Who's stoked for "The Wiz"? (1 Viewer)

[Uncle Grandpa]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rg5yJPZ1nR0

 

[dutch]

My son is looking forward to this so we'll be watching. I like most of the cast and the production looks like it's top notch so I'm hopeful.

 

[Ketamine Dreams]

I've always felt these kind of shows are racist. People are whining about whites playing Egyptians, yet we get an all black cast for 'The Wizard of Oz'?

 

[dutch]

I've always felt these kind of shows are racist. People are whining about whites playing Egyptians, yet we get an all black cast for 'The Wizard of Oz'?

seriously??

 

[Scoresman]

The original Wiz is better in every sense.

 

[Ketamine Dreams]

I've always felt these kind of shows are racist. People are whining about whites playing Egyptians, yet we get an all black cast for 'The Wizard of Oz'?

seriously??

Yes. Oh yeah, that's right, blacks are never racists and whites can't be on the receiving end of racism. Carry on

 

[Leroy Hoard]

I've always felt these kind of shows are racist. People are whining about whites playing Egyptians, yet we get an all black cast for 'The Wizard of Oz'?

I only objected to the part where Dorothy now says "Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Compton anymore."

 

[Zow]

We're off to see the Prime Minister, the Prime Minister of Canada!

 

[dutch]

Good god, white rage getting high in here.

 

[Ketamine Dreams]

I've always felt these kind of shows are racist. People are whining about whites playing Egyptians, yet we get an all black cast for 'The Wizard of Oz'?

I only objected to the part where Dorothy now says "Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Compton anymore."

Lol. Maybe they should remake 'Roots' with white people.

 

[Joe Summer]

I've always felt these kind of shows are racist. People are whining about whites playing Egyptians, yet we get an all black cast for 'The Wizard of Oz'?

seriously??

Yes. Oh yeah, that's right, blacks are never racists and whites can't be on the receiving end of racism. Carry on

The reason this show exists is because systematic racism excluded blacks from almost every other musical.

 

[Zow]

I've always felt these kind of shows are racist. People are whining about whites playing Egyptians, yet we get an all black cast for 'The Wizard of Oz'?

I only objected to the part where Dorothy now says "Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Compton anymore."

Lol. Maybe they should remake 'Roots' with white people.

Wizard of Oz is about white slavery?

 

[eoMMan]

Nah, don't care and I haven't seen the original.

 

[Ketamine Dreams]

I've always felt these kind of shows are racist. People are whining about whites playing Egyptians, yet we get an all black cast for 'The Wizard of Oz'?

I only objected to the part where Dorothy now says "Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Compton anymore."

Lol. Maybe they should remake 'Roots' with white people.

Wizard of Oz is about white slavery?

It's about white people from Kansas...

 

[dutch]

I've always felt these kind of shows are racist. People are whining about whites playing Egyptians, yet we get an all black cast for 'The Wizard of Oz'?

I only objected to the part where Dorothy now says "Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Compton anymore."

Lol. Maybe they should remake 'Roots' with white people.

They did: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049833/

 

[Uncle Grandpa]

Is this how black people feel when they see ads for all-white shows? Because it's not good.

 

[Mr. Pickles]

Getting our hoods on in here?

 

[Cjw_55106]

Never understood the "racism" aspect. For decades, every show was near 100% white and today most are still 75% white.

 

[Ketamine Dreams]

It comes across as disingenuous. Trying to make a statement by making the cast all black. Why? You can't have it both ways. You can't say it's racist when it's an all-white cast, but not racist when it's an all black cast. Just mix it up and put the best people in it.

 

[comfortably numb]

Starring Onterrio Smith?

 

[dutch]

KD, you know you don't have to watch this, right?

 

[Willie Neslon]

It comes across as disingenuous. Trying to make a statement by making the cast all black. Why? You can't have it both ways. You can't say it's racist when it's an all-white cast, but not racist when it's an all black cast. Just mix it up and put the best people in it.

The Wiz is a retelling of the classic story from the perspective of modern black culture using soul music. What you're saying here makes no sense.

 

[Zow]

I've always felt these kind of shows are racist. People are whining about whites playing Egyptians, yet we get an all black cast for 'The Wizard of Oz'?

I only objected to the part where Dorothy now says "Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Compton anymore."

Lol. Maybe they should remake 'Roots' with white people.

