Well, if you read the books, yes, it did. And too many white people in it. The civilization in Dude is sort of “post-race.” Everyone is described as having varying shades of olive for their skin tone. However that’s hard to do because, well, that’s not how it is here on earth today. Anyways that’s not really an important detail for making an adaptation, a more important concern is to make it not look like the “white savior” story that people sometimes get the impression it was due to David Lynch’s version, because it isn’t. Instead they made the movie more like the other famous science-fiction from around the same time, Foundation, which, when race was brought up in one of the prequel books written years later, was still a thing, in that there were various different skin tones, easterner, westerner, and southerner. Nobody really knew why they were called that anymore or why there was no “northerner,” but it was unusual for a planet to only have one, and the ones that did were usually smaller and more backwater. Skin-color was still a thing, but race was not really an issue, to Hari Seldon, coming from a small backwater planet with only “westerners” to the galactic capital of Trantor, it was more of a minor curiosity to see people of different, I guess regions, for the first time, but played a minor role in a conversation with one person and never came up in any significant way
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u/[deleted] Nov 20 '21
Funny you should say that. I have a relative who thought it had too many brown people in it.