In the past month weve seen various white actors come out and say they were wrong to take on parts of black cartoon characters. They dont have the experience of being black to take on the role they claim ... of a cartoon character. We have also seen lesbians attack straight people and even bisexual people from acting as lesbians. Ruby rose not gay enough to play a gay super hero is pretty hilarious. Non disabled people attacked for taking on disabled roles. Apparently you cant act as if you have a disability or certain sexual preference. This seems ridiculous to me but at least its consistent.
Oh wait I forgot.
In the past week Ive also watched the new david copperfield movie and the stage production of hamilton (im still only half way through that last one). In these two shows various white historical/fictional characters are now played by people from different races. George washington is no longer white along with every other white historical character that was on the side of the americans. The lead character from David copperfield is now Indian along with various others even though its still set in Victorian London. In fact it seems all the good guys in hamilton are non white and only the bad guys are white played in buffoonish style.
Im really struggling here to see this as not completely inconsistent.
So which of these approach is utterly wrong? Cultural appropriation is either wrong or completely right?
Skin colour/sexual preference/disability etc dont matter when choosing an acting role. Or it completely does matter. People can act as if they are a pirate, doctor or music genius despite no experience or talent but they cant act as if they prefer to have sex with a different gender.
And if Im somehow missing something and they are both compatible can someone please explain it?
Oh wait I forgot.
In the past week Ive also watched the new david copperfield movie and the stage production of hamilton (im still only half way through that last one). In these two shows various white historical/fictional characters are now played by people from different races. George washington is no longer white along with every other white historical character that was on the side of the americans. The lead character from David copperfield is now Indian along with various others even though its still set in Victorian London. In fact it seems all the good guys in hamilton are non white and only the bad guys are white played in buffoonish style.
Im really struggling here to see this as not completely inconsistent.
So which of these approach is utterly wrong? Cultural appropriation is either wrong or completely right?
Skin colour/sexual preference/disability etc dont matter when choosing an acting role. Or it completely does matter. People can act as if they are a pirate, doctor or music genius despite no experience or talent but they cant act as if they prefer to have sex with a different gender.
And if Im somehow missing something and they are both compatible can someone please explain it?