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Apr. 2nd, 2013 05:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seriousficSo apparently Marvel is casting Robert Redford as Nick Fury's boss in the upcoming Captain America. Which doesn't really work for me on multiple levels. One, I thought the whole point of casting Samuel L. Jackson in the first place was going "yeah, he's the badass leader of the biggest, baddest spy agency around and he's a black man. Diversity!" If he's reporting in to a white guy, then what was the point? And I didn't mind the World Security Council in The Avengers; that was more of an oversight committee and Nick Fury clearly was able to go "yeah, fuck you guys, I'm doing this thing instead".
Plus, Powers Boothe works as "he's even bigger hardass than SLJ and somewhat evil!" That's good casting. Just bring him back. Robert Redford--that's kinda the opposite of the feeling I get sometimes when, say, Hollywood casts Kevin "Ma and Apple Pie!" Costner as Superman's dad or Sean Penn as a violent criminal who brutalizes women. There, I go "yeah, sounds about right." But Robert Redford as an leader in the military-industry complex? Yeah, c'mon. He's just such a limousine liberal that I can't buy it at all.*
Nick Fury: Sir, the Chitauri invaders are attacking New York!
Robert Redford: I don't like that kind of racially loaded language. You should refer to them as 'undocumented tourists.'
Nick Fury: They've destroyed the Statue of Liberty and replaced it with a giant golden idol of Thanos!
Robert Redford: They're sharing their cultural expression with us. What's next, are you going to tell me graffiti isn't art?
Nick Fury: Oh no! They've covered Manhattan in a hive!
Robert Redford: Well, we white devils stole it from the Native Americans--or First Nation--anyway. Call up the United Nations, I want to hold an immediate international summit to discuss the creation of a Chitauri state.
Nick Fury: Thank Christ! The Avengers are here! Go get 'em, guys!
Robert Redford: I would appreciate it if you only thanked 'unspecified and possibly fictious creator deity or deities.'
*Didn't he do, like, four of those "oh no, the War in Iraq!" movies that no one watched? Really funny how, when the movie-going public clearly isn't interested in movies criticizing the Iraq War--either because they don't agree or because they do agree and don't need to pay twenty bucks to see Matt Damon restate their objections in small words--Hollywood goes "no, we're going to make ten more of these movies! The people must know!" But when there's a movie about black people or queer people being discussed--"Oh no, audiences would never go for that, we must listen to the wishes of the American public even when we would do dearly love to make a movie that isn't about Channing Tatum. Sorry Idris Elba, ANOTHER SAM WORTHINGTON MOVIE!"
This all while Ellen is the most popular woman in America.
Plus, Powers Boothe works as "he's even bigger hardass than SLJ and somewhat evil!" That's good casting. Just bring him back. Robert Redford--that's kinda the opposite of the feeling I get sometimes when, say, Hollywood casts Kevin "Ma and Apple Pie!" Costner as Superman's dad or Sean Penn as a violent criminal who brutalizes women. There, I go "yeah, sounds about right." But Robert Redford as an leader in the military-industry complex? Yeah, c'mon. He's just such a limousine liberal that I can't buy it at all.*
Nick Fury: Sir, the Chitauri invaders are attacking New York!
Robert Redford: I don't like that kind of racially loaded language. You should refer to them as 'undocumented tourists.'
Nick Fury: They've destroyed the Statue of Liberty and replaced it with a giant golden idol of Thanos!
Robert Redford: They're sharing their cultural expression with us. What's next, are you going to tell me graffiti isn't art?
Nick Fury: Oh no! They've covered Manhattan in a hive!
Robert Redford: Well, we white devils stole it from the Native Americans--or First Nation--anyway. Call up the United Nations, I want to hold an immediate international summit to discuss the creation of a Chitauri state.
Nick Fury: Thank Christ! The Avengers are here! Go get 'em, guys!
Robert Redford: I would appreciate it if you only thanked 'unspecified and possibly fictious creator deity or deities.'
*Didn't he do, like, four of those "oh no, the War in Iraq!" movies that no one watched? Really funny how, when the movie-going public clearly isn't interested in movies criticizing the Iraq War--either because they don't agree or because they do agree and don't need to pay twenty bucks to see Matt Damon restate their objections in small words--Hollywood goes "no, we're going to make ten more of these movies! The people must know!" But when there's a movie about black people or queer people being discussed--"Oh no, audiences would never go for that, we must listen to the wishes of the American public even when we would do dearly love to make a movie that isn't about Channing Tatum. Sorry Idris Elba, ANOTHER SAM WORTHINGTON MOVIE!"
This all while Ellen is the most popular woman in America.
