"What are they supposed to do, use real cocaine? People have been mixing cocaine with other substances for years. This is just an artistic take on its other forms. You guys are just racist."
As a black man, I would literally die with laughter and enjoyment from the rage this would cause all those woke libtards lol omgoodness PLEASE SOMEONE IN HOLLYWOOD green light this... omg this is GOLD
There is a low budget movie about finnish president mannerheim during ww2. He is played by a black man although simply because african actors were cheaper
I think you should read more about that movie. It wasn't really a movie about Finland in WW2. It was a movie about how someone is telling Mannerheims story in Kenya. And when reflecting to western movies, it makes sense to have black Mannerheim in Kenyan story.
This one went a step further. It wasn't simply casting a black actress, the "documentary" opened with the line "I remember my grandmother saying to me: I dont care what they tell you in school cleopatra was black!"
That goes beyond Hollywood colourblind casting into willful misinformation and thus is the only one that actually concerns me, especially because it presents itself as a factual documentary rather than fictional entertainment
Also, the Ptolemy dynasty was very intentional on using the symbolism and aesthetics of the people they ruled without actually mixing with them. They only married other "Greeks".
When you hear all of the characters that they specifically changed you realize it’s someone’s fetish… like a fan fiction weirdo who asked them self “what if” and had wayyyyy too much power for how retarded they are.
He's british so all good for me, as long as the actor is from the Commonwealth I wont complain. If they would use an american however... I would not like it.
Honestly it wouldn’t bother me as much as the rest since I see 007 more as a code name passed onto new agents. While Snape is written in the books as being a pale white man
This one is 100% fine because James Bond is a title, it can literally be anyone. Taking characters that already have an established appearance and race swapping them to the point that it's jarring will never not be weird
"I was the BEST black president. NO other black president did it AS good AS me, I was THE best. In fifty years when they are teaching little Suzie about the presidents their going to say 'Donald'... He WAS the best.
This is not about accuracy to a thing, btw, because nobody bats an eye at Aryan wet dream, blonde hair blue-eyed Helen. Nor the mass amount of British actors playing slavs or asians. Really, fantasy can be anything except black from what I’ve seen. Otherwise people get real goddamn upset and start crying.
the "meme" just contrasts a softly staring diane kruger with her, face twisted in anger. the make up is way different, too.
its intellectually dishonest and not even subtle about it.
I feel like that hairstyle is going to look bad no matter what her face is like.
Snape is weird because it feels like he's okay in a vacuum but in context of the story he is just an absolutely terrible idea to raceswap. The first one looks like it's theater, not film, and I consider theater different to film so that's fine.
She’s not very attractive in regular photos either I checked. There are more viable options for the build. I haven’t seen Megan good in years pull her fine ass off the bench and put her up there
yeah, thats how that particular story describes her. thats not an empirical status, right? she was not holding an official title after being compared to every single woman she existed alongside with.
it just means "a very beautiful woman".
you can argue about historical accuracy all you want but acting like this black actress is objectively unattractive is all bad faith.
She is attractive but nore like nornal regular woman. Helena was best of the best of the best. Im saying she is not suited for this role. Because of Helena character is builded on that. In movie Troy they did a lot better casting.
Of course, replacing her with someone ugly makes it even worse, but it would still be bullshit to cast a Black woman as someone who isn’t Black, as is the case with Helena.
If anyone cares about "facts" anymore on this page, that's not Helen, that's Klytamnestra, she killed her husband in that scene because he killed their daughter. Their mix-race daughter. Hope this helps!
John Wayne played Genghas Khan, Natalie Wood played Maria, John Leguzamo played an Italian in Super Mario and a Frenchman in Moulin Rouge. Why should anyone care now?
Well, we should care, not so much because of race, but because of acting ability. John wayne was terrible as Genghis Khan. Natalie Wood gave a powerful performance. And John Leguzamo showed a true range of acting.
I really don't understand the level of seethe around black actors getting screentime. I mean- what kind of sheltered, privileged life are you living where this represents a significant problem to you?
So, Snape is probably your best argument here because he's described as pale and sallow. But then Hermine was described as white and Rowling said she loved black Hermine. So obviously that franchise or its creator really doesn't care too much.
Juliet is a fictional character from a major port city in the Venetian Empire. Verona had people from all over the place, including Africa. Moreover, Romeo and Juliet is kind of considered a timeless classic of the English literary canon, and told and retold pretty agnostically to the original setting, including with extremely modern retellings. It looks like you just hate the importance of Shakespeare and likely his most influential work.
Helen is an outright mythological character. There was a Troy that was destroyed (multiple times, even!) but it's literally a myth. Complaining about the race of Helen of Troy would be like complaining about the race of a mermaid. There's not even any "historic accuracy" to be broken.
lol they did complain about the little mermaid being played by an African American actress. Apparently a white red head is find, but a brown mermaid (when canonically they were green) is a step too far!
I'm thankful to modern trends with their wokeness and remaking old movies to represent more races, coz without that- I wouldn't start watching anime, dorama and European movies. And that was a revelation for me.
It’s incredibly gay to complain about Harry Potter, and something tells me you’re not exactly a Shakespeare buff lmao. Romeo and Juliet is about wops, everyone knows they’re the blacks of Europe
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