Every Single Word

Every Single Word
Personal information
Born
Dylan Marron
Websitewww.dylanmarron.com/every-single-word
YouTube information
Channel
Years active2015-present
Subscribers19.9k[1]

Every Single Word (Spoken by a Person of Color) is a Tumblr blog and YouTube channel that features videos on all the lines spoken by people of color (POC) in both contemporary and classic films. Created by Dylan Marron, the videos are an attempt to highlight the lack of casting and involvement of POC in Hollywood produced films, in addition to highlighting his own experiences in attempting to be cast in films as a Venezuelan American.[2][3]

The reasons for such low amounts of casting of POC in films is stated by Marron to be about fear, because the "people who finance the movies are not going to want to throw millions behind a movie of a non-famous person of color". In addition, default casting for films, even for works or scripts with no specified races for the characters, is to choose white actors. The novel The Fault in Our Stars by John Green is noted by Marron as a work with no races given for the characters and one that has had worldwide success in its book form, but the main cast for the film were chosen by the producing studio to be entirely white.[4] Manohla Dargis, writing for The New York Times, noted that Marron's videos show that even when POC are cast in films, they are often cast in stereotypical roles that function as tokenism for the casting quota.[5] The Boston Globe compared Marron's videos with other statistics presented in the "2015 Hollywood Diversity Report", which showed that scriptwriters and directors are also rarely POC, along with lead roles in films.[6]

Several celebrities have praised and shared the blog with their fans, including Aziz Ansari, Junot Diaz,[7] Kerry Washington,[8] and Chirlane McCray.[9] The blog was named by Tumblr as the most viral blog of 2015.[10]

  1. ^ "About dylanmarron". YouTube.
  2. ^ McDonald, Soraya Nadia (July 10, 2015). "Meet Dylan Marron, the actor and playwright behind those 'every single word spoken by a person of color' YouTube videos". The Washington Post. Retrieved October 10, 2015.
  3. ^ Harris, Aisha (June 24, 2015). "A Brilliant Video Series Shows Just How Few Words Are Spoken by People of Color in Movies". Slate. Retrieved October 10, 2015.
  4. ^ Gajanan, Mahita (July 8, 2015). "Famous films re-edited to highlight Hollywood's race problem". The Guardian. Retrieved October 10, 2015.
  5. ^ Dargis, Manohla (August 5, 2015). "Report Finds Wide Diversity Gap Among 2014's Top Grossing Films". The New York Times. Retrieved October 10, 2015.
  6. ^ Brodeur, Michael Andor (June 30, 2015). "'Every Single Word' captures Hollywood's lack of diversity". The Boston Globe. Retrieved October 10, 2015.
  7. ^ Coggan, Devan (July 15, 2015). "This video project cuts together every line spoken by people of color in movies". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved October 10, 2015.
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  10. ^ Vitto, Laura (December 7, 2015). "The 10 most viral Tumblr blogs of 2015". Mashable. Retrieved February 24, 2016.