• Flying Squid
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    82 months ago

    I really don’t think it would have hurt to cast an Arab actor as Ra’s Al Ghul. And then you wouldn’t need a convoluted explanation like that.

    • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥
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      92 months ago

      That’s true. But I wonder if the creative team thought it would be in bad taste to have an Arab guy as head of global terrorist organization so soon after 9/11

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          42 months ago

          Bruh. Since it is a title, it doesn’t matter who is holding it. Even comics Ra’s Al Ghul doesn’t mind that considering he wants Bruce Wayne to be his heir.

          • Flying Squid
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            -32 months ago

            Yes, again, you can come up with that convoluted after-the-fact explanation that wasn’t in the movie or you can not piss off Arab people.

            • @escapesamsara
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              32 months ago

              I don’t think not being typecast as terrorists pisses off arabs

              • Flying Squid
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                -32 months ago

                Good thing the character isn’t a terrorist then. The head of a cult of assassins is not a terrorist. Assassins target specific people for specific reasons, not to create terror.

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                    -22 months ago

                    I thought we were talking about a character that’s the head of a league of assassins, not the actual plot of the movie. You know that the movie didn’t have to have that plot, right? You realize it’s not some sort of requirement to make that specific Batman story, yes?

                • @escapesamsara
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                  22 months ago

                  Given assassin actions by definition are terror attacks, I’ll disagree with you.

                  • Flying Squid
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                    -22 months ago

                    Please show me that definition. Assassinations are generally not done to cause terror. They are done to achieve more specific political goals (i.e. get the guy in power out of power).

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            -12 months ago

            For the same reason the excuse of a white character being named Mitsimu Hashimori is that it’s just a title being passed down is something people might find offensive.

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              22 months ago

              I think artists can make whatever they want (within the bounds of the law) and that it’s up to the consumers to decide whether they like it or not with their wallets.

              • Flying Squid
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                02 months ago

                When did this become about what people can do and not about whether or not they’re being highly offensive?

                It is legal to make and distribute a movie where a guy just yells the N-word for 90 minutes. I assume you would find that offensive. Most people would.

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                  Right, so I wouldn’t watch it or give them money, and I’m sure you and most other people wouldn’t either. But if that person wants to make it, more power to them.

                  It’s been about that the entire thread. The OP image is about casting choices.

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      22 months ago

      Ghassan Massoud (the guy that played Saladin in Kingdom of Heaven) would have been perfect