Wednesday 11 June 2014

representation and ethics

why does the person who writes this article think that rio 2 is racist?
well, all the main characters are voiced by white americans and all the 'comic relief' roles are not.

PEPs: Problem Contexts, Entertainment Contexts and Performance Contexts. "Within PEPs, black people and other genotypes have to be associated with vexing circumstances," Dr Charles Da Costa states that people 'Strive to pacify, make others happy and be exceptional or extraordinary – far from 'normal'. Villainy, exoticism, jocularity and athleticism are common indicators of this malaise. Images of ethnicity do not need to be conveyed within the narrow scope of PEPs."

Da Costa thinks that animation companies are usually just sellouts and try to gain money. totally not how business works, in my personal opinion if they were to just scrape anyone of the streets and pay them money to voice act in a film, that's awesome for them, yay for morals and such, but the millions of people that will see the film will be disappointed, just because in this situation a particular set of actors fit the roles more so than others does not mean that they chose them because of race, if you want a person of any gender or religion or ethnicity or race in your film for one reason or another it doesn't mean that they're discriminating against all the others, maybe it was better in context and so on.

What does Turbo say about social mobility?
In turbo the only humans are Mexicans who run a small shack selling tacos, this is a stereotype that has existed for a while but is not appropriate for a large company to be portraying, especially to a younger audience.

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