Comments on: Brave Casting? http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/09/18/brave_casting/ All that flavorful brownness in one savory packet Sat, 30 Nov 2013 11:11:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: El SD http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/09/18/brave_casting/comment-page-1/#comment-168161 El SD Tue, 25 Sep 2007 05:33:59 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4732#comment-168161 <p>Just a bit of trivia for you, 11:51 - Mountbatten's granddaughter is also named India (google India Hicks). Given that this is SM, I'm assuming everyone's familiar with Lord (and Edwina) Mountbatten?</p> Just a bit of trivia for you, 11:51 – Mountbatten’s granddaughter is also named India (google India Hicks). Given that this is SM, I’m assuming everyone’s familiar with Lord (and Edwina) Mountbatten?

]]> By: dravidian lurker http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/09/18/brave_casting/comment-page-1/#comment-167365 dravidian lurker Fri, 21 Sep 2007 02:25:51 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4732#comment-167365 <p>i mean, perez hilton didn't <a href="http://jezebel.com/gossip/the-end-of-history/broken-news-castro-dies-brought-to-you-by-perez-hilton-293306.php">step up to the plate</a> on this one.</p> i mean, perez hilton didn’t step up to the plate on this one.

]]> By: dravidian lurker http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/09/18/brave_casting/comment-page-1/#comment-167362 dravidian lurker Fri, 21 Sep 2007 02:15:27 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4732#comment-167362 <blockquote>d00d, you shouldn't go around spreading rumors like that!</blockquote> <p>how else would they get started then? somebody's got to do it.</p> d00d, you shouldn’t go around spreading rumors like that!

how else would they get started then? somebody’s got to do it.

]]> By: jillumadrasi http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/09/18/brave_casting/comment-page-1/#comment-167359 jillumadrasi Fri, 21 Sep 2007 02:07:42 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4732#comment-167359 <p>I watched "one Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" recently and I was ** very** surprised to see that there was a desi doctor among the group that pronounces the Jack N. character McMurphy psychotic.</p> <p>The movie was supposed to be set in 1963 -- didn't know we had an acknowleded presence in medicine even back then.</p> <p>That desi doctor uncle was Sanjay or something.</p> I watched “one Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” recently and I was ** very** surprised to see that there was a desi doctor among the group that pronounces the Jack N. character McMurphy psychotic.

The movie was supposed to be set in 1963 — didn’t know we had an acknowleded presence in medicine even back then.

That desi doctor uncle was Sanjay or something.

]]> By: Mary http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/09/18/brave_casting/comment-page-1/#comment-167160 Mary Thu, 20 Sep 2007 16:47:20 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4732#comment-167160 <p>I haven't seen the movie yet, but from some reviews I've been given to understand that we aren't necessarily supposed to be cheering for Jodie Foster's character by the end? Am I giving the movie <i>way</i> too much credit by suggesting her descent into vigilantism could be seen as morally ambiguous?</p> <p><i>She's never denied that she's gay nor stated it publicly. Lots of people feel like she should, but then again she's pretty private about most of her life. Only she knows if it's out of shame or a genuine desire to stay out of Fox's news roundup. She started her career way early and she may not be where she is today if she had come out back in the day. </i></p> <p>Not only that - I personally give Jodie Foster a huge pass on being so private about her personal life, considering a dude <b>shot the president</b> because he was obsessed with her. I can see how that would make a person super-paranoid about giving fuel to the crazy fans.</p> I haven’t seen the movie yet, but from some reviews I’ve been given to understand that we aren’t necessarily supposed to be cheering for Jodie Foster’s character by the end? Am I giving the movie way too much credit by suggesting her descent into vigilantism could be seen as morally ambiguous?

She’s never denied that she’s gay nor stated it publicly. Lots of people feel like she should, but then again she’s pretty private about most of her life. Only she knows if it’s out of shame or a genuine desire to stay out of Fox’s news roundup. She started her career way early and she may not be where she is today if she had come out back in the day.

Not only that – I personally give Jodie Foster a huge pass on being so private about her personal life, considering a dude shot the president because he was obsessed with her. I can see how that would make a person super-paranoid about giving fuel to the crazy fans.

