![]() ![]() It’s a potent warning about a racist practice that, before 2017, was just Hollywood doing business. While Ghost in the Shell wasn’t the last movie to whitewash an Asian character, its radioactive wreckage lingers in the air. But its failure marked a change to the industry’s racist tradition of whitewash casting, where white actors play minority roles or characters are rewritten to be white under the auspices of mass market appeal. Half a decade later, Ghost in the Shell should be a footnote. WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE TIME-TRAVEL MOVIE? Click here to help us rank all the ones on Netflix. Despite boasting star power in Scarlett Johansson, its paltry box office of $169.8 million was matched only by the lethargy of critics, who called it “flat, droning” and “lacking in soul.” ![]() Ghost in the Shell opened on March 31, 2017. As an English-language adaptation of the influential Japanese anime and manga, the film has a legacy, just one its filmmakers didn’t intend. ![]() Five years ago, Ghost in the Shell became an important release that changed Hollywood. ![]()
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