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The film is a joint partnership with GK, MGM and WB (you conveniently didn't mention GK when you described the "relevant" American production companies earlier, by the way. Oh, and the film rights for Tomb Raider are owned by GK Films, which is a British company. In your hypothetical situation, she would not "wrongly" be considered a citizen. It is a contested topic, but it has not legally been reversed, and continues to apply to people other than slaves. Historically, constitutionally, and legally the United States has upheld the notion of birthright citizenship. Further, the Supreme Court has upheld the concept that birthright citizenship applies to people other than slaves (see U.S. Congressmen very consciously worded the amendment to apply to any person born in the United States (see the congressional debates where they specifically apply the amendment to children of German and Chinese parents born in the country). The Fourteenth Amendment was passed in response to slavery and the Civil Rights Act of 1866, but was not meant to merely "address slaves" as you state. This is misleading if not wholly inaccurate. Unfortunately that fact is ignored today." Obviously that wouldn't apply to her or anyone born today. "The relevant part of our constitution that addresses birthright citizenship was meant to address slaves. Given the name of the country, "American" is probably the most natural descriptor to use.Ĭertainly there are a large contingent that make the argument for argument's sake on the basis of their anti-American feelings, but I just wanted to point out that this is not necessarily the case, nor is it necessarily an issue of ignorance. It's not as if we're going to call ourselves something like "United States'ers" or something. The trouble in this case stems from the face that since the formation of the USA, we ourselves haven't really thought of ourselves as anything other than "American" and there's no really intuitive name that comes out that would serve as a good alternative for citizens of the USA. Would it be ignorant or anti-Indian to object to the use of the term "Asian" to describe only Indian people? If you learn that America is a single, unified continent as taught by the 6-Continent model, then it follows that you would be confused that the term "American" would only refer to people from a single country in that continent.Ī similar thing actually occurs with the term "Asian" in England, which is often used to refer specifically to Indian people despite the fact that Indians, while Asian, don't represent the whole of the Asian continent. I wouldn't agree at all that one would have to be "ignorant" or "anti-American" to object to the use of "America" to describe only the USA and "American" to mean only things pertaining to the USA. Though, back then they chose an American actress because she was the best for the role then. Particularly Mutual Film Company (US) and the BBC (UK) with distribution by Paramount (US). The old films with Jolie were the same, joint productions between UK and US production companies for the most part.
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Sounds to me, if anything, English jobs were given to foreigners, not the other way around.
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Of the film's 4 principle actors, two were born in the United States (Daniel Wu, Walton Groggins), so, even though its not really an American production, half the principle actors are Americans. It had nothing to do with her nationality. They chose Viklander because they felt she was the best choice of actresses who were available for the gig. If anything the argument could be made that a British IP and British production is bringing jobs TO Americans, not taking them away. Again very much a British IP, who has chosen to produce the games in the United States. The film is by no means an American production, it is a joint venture by companies spanning several countries that was originally spearheaded by GK films in Great Britain.Īs for the IP, Lara Croft and the Tomb Raider Franchise was created by Core Design in Derby, England who was bought out by Eidos Interactive in London who also owns Crystal Dynamics, the company that has been developing the games ever since. The film was shot mainly in Cape Town South Africa and the UK Warner Brothers studios in Leavesden. The rights to the film were originally acquired in 2011 by GK Films who brought on Norwegian director Roar Uthaug. The film is being produced by Graham King (United Kingdon) and Gary Barber (South Africa/US), the production companies involved are MGM(US), Warner Brother (US), GK Films (Great Britain), and Square Enix (Japan).