Racists Demand Thor Boycott due to Idris Elba Casting
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From IGN.com:
A white supremacist group is so peeved about black English actor Idris Elba playing the Norse mythological ? Heimdall in Thor that they're urging a boycott of the upcoming Marvel movie.
The Guardian reports that the U.S.-based Council of Conservative Citizens has established a web site to allow other like-minded people to boycott the Kenneth Branagh-directed film because of the change in Heimdall's race.
Marvel told IGN during our visit to the Thor set that the Asgardians in the film are, as they are in the Earth X comics, actually aliens rather than gods. They visited earth in the ancient past, where their culture, language, beliefs and customs influenced the development of certain human civilizations, such as the Vikings.
Thor opens May 6, 2011.
A white supremacist group is so peeved about black English actor Idris Elba playing the Norse mythological ? Heimdall in Thor that they're urging a boycott of the upcoming Marvel movie.
The Guardian reports that the U.S.-based Council of Conservative Citizens has established a web site to allow other like-minded people to boycott the Kenneth Branagh-directed film because of the change in Heimdall's race.
Marvel told IGN during our visit to the Thor set that the Asgardians in the film are, as they are in the Earth X comics, actually aliens rather than gods. They visited earth in the ancient past, where their culture, language, beliefs and customs influenced the development of certain human civilizations, such as the Vikings.
Thor opens May 6, 2011.
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Disgusting.
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them dudes heads will explode if they knew Jesus was really black
there couldn't have been any pale skin folks in that geographical location during that period in time. And they ignore Jesus' description in the Bible.
i bet some even slashed their wrists when John Stewart became Green Lantern.
they are petty and pathetic bleeding between the legs because a fictitious character had a change in skin color. -
payback for all the times white folks have took roles that were supposed to be people of color???
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Chillin&Postin wrote: »payback for all the times white folks have took roles that were supposed to be people of color???
Elizabeth Taylor as Cleopatra -
lol!!! good for them. let's hope they ? themselves
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I hope this movie does $100 mill out the gate.
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? them.
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smh...they need to ? , half of them ? sdidn't know ? about thor until someone told em
and we let a white man play esus is one of the biggest movies ever and they ? about THOR? ? -
This is gonna be great....the fact that a Black man play a Norse character to ? off the Neo Nazis..lmao.
Can't wait until a real movie about Yeshua (Jesus) hits the mainstream and they realize he's Black..that's really gonna ? 'em off. -
but its ok when we have movies about ancient egypt and its an all white cast....gtfoh....they need to make a ? king authur movie wit some of the blackest ? u can find on this earth
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didnt they make like 3 "the mummy" flicks and all the pharoahs and ? were jersey shore complected krakkaz with man-liners....foh
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wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow
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bless the child wrote: »
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Man I don't even care about the quality I'll be spending some bread on this jawn just to make white people mad. Holla at cha' boy -
? dem crackas.
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Here's the full article from The Guardian:http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/dec/17/white-supremacists-boycott-thor?INTCMP=SRCH
A US white supremacist group has called for a boycott of the Kenneth Branagh-directed superhero movie Thor on the grounds that a black actor has been cast in the role of a Norse ? .
The Council of Conservative Citizens is upset that London-born Idris Elba, star of The Wire and BBC detective series Luther as well as a number of Hollywood films, is to play deity Heimdall in the Marvel Studios feature. The group, which opposes inter-racial marriage and ? rights, has set up a website, boycott-thor.com to set out its opposition to what it sees as an example of leftwing social engineering.
"It [is] well known that Marvel is a company that advocates for leftwing ideologies and causes," the site reads. "Marvel frontman Stan 'Lee' Lieber boasts of being a major financier of leftwing political candidates. Marvel has viciously attacked the Tea Party movement, conservatives and European heritage.
"Now they have taken it one further, casting a black man as a Norse deity in their new movie Thor. Marvel has now inserted social engineering into European mythology."
The site chooses to ignore its target's thespian talents, referring to "hip-hop DJ Elba" in apparent reference to the actor's career in East End nightclubs more than a decade ago. Elba himself addressed the casting issue earlier this year, pointing out that "Thor has a hammer that flies to him when he clicks his fingers". He continued: "That's OK, but the colour of my skin is wrong?"
Branagh's decision to cast non-white actors as citizens of Asgard stands in apparent opposition to a one-time policy on Peter Jackson's forthcoming Lord of the Rings prequel, The Hobbit. A British woman of Pakistani origin complained last month that she had been turned away from a casting session for being "too brown". The offending crew member, an independent contractor, was later sacked.
Thor, starring the Anglo-Saxon-looking Chris Hemsworth in the title role, and Jewish actor Natalie Portman as his love interest is due to arrive in cinemas next May.
These racists are getting torn apart on the message boards btw. -
Thor is going to be a hit. Marvel knows what they're doing with this one.
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Silly ? .
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arbitration wrote: »
Branagh's decision to cast non-white actors as citizens of Asgard stands in apparent opposition to a one-time policy on Peter Jackson's forthcoming Lord of the Rings prequel, The Hobbit. A British woman of Pakistani origin complained last month that she had been turned away from a casting session for being "too brown". The offending crew member, an independent contractor, was later sacked.
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lol damn thats fucced up
atleast they coulda use the woman as an ork or something -
GetMoneyInDaN.O. wrote: »but its ok when we have movies about ancient egypt and its an all white cast....gtfoh....they need to make a ? king authur movie wit some of the blackest ? u can find on this earth
Lol c/s especially the bolded. Dont forget how they use 2 replace native americans with white actors.
For the longest I grew up thinking this guy was a real indian
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They should make a space movie with no white people that'll learn em
Smh@ a white man Tarzan being king of the Jungle -
playmaker88 wrote: »They should make a space movie with no white people that'll learn em
Smh@ a white man Tarzan being king of the Jungle
Lol that tarzan ish dont even sound right. And it kills me like dam even the aliens are white. Everything cant be white wtf lol -
I made a thread about this months ago...but yeah the white supremecists dont read comics they just jumping on some ? that they recently finding out...b/c the norse gods in marvel are all super-alien creatures that make themselves look like humans to appeal to earthlings..
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Why is this shocking to anyone??? Racists upset that Heimdall is black?? I'm shocked....please....this is just par for the course.
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copperkid27 wrote: »I made a thread about this months ago...but yeah the white supremecists dont read comics they just jumping on some ? that they recently finding out...b/c the norse gods in marvel are all super-alien creatures that make themselves look like humans to appeal to earthlings..
Thats just the EarthX timeline...not actual canon.
This movie however is based on the EarthX timeline.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBAw63T_1qc
