A white guy playing a native to what is now called the United States (though we’re not really united anymore, but that’s a whole other matter…), that’s definitely whitewashing. Sure, it’s a collaboration between countries, but those guys are not needed! We don’t need white people to save our country! It’s like with the upcoming film for Mulan, where another European dude saves China instead of oh, I don’t know, the heroine of the actual poem.įor Damon’s response, yes, that is also whitewashing. Why were Matt Damon and Pedro Pascal added? And the other white guys? I’ve decided that they’re not whitewashing the movie, but it’s the common white saviour concept and it’s just as bad.
THE GREAT WALL MOVIE WHITEWASHING MOVIE
The last two movies I had come out were The Martian and Jason Bourne, and both of those movies are my face and name and they did really well…I’ll be interested in people who see the movie and realize that the whole idea is that it’s an East meets West co-production.” The kerfuffle around this movie, I always felt, is why doesn’t everyone see the movie who want to engage in that conversation, and then make a determination. There’s this movie and then there’s the much larger conversation, which is a really important one. In a talk with NBC, he said, “I think there are two different conversations. In another interview, he said, “Although it was developed for commercial purposes, I felt there was room for me to play and put many elements of Chinese culture into it.” We all know only the Chinese defended the wall against the monster attack.'” There are far more nuanced versions of it and I do try to be sensitive to that, but Pedro Pascal called me and goes, ‘Yeah, we are guilty of whitewashing. Matt Damon has spoken about the controversy. One thing he said was, “I was like, ‘Really, guys?’ To me, whitewashing is when Chuck Connors played Geronimo. He also said that collaborations between countries should happen more often. Zhang Yi Mou has defended his movie, saying it’s not whitewashed because the character Damon plays isn’t supposed to be Chinese. They happen to come across The Great Wall of China and end up helping the Chinese defend their country from monsters. William Garin is a European mercenary who is traveling with some others in search of “black powder” (gun powder). It stars Matt Damon, playing a character called William Garin. It was directed by Zhang Yi Mou, a fairly well-known Asian director. The Great Wall came out on February 17th, 2017 in the U.S.