prt 2 because apparently there are character limits. and both of these will be marked as spam since I never use my lj. lame.
I saw you talking about Fantastic Beasts and I think it is an important part of this conversation because in her tweet she's saying "hey Hermione could have been black! (but shh she totally wasn't)" and people are giving her credit for this casting choice like she had some sort of say but ignoring or forgetting how she wrote the screenplay for FB and chose not to write her mains as anything other than white. And yes, the two female leads she's revealed are apparently Goldsteins but I highly doubt we'll see them be any more Jewish than Anthony was in the series, as if them being Jewish in Brooklyn in the 1920s wouldn't be fucking important. Or how Anthony being Jewish while essentially wizard Hitler rose to power wasn't important. Are the actresses even Jewish themselves? Do we get to "take back" the gross stereotype of only bad witches being coded Jewish by having two important good witches being of a Jewish family in this series? No, I don't think we'll see that happen.
I think this comment isn't entirely coherent and I apologize, I probably should have waited to reply until I've had some sleep. OH WELL.
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Date: 2015-12-22 07:04 am (UTC)I saw you talking about Fantastic Beasts and I think it is an important part of this conversation because in her tweet she's saying "hey Hermione could have been black! (but shh she totally wasn't)" and people are giving her credit for this casting choice like she had some sort of say but ignoring or forgetting how she wrote the screenplay for FB and chose not to write her mains as anything other than white. And yes, the two female leads she's revealed are apparently Goldsteins but I highly doubt we'll see them be any more Jewish than Anthony was in the series, as if them being Jewish in Brooklyn in the 1920s wouldn't be fucking important. Or how Anthony being Jewish while essentially wizard Hitler rose to power wasn't important. Are the actresses even Jewish themselves? Do we get to "take back" the gross stereotype of only bad witches being coded Jewish by having two important good witches being of a Jewish family in this series? No, I don't think we'll see that happen.
I think this comment isn't entirely coherent and I apologize, I probably should have waited to reply until I've had some sleep. OH WELL.