I was perusing YouTube.com's website the other day and I saw the NEW! trailer for the NEW! Netflix series starring Jared Leto "The Outsider".
If you haven't seen this yet then I urge you to stop what you are doing right now and click on the YouTube.com link below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNNcl2mEHzQ
From the trailer it looks like this NEW! Netflix film is going to be sharp, fast paced, action packed and will definitely have you wanting to know what's going to happen next, but some websites seem to have forgotten this and are instead talking of the backlash and accusations of "whitewashing" just like in other series' or other movies like "Ghost In A Shell" that starred Scarlett Johansson and "Doctor Strange" which starred Benedict Cumberbatch.
I have to say when I first saw this NEW! Netflix film's trailer I thought this was another short film that Jared Leto had directed for the band 30 Seconds To Mars because this looks so much style wise like the short film the band did for "From Yesterday" and I was surprised to find out that this is going to be a film that is available on Netflix from 9th March 2018.
If you haven't seen this yet here is the link to have a little look at this on YouTube.com:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpG7FzXrNSs
According to William Yu who as stated by The Independent Magazine Online who created the #StarringJohnCho project said on Twitter about this "whitewashing" argument with regard to the lack of Asian-American actors being represented in American movies:
"STOP. WRITING. AROUND. US"
As the plot for this movie sees Jared Leto play the character of Nick Lowell an American soldier who during the end of WWII is imprisoned in Japan and is freed by his yakuza member cellmate and he then must fight to join the yakuza in order to pay this debt back.
And The Independent Magazine Online has also argued that as well as this "whitewashing" Netflix have seemed to have no understanding of the yakuza culture as they have centred this film around a white male actor and that there is no historical evidence to prove that the yakuza would let in a American male...but this to me just shows that this argument is utterly ridiculous because all these accusations all though there were some arguments floating around when the other Netflix series "Altered Carbon" was released and was also set in Asia they weren't so many loudly arguing it because of the sci-fi tag attached to the series and because there were some Asian actors and actresses in it but this still was centred on a white male actor, so why is there such a backlash now? The Independent Magazine Online's argument is utterly ridiculous about Netflix not knowing or understanding the yakuza culture as there is no evidence to prove that yakuza would let a American male into their group because this is a work of fiction and yes I know that you have to base your series or film or whatever on some form of non-fiction or reality but as this is fiction then of course there is going to be no evidence of yakuza actually letting in a American male into the group this is just an idea for a film that someone has had.
About time too someone had an original idea and not just a reboot of something that has been done before like the new "Farenheit 451", "Robocop", "Total Recall", "Alladin" etc.
I do get this argument though that Hollywood has "whitewashed" in some movies like "Ghost In A Shell","Old Boy" etc because the film studios think this will go over better for financial and for audience members rather than if you were to see these films in their native language with the English subtitles and with Asian actors and actresses that audiences have never seen before and the remake of these films have been non sensicle and just dire in my opinion but this just looks like to me that the Asian community or whoever argues this "whitewashing" isn't a very inclusive group of people as it just looks like they are saying "this film is about our culture our traditions you shouldn't make anything about this as you won't understand so it'll be best if only an Asian cast act these things out".
RANT OVER! I do realise now that this may sound more like a rant but this does get my back up when you start arguing things like this and don't for others it just looks hypercritical to me.
This is directed by Martin Zadvliet, John Linson who wrote the original idea for this film and Andrew Baldwin who wrote the screenplay for this.
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