Posted on 04/28/2023 1:58:52 PM PDT by knighthawk
Yes, yes. The ancient Greek theatre used men to play both sexes, as in Japanese Kabuki.
But using someone of different color or sex to play an historical person in what is labeled as a documentary is insane.
The Hollywood studios were lambasted for doing it in the mid-20th century but it is acceptable now, as long as the actors are of color or bent gender! The double standard is galling. Hollywood did it to save money by using actors under existing contracts. Today it is done to push the limits of effrontery.
Why use humans at all? Let’s make Cleopatra a horse! As long as the merit is there, why not? Caligula made a horse a senator!! As long as the merit is there!!
Pulling this crap on top of the rotten education kids are receiving these days will make for a pretty stupid generation.
If you are willing to enjoy the dumbing down of your History, enjoy!
The Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt (744 BC–656 BC) was black (Nubian) lasted about 100 years.
It is a guarnatee that the Muslim world is not amused nor convinced by the faux intellects reigning in the US entertainment industry. and the race hustle which goes on unabated since Booker T. Washington in 1911 warned of "race hustlers."
To be color blind, it is time for an all Asian cast of Porgy and Bess, which as we all know was written by the Gershwins who were oddly not black....
This only sort of began to change somewhat in the 20th century in America and in the UK.
By ignoring the law,in your comments, you left out the important reason WHY boys played female roles, in Elizabethan England.
And you also ignored many other things I posted.
Your inability to refute what I said, or just ignoring it completely doesn't help your arguments.
I didn’t try to refute what you said, except that it wasn’t just because of prostitution. In general, actress was considered an unsuitable job for a woman.
It is long past time to make a white wakanda movie
Your lack of factual historical knowledge is breathtaking.
The left only knows and goes one way.
Cleopatra was not black. Men are not women. Women are not men. Catholicism is not Christian. And on and on it goes.
Maybe, but was Cleopatra black? That is the question. If Nubian rulers were black, that was 600 years before Cleopatra.
The black racists hang their fantasy on fact that Cleopatra younger half sister Arsinoe mother/grandmother were unknown
That she may have been born from a mistress or harem girl rather than a legal wife
Arsinoe was exiled to Ephesus for a rebellion against Cleopatra when she was only about 14-15 years old
Mark Anthony, at the behest of Cleopatra, had her murdered
She was Macedonian! They didn’t intermarry with local Egyptian royalty. There weren’t many if any left after the Persian conquest (Before Alexander). I’ve read that her mother was from the Seleucid royal line. Note: Another one Alexander’s generals - Seleucus who went into the king business in Syria. Might have Persian noble blood.
Man, it’s all Greek to me. :)
Reminds me of this.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=x8no8ItMebQ&pp=ygUebG91aXMgdGhlcm91eCBibGFjayBJc3JlYWxpdGVz
I don’t trust the Egyptians now or historically. The things that they carved into stone about their pharaohs are often total fabrications. When a pharaoh fell out of favor they defaced or chiseled out everything about him that they could reach. Every royal tomb that could be accessed was looted.
But I trust Netflix even less.
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