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In a stunning twist, people like to see their own reflections represented in cinema. When you expand the casting, you expand your audience.
We've known this since the fucking 1950s. The original Ocean's 11 movie (the Sinatra film from 1960) was doing DEI casting with their Rat Pack crew of immigrants, minorities, and women and audiences ate it up.
You want diversity so you can see yourself in the roles.
I want diversity so I can tell the fucking characters apart
We are not the same
I could tell that whole cast of Reservoir Dogs apart.
Old White Guy
Smug White Guy
Chubby White Guy
Psycho White Guy
British White Guy
Director of the Movie
Cop
That's a cornucopia
Well, it’s pretty easy when they’re all different colors.
The racism of this comment replace white with black and british with african and rez dog with a spike lee movie.
I'm hoping this is sarcasm
I believe the dream was judging people not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.