Crazy cast

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So glad Jeff Wright is sticking in the Anderson actor squad. He killed it in French dispatch

Damn Michael Cera was supposed to be in this

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You see all the 2022 movies coming? S*** gonna be fire

french dispatch was some mid, but in

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What happened to cera though?!?!?

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wes Anderson hire more black actors challenge

French Dispatch was his best film in years. So I’m excited for this.

Not hard considering it’s only one film away from Budapest

And if he did the same people would complain it’s not his right to tell their stories. Regardless he has plenty of diversity in his films as is. One of the main journalists narrating an entire segment in his recent film was black.

"And if he did the same people would complain it’s not his right to tell their stories"

Shut the f*** up

No. That talking point is just regurgitating boring twitter discourse that most smart people have agreed was intellectually inept to begin with. No one cares.

so he had one black dude in the entire movie and that makes up for it?

No there’s more than just one, there’s multiple actors of color as well as Asians, Latinos, etc. It’s also a film that takes place in France. When he makes films set in non anglo countries he’s then accused of using different cultures and people as an aesthetic. This isn’t a real complaint you’re making, it’s just obnoxious try hard tired bullshit.

Anyways my review for his last film. French Dispatch seems pretty under appreciated in this thread.

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no your point is incredibly reductive. Audiences can want for a director to be inclusive of their race, gender identity and sexual orientation without those directors "telling their stories". That's a soft brain take meant to deflect the apt critique.

Wes may largely only interact with people that come from a similar background as him and it's his right as an artist to stay within that frame but that doesn't invalidate the responses.

it's borderline offensive for you to think black or POC leads =/= black stories. that's the same thinking that kept POC actors out of a lot of blockbuster films.

it's not like we're asking him to adapt "Beloved" or some s***. people just want to see themselves reflected in the media they consume.

and it's not a twitter argument ffs. They're pieces from as far back as 2007 about this and it came back up like 7 years ago when Whoopi asked the cast about this on The View. Cathy Park Hong (a Pulitzer finalist + NYT best seller btw) wrote an entire essay regarding his usage of Asian American actors & culture in his films.

Don't let your personal connection to his work override the real feelings people have towards it. They're a plethora of other very big directors who've had this same critique.

Cranston and Wes reunited this is gonna be a classic

article in op has 0 information why does the url say "release-date"