Wizard of Oz is about white slavery?

It's about white people from Kansas...

Black people don't live in Kansas?

 

[Da Guru]

Stoked? Have not heard that term is 20 years.

 

[Ketamine Dreams]

KD, you know you don't have to watch this, right?

I know. It looks pretty terrible, so there's no way I will. Sorry, I just get worked up when people whine about racism, yet promote it in an 'accepted' way. Frustrating when you feel racism is the antidote for racism.

 

[Ketamine Dreams]

I've always felt these kind of shows are racist. People are whining about whites playing Egyptians, yet we get an all black cast for 'The Wizard of Oz'?

I only objected to the part where Dorothy now says "Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Compton anymore."

Lol. Maybe they should remake 'Roots' with white people.

Wizard of Oz is about white slavery?

It's about white people from Kansas...

Black people don't live in Kansas?

Not many...

 

[Limp Ditka]

KD, you know you don't have to watch this, right?

I know. It looks pretty terrible, so there's no way I will. Sorry, I just get worked up when people whine about racism, yet promote it in an 'accepted' way. Frustrating when you feel racism is the antidote for racism.

 

[timschochet]

It all depends on on this key question for me: in the original Broadway show, the Scarecrow song was "Born on the Day Before Yesterday", written by Quincy Jones, which was my favorite tune in the musical, a sort of quasi-gospel melody with some funk thrown in. But when the Diana Ross film cast Michael Jackson as the Scarecrow, the King of Pop insisted on his own song which was entirely forgettable and ruined that movie for me.

So are they returning to the original song or leaving in the crappy Michael replacement? Nothing is more important.

 

[Da Guru]

Ketamine Dreams, on 30 Nov 2015 - 11:03 AM, said:

Zow, on 30 Nov 2015 - 11:01 AM, said:

Ketamine Dreams, on 30 Nov 2015 - 10:52 AM, said:

Zow, on 30 Nov 2015 - 10:51 AM, said:

Ketamine Dreams, on 30 Nov 2015 - 10:49 AM, said:

Leroy Hoard, on 30 Nov 2015 - 10:48 AM, said:

Ketamine Dreams, on 30 Nov 2015 - 10:42 AM, said:I've always felt these kind of shows are racist. People are whining about whites playing Egyptians, yet we get an all black cast for 'The Wizard of Oz'?

I only objected to the part where Dorothy now says "Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Compton anymore."

Lol. Maybe they should remake 'Roots' with white people.

Wizard of Oz is about white slavery?

It's about white people from Kansas...

Black people don't live in Kansas?

Not many...

Five for sure....

 

[Fennis]

I've always felt these kind of shows are racist. People are whining about whites playing Egyptians, yet we get an all black cast for 'The Wizard of Oz'?

There's a lot of irony in complaining about people whining about white people playing Egyptians and then immediately whining about black people playing characters in the Wizard of Oz.

 

[Zow]

I've always felt these kind of shows are racist. People are whining about whites playing Egyptians, yet we get an all black cast for 'The Wizard of Oz'?

I only objected to the part where Dorothy now says "Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Compton anymore."

Lol. Maybe they should remake 'Roots' with white people.

Wizard of Oz is about white slavery?

It's about white people from Kansas...

Black people don't live in Kansas?

Not many...

You do understand there's a big difference between a movie like Roots and a movie where the original characters were white but their race had zero to do with the plot, right?

 

[Zow]

KD, you know you don't have to watch this, right?

I know. It looks pretty terrible, so there's no way I will. Sorry, I just get worked up when people whine about racism, yet promote it in an 'accepted' way. Frustrating when you feel racism is the antidote for racism.

casting a black cast to play characters in a movie where race isn't at all an important detail in the story isn't racist.

 

[Fennis]

I've always felt these kind of shows are racist. People are whining about whites playing Egyptians, yet we get an all black cast for 'The Wizard of Oz'?

I only objected to the part where Dorothy now says "Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Compton anymore."

Lol. Maybe they should remake 'Roots' with white people.

Wizard of Oz is about white slavery?

It's about white people from Kansas...

Why do you think the wizard of oz is about white people?

 

[bigbottom]

I've always felt these kind of shows are racist. People are whining about whites playing Egyptians, yet we get an all black cast for 'The Wizard of Oz'?

No. You're getting an all black cast for "The Wiz."

