Oscar nominated Director Armando Iannucci has defended his decision to cast Dev Patel in The Personal History of David Copperfield.
Patel, who is a British actor of Indian heritage, plays the eponymous lead in the Charles Dickens adaptation, which also stars Peter Capaldi, Hugh Laurie and Tilda Swinton
He told The Guardian: “It’s when I thought of Dev as David. He said: ‘Do I have an Indian father?’ No. Although it’s set in 1840, for the people in the film it’s the present day. And it’s an exciting present."
Iannucci added: “It wasn’t a conscious reaction to Brexit, but the conversation has gone very insular in terms of what Britain is and what it doesn’t want to be. I wanted to celebrate what Britain actually is, and it’s much more of a carefree, enjoyable, humorous kind of zesty, energetic place.”
Earlier this month, Patel also discussed the film's diversity.
“I think wonderful things are happening," he told PA. "The fact that I get to be in a film like this is amazing. It’s at the beginning of a movement, if you can call it that. You have got to talk about it to get some momentum, so it’s cool..
I totally missed this literary classic growing up. It didn’t appeal to me. And what Armando has done with the casting and the world, he has given it a buoyancy and an accessibility to kids like myself. It really is representative of a modern Britain – the one that I grew up in. And it’s about humility, it’s about friendship, it’s about togetherness and accepting where you have come from and embracing that too."
Early reviews of the film are in, with The Telegraph deeming it a “rollicking farce” that “keeps the spirit of Dickens intact”.
The Personal History of David Copperfield is released in UK cinemas on 10 January 2020.
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/armando-iannucci-dev-patel-personal-history-david-copperfield-colourblind-casting-a9264026.html
What is everyone's opinion on how Netflix should go about casting Toph? I've seen many fans suggest representation is important to cast a literal blind 12-year-old martial arts actress as Toph. While others suggest it's easier (and possibly safer) to teach an actress to act blind (i.e Charlie Cox in Daredevil).
What is everyone's opinion?
That one came right out of the orange!
Just wondering what you all thought of colour blind casting - I understand that in some situations it's a) inappropriate (e.g. The Color Purple) or b) unrealistic for the audience (e.g. Sound of Music). But in cases of musicals such as Wicked, where the character's race doesn't directly affect the plot and casting someone who isn't the same race as what may have been originally intended will not confuse the audience or make it any less believable, what are your opinions?
While many male casting directors were outed during the MeToo movement, a female casting director who is notorious for making actors go through the casting couch escaped unscathed. What many Bollywood insiders & our sources told us was that all aspiring actors have to go through the casting couch if they ever hope to get the plum projects from the studio she works for. Many actors credit her for giving them a break in Bollywood. The production house in question is easily one of the biggest studios in the country. Many would give a limb for the three-film deal that the production house offers actors who manage to crack their auditions. The casting director used & dumped a renowned TV star. She lured him with the promise of a three film deal with the studio but ghosted him after she was done with him. As per our sources, even Assistant Directors have to bed her before starting their Bollywood journey, working for top filmmakers who are on the studio's payroll.
It is rumored that the Assistant directors are treated like toy boys. Another victim is an actor who was seen in the studio boss's last directorial, which bombed badly. At least two actors who are rumored to have been through her casting couch, are bonafide superstars today. While many will cheer at the sight of a woman turning the tables on men, the victims will have a different viewpoint.
Can you guess the celebs we are talking about? Please drop a comment with your guesses.
I feel that we should teach kids to be race blind. Like, their race should be the last thing a person identifies with. A black person should feel and be treated no different than a white person. The government should focus on helping poor people. Because poor people are more likely to commit crimes, and there are a lot more poor black people than poor white people because of racial discrimination.
We just need to teach one generation of kids to be race blind and we’ll have made a lot of progress. The current situation isn’t helping anyone because it still enforces the idea of race (albeit in an equal manner) and does not prevent poor people from desperately committing crimes.
Edit : wow that’s a lot of answers! Thanks a lot, but I’ll not be able to reply to most. They’ve forced me to think other perspectives and update my worldview.
It really came out of the purple.
By Atticus.
To contextualise this a bit, I'm a professional games user researcher and this is just a game I was playing for fun. I'm enjoying it a lot but I noticed this accessibility issue with the UI, which I bet affects a lot of people so I thought I would post about it.
What I noticed while playing, that the UI is very reliant on colour perception to identify it's various discrete elements.
So I decided to run it through a colour blindness simulator to see how it performs. Something I also noticed was that the old UI that they show cased in previews, had more unique iconography for its various elements, which means you can more easily identify elements without colour.
https://i.imgur.com/lMyHMaj.png
I ran this analysis using colour blindness simulation software colour oracle. I am not colour blind so that's my best means of simulating the experience.
In any case, what we can see from this analysis, is that the current UI makes it very difficult to discern the differences between UI elements when you take colour away (greyscale) and that people of all variations of colour blindness are likely to have difficulties identifying differences between the UI elements based on colour or shape.
What's more interesting, is that the old UI that they had in place performs far better than the new UI in this analysis. You can see that even with colour blind simulations applied, differences between blue and red are still discernable in the tritonopia and neutronopia simulations.
Further, the white outline of the old UI elements makes it easier for each discrete element to stand out even when in grey scale. The icons are also all discrete, so players can identify the icon based on the icon design or shape rather than just colour. I also personally like how the blood droplets are attached to the blood gauge as this allows the player to better understand their relationship.
The old UI is missing an element, it's missing the large circle which represents the players current 'ability' and its cooldown. Though I would note that it's odd that this ability gauge in shape to the blood gauge. It makes them appear related or similar, which they are not explicitly.
Aside this missing element, it appears as though the old UI outperforms the new across the board. It's much more possible for people with colour blindness to identify the discrete UI elements, and also likely much more easy for people without colour blindness to
... keep reading on reddit ➡Can devs add colour blind mode soon?
Sometimes I can't tell red/green or blue/purple apart and am confused between my allies and enemies units.
