User blog:Blinkn/Elektra, The Movie: Things I liked and things I did NOT!

I had until now not watched the movie because I had heard nothing but bad things about it; however, I couldn't understand why it is quiet so vehemently disliked compared to say X-Men: The Last Stand and Wolverine's Origins, which were both crap fests IMO.

My biggest issue with the film is with the choice for the "Chosen One" and her father, Abby and Mark Miller. They don't appear to exist outside of the movie so that means the writer, director, studio chose to make the prophesied ultimate fighter of these ancient warring Japanese martial arts factions a white girl. The purpose being I'll assume to give white American movie audiences more white characters they can identify with. As one develops a maternal/ mentor relationship and the other a possible romantic partner for Elektra, which by default means they are white, right.

As for the only ethnic characters of any consequence in the movie we must turn to the villains of the story. The leader of Hand, Master Roshi, and all his lieutenants are Asian and his son, Kirigi, leader of the special squad sent to kill Elektra and collect the girl is also Asian.

Stone ethnicity as with most everything about his character in the comics is unrevealed, but the image of his character here in the database shows him to have blue eyes of white man, like Stick the old white guy that is leader of the Chaste, not the brown eyes of black or Asian man and what's more he is a good guy too but the need a big scary black guy, so hey.

Tattoo's character in the comics is Japanese man by the name of Tudo Sokuto by he is played in the movie by a white actor, Chris Akerman.

I'm sure if they're are any responses they'll be excuse regarding authenticity or poetic license, but I'm only gonna accept that up to a point.

Marvel character's created at the beginning of the Silver Age except Gabe Jones in 63' and Black Panther in 66' were white that is just fact, a sign of times, the righteousness of that can be debated but as a matter of fact it cannot. How, and when and who Marvel should alter characters in these movies to compensate for the fact that Fantastic Four, Daredevil, Avengers, Thor, and the Hulk would not or did not have any ethnic characters is also up for debate. Personally I don't mind the replacement of white character IF it isn't just an insulting and obvious attempt like a black Heimdall mean to assuage brown people for their glaring and purposeful absence from a staple of American culture.

Many cannon characters and their appearance are up for debate insofar as authenticity is concerned but as I stated earlier the creation of Mark & Abby Miller had nothing to do with adhering cannon and everything to do with choosing white characters in this 2005 movie for same reason there were no black, Latino, or Asian members of the original Fantastic Four, X-Men, Avengers, and why Spider-Man and Daredevil are white.

I'd also point out that while Daredevil himself came out of Silver Age in 64 and gets something a pass, Elektra and Stick were created in 81 and Typhoid Mary in 88. Stick was the white leader of this ancient Asian band of warriors, Chaste, while Mary and Elektra are both of them rising to the position of Top Assassin of the Hand.