Really? Again, I have to refer to Tenenbaums but Glover didn’t seem to deviate from the well-mannered, straight laced, eccentric mannerisms of the whites in that movie.
The other non-white character in The Royal Tenenbaums was Pagoda, played by Kumar Pallana, and clearly Indian.
Anderson has been accused of cultural appropriation and of ‘tokenism’, but that’s a far cry from his movies being “aggressively white.” I just don’t see how he fits this particular label. He may be fascinated with “exoticizing” and I can see how he’s sort of a throwback to the “orientalist” genre, but even if that’s something you object to, it’s still a very different scenario than being “the whitest movie[s] ever.”
One more oddity with The Royal Tenenbaums; Ben Stiller’s character looks, frankly, very Jewish and so do his sons (and they’re named Ari and Uzi while his late wife was Rachael) while the rest of the family doesn’t.
Well, his father’s half-Hebrew but his kids were raised Mick Catholic.
Depending on how the Twitter bird flies you can find people unironically arguing that Asian and Hispanics are “White” and only Africans and possibly Indians are “People of color”.
Arguing about diversity on Twitter (or on the internet in general) is always a lost-cause because there’s always the type of person who argues that the NBA is the most “diverse” sports league because it’s 75% African-American and you can’t get more diverse than that.
With only 173 votes, and sadly half of those are probably people who worked on the film and their friends and family.
Here’s a review with a trailer that confirms everyone’s suspicions.
Along similar lines, I thought of suggesting David Lean’s Dr. Zhivago but I then realized the lead was played by Omar Sharif who was Egyptian. Instead, I’ll substitute Ryan’s Daughter which now seems pretty white even though at the time the film was set, the Irish, while obviously looking white, were not considered truly “white” by the British.
Birth of a Nation was the first film that popped into my head when I saw this thread. But my next thought was, based on what I know of the plot there have to be some black characters. But would any African American actors agree to be part of such a blatantly racist film? And would someone who would produce such a film actually hire them? Yeah, it makes complete sense that they would use white actors in blackface.
So he acted like a white person who happened to be black?
Darth_Hamsandwich asked what happens when Wes Anderson sends out a casting call. I suspect that he doesn’t send out casting calls at all. At this point, he has a group of actors that he uses for his movies. He just calls them and asks them to appear in his next movie. Most of the time they will. The small parts may get filled by casting calls, but he doesn’t do that casting. Somebody else in his crew does that.
I don’t know quite why but I feel the ‘whitest’ stories are the ‘master needs a governess to look after the household’ type. Mary Poppins, Sound of Music, The Nanny, Nanny and the Professor, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. The Pygmalion/My Fair Lady stories are similar but in this case you can’t find the magic woman so you need to make one.
forgot, in the first group - The King and I, Anna and the King etc. They may have non-white people in them, but they still feel white.
Set, it appears, on Disneyland’s “Tom Sawyer Island” (which I think has been altered and renamed).
I’ve lived almost my whole life in white parts of America and Australia, and even I thought it felt odd to have a movie “based on Tom Sawyer” with no black characters or extras.
Exactly how many schwarzers would you find in prewar Austria anyway? But yes, the Sound of Music is so wholesome, you feel it must be organic, wholemeal, gluten-free and lactose-free.
Not like, say, Ben Hur, Lawrence of Arabia or Khartoum, each of which had a whitey playing an Arab.
Re: Wes Anderson Movies
I don’t think anyone in a Wes Anderson movie acts like a normal person be they black, white, indian or whatever.
A sharp indictment on love! 
(You know “What love looks like” -> “It doesn’t look good”… It was funny in my head!)
But consider the opposite: imagine someone brings you a script where the hero is white and his love interest is white and their boss is white and the bad guys are white and the innocents who die are white and the innocents who get rescued are white, and so you gently suggest that the writer add a speaking part for a black man.