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To Everything There is a Season

The Good Earth
1937 Nominee

100 Words
A simple story about a Chinese farmer and his wife – both played by white people. The 30s were a trip through classic literature and this tale is no exception, though the casting could have been an exception if during the inception of the film, Hollywood had chosen to select Chinese actors, but on this, I digress. Between a plague of locusts and a wife who learns how to speak up for herself and her husband’s land, there are beautiful landscape views, but Readers, when it comes to choosing who to play each role, this movie’s casting values are getting old.

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    Blogger – be prepared! There’s no end to this kind of monstrous casting of white stars! You’ll get weary mentioning it. It goes on through the 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s, 10s, and 20teens. One fairly recent example was casting Emma Stone (?) as a native Hawaiian in ‘Aloha’ (2019) which was called out by Sandra Oh at the Golden Globes. (Emma Stone shouted out ‘I’m sorry’.) This too, like all of Dickens and Hugo works that Hollywood tried so hard to recreate, was such a marvelous book; pick it up and read it instead.

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