a century of talkies to prove it, watching the characters in coda have passionate discussions in american sign language, or asl, is far more visually stimulating than having the characters simply speak aloud. the first time i watched an asl fight, right? i was like, this is awesome! like, talk about cinema! you re stomping, you re grabbing the other person, you re right like, you don t walk away from a fight cause you have to be looking at each other. the filmmakers obviously want their movie to find as wide an audience as possible but the opinion of one particular demographic is crucial. deaf communities take their representation in film very seriously. there s even a social media campaign #deaftalent to call out projects who cast hearing actors in deaf roles. coda got that one right, casting three deaf actors, including marlee matlin,
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