{"id":940,"date":"2017-03-26T17:46:56","date_gmt":"2017-03-26T17:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commarts.pleather.us\/2017\/03\/26\/a-brief-history-of-hollywood-whitewashing-video-traces-controversy-before-ghost-in-the-shell-watch\/"},"modified":"2017-03-26T17:46:56","modified_gmt":"2017-03-26T17:46:56","slug":"a-brief-history-of-hollywood-whitewashing-video-traces-controversy-before-ghost-in-the-shell-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/2017\/03\/26\/a-brief-history-of-hollywood-whitewashing-video-traces-controversy-before-ghost-in-the-shell-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A Brief History of Hollywood Whitewashing\u2019 Video Traces Controversy Before \u2018Ghost in the Shell\u2019 \u2014 Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scarlett Johansson&#8217;s role as The Major in &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/ghost-in-the-shell\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ghost-in-the-shell\">Ghost in the Shell<\/a>&#8221; has faced nonstop controversy, as some fans have accused the film of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/t\/whitewashing\/\" id=\"auto-tag_whitewashing\">whitewashing<\/a> by casting a white actress to portray a previously Japanese character. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fandor.com\/keyframe\/brief-history-hollywood-whitewashing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">new Fandor video<\/a> by\u00a0LJ Frezza briefly explores the history of whitewashing prior to this film through some particularly egregious examples, including &#8220;Aloha,&#8221; &#8220;Speed Racer,&#8221; &#8220;Godzilla: King of the Monsters,&#8221; &#8220;Edge of Tomorrow,&#8221; &#8220;Doctor Strange,&#8221; &#8220;The Last Airbender,&#8221; and &#8220;Dragonball Evolution.&#8221; The video essay also compares and contrasts the different types of whitewashing exhibited\u00a0through the variety of titles.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2017\/03\/ghost-in-the-shell-mamoru-oshii-scarlett-johansson-whitewashing-1201796378\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018Ghost in the Shell\u2019: Original Anime Director Mamoru Oshii Defends Scarlett Johansson\u2019s Casting<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ghost in the Shell&#8221; director Rupert Sanders has\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiewire.com\/2016\/11\/ghost-in-the-shell-scarlett-johansson-whitewashing-rupert-sanders-1201746258\/\" target=\"_blank\">defended the role<\/a> and dismissed the Johansson casting controversy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think whenever you cast someone, someone\u2019s going to be critical about it,&#8221; he said. &#8220;To me it was, you know, I stand by my decision \u2014 she\u2019s the best actress of her generation and I was flattered and honored that she would be in this film. 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Sign up for our Email Newsletters here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Source: IndieWire film<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scarlett Johansson&#8217;s role as The Major in &#8220;Ghost in the Shell&#8221; has faced nonstop controversy, as some fans have accused the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":245,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[45],"class_list":["post-940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-careering"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paqOTj-fa","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/245"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.valdosta.edu\/m2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}