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[glockgal]

AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER
(I have lots to post, bear with me and read through! It's worth it!)

PROTESTS - LET'S GO PUBLIC
So there was an awesome little protest that happened over the weekend at the Philadelphia casting call by. Yes, it was only two people. But their story is amazing. Plus, it garnered enough attention for NY Press and LJ's own

Comments

[heather]

Those few minutes I spent reading that interview?

I will never get those back.

My god.

[glockgal]

Terrible, innit? I think I've been ignoring daily celebrity news so much these past few years, I forgot how inane they really are. WOW.

[anne_jumps]

"We want you to dress in traditional cultural ethnic attire," [the casting director] said. "If you're Korean, wear a kimono. If you're from Belgium, wear lederhosen."

Wow, where to start?

[ratcreature]

It is so pathetic that they can't even get their cliches right. It's not like lederhosen were a Belgian cliche. Nor are kimonos a Korean dress, come to think of it. I'm fairly clueless about fashion, but afaik traditional Korean dresses look different than the Japanese ones, and are probably called a different name too. Though maybe they meant this to be ironic and mismatched intentionally or something?

[anne_jumps]

Yeah, this is pitiful.
Korean dresses kind of look like kimonos, but they're called hanbok, I think, and Koreans are not Japanese.... Lederhosen are traditionally Bavarian, not Belgian. *headdesk*

Though maybe they meant this to be ironic and mismatched intentionally or something?
I really doubt that, personally.

[glockgal]

Exactly, right? Everything about that sentence sends my head into a tailspin.

[cathybites]

"We want you to dress in traditional cultural ethnic attire," [the casting director] said. "If you're Korean, wear a kimono. If you're from Belgium, wear lederhosen."

I...dude. I can't even read the rest of your post because I can't get past that.

[glockgal]

That's the worst part of this entire post, so I can't blame you for not getting past. They disgust me.

[cathybites]

Fuck it. I'm showing up at the casting call dressed in lederhosen.

[glockgal]

Yes! And your national identity can be 'Foreign'.

Foreigners all look the same anyway. Oh the beauty of a colourblind world!!!!!!!!!!!!GYAAAAAAAAAAAA I AM SO ANGRY

[florahart]

Korean...kimono...Belgium...lederhosen...

I just. aklsdhfkjahsdf? Oh, hey, I can play that game! If you're from Bangladesh, wear a Sherpa costume to let us know! If you're from California, show your California spirit by wearing a cowboy hat and spurs! If you're from Oregon, wear something made out of all those potatoes! Yes!

*EYECROSS A LOT AND THEN SOME MORE*

[glockgal]

YES. IT ALL MAKES SENSE, WHY NOT. This is an AMERICAN MOVIE. So who cares, they're just crazy foreigners. *stabs self*

[cereta]

"We want you to dress in traditional cultural ethnic attire," [the casting director] said. "If you're Korean, wear a kimono. If you're from Belgium, wear lederhosen."

NO. WORDS.

[glockgal]

Honest mistake, tee hee! All foreigners look alike after all. UH.