One thing you can't help but notice at a moment in which Hollywood diversity is particularly under the microscope is how effortlessly
multicultural the cast of «Paddington 2» is, down to the smallest supporting roles — all the more important to reinforce its themes of keeping an open heart for everyone.
For example, the series features a rather
multicultural cast of characters with American, European, Russian, Chinese, African and Inuit backgrounds — an interesting fruit salad of ethnicities, all at the mercy of the Japanese interpretation of these cultures.
Not exact matches
Nevertheless, I see them all on opening night — the action sequences are increasingly impressive, the
cast is one
of the most
multicultural on the silver screen, and, to my personal delight, food plays a pivotal role.
It offers an array
of newly - minted characters played by an appealing,
multicultural cast and follows a tried - and - true storytelling formula.
It has scenes
of powerful emotion, but because
of its large
cast, it is more about ideas than lives, especially the idea that in a
multicultural society, racism is more complex than we like to think, and doesn't sort its victims into the good and the evil but finds everyone can be a little
of both.
The original music is too heroic and unconflicted for a 21st - century Western, which Antoine Fuqua's new film certainly is:
Multicultural in its
casting and pointedly political in its choice
of bad guy, The Magnificent Seven is a 2016 movie all the way.
Based upon Harold Gray's popular comic strip «Little Orphan Annie,» the Depression - era story revolved around an optimistic moppet, her dog Sandy and her benefactor, billionaire Oliver «Daddy» Warbucks.Updated to the present with a
multicultural cast, the sassy, spunky tyke (Quvenzhane Wallis) is temporarily adopted by a cynical cellphone mogul, Will Stacks (Jamie Foxx), as a ploy for voter appeal when he runs for Mayor
of New York City.