The Super Mario Bros. Movie, based on Nintendo’s Mario video game franchise, hit cinemas last weekend. Box office figures released yesterday show it achieved the biggest ever opening for an animated feature globally, hauling in $377 million.
The success has confounded some. Critics on Rotten Tomatoes give the movie just 56%, despite the audience score of 96% on the same site.
Actor John Leguizamo – who was in the original Mario Bros movie, but isn’t in the reboot – has blasted the film’s makers over a lack of diversity in casting.
The PostMillennial has the story.
Reviewers were not the only ones going after Mario. Fox News reports that Leguizamo said in November 2022 that the film was “backwards” to voice cast two white actors, [Chris] Pratt and Charlie Day, to play the two white, Italian-American characters of Mario and Luigi.
Leguizamo, who is Hispanic, was cast in the first adaptation of the beloved Mario Bros video game franchise in 1993 as Mario’s brother, Luigi. That film, which is universally hated by both critics and fans according to Rotten Tomatoes, saw British actor Bob Hoskins cast as the Italian-American Mario alongside Leguizamo’s Luigi. …
Leguizamo said he would not be watching the new iteration when asked on Friday by TMZ.
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Diversity in a film made representing a computer game, what the dickens is Leguizamo smoking?
Perhaps it should have been ‘voice acted’ by an AI?
Acting is the profession where you pretend to be someone else. Make-up and costumes can be used to assist in the illusion, so that professional actors like John Hurt can play the part of John Merrick without the need to find someone suffering from Proteus syndrome. Also, it is better to hire actors for films like The Pirates of the Caribbean as real pirates might not be able to separate the acting from reality.
Well if anyone wishes to take a deep dive into how Woke functions as a cult, Dr James Lindsay is your man;
”Understanding that Woke is a cult and is structured like a cult—with its closest parallels in Maoist Communism—is crucial to understanding it and formulating our responses to it. It’s very difficult to make sense of the behavior of our captured friends and family without realizing how they have been captured and how they’re being kept. It’s challenging to tie what seems to be (and is, in a very real way) highly esoteric Theory to people we all know haven’t read a word of it and couldn’t name almost any of the relevant Theorists. It’s not clear how this thing gets the kind of funding and strategic coordination that it gets from a bunch of people who don’t quite seem to be the type for that kind of high-level executive activity. It’s confusing why people who get pulled into this way of thinking about the world can very quickly let it color and contour their interpretations of everything they experience in the world, which is a feature of ideological totalism. All of this becomes clear, however, when we understand that it is a cult and how cults are structured.
Woke is a cult. Being woke means having “critical consciousness,” which means your understanding of the world has been reorganized through Critical Theory. Critical Theory, which is shorthand for Critical Marxist Theory, is the doctrine of this cult. Doing something about it begins with rightly understanding these facts, and doing something about it is absolutely necessary.”
https://newdiscourses.com/2023/03/workings-of-the-woke-cult/
They really should have had Danny DeVito play Mario in the original, but he turned it down.
Is this what the Daily Sceptic, scourge of scamdemic lies, has sunk to in the pursuit of stories? How very sad.
Why is it sad?
I might listen to the wokists when they are happy for Nelson Mandela to be played in a film by George Clooney.
Excellent news, so the public like it and the luvvies hate it, How very irritating for the whingeing woke luvvies. Ref rotten tomatoes, we purchase Croods 2 on the recommendations of rotten tomatoes, the film was utter rubbish, and we didn’t even watch it all the way through. So what was it the rotten tomato crowd were so enthused about this film, we do not know, and we are still trying to that work out.