Comments on: Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender – Cast Images

By: Amelie

Amelie — Fri, 03 Apr 2020 03:05:42 +0000

Whelp, it bombed. And casting, bad writing, BAD ACTING (and there were people saying they were picked cause they were the best!) bad action, STUPID looking bending! This whole movie was a WASTE!

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 23:13:15 +0000

“Since the next harry potter movie hasn’t started filming yet, I fully expect the filmakers to learn from the last airbenders “example” and cast harry as black, ron as mexican, and hermoine as a jew. That’d be perfectly acceptable to everyone right?”

What a strange statement to make. Daniel Radcliffe is Jewish (his mother is, father not), that doesn’t mean that Harry Potter is.

By: Harley Ko

Harley Ko — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:51:01 +0000

Nothing racist but the cast are totally OFF. Personally, zuzu is supposed to be waaaaaaaaay cutter T^T nothing againt the cast playing the role though

By: Guanxi

Guanxi — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 09:18:07 +0000

The actual genders and races of what the elements represent are in Rodney St.Michael’s book, Sync My World: Thief’s Honor GA SK. (myconnected.webs.com)

Air = Yellow “race” = Males = Scholars.

Water = Small Browns = Females = Shamans.

Earth = Blacks = Lesbian = Social Ubuntu Business Class.

Fire = Whites = Gays = Military, Militant Business Class.

Ether or Metal = Big Browns = Bisexuals = Working Class, Bi-military
(females & bis go together like Katara & Sokka or brown females and males).

Therefore Aang should be Chinese.

Katara should be a Malay like a Filipina.

The Earth Kingdom should be African.

Zuko should be White like Hitler, Alexander the Gay or Gen. Arthur McArthur.

The Fire Nation’s army should be like the fiery Sacred Band of Thebes (an ancient elite gay army that Don’t-Ask-Don’t-Tell troops would be envious of) or the Sturmabteilung, the much-feared homosexual stormtroopers of Hitler.

And the Slumdog Millionaire (casted as Zuko) should be Sokka.

This film is just as messed up as the movie Angels and Demons. The branding of the priests were incorrect.

But anyway, from the guy who gave you the Sixth Sense, which did not portray childhood schizophrenia accurately or anywhere near the real world, what do you expect?

Bisexuals love horror and terror. They also scam people, just like the Wizard of Oz. The old Oz film which is also about the Elements is understandably all-white because they were ignorant back then. People have higher standards now, and realism is a must.

But M.Night, the Wizard of South Asia also has lessons for everyone after conning them:

1) Clearly, when people don’t play roles that fit them, everything is messed up. (e.g. “male” clergy in what should be a female realm, forbidding gays in the military which is their territory)

2) Whites are not fit to play the leading roles of Air and Water in the world scene. Leave that to the ASEAN+3 (China, Japan, Korea and South East Asia).

3) Arabs are not necessarily the greatest evil in the world. Occasionally, they float like Ether to the ranks of Water. It is fiery whites that fit the role of Lucifer or Satan.

4) By acquiring objective reviews from leading critics, they have agreed themselves that these are all factual objective realities.

Thus, the Wizard, even if he is a con man, is also an accidental pseudo teacher. Partly, it’s called sunyata or “emptiness.”

By: hendawg

hendawg — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 21:35:13 +0000

*asians wouldnt bring money in

By: hendawg

hendawg — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 21:34:36 +0000

**round eyes and larger eyes are more expressive for animators, thus it has nothing to do with race or is a reason why they should be white.

Again it just falls down to us white boys and the americans thinking they invented everything. How can you not miss that in the inuit village they the only two white people there hahaha it stands out so much its a joke.
People just a hilarious in how much they miss that paramount felt asians would bring money in but whites will and again why do main characters have to be white? Eh ? You bloody morons why must they be white rather then a asian, native american or black? WHY must they be white?

By: hendawg

hendawg — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 21:30:18 +0000

*against white washing the cast

By: hendawg

hendawg — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 21:29:37 +0000

Lols man I just love people who are completely colour blind. Characters are made up of their appearance and personality and the characters losing their appearance makes isnt the character its like if ripley was a man.

Secondly all of them are white then all the badguys look muslim and the only reason there hasnt been major uproar is because m Night is asian and not white so people just assume it aint racist.

Thirdly love how people dont grasp that the reason why in the animation the characters eyes are large is because is common knowledge in animation that the bigger the eyes the easier to animate and express emotion and cant be used as an arguement for whitewash. I am white btw and think this is horrendous, least the film getting bad reviews and noah ringer only got his position because he sent a tape of him doing tae kwon doe and using martial art weapons and an agent instantly thought white boy do kung fu = appealling. He didnt send in acting tape. Again just people think that us white boys deserve everything.

