# How "woke" are movies really?

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**Tags:** movies\
**Created:** [June 8, 2022, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-woke-are-movies-really/965849 "2022-06-08T00:11:16Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 10, 2022, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-woke-are-movies-really/965849/65 "2022-06-10T12:33:49Z")

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> [@Darren\_Garrison](#):
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> It hasn’t got one damn thing to do with “woke”

> [@The Sandman trailer - upd, now on Netflix](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-sandman-trailer-upd-now-on-netflix/965921/3):
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> making Death […] black seems almost deliberately provocative.

Sure, whatever you say…

> [@Darren\_Garrison](#):
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> having Death in _Sandman_ being anyone other than a very pale Goth is just shitty casting

…and your opinion on appropriate casting matters more than Neil Gaiman’s because…?

> [@Darren\_Garrison](#):
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> I don’t care about the physical characteristics of casting _if it isn’t important to the character_ .

How is being _pale_ important to Death’s character?

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