be white?
Why would every elf, dwarf, and human in Lord of the Rings have to be white?
No, my point is there shouldn't be diversity quotas for adapting long-established fantasy series, against the lore.
The problem with this argument, is that every time a new character comes up it is painted as a "diversity quota". So there basically can only be white people in any franchise that started with white people.
Should Black Panther have a nearly all black cast? Yes, because that's the lore.
It's not just the lore....it's AFRICA.
lol Is Tolkien's world based on the Earth that we know? Were his stories about a world where all the coloreds got wiped out? What relevance to the story does it have that everyone needs to be white?????
What is the point of movies and stories to you? Isn't it to tell stories?????? Unless your movie is about particular races , genders, etc, why does it matter if an elf has brown skin or white?