1. Whitewashing

2. Hes Just Not That Into You
3. Baltimore, MD65% black, 31% white population
4. Hes Just Not That Into You
5. Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
6. Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
Original: Sinbad is Arab, grows up in Bagdhad
Disney: Sinbad is Greek, grows up in Syracuse and sounds a lot like Brad Pitt
7. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
8. Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
Prince Dastan
Jake Gyllenhaal?
9. Making Angelina Jolie black:
10. Mariane Pearl and Angelina Jolie
11. 21
12. From Asians to white guys
13. Can you tell these men apart?
14. Believe me, I would have loved to cast Asians in the lead roles, but the truth is, we didn't have access to any bankable Asian American actors that we wanted If I had known how upset the Asian American community would be about this, I would have picked a different story to film.-DANA BRUNETTI, 21s producer
15. Just about every single Asian American that you see on screen on American movies or tv shows today is there for a very specific asian reason (yes, i do know there are exceptionsbut they are very, very few). They dont exist as most Asian Americans exist in America today: as real, three dimensional, everyday peopleYet when it comes to American media and those who create it, the asians on screen have to be justified through some sort of asian reason.Asian-American actor Roger Fan
16. Can you think of some Asian reasons why Hollywood casts Asians in films?
17. A reason like this?
18. Challenge Question:
Come up with a movie where one of the main characters is Asian or Asian-American and does not do martial arts.
19. 20. Controversy in Avatar casting
21. I think its one of those things where I pull my hair up, shave the sides, and I definitely need a tan, he said of the transformation hell go through to look more like Sokka. Its one of those things where, hopefully, the audience will suspend disbelief a little bit.-JACKSON RATHBONE
22. Suspend disbelief?
23. Avatar and the Lost Airbendercast:
24. Good vs. Evil
25. Avatar and the Lost Airbendercast:
26. Challenge Question:
Name a movie where the good guy is foreign and the bad guy is American.
27. Bad Guys in The Hangover
28. Disneys Aladdinboth characters from Arabian city of Agrabah
GOODEVIL
29. Xerxes gets a makeover for 300
30. Bond villains
31. Accents in Ratatouille
Rats and Linguine have no accent
Everyone else does!
Theyre ALL French
32. War movies
33. Changing nature of bad guys
In 1984 its the Russians
In 2010 it will be the Chinese
34. Recent Films with Foreign Bad Guys:
Quantum of Solace
Hancock
Watchmen
Hulk
Angels and Demons
Taken
G.I. Joe
Star Trek
35. Us vs. Them!
36. The Ultimate Us vs. Them!
37. The Ultimate Us vs. Them!
38. Where are the nice aliens?
39. Aliens?
40. Xenophobia?
41. Challenge Question:
Name a movie with Arab, Muslim, and/or Middle Eastern characters who are not evil.
42. Casting of Arab/Muslim characters:
There are about 400 million Arab people in the world today.
There are about one billion Muslims.
Most are not terrorists except in Hollywood.