Doctor Strange screenwriter C. Robert Cargill recently addressed why the character known as the Ancient One isn't depicted as Tibetan in the upcoming Marvel film.
Cargill calls the original version of the comic-book character a "racist stereotype," while also adding that the decision to make the change was made in order to avoid alienating China's massive market.
"The Ancient One was a racist stereotype who comes from a region of the world that is in a very weird political place," Cargill told Double Toasted (via Heroic Hollywood). "He originates from Tibet, so if you acknowledge that Tibet is a place and that he’s Tibetan, you risk alienating one billion people who think that that’s bulls**t and risk the Chinese government going, 'Hey, you know one of the biggest film-watching countries in the world? We're not going to show your movie because you decided to get political.'"
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Cargill calls the original version of the comic-book character a "racist stereotype," while also adding that the decision to make the change was made in order to avoid alienating China's massive market.
"The Ancient One was a racist stereotype who comes from a region of the world that is in a very weird political place," Cargill told Double Toasted (via Heroic Hollywood). "He originates from Tibet, so if you acknowledge that Tibet is a place and that he’s Tibetan, you risk alienating one billion people who think that that’s bulls**t and risk the Chinese government going, 'Hey, you know one of the biggest film-watching countries in the world? We're not going to show your movie because you decided to get political.'"
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