The question you morons whom have no problem should be asking is why cant they be asian?

By: josie

josie — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 21:44:22 +0000

this comment is for “Sunny”. you may not think the cast is awesome but let me just say I thought the cast was amazing and so was the movie. you may not like the cast but you should at least give the movie a try. you may not like the cast but it doesnt mean you wont like the movie

By: Grizzle

Grizzle — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 21:41:42 +0000

About the casting racial casting:

Maybe some of you are just blind…but most characters in animes LOOK white, NOT Asian. You might as well cast a white kid as Aang and say he’s Asian because that’s what these shows do. Blame the artists, not the casting. It’s not racism or under representing Asians in the film industry.

By: I_LOVE-ASIA

I_LOVE-ASIA — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 00:33:06 +0000

Asians deserve repect….Thier culture inspired the show…a great show!…and the movie shouldn’t dirty avatar’s image…It does not even deserve to be called the last airbender…becuase it would have people who know nothing about it think that that is avatar, it would had been perfectly fine if they had an all asain cast like it was suppost be,Ninja Assasin was straight awesome nothing else, and about 90% of the cast was Asain….WHY?…because ninja’s where asain inspired….so who ever says “diversity” can go eat a back of rocks you can just shove it M.Night you are messing with a good thing, and oh yeah more than have the cast isn’t asain or look like they could be, and the character detail sucks

By: Avatar.Yz

Avatar.Yz — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 00:15:38 +0000

the show was based only on serveral things which are all asain inspired, martial arts,culture,custumes,…so why change the cast of the main characters to not match…..thats not right if the the story was about native americans and you had a cast of white and asain people playing native americans….why have an asain inspired show(american or not) and have the cast not match..the story didn’t even have to go with it as long as the character’s matched
the show.

By: Avatar.YX

Avatar.YX — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 22:56:11 +0000

I like to begin by saying the the casting is completely wrong …..like what most people posted. Know why? someone said that it would not be right if it was a all asain cast in a american movie..WRONG…..Crouching tiger: hiding dragon was awesome….Now if the show was based on middle easterned cultulres or american customes, than it would make sense to change the cast….The monk is a acception…but everyone is should be thier race

By: Aangiix3

Aangiix3 — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 13:15:28 +0000

I don´t get why they still called it “The Last airbender”.
In some trailers, they showed that there are other airbenders which are waiting for him. In the cartoon, there are no other airbenders, they´re all dead, Aang is the last one of his kind. That´s why they called it “The Last airbender”.
But this name in the movie , doesn´t make any sense..
Anyway..I hope they´re gonna do “The Last airbender 2 and 3” for the seasons 2 and 3. Because the movie is just about season 1.
I am very excited about this movie.

By: someasiandude

someasiandude — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 07:35:54 +0000

@ben
Yeah, sure as a movie it probably will be fine (discrimination aside) and the actors/actresses will probably do a pretty good job. However, that doesn’t change the fact that their so called “diversity” is really discrimination. As for the comment about Aang not being Asian, well even if he might not look “Asian” to you, he does wear Shaolin monk’s clothes and comes from a Shaolin like monastery. Combine that with the fact that pretty much everyone in the cartoon is Asian, and well the logical conclusion is that he must be as well. Oh and lets not forget that the CREATORS (DiMartino and Konietzko) of the show created it out of love for Asian culture. Konietzko has even specifically stated, “I have nothing to do with the casting whatsoever for the feature film.” (No just because they were named as exec producers, doesn’t mean that the creators support the casting.) So sure the cartoon was made in America, but that doesn’t change the fact that it was based on Asian culture and people.

By: someasiandude

someasiandude — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 07:17:57 +0000

