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âG.I. Joeâ fans finally get an extended look behind the mask of their favorite ninja and, thank goodness, heâs Asian. If nothing else, the franchise would deserve serious credit for shrugging off the grand old tradition of cultural erasure; as a butter-on-your-popcorn bonus, âSnake Eyes: G.I. Joe Originsâ has some fun as well.
The resident ninja of the good-guy military unit known as the âJoes,â Snake Eyes has rarely been shown in the toy-comic-cartoon-movie franchise without his iconic black mask. On such occasions, he has been depicted as blond and blue-eyed . as one would imagine most ninjas to be? In the previous films, he was played by the brilliant physical performer Ray Park (best known as Darth Maul of âStar Warsâ) and âKickinâ Itâ star Leo Howard. Here, heâs played as an Asian American boy by Max Archibald (âThe 100â) and as a man by Henry Golding (the Malaysian British star of âCrazy Rich Asian
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Today in History
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Today in History
Today is Saturday, July 17, the 198th day of 2021. There are 167 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On July 17, 1975, an Apollo spaceship docked with a Soyuz spacecraft in orbit in the first superpower link-up of its kind.
On this date:
In 1821, Spain ceded Florida to the United States.
In 1862, during the Civil War, Congress approved the Second Confiscation Act, which declared that all slaves taking refuge behind Union lines were to be set free.
In 1918, Russia’s Czar Nicholas II and his family were executed by the Bolsheviks.
In 1936, the Spanish Civil War began as right-wing army generals launched a coup attempt against the Second Spanish Republic.