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Mar 31, 2017 · Rupert Sanders' Ghost in the Shell took some heat for casting a white actress to play a Japanese character, but the film's racism extends far beyond that.
Mar 31, 2022 · Five years ago, Ghost in the Shell accidentally destroyed a racist Hollywood tradition. The adaptation of the anime classic inspired sweeping changes across the entertainment industry that...
May 18, 2016 · Scarlett Johansson in Ghost in the Shell: why Hollywood whitewashing isn’t always racist. All of acting is pretending – so why do we demand that a character's race be "real"? By Yo Zushi. (Photo By ) It took Steven Spielberg eight years to get Ghost in the Shell into production.
- Yo Zushi
- Kusanagi Is Major’s Previous Identity
- Whitewashers Are The Movie’S Bad Guys
- Conclusion
Whereas the original Ghost in the Shellwas all about Major’s future and her transcendence to a higher plane of being, the remake is heavily focused on her past: where does the ghost (her soul) in the robotic shell come from? The answer is far too meta-textual for comfort. The opening scene depicts Major’s original body (crucially with her face obsc...
The danger of a movie providing commentary on itself is that it needs to be wholly aware of what exactly it is. In last year’s X-Men: Apocalypse, Bryan Singer had Jean Grey walk out of Return of the Jedi and quip “the third movie’s always the worst” in a paper-thin jab at how reviled Brett Ratner’s The Last Stand is, totally missing that his film w...
As an actual movie, Ghost in the Shell is really rather unremarkable. It's not a quote-unquote disaster, just wholly uninspired; the pretty visuals are usually ripped from the original anime (and its precursor, Blade Runner) with the only really inspiring action set-pieces those "storyboarded" in the manga, and while Scarlett Johansson makes a pret...
- Alex Leadbeater
- Content Director
Feb 22, 2017 · Between accusations of whitewashing and appropriation, 'Ghost in the Shell' is having a lot of issues.
- Caitlin Busch
Feb 9, 2017 · When Scarlett Johansson was announced as the lead for the long-awaited movie adaptation of the popular Japanese manga The Ghost in the Shell last year, fans blasted the actress and...
Apr 19, 2016 · When the first photo of Scarlett Johansson as the star of Ghost in the Shell dropped online on Thursday, fans of the beloved manga series took to Twitter in outrage. They denounced Hollywood for casting a white actor as a Japanese character from a distinctly Japanese narrative.
