I'll make my comment first about Zac Efron, only because I found out what movie he's really going to be in and that I tried to suppress a chuckle at work today. No, he's not going to be in a High School Musical 4. If he did, Lewis and I came up with interesting plots: "High School Musical 4: Return of the 5th Year Seniors" or "HSM 4: College Edition". Think about it, Disney, the next HSM movie might just put them at the top of the box office. Well to my surprise, Zac Efron holding a basketball in the movie poster did not mean he was going to be in another HSM movie. He'll be in his own basketball movie.
This poor guy is going to be known as the actor that will always play the "basketball guy". It's funny because as his role as Troy Bolton in the first HSM movie, he complained to his coach/dad (complicated parent-child relationship!) that he didn't want to be the "basketball guy" and wanted to be someone else. In actual interviews, Zac Efron admitted to not even being able to play basketball until he was picked up as a HSM star and was trained to look like he knew how to play. This is almost as bad as Tim Allen being stuck as Santa Clause in his Christmas movies. Efron's upcoming movie "17 Again" is about a grown man that wanted to change his life again and somehow ended up in his teen years. This sounds oddly similar to plot in "The Kid", that one movie with Bruce Willis being able to get to know his inner child, played by Spencer Breslin. Hilarious how some movies and roles are being recycled.
Miley Cyrus on the other hand, has not yet broke from her role as the teen pop hit sensation "Hannah Montana" and will be starring in her very own "Hannah Montana The Movie". Go figure, right? As if this seventeen year old has nothing else to milk out of her loyal fans but to make a movie about her overblown career through the Disney company and her retired rock star dad, Billy Ray Cyrus. Might I add the title is not too creative. This reminded me of the Jonas Brothers' movie in 3-D. That just runs chills down my spine.
I no longer have respect for this once adorable, spunky twelve year old that brought in a different sort of comedy to the Disney Channel Network. She is now a watered down clone of a Disney kid star reject that has gotten wrapped up in fame and no longer has the consideration to uphold the responsibility of keeping a positive image for her young audiences, let alone the media. Yes I'm a few weeks late, or maybe even a month? That photo of her pulling her eyes out to the side to look like your typical Asian is what I'm talking about.
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Seriously, Montana? Yes we all know you were raised in the South and people there are stereotyped as ignorant and racist, but I figured the media would give you the benefit of the doubt. You don't see us dressing up like the cast of Dukes of Hazzard and putting on fake, ugly teeth while talking in a Southern twang. Adults were hopeful of your success. Kids look up to you. You have little blonde clones running around everywhere wanting to sing and act like you. Take that into account. You're either the virus that will plague the younger generations or the antibodies that will prevent their brains from being diseased by the influence of media portrayals of sex, drugs, alcohol, and in this case, racism. Your apologies to the public were not sincere and you're just as bad as these guys.
As for a little tangent that will ensue, for the lady that decided to sue the pop star for $4 billion dollars, shame on you. I'm shocked that some celebrities have the nerve to show off and act a certain way to get attention but this is just as bad. I don't understand why this woman would want to sue Hannah Montana. That doesn't even solve anything. Where is that $4 billion going to even go? Getting paid off with $4 billion dollars is not going to solve daily racial comments, civil rights violations, or even equate to a "sincere apology". It's just money. I'd rather have the girl doing community service to gain back real respect from the minority community.
Why do we pick on celebrities that do something wrong, but not other "normals" out there that do the same thing? We can dismiss the others because they outnumber us. When one well-known person does something wrong, the world falls apart. That's how our society works and it's appalling. We wag our fingers at them for being a disgrace, with intentions of negative publicity, yet any publicity is still publicity. We elevate issues such as racism to the point that they lose their significance of being criticized in the first place. This is why you get comments like "Asians need to just get tougher skin" or "Lighten up, we all make jokes about other people"; it's acceptable because other people do it and it's okay. Beliefs like that encouraged a Holocaust to clean out for a "pure race" and for Skin Heads in Europe to survive and brainwash youths to attack minorities while the rest of the world remained silent and ignorant. Nothing just erupts out into chaos, it has to be built up.
Keep in mind though, because of strong beliefs of discrimination, it also motivated the Civil Rights Movement for people to defend themselves and change the nation's laws and sense of morality. So unless Ms. Cyrus and many others have done their homework about the histories of the many immigrants that have come here to the United States and has indeed sincerely felt the utmost guilt for even thinking of pulling their eyes sideways to make a statement, then yeah, I'll take their apology. Until then, our generation and many others to follow are going to be stuck in this unfortunate cycle.
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