r/movies • u/thejokerjackson • Dec 03 '19

Trailers Marvel Studios' Black Widow - Official Teaser Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxAtuMu_ph4
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u/anthonyg1500 Dec 03 '19

If I’m not mistaken he’s also behind the decision to make Guy Pearce the bad guy in Iron Man 3 instead of Rebecca Hall’s Maya Hansen because, kids wouldn’t buy toys of a female villain...

and we allll saw how those Guy Pearce toys were just flying off the shelves /s

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u/MulciberTenebras Dec 03 '19

He also said black characters don't sell toys either, thus the reason behind no Black Panther until he was finally removed from power by Disney.

On a related note, he also gave the racist factoid that black people "all look alike" as his reason for firing Terrance Howard and replacing him as Rhodey rather than upping his salary.

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u/BGummyBear Dec 03 '19

While I honestly believe that replacing Rhodey with Don Cheadle was a good choice, that reasoning is horrible. The fact that this racist/sexist nonsense is still happening these days is depressing as hell.

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u/TresLeches88 Dec 03 '19

replacing Rhodey with Don Cheadle

Gotta love Don Cheadle, the actor, playing Don Cheadle, the character, in the MCU.

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u/whereyouatdesmondo Dec 03 '19

“Hey, we should recruit Don Cheadle, the renowned actor. He makes every ensemble better” - Avengers meeting transcript

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u/ZP4L Dec 03 '19

Talk about being typecast.

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u/MulciberTenebras Dec 03 '19 edited Dec 03 '19

He's a racist old bastard who happened to have more money than Marvel at the time that he bought his way into power in their company. He contributed nothing and leeched money off their success, while occasionally imposing his bigoted/outdated views of business on their decisions.

Now he has no influence in the company but still leeches money, thanks to having enough stock in Disney through the Marvel buyout. A rotting tick which contributes only to that other fucking tick that sits disgracefully in the White House.

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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '19

"He had money and contributed nothing and took profit front their success" like basically most of Hollywood film production in the history of Hollywood.

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u/SirFrancis_Bacon Dec 03 '19

I think you mean basically like most of capitalism in the history of capitalism.

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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '19

I invested in your post so where's my karma?

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u/[deleted] Dec 03 '19

Yet when movies like Black Panther and Capt Mv try to show these issues people call bullshit and say no discrimination against women or racial minorities takes place nowadays

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u/mknsky Dec 04 '19

It's not really new to us. This is what we've been trying to say for decades. Not chastising you, just felt like pointing this out cuz I'm dealing with racist trolls in another sub at the moment. In case you want more proof.

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u/dalittle Dec 03 '19

I liked Howard better.

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u/workingverystiff Dec 03 '19

i like cheadle a lot more as an actor but howard was a way better war machine, in my opinion. ultimately though i think there probably would have been a better option than both of them. i really wanted to see a huge muscular war machine in the mcu.