The live action adaptation of Ghost in the Shell evidences tone deaf attempts to deal with the whitewashing controversy and a dumbing down of the Ghost in the Shell franchise’s complex intellectual themes...
Now that The Great Wall is finally out, we can finally make our judgements about it as a film in and of itself, rather than basing our impressions on trailers. The film ultimately reveals far more complicated racial dynamics than simply just Hollywood "whitewashing"...
Recent backlash by Asian-Americans against The Great Wall, starring Matt Damon, for “whitewashing” Asians from a movie ostensibly set in China, have unfortunately generally missed the point...