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Just to spell it out, here's another example: the character of Rocky Balboa can only be an Italian-American man. Sly Stallone created the character and that's how he's written. In Rocky (1976) Apollo Creed says at the press conference:

Apollo - Hey Rock, my main man, come here. Ain't you Italian?

Rocky - Yeah, I'm Italian.

Random journalist - So what does that mean?

Apollo - It means, if he can't fight, I bet he can cook.

Also, Mickey calls Rocky a 'dumb Dago'.

So, Hollywood can't change Rocky Balboa. They could introduce a female boxer into the Rocky universe, perhaps.

Afterburn has it right - the new film is about a female 007. This shouldn't be a problem because there have been female heroes (there's a word for female heroes - heroines) in film for decades - see Ellen Ripley, Sarah Connor, Nancy Thompson, Trinity, Jackie Brown, etc. etc.

There could be an issue if the new 007 film is written poorly and identity politics is shoved down the audience's throats - see Ghostbusters (2016) and The Last Jedi (2017). I guess we'll just have to wait and see.

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...Were Trump`s comments about Obama Racist?...

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more backlash: david letterman considers banning trump for his racist comments.

by colby hall | 8:16 am, april 29th, 2011 video .

david letterman and his guest dr. phil discussed donald trumps recent allegations that barack obama was.

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If Trump told British-born comedian John Oliver to go back home, would that be racist?

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...Were Trump`s comments about Obama Racist?...

by OUTLAW in

more backlash: david letterman considers banning trump for his racist comments.

by colby hall | 8:16 am, april 29th, 2011 video .

david letterman and his guest dr. phil discussed donald trumps recent allegations that barack obama was.

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it was common to hear people saying to other people who appeared to be of Asian ethnicity,''Paki go home'' ''Fuck off back to Pakistan'' or to people who appeared of African ethnicity, ''Get back to the jungle where you came from'' - but Trump didn't say 'Paki' or any other term of abuse. He didn't say go back to the jungle, either.

If Trump told Arnold Schwarzenegger to 'go back home' would it be racist?

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There's NOTHING worse than..........

by The Fall Guy in

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.........what?

we've all said this about something, but what do you really think there's "nothing worse than?".

i think there's nothing worse than trying to hold in uncontrollable laughter in a totally inappropriate situation.

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There's nothing worse than ... feminists free-bleeding.

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...Were Trump`s comments about Obama Racist?...

by OUTLAW in

more backlash: david letterman considers banning trump for his racist comments.

by colby hall | 8:16 am, april 29th, 2011 video .

david letterman and his guest dr. phil discussed donald trumps recent allegations that barack obama was.

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Here's the OED definition of racism:

1 Prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior.

1.1 The belief that all members of each race possess characteristics, abilities, or qualities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races.

https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/racism

Trump's comments are often dumb and crass, no doubt about that. But are they racist?

The problem is, to some people, virtually everything is racist these days. Some people think the film Gremlins (1984) is racist. They see the little green monsters as a metaphor for the African-American community. And because these little green monsters were trashing a pub, getting wasted, dancing like maniacs, shooting each other and generally being violent, well, that's supposed to be a dig at the black community. XD

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The idiots Hollyweird destroys the Bond Franchise

by rockemsockem in

99% of the people who go to bond films want a straight white english bond with a bit of light sexism and some bond girls thrown in.

they do not want a tranny bond or a gay or lesbian bond.

and they do not want a black woman bond.

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They can if they own the rights - only artists can create art. A corporation is not an artist so cannot create art.

Ian Fleming was an artist who created the fictional character James Bond. No corporation can legally take his creation from him.

Let me give another example: Disney does not own The Force Awakens (2015). The person who created that piece of art owns it, in this case JJ Abrams. Disney doesn't actually own Star Wars. It's creator, George Lucas, does.

Yes, I know Disney paid Lucas 4 billion dollars for the franchise but ownership of a piece of art stays with the creator of that art.

What Disney can do is sue anyone else that makes a product for sale and tries to call that product 'Star Wars'. Only Disney can legally sell Star Wars products. But the ownership will always be the intellectual property of George Lucas.

Here's another example: George Lucas created Han Solo. So, because Disney bought the franchise from Lucas, Disney can hire a film-maker to put out a Han Solo film (which they did). But Disney cannot just decide to make Han a black woman.

What Disney could do is hire a film-maker to create a film with a female outlaw/pilot type character. But it wouldn't be Han Solo. And if that happened this new female character would be the intellectual property of the person who created him.