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100 Artists Decorate 100 Models of Darth Vader’s Head.
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Movies
Warning: very disgusting but completely awesome:
Stan Lee says that having a black Spiderman would be too confusing for the poor, little audience. O_o Donald Glover for Spiderman? I’m so there.
First Tangled trailer looks pretty awesome.
Guillermo Del Toro’s Next Picture Might Be Van Helsing.
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Women Scientists on the Debate over Women in Science.
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Alright…here goes:
– The Vader Project is made of win. I like.
– The Mortal Kombat vid is AWESOME. I want the whole film and I want it with exactly this concept (and this cast and more cast) and I want it now. (Somewhere inside me, there’s a 12 year-old fanboy _drooling_ right now)
– Black Spidey wouldn’t be too confusing for the audience (what with the audience having two braincells or more), but I wouldn’t want him to be black. What I’d want is an equally awesome black superhero. A new one. (Because the world can never have enough awesome superheroes.) Or at the very least a black Captain America. Because, considering the origin story, Cap ought to have been black anyway. What with history, and everything.
– You liked the Tangled trailer? Really?! I loved the concept when they first started talking about it, when Rapunzel was basically going to be a self-rescuing princess and the guy was going to be voiced by Matthew Gray Gubler. Now, she’s been relegated to a supporting role in her own damn story. I watched the trailer, I glowered. Then I glowered some more. Thinking about it, I’m still glowering.
– A not-awful Van Helsing? Want. I’m still recovering from the last one, and a dose of GDT would help.
– I don’t care about Spidey’s skin color but why not have both – a great new black guy and a black Spiderman? Also, Donald Glover is awesome and he would make a great Spidey.
– Yeah, I liked the Tangled trailer, even though I don’t like what it makes of Rapunzel.
Riiiight:
* Mortal Kombat vid: My attention span is too short for this stuff. Too much gore, too
* Black Spiderman Woah, get over it. He’s a red-and-blue spiderman most of the time anyway.
* secret powers of time: interesting theory.
@ Deadra: Why wouldn’t you want Spiderman to be black? I’d like that.
I think the important things about Spiderman are:
* his trouble balancing his jobs and being a hero
* being a weakling in real life
* his relations with the two women in his life (one romantic, one maternal)
* and of course crawling around in his tights, saving orphans from burning houses
I just think that being a lily-white kid from the suburbs makes up an integral part of who Peter Parker is. (I realise that’s a pretty thin argument.)
I also think that while we need more diverse characters in pop culture, it would be somewhat pathetic to just paint a few of the better known ones black. Why not create new ones? Brilliant new ones? To enrich culture in two ways instead of one?
(That’s not to say that I wouldn’t be all for, say, a special JLA story arc where everyone’s race is changed, or everyone’s gender, for that matter. That would be interesting as a sort of short experiment…what would change, what wouldn’t, that sort of thing.)