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Shame Day: Johnny Depp and The Lone Ranger

Posted on July 2, 2013 by Evan | 16 comments

I feel like I shouldn’t have to say too much about this. Really, this feels, to me anyway, like it hardly warrants an explanation.

Johnny Depp, a white actor, playing Tonto, a character traditionally portrayed as being of the Potawatomi tribe, in Disney’s upcoming The Lone Ranger is really dumb. “Dumb” is but one of the many four-letter words I could be using to describe it.

Really, though, I should let Mr. Depp speak for himself. He’s an actor a lot of people greatly respect given his extensive acting career, and I think that he should be given the opportunity to explain (1) why he took on the role, and (2) why his character appears the way he does. Continue reading →

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Tagged ancestry, blood, Cherokee, Comanche, Creek, Disney, First Peoples, Hanay Geiogamah, I Am Crow, Johnny Depp, Kirby Sattler, Native America, Potawatomi, race, racism, representation, The Lone Ranger, Tonto, tribe

What Happened to Reading?

Posted on June 24, 2013 by trotskyite | 4 comments

Now I know that there’s a certain degree of irony attached to this post. Just now you read my question on why people don’t read anymore. I’m not really talking about reading in the the sense of skimming the occasional article online, though. Before anyone tries to point it out- yeah, I’m aware that the medium for communication has shifted a lot since video is now accessible to pretty much everyone.

I’m talking about books, people. When did we stop reading books?

I would go bankrupt buying books with gifs for illustrations…

I can’t count how many times I’ve been reading a book in public and people act as if I’ve started cleaning a black-powder musket.

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Posted in America, art, literature, media, writing, Youth

Tagged 80s, a wrinkle in time, adult, age, beowulf, black books, book, book entertainment, book store, books, buying books, chuck palahniuk, classic, Cost, decade, entertainment, Era, GIF, hatchet, high school, jeoffry, kids, literary, literature, maus, media, medium, music, occasional article, old yeller, oliver twist, paperback, price, pride and prejudice, reading, reading a book, scrubs, shows, shut up and take my money, slap, society, store, superfudge, technology, the adventures of tom sawyer, the giver, the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, the hobbit, the toothpaste millionaire, the witch of blackbird pond, TV, video, work, writer, writers, writing, Youth

Fame Day: 5 Second Films

Posted on June 20, 2013 by trotskyite | Leave a comment

While this week we’re trying to take a break from politics here at Culture War Reporters (last week was dominated by the subject), I really wouldn’t be doing my due dilligence if I didn’t give a shout out the protestors currently flooding the streets of Rio De Janeiro, down in Brazil. The Brazilian government has proposed tripling the cost of public transportation, and while that might sound to many like a pretty paltry thing, to the poor and urban working class of Brazil who rely on public transit, that kind of increase is going to be devastating. Brazilian protestors- keep up the good work.

Now on to the focus of today’s Fame Day- internet sketch group 5 Second Films.

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Evan and Gordon Talk: Fat People

Posted on June 19, 2013 by Evan | 10 comments

EVAN: Alright, ladies and gents, tonight Gordon and I are going to talk about a subject that may just help blot out the memory that was Man of Steel, and that is: fat people.

It was his suggestion, so I’m going to pass things off to him and get the ball rolling [no pun intended].

GORDON: More specifically, it’s the treatment we seem to offer the overweight in this country. I’m guessing you’ve seen at least one heftier person riding around the aisles of a grocery store in those little scooter things.

EVAN: Not so much here in Canada, but yes, they are indeed around. Again, no pun intended. Continue reading →

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The Internet And That One Scene In Star Trek Into Darkness – You Know The One

Posted on June 7, 2013 by Evan | 4 comments

Mild spoilers abound.

There are a few directions I could have gone with in writing about the new Star Trek film that came out almost a month ago. The state of the plot and racism in casting have already been covered in the wittily titled Star Trek Into Dumbness and Whiteness, respectively. No, what I’m going to be writing about is a very specific scene I mentioned in our last E&GT. Here’s an image of the scene in question, in case you’d forgotten:

Before I carry on in highlighting the various opinions around the internet on this, allow me to provide some context. The woman is Carol Marcus, science officer, played by Alice Eve. She leads Captain James T. Kirk into a shuttle where she proceeds to talk to him about torpedoes. As she does so she asks him to turn around, and then begins stripping. He peeks. She looks at him [pictured above], and once again asks him to turn around. He does. Continue reading →

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Tagged Alice Eve, apology, Benedict Cumberbatch, Carol Marcus, Conan, Damon Lindelof, Devin Faraci, director, feminism, film, gratuitous, James T. Kirk, JJ Abrams, Kirk, man card, misogyny, scene, sexy, shirtless, shower scene, Star Trek, Star Trek into Darkness, strip, titillation, turn around, Twitter, underwear, unnecessary, writer

The “One Size Fits All” Approach To Casting

Posted on May 24, 2013 by Evan | 5 comments

Meet Mark Dacascos. As of this writing he is 49 years old, and a reasonably successful actor/martial artist. He has also portrayed more ethnicities than you can find in the average neighbourhood in small-town Western New York.

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Category Archives: media

Shame Day: Johnny Depp and The Lone Ranger

What Happened to Reading?

Fame Day: 5 Second Films

Evan and Gordon Talk: Fat People

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The “One Size Fits All” Approach To Casting

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