M. Night Shyamalan and the Avatar Fanboy Press Hype "Whitewashing" Fiasco

I have an opinion about that, and guess what! It actually doesn't have something to do with SKIN COLOR for once. Now imagine that and SHUT THE FUCK UP AS you listen to me like usual: Besides, Avatar isn't "ASIAN", dude(s). Far from it. It's an American show with some post done in Asia. Get your facts straight. Aang has WHITE SKIN for christ sake, assholes. Figures fucking voice-actor-wannabe Japanophiles would want him to be "turning Japanese"...

Aaaanyway. As recent headlines and message board tabloids show:

Few directors become as hated by the fan and media community as the little guys turned big.

Few directors are as resented and envied as the directors starting off with low production budgets, but grandiose values from the getgo, that increase over time from film to film. Fiascos like that one reveal a lot about how much stress a director or filmmaker is willing to tolerate in the name of making movies on a larger scale than what they started off with. But technically, they are doing the right thing. That's a normal natural thing for a filmmaker to want to do is to push the  boundaries of production values and budget (and as some critics and haters would add: "Ego and superficiality") in an effort to conduct business itself on a grander scale. A Scale of Grandeur. Super 8? The Sixth Sense? These are omens for things to come, not the cookie cutter mold some director should blindly follow for 20 films in a row, without any real reason.

TECHNICALLY, that is how Hollywood works WHEN it's healthy. People hate it, YOU hate it because he's doing what YOU CAN'T DO, and PROBABLY CAN'T do to SAVE YOUR LIVES, on some level. Which is to say make an actual popcorn movie that captures all the drama, suspense, awe, and wonder in the cinematic universe that's made with heart, not just budget. The Last Airbender was George Lucas's THX. Oblivion is Star Trek. Not bad at all, in reality,  but it's obvious the persons envisioning such ambitious Hollywood projects are clearly dealing with some transition period issues in their careers, which dare I say, is normal to end up as a chaotic period, whether it's the bad publicity or the angry fans.

Most little guys want to be big...someday.

It's been that way ever since George Lucas made Star Wars and built ILM to MAKE Star Wars to begin with, on the budget his earlier films funded.

Or Spielberg founding Amblin.

Or Walt Disney and Osamu Tezuka using every penny their early works made to launch careers in animation, to put into budgets of future bigger, and better films. These men are all good with production values on a level of ingenuity and appeal alien to most other storytellers and producers, in the States especially. In Japan and France they can create that vibe, often for no budget whatsoever (for free, on their own dime), and with little to no audience starting off with. That's how they roll in Japan and France. It's idealistic, but the production values and camera mise en scene back that idealism up. On paper anyway.