The Last Airbender 2010 Movie
The Last Airbender had so much potential to be a great trilogy of family films but Shyamalan has royally fucked this up on a quite grand scale (although this. National anthem song download.
Noah Ringer was cast as the Asian protagonist Aang in the upcoming movie The Last Airbender. ((Zade Rosenthal/Paramount/Associated Press)) Fans of the TV series Avatar: The Last Airbender are slamming the movie version for its casting of white actors in the hero roles. Ever since 12-year-old Aang came out of a block of ice in the Nickelodeon cartoon series, the other tribes in his fictional, Asian-inspired world saw Aang and his power over the elements as their last chance for peace after a century of conflict. Now Paramount Pictures and director M.
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Night Shyamalan also have high hopes for Aang: that he will attract audiences to see their big-screen — and big budget — version of The Last Airbender, opening July 2. Yet fans of the original TV series say whatever hopes they had for the live-action movie have been dashed by what is known as 'whitewashing' — the selection of white actors to fill the main hero roles instead of the people of colour fans say the source material requires. 'To take this incredibly loved children's series, and really distort not only the ethnicity of the individual characters but the message of acceptance and cultural diversity that the original series advocated, is a huge blow,' said Michael Le of Racebending.com, a fan site calling for a boycott of the martial-arts fantasy. Paramount defends the film's casting, noting more than half of the credited speaking roles were filled by people of colour. 'Night's vision of The Last Airbender includes a large and ethnically diverse cast that represents cultures from around the world,' Paramount said in a statement. That doesn't impress the movie's critics, who claim most of that diversity is found among secondary characters and background extras.
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