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Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins 2nd Trailer Discussions
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06-22-2021, 12:16 AM
J James
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Feuergeist82
It seems a good number of people on this forum want the movie to represent what they had growing up whether that was the comic or the cartoon or even their own strange head canon. But they aren't making the movie strictly for us.
Larry is still writing the original comic right now. He is very close to matching the number of issues from the Marvel run. There is nostalgia involved of course but it's not in the past, it is still a developing story right now. The same continuity. They're ignoring the current existing continuity which is still being written by the creator, just as they ignored him on set according to what he has said.
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And for the people who claim the movie is "woke" or any other such b.s., you are deluding yourself if you really think Larry Hama, an Asian American, wasn't forced to make Snake Eyes a caucasian person. It was the early 80s and we all know that there was no way Hasbro was going to let him create the face of the comic be someone that was a person of color. Personally, as a caucasian myself, I find it refreshing to see a person of color be Snake Eyes. The whole idea that a caucasian should take over a Japanese martial arts empire is a tired and frankly annoying trope that needs to end. We had a million movies of that in the 80s and it doesn't come off well in today's reflection of our society (nor did it ever).
The first part of this is just objectively false. Larry is on the record as being upset that they race-swapped Snake-Eyes for this film. He intentionally made him a white man for his own reasons. To suggest that "Hasbro wouldn't let him make Snake-Eyes Asian" is to invent a non-existing racist malevolence.
However, Larry DID have Storm Shadow go on a redemptive arc towards being a good guy because he was upset that the only Asian in the toy line (at that time at least) was a bad guy and a ninja stereotype.
This change LOSES diversity, reinforces racial stereotypes, and it has excluded Stalker completely. However (and this topic has been beat into the dust so deeply at this point on this forum) this version of Snake-Eyes can still be portrayed as an outsider to the Arashikage Clan which is important to the character. It's not, like, the only important thing about him but it might be the only remaining part of the character to make the leap to this version. Otherwise, the 80s Snake-Eyes doesn't appear to be in the film.
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