Coming from a guy whose family (on both sides) is from East Asia (China and Japan respectively), I’m frankly appalled at the casting for this movie.
The original cartoon (which I loved) was based on Asian culture (not the reason I liked it). The fighting styles are mostly/entirely based on different forms of kung fu. The clothing and architecture draws influence from traditional East Asian designs. The word “avatar” comes from Sanskrit and Hinduism. The Fire Nation has strong similarities to Japan. The art style itself draws from anime. The creators based the Southern Water Tribe on the Inuits. Plus, the title of the show has CHINESE CHARACTERS in it (something not included in the movie). Yet somehow, nearly the entire main cast is Caucasian (cast list: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0938283/fullcredits). Pretty much the only Caucasian lead role here is Dev Patel who plays Zuko.
Now I’m not saying the entire cast should be East Asian and Inuit like in the show, that would be absurd and could even be slightly racist as well, but they could have at least made an effort to get some ethnicity matching for the main characters. I mean, it’s not like Asian actors are exactly hard to find, and seeing as how the producers said they were going after “undiscovered” actors/actresses they could have easily found some Native American actors and actresses to play Soka and Katara! I mean, Aang even wears Shaolin monk clothing! Yet they couldn’t get an Asian to play him?!?
Now the producer’s reason for casting three of the four lead rolls as Caucasian is to promote “diversity”. That’s a nice thought, but how is it “diversity” when pretty much all of the protagonists are Caucasian? The answer is that it isn’t.
The saddest part of this is that if the show was based on African culture and all the characters were African on the show, but in the movie the casting wound up like this, I doubt that any of you would say that it wasn’t racist. In fact, there would likely be a huge uproar from the media as a whole, not just from a few people on the internet.

By: WhatNow?

WhatNow? — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 14:36:46 +0000

You know, if they called for diversity, I wouldn’t mind, but how does this the main cast look so far to you? If they were diverse, why are all the main heroes white, and the villains brown? I mean diversity should be mixed. Instead of having groupings, why isn’t there like black/white/hispanic/asian for both heroes and villains? Why not put a white person for villans in the fire nation generals too? But no, this “diversity” is just an excuse to cast in favor of Caucasians, while it allows a backstage for minorities.

By: Logic

Logic — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 20:35:02 +0000

and btw ben, if thats your issue, i’m not even talking about races, countries. At least make the cast match the goddamn skin tone.

By: Logic

Logic — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 20:30:15 +0000

If M. Night’s real intentions with the caste are to promote diversity, he should remember that “diversity” implies including everyone. not making the heroes caucasian when the heros are asians/eskimo, and making villains asian when they happen to be just the palest people in the anim, preety much like the situation in the real world.

Blinds off people, just face the reality.

By: ryan

ryan — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 12:53:16 +0000

Vina is being racist!
u wud think she knows that it dusnt matter wot skin color they have as long as u know who they are!!!

By: ben

ben — Fri, 28 May 2010 19:01:39 +0000

i think the movie will be good as long as the actors play their parts. im looking forward to the goofy aang and the sarcastic sokka. what you asians seem to forget is that avatar is an american cartoon series based in a non existing world. nowhere in the series did i hear any rference to aang being asian other than his name. my feelings are that americans made the cartoon and they are gonna make the movie to assholes. if you want chinese people in it then why dont you get started on your own version. also i hope apa plays a bigger part than just flying in the opening scene of the trailer.

By: Vann

Vann — Mon, 17 May 2010 14:11:31 +0000

Subtle racism at it’s best, anyone educated should be able to see this. I’m sure things will change in a couple hundred years time, either way I’m going to see it (huge fan of the animated series).

By: Isaiah

Isaiah — Thu, 13 May 2010 19:01:54 +0000

This movie looks realy cool but like many of you, i think M.Night
could have chosen a better cast especialy with the fire nation.
They dont look very intimidating and their cloths could be better.
Zuko’s face burn should look worse then that cheap make-up.
But ill still see the movie because im a fan of both M.Night and
Avatar.
Peace out!

By: points to ponder

points to ponder — Mon, 03 May 2010 19:28:54 +0000

1. they preferred caucasians. why would an asian audition for a film that prefers caucasians. the process of selection was the one kind of biased and not the ones selected.
2. alteration of some physical characteristics in animation does’nt separate one from a specific race. (e.g. japanese animation)
hair and eyes color and shape are altered to make a character distinct. imagine a japanese animation series whose characters have the same hair and eyes color and shape.just because a character in a japanese anime have green or blue eyes and blonde hair means she’s not one of them or just because katara have blue eyes means she’s not an inuit.
3. just because the characters act or speak like a specific race also mean they are one.

some may not care much about the appearance of the characters in the movie, but for those who loved the series such as myself would want to see the characters look like the ones in the series. in the end of the selection, weather the selected casts are mostly whites or not, the selection should have been opened not just to a specific race…

By: Why?!?!

Why?!?! — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 15:30:41 +0000

Why would the producers make such a flop of an amazing show? The cast is horrible, and how can you expect to cram a show with over a hundred episodes into a one and a half to two hour movie? I bet they won’t even include Toph in the movie, and she is a very important character. Why couldn’t they put this movie in the hands of a capable director? URG, my fav show is going to be disgraced… 🙁