Avatar: The Last Airbender New Trailer!!!

I think the reason there are so many people pissed about the casting (and they are, it's kinda scary) is because the show has very obvious asian influences. To cast all whites in the lead roles is a bit of a slap in the face to asian actors who could have played the roles. Even people a part of the show are distancing themselves from the casting choices of the movie. I've heard people talking about boycotting it, too, though I don't think that'll happen in a large enough scale to prove the point.

And to cast whites in the roles, then make them up to look asian would be an even larger slap in the face. If you wanted an asian look, why not cast asian actors? Unless you were prejudiced? Even now, with Dev Patel as Zuko, there's a sort of subconscious good guys=white, bad guys=minorities taint to the casting.

I don't really care that much what the actors' ethnicities are, I would just prefer that some of them (Rathbone and Patel, for starters) resemble their characters more.

 

Duh. No one said that it is an anime.

What I said was that it had strong Asian influences. It uses Chinese martial arts and draws very heavily on East Asian cultures in other areas. Therefore, it makes sense to cast Asian (or Native American, in the case of the water tribesmen) actors and actresses in the roles. But the studio chose not to do so.

 

The types are Ba Gua for Airbending, Hung Gar for Earthbending, Northern Shaolin for Firebending, and Tai Chi for Waterbending. And then there's Toph, who uses the Chu Gar Southern Praying Mantis style to compensate for her blindness.

And all five are forms of Chinese martial arts.

But really, I don't see how anyone, even someone noobish about Asian culture, could look at an episode of Avatar and not see the influences. Which makes the casting for the live action seem even more stupid.

Lol. I'm glad that it is American made, because a lot of American animation, in my opinion, is just crappy to look at and the stories are stupid. And Avatar is different.

 

^Well, they've been working on the movie for some time, so it's not like the show completely vanished for almost two years and someone randomly decided to make a movie based on it yesterday.

Aang's story was basically over. We saw him master (or come close to it) the four elements, Sozin's comet came, and Aang saved the world. What would be left to tell in a fourth season?

 

In my opinion, movie adaptations rarely do any justice to the source material. I just hope the movie is still enjoyable and doesn't ruin the cartoon too badly.