soveryradical replied to your post “˜We made L black!’ So you made the main character that canonly DIES...”
i do understand this criticism and im not arguing w you on this but Light does also die... a lot of characters die. I think it's really cool they made the SuperSmart (probably neurodivergent) detective character black bc that's not seen a lot in modern media, yknow? that role is very often typecast as skinny white dudes
Of course other people die, but the problem that the made one of the first major character in the story die black. Filmmakers have a terrible track record of keeping brown folks alive in movies; there’s a long history to it, and they’re usually to first to go to elicit some kind of emotional response from the viewers. It happened so much when I was a kid I became numb to it.
And I don’t mean to say that we aren’t allowed to die in the movies, but it is eyebrow raising when the sole black person in the crew ends up dying.
As much as it’s a plus that they made the smart, neurodivergent detective black, the filmmakers don’t sell him as that, they sell him as ‘black L’, and even defend the claims of whitewashing by saying ‘one of our leads is black!’. The whole things reeks of something troublesome, which is why it rubs me the wrong way.
Like I’m not trying to bite your head off or anything, but it’s just hard for me to focus on casting alone when there are so many questionable things going on with the film.
