The movie is in English, using exclusively non-Italian actors , which in itself is checking a box. What difference does it make if they cast another non-Italian actor to play a role?
Who said anything about being Italian?
I've only quoted the author words (Collodi)
The fairy is pale white not because she is a white person, but because she's pure.
Pale white skin is not an Italian trait, so I don't understand what Italianness has to do with anything.
If anything, the fact that she is pale white makes her obviously non-italian, because she's better than all the other characters that try to deceive and corrupt Pinocchio.
EDIT: fixed wording
Curious equivocation there.
It's a trope that's carried on into sci-fi (particularly Star Trek, where the more animalistic or violent races also tend to be darker - see the Klingons who get portrayed as darker-skinned and more aggressive with each iteration) and related high-fantasy properties like D&D.
Sorry, but that's like saying that nobody cares about Gandalf the white in LOTR, and you can cast whoever you like for the role and make his robe rainbow colored.
In fact Amazon didn't do that, the actor playing Gandalf in Rings of power is a white man. For obvious reasons, that have nothing to do with being against diversity.
The blue fairy has a central role in Pinocchio and she has long blue hair.
They knew that casting a shaved woman would be much more than simply adapting a story. it's like if in a Nausicaa in the valley of the winds adaption Nausicaa is a black disabled boy. It would simply not be the right choice, casting as a job is exactly that, choosing the more apt person for the role, which includes appearances.
Of course the colour of the skin is not a fundamental trait, unless it is in the story.
A white Apollo Creed would be highly controversial, like a black Abraham Lincoln, an Asian Sitting Bull or an Italian Malcolm X that only eats spaghetti and says "mamamia" with the hands.
Right, because of all of parts of the story that have been changed, _this_ is the part that must be kept - using white skin to equate to purity.
Do you agree that in our modern diverse society a black woman can be used to represent "purity"? Because if you do, then surly we can keep the author's original intent without tying it to skin color like he did in 1883.
And maybe the blue hair too, given she's named after her blue hair.
> Do you agree that in our modern diverse society a black woman can be used to represent "purity"?
Do you agree that for white here we mean white the colour, not the pink skin tone, which is inhuman? I am not white like Swedish people are, certainly not like the blue fairy.
It's mythology, it's not literal, you are taking it literally, only zealots do that.
Do you know that in African mythology fairies are white too?
Yumboes (they resemble European fairies) are the spirits of the dead and, like many supernatural beings in African beliefs, they are completely of a pearly-white colour
Did it ever occured to you that western mythology was made by westerners and it is silly to try to bend it to reflect USA of today, while they could use non western mythologies and finally show other cultures respect, but probably American studios can't do that, because they wanna make money and not really respect diversity?
Why take an 1883 Italian book to show a black fairy?
