03.19.08
21 Movie: Boycott this movie or buy it in Chinatown
Producers William S. Beasley, Dana Brunetti, Michael De Luca, Ryan Kavanaugh, Brett Ratner, Kevin Spacey are all racists for casting white people (Jim Sturgess and Kate Bosworth) in lead roles to portray people who were Asians in real life.
If you pay money to see this movie, you will be sending the message that you support producers’ decisions to deny employment to Asian-American actors based on their race.
What if Coach Carter was portrayed by Tom Hanks, American Gangster Frank Lucas portrayed by Tom Cruise, or if Brad Pitt portrayed Chris Gardner in Pursuit of Happyness?
Join the Boycott 21 group!
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The main characters of “Bringing Down the House” are Jeff Ma and Mike Aponte, former real-life MIT students who are both Asian-American men. According to the author, most of the actual blackjack team was composed of Asian males. Not only were Asian-American actors unsuitable for the leading roles in this flick: British actor Jim Sturgess had to be imported all the way from the UK to portray the role of Jeff Ma!
Please help boycott this film and tell Hollywood that it’s okay to portray Asian-American men in lead roles as three-dimensional human beings with personalities, feelings, and a sense of humor. You know. Regular people. Is that too much to ask for? Vote no on 21.
The producers of this movie claim that they are not racists, and that casting white people as leads is a decision motivated only by profit, even though the real-life characters were Asian.
Antebellum plantation owners were motivated by profit also, and they used slaves to achieve their goals. Pretty evil isn’t it?