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- Half a decade later, Ghost in the Shell should be a footnote. But its failure marked a change to the industry’s racist tradition of whitewash casting, where white actors play minority roles or characters are rewritten to be white under the auspices of mass market appeal.
www.inverse.com/entertainment/ghost-in-the-shell-scarlett-johansson-five-year-anniversaryFive years ago, Ghost in the Shell accidentally destroyed a ...
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Mar 31, 2017 · Rupert Sanders' Ghost in the Shell took some heat for casting a white actress to play a Japanese character, but the film's racism extends far beyond that.
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Mar 31, 2022 · While Ghost in the Shell wasn’t the last movie to whitewash an Asian character, its radioactive wreckage lingers in the air. It’s a potent warning about a racist practice that, before 2017...
For months now, Ghost in the Shell has been heavily criticized for casting Scarlett Johansson as a protagonist who was Japanese in the original source material.
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Mar 31, 2017 · A Scarlett Johansson-led Ghost in the Shell was always going to have racial recasting issues thrown against it, but had the film itself pled the fifth then it could have at the very least hidden behind the inevitable assumption it was the product of marketing demands. Instead it tries desperately to justify its decision without fully ...
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Feb 9, 2017 · When Scarlett Johansson was announced as the lead for the long-awaited movie adaptation of the popular Japanese manga The Ghost in the Shell last year, fans blasted the actress and filmmakers...
- Sadaf Ahsan
Apr 4, 2017 · Ghost in the Shell has been embroiled in a whitewashing controversy for the past two years, ever since Scarlett Johansson was announced as the lead in January 2015.
Apr 3, 2017 · The sad thing is that “Ghost in the Shell”s disappointing box office may not be seen as the result of the casting controversy, and maybe it is not entirely.
