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Luis · 6 answers · 3y

What are your thoughts on tokenization of known characters? ie. Making known white characters a different race or gender for seemingly no other reason than "diversity"

It does strike me as lazy/cowardly in that studio executive sense where they don't believe minorities can lead big budget original movies on their own, so instead of making an good original spy movie with a black woman leading it, they just make 007 a black woman - there's actually a sorta racism to this thought process IMO ... anyway representation means zero to me and I never looked up to people as a kid (especially not actors) but I understand that it does to some people and I'm not here to shit on their parade so whatevs, have your black lady 007

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