]]> By: nala http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/09/18/brave_casting/comment-page-1/#comment-167124 nala Thu, 20 Sep 2007 06:33:49 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4732#comment-167124 <blockquote>i was completely making stuff up in an ultra-clever self-referential way (oh, and i am being sarcastic when i use those adjectives. and not sarcastic when i say i am being sarcastic. am i clear?). maybe i should have killed her in the mugging to make it more obvious? </blockquote> <p>d00d, you shouldn't go around spreading rumors like that!</p> <blockquote>but doesn't the screen time factor outweigh the director/writer's decision to not make it a racially motivated attack? This is like being gracious for a hot tar facial instead of the usual sulfuric acid masque.</blockquote> <p>hee. i agree with you. and honestly, the thing about her fiancee getting killed makes me wonder about the whole 'asian men are less masculine than white men, who are less masculine than black men' thing. (<a href="http://2xconsciousness.blogspot.com/2007/09/brave-oneto-kill-blacks-with-gun.html">here's</a> a blogger's take on 'minority issues' in this movie that #36 also mentioned.)</p> <p>as for whether there will be a desi equivalent to richard gere or tom hanks... please no!! i'd much prefer a desi equivalent to michael vartan or even jake gyllenhaal.</p> i was completely making stuff up in an ultra-clever self-referential way (oh, and i am being sarcastic when i use those adjectives. and not sarcastic when i say i am being sarcastic. am i clear?). maybe i should have killed her in the mugging to make it more obvious?

d00d, you shouldn’t go around spreading rumors like that!

but doesn’t the screen time factor outweigh the director/writer’s decision to not make it a racially motivated attack? This is like being gracious for a hot tar facial instead of the usual sulfuric acid masque.

hee. i agree with you. and honestly, the thing about her fiancee getting killed makes me wonder about the whole ‘asian men are less masculine than white men, who are less masculine than black men’ thing. (here’s a blogger’s take on ‘minority issues’ in this movie that #36 also mentioned.)

as for whether there will be a desi equivalent to richard gere or tom hanks… please no!! i’d much prefer a desi equivalent to michael vartan or even jake gyllenhaal.

]]> By: Abhi http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/09/18/brave_casting/comment-page-1/#comment-167100 Abhi Thu, 20 Sep 2007 01:46:42 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4732#comment-167100 <blockquote>David Kirmani is a Christian/Jewish and Muslim combo.</blockquote> <p>I think his character was Christian.</p> David Kirmani is a Christian/Jewish and Muslim combo.

I think his character was Christian.

]]> By: Abhi http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/09/18/brave_casting/comment-page-1/#comment-167099 Abhi Thu, 20 Sep 2007 01:45:24 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4732#comment-167099 <blockquote>I have not seen the movie, but in the previews it seemed like Foster was handing the beat-down to a whole slew of minorities.</blockquote> <p>This is true. BUT, I saw the movie in a theater primarily filled with minorities, most of them African American, and they were the loudest at applauding with approval when the "young black thug" characters got whacked.</p> I have not seen the movie, but in the previews it seemed like Foster was handing the beat-down to a whole slew of minorities.

This is true. BUT, I saw the movie in a theater primarily filled with minorities, most of them African American, and they were the loudest at applauding with approval when the “young black thug” characters got whacked.

]]> By: Neale http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/09/18/brave_casting/comment-page-1/#comment-167073 Neale Wed, 19 Sep 2007 23:07:06 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4732#comment-167073 <p>Was watching Charlie Rose - was hilarious to see Jordan and Foster try to cast the movie as some high faluting research into good and evil. He prodded Foster about the silly title. Have heard she did not like it but Joel Silver is too big to be crossed.</p> <p>If you close your eyes, Foster sounds like Etheridge. Just saying :-)</p> Was watching Charlie Rose – was hilarious to see Jordan and Foster try to cast the movie as some high faluting research into good and evil. He prodded Foster about the silly title. Have heard she did not like it but Joel Silver is too big to be crossed.

If you close your eyes, Foster sounds like Etheridge. Just saying :-)

]]> By: rah http://sepiamutiny.com/blog/2007/09/18/brave_casting/comment-page-1/#comment-167014 rah Wed, 19 Sep 2007 20:12:51 +0000 http://sepiamutiny.com?p=4732#comment-167014 <blockquote>In 2007 it's good to be a middle class brown dude in America. </blockquote> <p>Uh, can I get some of your suspicious cop/scared-looking-white-people-on-the-subway repellant?</p> In 2007 it’s good to be a middle class brown dude in America.

Uh, can I get some of your suspicious cop/scared-looking-white-people-on-the-subway repellant?

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