bad minority casting in movies

...all the talk about Touch of Evil in the "...Brian Bosworth" thread made me think: "ok, so it was a little ridiculous that Charlton Heston played a mexican in that movie, but it didn't at all ruin the picture"

But sometimes, bad ethnic casting is just unforgivable...some examples:

The Ten Commandments Heston sucks, even so...and I'm sorry, he isn't my idea of what a jew/israelite looks like

Jason and Arrgonauts-which featured Kirk Douglas in the role of greek person

The Birth of a Nation-if you seen it, my reason for putting this one on the list should be transparent

honorable mention: like Touch of Evil, The Teasure of The Sierra Madre was also a good film, inspite of its horrible ethinic casting

anymore films y'all can think of with this problem? thoughts or opinions otherwise?

[Edited on Jan 14, 2004 by deBreard]

Damn right. No other man can repel evil with his teeth alone;

Heston can suck my funky booty hole

its the whole "sorry a gun killed yer baby, but Im still having my NRA meeting in yer town the next day" thing that gets me.

Charleton Heston the human being = shitty.
Charelton Heston the public spectacle = amusing.

My two cents: Mickey Rooney as an Asian in Breakfast at Tiffany's. Could they not find one willing Asian actor???

whitey to whitey -> Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft. Yeah fuckin right yer British.

Chuck Heston the actor = BRILLIANT.

I love the quote at the bottom. Get that man a vocabulary.

I don't recall that character being Asian in the book, anyway. I could be wrong, though.

Robby Benson as a Mexican in Walk Proud......

J-Lo as an Italian in Angel Eyes......

Madonna in Evita.....

Raquel Welch as a cavewoman in 2000 BC, or whatever it was called. I didn't know Cubans were around that long?

OMG I forgot about that...

For that movie alone I will have a special place in my heart for Heston. That AND the hilarious cameo he did in Wayne's World.

It's too bad that Heston has completely lost his fucking mind though. I blame the Apes.

Wait, weren't we talking about horrible "ethinic" casting? Yeah. Hollywood does it. What concerns me MORE is Hollywood now picking more talented actors OVER taller ones. Back in the day being tall got you places in life. Now it just gets you laid.

Kevin Costner's "british" accent in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves is right up there with Jolie...

yeah, being 6'1'' has got me...nothing...yeah, nothing. Except a lot of bad 'weather up there' jokes.

edited to say Im 6'1'' and female

[Edited on Jan 14, 2004 by maurauder]

He's not the same when he's not surrounded by apes though.

Heh...that reminds me of the Seinfeld episode where George didn't read the book and said he liked how they got together at the end. If you never watched Seinfeld, just ignore the previous sentence.

Honestly, I haven't read the book in a while...I think it's time to pick it back up.

There's no way this honky would fool James Earl Jones.

Remember.. Bruce Lee was too "Asian" to play the lead role in Kung Fu...

Not that it matters ... but Raquel Welch is half Irish and half Bolivian.

How can someone be "too Asian"????

That is an OLD term, used by OLD people, from OLDen times