So after meeting with Joshua and reading my previous blogs. I was left wondering why Hollywood producers or directors would change the gender role or race of a person in movies.

Movie adaptations of true stories are suppose to be as accurate as possible but it's weird how sometimes the role of a character is changed. Is it to make the story better? Or is it because they lack actors/actresses of a certain race or gender that the character is suppose to be?
If the didn't have an actor/actress to play a certain role couldn't they just held auditions to find one instead or changing the character to a different race or gender?

For example, in my previous blog I talked about the movie 21. The original group mainly consisted of Asians. But in the movie there is only like 1 or 2 Asian guys following them around. And they didn't even have a leading role. The leading role was a Caucasian guy.

I'm pretty sure there are plenty of Asian actors that could have been casted but instead they had a white male actor take the role.

I always wonder if this media is prejudice about casting other ethnic groups in hit movies.

I think Hollywood stereotype groups. For example Asian actors/actress are always portrayed as martial artists, geeks, or kung-fu fighting people. African-Americans are portrayed as drug dealers, violent, and rude people.

It would be interesting to find out why Hollywood does this because true story films aren't' true if the character roles are altered and changed.