 

[Limp Ditka]

Instead of white midgets, I think all of the towns people of Oz should be CGIs of Manute Bol.

 

[Ditka Butkus]

Do Lil Jon, Lil Wayne, Lil Bow Wow, Lil Kim and all the other Lil's play the Munchkins?

 

[Ketamine Dreams]

I've always felt these kind of shows are racist. People are whining about whites playing Egyptians, yet we get an all black cast for 'The Wizard of Oz'?

I only objected to the part where Dorothy now says "Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Compton anymore."

Lol. Maybe they should remake 'Roots' with white people.

Wizard of Oz is about white slavery?

It's about white people from Kansas...

Why do you think the wizard of oz is about white people?

Well, it's based in Kansas, deals with a white farm family and includes many aspects related to Kansas and farms. The characters are drawn on many actual figures in America at the time. The Scarecrow is supposed to represent a Midwest farmer and so on. So yes, that's how it was originally done. Now, it does have broad appeal, but every story does. Even narrowly culturally defined stories have broad appeal and can be applied to anyone.

 

[Officer Pete Malloy]

Where are the white witches at?

 

[Ketamine Dreams]

KD, you know you don't have to watch this, right?

I know. It looks pretty terrible, so there's no way I will. Sorry, I just get worked up when people whine about racism, yet promote it in an 'accepted' way. Frustrating when you feel racism is the antidote for racism.

casting a black cast to play characters in a movie where race isn't at all an important detail in the story isn't racist.

What is racist is saying that it's OK for a group historically discriminated against can have a pass now and can't be guilty of racism today. I'm speaking of society in broad terms here, not a narrow entertainment one. We should speak out against all racism and its many forms. It's not as though it can only go from the majority to the minority.

 

[McGarnicle]

The only part that seems odd is the pack of Newports at the end of the yellow brick road.

 

[VA703]

queen laqueefa?

in!!

 

[dutch]

NBC should run a twin bill with The Wiz followed up by West Side Story.

 

[Parrothead]

Gary Coleman would have been a good Umpa Loompa

 

[Limp Ditka]

The only part that seems odd is the pack of Newports at the end of the yellow brick road.

I actually thought that part was pretty Kool

 

[bigbottom]

KD, you know you don't have to watch this, right?

I know. It looks pretty terrible, so there's no way I will. Sorry, I just get worked up when people whine about racism, yet promote it in an 'accepted' way. Frustrating when you feel racism is the antidote for racism.

casting a black cast to play characters in a movie where race isn't at all an important detail in the story isn't racist.

What is racist is saying that it's OK for a group historically discriminated against can have a pass now and can't be guilty of racism today. I'm speaking of society in broad terms here, not a narrow entertainment one. We should speak out against all racism and its many forms. It's not as though it can only go from the majority to the minority.

You do know that the show on tv is a revival of a 1970s musical?

 

[dutch]

KD, you know you don't have to watch this, right?

I know. It looks pretty terrible, so there's no way I will. Sorry, I just get worked up when people whine about racism, yet promote it in an 'accepted' way. Frustrating when you feel racism is the antidote for racism.

casting a black cast to play characters in a movie where race isn't at all an important detail in the story isn't racist.

What is racist is saying that it's OK for a group historically discriminated against can have a pass now and can't be guilty of racism today. I'm speaking of society in broad terms here, not a narrow entertainment one. We should speak out against all racism and its many forms. It's not as though it can only go from the majority to the minority.

You do know that the show on tv is a revival of a 1970s musical?

shhh, he's on a roll...

 

[timschochet]

And not just a 70s musical, either. Its a funk musical. Think back to George Clinton, the American Basketball Association, and . We're talking about easing on down the road here.

 

[Ketamine Dreams]

And 'Wicked' is based on it too. Yes, it's been done a bunch of times in a bunch of different ways. It's been around awhile.

 

[timschochet]

And 'Wicked' is based on it too. Yes, it's been done a bunch of times in a bunch of different ways. It's been around awhile.

Wicked is not the story of The Wizard of Oz. It's a prequel of sorts, involving the Witch characters.

 

[Ketamine Dreams]

And 'Wicked' is based on it too. Yes, it's been done a bunch of times in a bunch of different ways. It's been around awhile.

Wicked is not the story of The Wizard of Oz. It's a prequel of sorts, involving the Witch characters.

Right, that's why I said based on it.