In the wake of GET OUT worth noting the trope of Asian brains in white bodies or vice verse happens a lot https://twitter.com/ubeempress/status/837727998744768512 …
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The thing is I think foregrounding the theme that the Major's body isn't meaningfully "hers" in any way is a decent angle
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But the racial politics of this move justifiably overwhelm any other discussion of it especially if it's unacknowledged in the text
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And really just like every past adaptation they're not gonna go to the trouble of showing a world filled with identical bodies
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IIRC in the TV show that was why she had purple hair and ridiculous sexualized clothes - she wants to look "different" in her off time
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The shell they put her in is the "default female" they use for everything
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They've actually kind of undermined this in this film with that "first of your kind" thing but even that can be played with
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Say that she's the first real human being who's been placed in a body usually used for programmed robots
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(In this context the decision to make the geisha robots at the teahouse obviously inhuman and clearly Asian is even worse)
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I admit part of this is I just think an imaginary world where, Malkovich-like, you see ScarJo everywhere you turn would be pretty funny
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Replying to @arthur_affect
I'm seeing it as that Doctor Who episode where everyone turns into the Master.
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