Comments on: Michael Bay & Transformers Assaulted by Charges of Racism http://www.infoaddict.com/michael-bay-transformers-assaulted-by-charges-of-racism The web's best supplier for information junkies. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:37:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Racism and Transformers: Robots with gold teeth and “inner-city accents” « Hello, Negrohttp://www.infoaddict.com/michael-bay-transformers-assaulted-by-charges-of-racism/comment-page-1#comment-115 Racism and Transformers: Robots with gold teeth and “inner-city accents” « Hello, Negro Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:47:01 +0000 http://www.infoaddict.com/?p=2472#comment-115 [...] Infoaddict has a review of this controversy.  Here are some highlights: [...] [...] Infoaddict has a review of this controversy.  Here are some highlights: [...]

]]> By: callebesthttp://www.infoaddict.com/michael-bay-transformers-assaulted-by-charges-of-racism/comment-page-1#comment-104 callebest Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:40:19 +0000 http://www.infoaddict.com/?p=2472#comment-104 "first known example of robot blackface." So funny I started gagging and choking on a piece of my lunch. The whole situation is so hilarious I don't quite know what to make of it. How many people would you estimate were collaborating on the modeling, animatics, & cgi? How many people at GM had to approve the characters and use of the car? How many screened the film before it was sent to be duped and distributed to theaters all over America - not just the North? Finally, in the precision, high-tech world of 1's and 0's, is there ever a need to give a multi-story transforming robot a lazy eye? If you entertain for a moment, the idea that the people making the film were, indeed.,racist, maybe the answer is that they were just filling quotas? “first known example of robot blackface.” So funny I started gagging and choking on a piece of my lunch. The whole situation is so hilarious I don’t quite know what to make of it. How many people would you estimate were collaborating on the modeling, animatics, & cgi? How many people at GM had to approve the characters and use of the car? How many screened the film before it was sent to be duped and distributed to theaters all over America – not just the North?
Finally, in the precision, high-tech world of 1’s and 0’s, is there ever a need to give a multi-story transforming robot a lazy eye?
If you entertain for a moment, the idea that the people making the film were, indeed.,racist, maybe the answer is that they were just filling quotas?

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