Cross Racial or Cultural Casting

[moi621 (imported)]

As I watch Quantum of Solace

I am always amazed the babe, (Camille) Olga Kurylenko is not Latina.

When I fell in love with Anna in the new "V" series, "take me Anna, take me"

the images for Morena Baccarin where all Latina, long flowing wavey black hair and brown skin. Hardly looked like Anna.

More like this one

http://cdn.1920x1200.net/posts/wp-conte ... 022011.jpg

Today her more Brazilian look is not as easy to find on a search.

Hollywood use to cast Caucasians as Asians if the role was important.

Then they reformed and seemed to promise casting minorities with minorities.

Like casting disabled with disabled - but, they break that rule all the time - Like the one legged Russian girl in Sopranos.

So what are the casting rules today.

And shouldn't Camille have been cast to at least a half Latina? Olga is Ukrainian. Born in the USSR.

Ponderings in these less exciting times.

Care to share any other cross castings?

Moi

How bored are we now.

[Riverwind (imported)]

After reading this post I am now bored, time to go do something different like watch paint dry, play golf in the snow with a white ball anything but respond to this.

which I just did, sigh.

River

[devi (imported)]

Moi,

Brazilians and Portuguese are also considered Latins... Although of a different sort. Much of their music, telenovelas and so forth does make it into the Hispanic realm and they tell me that in Latin America "Portuñol (or Portunhol)" is widely spoken in certain various places. There are also a few verb tenses that seem to be making a comeback into Spanish due to the Portuguese influence too.

-looked at her pic... You know even if she is darker, I'd think I could be related to her somehow.

[moi621 (imported)]

Yes, DEAR

I am so aware.

Were you aware of the first Latino(a) Supreme Court Justice

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_N._Cardozo

For a good time check out

http://www.amazon.com/Latino-USA-Revise ... 0465082505

The author has written several academic history and Latino culture books also.

I have purchased over 20 so far and given them to "my" Latinos. They all liked it.

One is even learning to read English from this book.

Best Wishes

[Dave (imported)]

...

I have purchased over 20 so far and given them to "my" Latinos. They all liked it.

...

You really are the EA's own version of the Ugly American Tourist in plaid Bermuda shorts, no socks, high tops, hawaiian shirt and sunglasses...

That comment made my day...

It's so charming to watch this all pass by...

[Riverwind (imported)]

I am back to watching paint dry.

River

[janekane (imported)]

The theatrical is theatrical, and in the theatrical, anything can be cast as anything else, or it would not be theatrical.

Trivialities are trivial, else they would not be trivialities.

Is treating trivialities as not-trivial a psychological defense that allows treating the not-trivial as though trivial; thereby generating tragedies compounded by tragedies?

Are there Geek Tragedies now being added to ancient Greek Tragedies?

A more recent theatrical tragedy may be Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman"?

Have I painted a suitable theatrical picture, or is my wit, or lack of wit, too dry?

[A-1 (imported)]

This gives a whole new meaning to the genre of so-called "spy films"... They should call this genre...

JAMES BOMB MOVIES

They are suitable only for Bombing Detroit. They are truly an American tragedy. They are also an ABOMINATION similar to seeing...

GOLDFINGER in Pussy Galore...

[devi (imported)]

Yes, DEAR

I am so aware.

Were you aware of the first Latino(a) Supreme Court Justice

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_N._Cardozo

For a good time check out

http://www.amazon.com/Latino-USA-Revise ... 0465082505

The author has written several academic history and Latino culture books also.

I have purchased over 20 so far and given them to "my" Latinos. They all liked it.

One is even learning to read English from this book.

Best Wishes

I might add that the first time Spanish and Portuguese were written down was done by using the Hebrew alphabet. (Latin was the legal language.)

So the question now is are those folks in Israel and elsewhere who are of Sefardic descent, Latinos? Their traditional prayers are said in "Spanish" (Ladino) just as an other larger group says many of theirs in "Germanic" (Yiddish).

If the whole Iberian peninsula was termed "Hispanaceae" by the Romans, then the Portuguese are Hispanics too. And whereas the modern Latin languages are derived from Latin and a few other languages then everyone from Rumania, France, and Italy would all be Latins as well. But most Latins find the French to be just a little too peculiar as well as do others that are non-Latin so nobody thinks of French as Latin although it very much is. (The same with Romanian which is more influenced with Slavic than Germanic like the other Latin languages.) But then the French don't use the term "Latinos" for themselves either, So now we have "Latins" which include the French and then "Latinos" which would include the Italians too. And the Sephardic Jews in Israel? Are these Latinos too?

No, no, no señor. Esos no son Latinos. Son LADINOS. Pero que podemos hacer con esos otros que se llaman ladinos? -En America Central?

Ay que yo no sé.

Este mundo tan confundido!