Well, that's what Jada Pinkett-Smith's African Queens series set out to do. They just fucked it out the gate with the Cleopatra controversy so no one really knows that the first one came out or that Cleopatra is the second of the series. Now that it's known they are more then willing to change history (in a documentary), I doubt there's going to be a 3rd.
The irony of her saying this when one of the most popular and well rated Netflix shows is Bridgerton which features a black queen who JUST got a prequel series that's also well rated and liked seems like she's playing ignorance.
Not to derail this thread but for the first time on the news I heard "Food insecurity" ; referring to "famine".
Oh I never meant to imply the money was pouring in from the show directly, but sending that message does fit into the wider culture war which (they think) benefits them on the 4D chess board, including monetarily.
Respect and learn from your elders..... but only if they arent a dumbass.
This idea that people should identify with the general continent they live in or hail from is weird.Going ahead with their own historically accurate show by the look of it.
Netflix’s 'Black Cleopatra' prompts Egyptian broadcaster to make its own series with light-skinned star
"I have asked Egyptians to see themselves as Africans, and they are furious at me for that,” the docudrama's director wrote in an op-ed.www.nbcnews.com
It's almost as if tarnishing a part of history by blackwashing a hugely important figure based on some random grandma's "testimony" and calling it a documentary doesn't sit well with people. They made a show so fucking bad and untruthful the actual Egyptian government had to step up to debunk the show's nonsense. That's some next level failing on Netflix's part.
I'm still 50/50 on Netflix doing this on purpose to generate outrage and rage views.
Pray for the wealthy Hollywood elite victims. Please understand.
Pick one. Not you, but the description.
Who would have thought a decade ago it would take Islam to lead us out of this lunacy. Especially when mainstream Christianity and Catholicism are compromised.
See, this is actually a pretty neat idea, and then as you mentioned they fuck it up by racially appropriating Cleopatra.
Man, I miss pre-MCU RDJ.
The second from the right.It wouldn't surprise me to actually see this in an attempt to push equity over history. We have already seen it in "historically based" stuff to add women into areas they never operated (the best of these at least try to find an actual historical character to extrapolate from) or add ethnic diversity where there was none. No doubt future historians will dub this practice some catchy name and it will date productions kinda like how vivid technicolor does now and use it as a marker for broader societal changes.
As I've said before, the real tragedy of this stuff isn't just that it is attempting to change perceptions of history, but that is a lazy crutch to push the same tired stories OVER and OVER instead of finding new stories of periods and events that HAD the diversity necessary. Don't make a viking raiding party all on one longboat look like an Ark that sampled someone from every place on the planet, just set your show in a place that naturally had a multicultural presence.
This new show just makes me think of this
though to be honest I no longer remember which girl was actually Cleopatra (2525).
Well it kinda is.
The crush was real.
This is the PERFECT level of "Crazy eyes gonna fuck you silly then sob half the night because daddy dosen't love me then fuck again before going to the gym" woman I'm looking for
Well Elon is from Africa.Got some idea's for netflix next projects.
Not to derail this thread but for the first time on the news I heard "Food insecurity" ; referring to "famine".
The anchor said "Insécurité alimentaire" (Frenchie from Montreal over here).
Next we rename zombies as the "Living impaired"...
Nothing surprises me anymore
This one: https://www.amazon.fr/dp/B0043M64LA/ ?
In France you alternate between "personne handicapée" et "personne à mobilité réduite" depending on the day of the week.Not to derail this thread but for the first time on the news I heard "Food insecurity" ; referring to "famine".
The anchor said "Insécurité alimentaire" (Frenchie from Montreal over here).
Next we rename zombies as the "Living impaired"...
Nothing surprises me anymore
Not malicious, just racist.
This seems extra-bad, as I'd interpret the terms to refer to two different things. I'd assume "famine" refers to a widespread problem (drought, etc.) that causes an entire region to have a food shortage, while "food insecure" would refer to some socially caused problem that keeps some from having enough food while others have plenty (poverty, etc.).Not to derail this thread but for the first time on the news I heard "Food insecurity" ; referring to "famine".
The anchor said "Insécurité alimentaire" (Frenchie from Montreal over here).
Next we rename zombies as the "Living impaired"...
Nothing surprises me anymore
These clowns are all "truth insecure."Not to derail this thread but for the first time on the news I heard "Food insecurity" ; referring to "famine".
The anchor said "Insécurité alimentaire" (Frenchie from Montreal over here).
Next we rename zombies as the "Living impaired"...
Nothing surprises me anymore
Agreed. There is a crazy attraction to Egypt but it's far from the only place of interest. It's always gonna be a tough sell though, given the odd names and the farther away from a european connection you get, the less well known the story. Just the demographics of marketing a sub-saharan african story to 13% of the population versus a european one to 70%+ make it challenging. Something like Showmax, with the "Blood Psalms" fantasy show and stuff like that, is where I'm looking to see a real breakout hit come from (that will then get a more palatable to America remake).
I think it's generally understood that while there are many blacks in northern africa NOW, this wasn't as much the case before folks could easily sail south past the Sahara. Generations of a Mediterranean oriented trade network led to far more southern Europe/North African/middle eastern mixing (via migration, slavery, conquest) than any sub-saharan population mixing in appreciable numbers until the Trans-Saharan Slave trade caused a massive diaspora of those populations into the arab world, followed of course by the Trans-atlantic slave trade.
I was always partial to the chick that played Aphrodite.
I think it was her bubbly and bouncies!
Sad that the actor who played Ares was killed by a freak accident. Young too.
I was reading or listening to some commentator the other day and he said more whites and Europeans throughout history were put into slavery than black Africans. The Greeks alone had tons and tons of slaves from every nation. The Greeks even considered a slave as a piece of furniture and not a person. The romans enslaved everyone too, they did not care about nationality.
The very word "Slave" supposedly comes from Slav, who were all white folks.
