Sentences with phrase «about minority characters»

In case we needed another reminder that Hollywood does not care about minority characters or actors, yesterday brought the news that Paramount Pictures and Dreamworks Pictures thought it would be a cool idea to cast Scarlett Johansson as the famous Japanese heroine Major in the film adaptation of Japanese writer / illustrator Masamune Shirow's Kodansha Comics manga comic series, GHOST IN THE SHELL.

Not exact matches

I can see by all the other reviews that I'm dramatically in the minority here but if a teen drama around terminal illness is what you're looking for on a Sunday afternoon, then 2014's «The Fault in Our Stars» is much more deserving of your time with characters you'll actually care about and a story that will leave you thinking about life and how to make the most of it long after the end credits have rolled.

The group makes it over the wall, but not before two of the series» prominent characters of color — played by Mekhi Phifer and Maggie Q, who are each given virtually no dialogue as a parting gift — are gunned down, likely to make room for the new influx of white actors we're about to meet (Daniel Dae Kim shows up for a second too, another minority bit - part designed to create a false sense of diversity).

Yeah, because this looks exactly like Munich, which was exactly like Jurassic Park, which was exactly like Indiana Jones which was almost a copy of Schindler's List which was the blueprint for Jaws and that film directly influenced Catch Me if you Can which led him to make Minority Report which seemed to be another telling of Saving Private Ryan which was loosely based on the character from The Terminal who was in some way based on Djimon Honsou's character in Amistad who was on a boat, just like the captain in Hook which had a black person in it like The Color Purple which is a film about aliens or E.T.s (Extra Terrestrials) who started a War of the Worlds after many Close Encounters in 1941 with the Empire of the Sun...

Larrick's 1965 landmark article, «The All - White World of Children's Books» (reprinted in Muse, 1997) pointed out that minority children had few opportunities to read about characters like themselves or see themselves in these books.

USA About Blog Multicultural Children's books are Books that contain characters of color, as well as characters that represent a minority point of view.