Posted on 04/13/2023 5:20:19 AM PDT by Bon of Babble
well, the Hamilton musical is fiction.
I don’t mind a fiction which changes things around — like Lincoln as a vampire hunter :)
But portraying this as a documentary.....
Good point -- though technically that wasn't a documentary, but it could be construed as such.
They even got the crown wrong. First, there’s only one cobra on an Egyptian crown, not two. But queens didn’t wear that one, except for a few that were basically standing in and acting as regents. Cleopatra and other queens wore the Vulture crown instead.
Ofcourse, everyone of any consequence was black. They was kangs..
well, there are different “levels” - if something claims to be a documentary, then it should be true to history.
Portraying a known historical figure to be of a recognizable physical difference as a “documentary”? NO, that’s wrong.
Portraying a known historical figure to be of a recognizable physical difference as a “drama based on historical figures”? Like “the Crown” — or “William Wallace” — well, MAYBE (the Crown’s casting of middle-aged and older Prince Phillip went against my sensibilities) — as an amateur historian I say no — I dislike the fact that people think “Braveheart” shows any resemblance to historical reality.
Portraying a historical figure on an explicitly stated fiction? Sure, why not — like Idris Elba as Heimdall (he was great) or Tilda Swinton as the ancient one (again, I thought she was great in that role)
“blue eyed” — most likely no.
We have zero historical statements or depictions showing her eye color.
Her hair was referred to as auburn. So most likely she wasn’t blue-eyed. Most likely.
She was also Greek (mostly), so again lower likelihood of being blue-eyed.
Definitely not “non-zero possibility”, but the probability of her being blue-eyed is very, very low
a whoopi goldberg as cleo in a musical is fine - I don’t see the cats in well,Cats, as realistic
Well I guess that if Velikovsky can rewrite history and make up poor history then so can lefturd loons.
This is rape of history. Netflix is intentionally corrupting the minds of its viewers.
“Should we call it, “black washing” of history?”
Good one! Blackwashing is a great term and very applicable to many things going on now.
BTTT
Can’t wait to see them portray Hitler as a black man.
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Follow ups will be a Black Stalin and Black Mao - all 3 depicted as heroes. Feral box office receipts will be off the charts - and that’s just the receipts that weren’t stolen!
But even in better times, one didn't turn to the movies for historical accuracy.
Just checked out a $10 in my wallet. He’s white. After all the federal government wouldn’t lie to us would they?
Marxists denigrated Southerners because they were the low hanging fruit. Now they are going after history further back. Jesus is next as will be the Romans. I wonder when they will finally get around to exposing all of the warts that are associated with MLK, Jr.?
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