Posted on 12/24/2020 11:09:12 PM PST by nickcarraway
We Wuz Egyptianz.....
Thanks, I wouldn't have known that because I never read the books. I watched the movie because I like Idris Elba, but didn't enjoy the movie, probably because I hadn't followed the series.
Well if you’ve seen the Rodgers and Hammerstein Productions, I assume you’ve seen “Oklahoma,” which was set to film in 1955. There was a very good version of “Fiddler on the Roof” produced as a movie in 1971 that’s well worth watching. And another fun one is “The Music Man.”
I’ve seen live theatre productions of “Oklahoma” and “Fiddler” but quality varies by company. And the moderns sometimes these days incorporate weird twists to incorporate some cultural message that changes the nature of the plot.
Imagine the overtones of “Oklahoma” with Jud cast as a black man, for instance. Ungh.
Oh, one other you might like is “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.” A direct-to-film production of this 1972 classic by Andrew Lloyd Webber was made in 1999. It’s a fun retelling of the Biblical tale set to different musical styles (hello, Pharaoh as an Elvis impersonator singing doo-wop?).
Yes, I saw “Oklahoma” many years ago, and have the “Soundtrack.” “The King & I” with Deborah Kerr and Yul Brynner was another favorite. As a young girl of 8, I had my mother wake me up if either Kerr or Brynner won the Oscar. “South Pacific” was another favorite as was “The Sound of Music.” When I saw the movie “The Sound of Music,” I was surprised to see and hear Peggy Wood singing. We used to watch her every week in her TV show “Mama.” “Annie Get Your Gun” with Bette Hutton and Howard Keel is another great movie and soundtrack. They sure don’t make them like that any more. They were wholesome, and enjoyable. Not the LGBT crap they throw in your face on every TV show, and movie today.
Liberals have reverted to a tiered moral system. We have to oppress whites and appropriate their culture to “make” it equal. Because liberals have the power to say and then institute policies that oppress said “privileged” people.
They still search for Wakanda on Google around 8500 times per month.
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“how much are flights to wakanda”
“travel to wakanda”
Yeah, I’m sure that grates them.
Thanks for the information and comments.
I appreciate the full airing of the Cleopatra background.
I agree with your take on the roll playing also.
I’m not against racial or gender “mis-appropriation” as long
as people don’t try to make political mileage off of it.
If they do, I’m willing to push back hard.
Take care...
They may try, and come up with a government friendly way of
doing it, but I don’t think we will go quietly.
S U R P R I S E !
Yes, I agree with you.
my wife is watching the new Netflix chick movie/series, Bridgerton.
in the series, the duke of hastings and queen charlotte are both black. I’m pretty sure they were white in real life.
I haven’t seen any protesters, murders, or burning buildings due to this peice of dramatic license.
Cleopatra was white; a Greek Ptolemy.
Idiocy.
I’m not in tune with actors and the like today.
In general terms it should be someone that doesn’t have to
look just like him, but should be able to project the stature
of the man. They should have a grasp of who he was, what
his views were, and being in general agreement with them.
I don’t like Leftists to be pulled in to play these parts, because
they they go out and shoot their mouths off about the person
they portrayed, destroying in part the role they played.
My god
My thoughts are along the lines of yours, but I have this
nagging feeling that I’ve seen some statements of hers that
I couldn’t stomach.
I agree.
Sadly, they have no morals, at all.
OMG. The guy by the pyramids looks so ridiculous.
Very pretty, if that is her then back in the day she was hot.
Egyptians, Lebanese, Greeks, Italians, Spaniards --- since ancient times people along the Mediterranean coast have been trading and inter-marrying so much that they can be considered one people. Genetically, the Greek has more in common with the Lebanese Christian than he has with a Swede.
As far as the Egyptians, most likely they were descended from Eurasian agriculturalists who migrated down to the Nile Valley, noticed the rich farmland, and took over, displacing any hunter/gathering blacks. A tribe which knows agriculture (which permits a far higher population density than hunter/gathering) and has mastered making metal-edged weapons, will conquer non-technological people every time.
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