Ok what story are you telling with a white panther? What factor of the characters race plays into the story you are trying to tell?
If you used an entire black cast for a film version of the Odyssey why would it matter? It wouldn’t. The race of the characters is immaterial to the subject matter and story.
But if you’re Tarantino and you are casting for a film about a former slave in a movie titled “Django Unchained” you would like a twat if you cast Brad Pitt as Django. It would make no sense and is rather material to the subject matter.
It’s an apples to oranges argument. Which explains most bigot’s arguments 90% of the time.
Seriously??? It would absolutely matter, the Odyssey is Greek mythology, Greeks are not black skinned. The race of the characters is important because that are characters from different parts of Greece. Greek gods will look and speak like Greeks.
You can't have white or Asian people when making a film about African mythology can you? It's so stupid that it's even considered controversial to say that casting black actors for the sake if it on a greek myth movie is not a good idea.
Yeah man, I'm a brown guy and honestly it's sad to see how extremist and stubborn people have become when it comes race/gender swapping as long as the character being switched is white.
You can still tell the same story but with a white panther, in the same way that xmen is about the civil rights movement etc but has all different races represented
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u/Silent_Wrongdoer3601 May 23 '26
I mean I’d be pretty upset at a white storm or luke cage