allerasphinx:bonesbuckleup:evil-bones-mccoy:entertainmentweekly:Fantastic Beasts producer responds t
allerasphinx:bonesbuckleup:evil-bones-mccoy:entertainmentweekly:Fantastic Beasts producer responds to diversity criticism for the first time“The criticism is ironic because Fantastic Beasts is actually a story about acceptance (an anti-bigotry message that also recurred in the Potterbooks and films). Without giving anything away, the members of the wizarding world are outcasts in 1926 New York and subject to discriminatory persecution. “Like all of Jo Rowling’s works, [Fantastic Beasts] is populated with a variety of people and that will be the same in this series over the course of the films,” Heyman says. “There will be people of various types of ethnicities. In New York in the 1920s, there was a segregation between white and black, the neighborhoods were largely separate, and that is reflected in [the film]. But the wizarding world is a much more open and tolerant society where people of color and different ethnic backgrounds exist harmoniously together. There are people of color filling this world in an organic way.”” ….so you mean we’re just scenery items and extras thenohthat’s so progressive and open and diverse uhhuh yeahOriginally posted by yourreactiongifs#i can’t remember who said it so i’m gonna paraphrase here but#if everyone is white in your metaphor for racism then your metaphor is bullshit (via @invisiblespork)Bravo.“The criticism is ironic because Fantastic Beasts is actually a story about acceptance (an anti-bigotry message that also recurred in the Potterbooks and films). Without giving anything away, the members of the wizarding world are outcasts in 1926 New York and subject to discriminatory persecution. Yet another movie where white people are the face of persecution due to prejudice. Yet another movie where diversity will amount to people of colour in the background as window dressing. How innovative. One would you think that if the wizarding world was a haven for outsiders, the presence of people of colour would be more accepted, but no, the wizarding world is just as racist as evidenced by the lack of diversity presented. Or if the producer prefers–since they’re balking at the implication that the wizarding world isn’t inclusive–the people behind this movie are racist hence the lack of diversity. “But the wizarding world is a much more open and tolerant society where people of color and different ethnic backgrounds exist harmoniously together. There are people of color filling this world in an organic way.”Bitchwhere.gifI bet you anything, the soundtrack for the film will have a ton of jazz influence while barring any black people (or other poc) from the main cast. New York City had the highest black population in the 1920s, not to mention that the Harlem Renaissance was taking place at the time… making Harlem one of the hottest places to be. Harlem would’ve been quite literally the perfect place to hide a magical community. -- source link
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