Is it true that the centaur from movie 1 had more lines than all the black characters in all 7 books?
And then modern fans get mad at black Snape in the TV show (if that gets to finish. My bets is it will patter out like the fantastic beasts movies)
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Armand1@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Yeah, calling the only black dude Shacklebolt as well. The more you look the worst it gets.
MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world 4 months ago
tetris11@feddit.uk 4 months ago
black Snape in the TV show
lmfao, there’s a TV show??
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
Yeah, so that they can sell merch without paying royalties to the actors from the original movies, who didn’t align with her bigotry.
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Fans get mad about black Snape because it would instantly make Harry look like an ultra racist without rewriting half the book.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I believe you, but how so? I’ve not read the books.
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Because half the plot of the books are Harry being suspicious of Snape based on basically just looks and a gut feeling at first and then hating him progressively as the books go on.
You can picture it in your mind “Oh Snape is very sketchy, he looks different then all the other professors. I know he is a bad person… I am going to prove it” with the visual background that he is like the only black professor and just one of a few black wizards shown.
EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
Even the Irish kid gets worse in the books. Apart from making things explode, his other notable character trait is repeatedly trying to turn various drinks into whiskey.
FluxUniversity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
I bet kids laughed at these characterizations at the time too.
Im glad that we have progressed enough as a society that we can see how bad this is now.
runner_g@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
As and American I’m also trying to turn various drinks into whiskey.
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
Distilleries also have the danger of exploding.
paranoia@feddit.dk 4 months ago
his other notable character trait is repeatedly trying to turn various drinks into whiskey.
In fucking fairness half of your personal goals as an Irish teenager in the 90s and 2000s related to acquiring alcohol and getting drunk.
CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I mean I think that transcends racial bounds, all teens do that
EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
True, but the first time we see him try in the books I think he’s like 12.
Dasus@lemmy.world 4 months ago
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
Jesus fucking Christ what? there was a character named shacklebolt???
Armand1@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Like a lot of the worst stuff in the book, it didn’t make it into the movies I think.
Scubus@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Kingsly Shacklebolt, i believe he was the personal assistant to the prime minister. His most famous quote: “dumbledores got style”
Not the only black character in harry potter btw
turdcollector69@lemmy.world 4 months ago
“Not the only black character in harry potter btw”
Yeah everyone forgets about Hermione
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 4 months ago
reminds me of “spear chucker” on MASH.
rainwall@piefed.social 4 months ago
That one was on purpose:
In the book, just like in the movie, Spearchucker reveals that the nickname “Spearchucker”, ordinarily a racial slur, referred in this case to his javelin-throwing prowess.
They use the racism behind his nickname to address racism in the show:
The film also depicts Spearchucker as a particularly skilled neurosurgeon and this, together with the experience of playing football together, helps Duke Forrest overcome his racial prejudices and the two become friends at the end, shaking hands when it is time for Duke to go back stateside.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 4 months ago
There was a book!?
tetris11@feddit.uk 4 months ago
Nah… come on… please, let that not have been a conscious thing
Armand1@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Mate, there’s so many weird or disturbing things in the books that didn’t make it into the movies.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 4 months ago
You can’t just leave us hanging like that?
Armand1@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Well, there’s stuff like how the book insists that most house elves are happy being slaves, Dobby was the exception. And how it makes fun of Hermione for trying to free them.
If you want a full analysis, Sean did a good one.
clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Oh goodness, I never thought of that.
HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 4 months ago
And the bank goblins being Jewish caricatures
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 4 months ago
And now about the trans character Sirona Ryan.
CatLikeLemming@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months ago
I don’t think she was involved in writing Hogwarts Legacy to be fair, just put her stamp of bigot approval on it. Although whoever was writing certainly stuck to her naming conventions.
frizzo@piefed.social 4 months ago
Broken clock right?
vaionko@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
Broken clock is broken, yes
ProjectPatatoe@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Misread this as (Rusty) Shackleford.