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re: Hollywood replacing white people in true stories with black actors
Posted on 4/13/24 at 10:29 am to TackySweater
Posted on 4/13/24 at 10:29 am to TackySweater
I mostly don’t care about fictional characters.
Usually only when it’s nonsensical or there’s a clear description in the books (Ariel for instance) and they go way off base does it get an eyeroll from me.
A lot of the shows just cast minorities in historical fiction (Bridgerton) and ignore race all together and that’s mostly fine.
Dumb things for me are Anne Boleyn or Vikings being black.
Usually only when it’s nonsensical or there’s a clear description in the books (Ariel for instance) and they go way off base does it get an eyeroll from me.
A lot of the shows just cast minorities in historical fiction (Bridgerton) and ignore race all together and that’s mostly fine.
Dumb things for me are Anne Boleyn or Vikings being black.
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Posted on 4/13/24 at 11:00 am to 3nOut
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I mostly don’t care about fictional characters.
Usually only when it’s nonsensical or there’s a clear description in the books (Ariel for instance) and they go way off base does it get an eyeroll from me.
I agree.
And I would include historical characters if the actor/actress nails the role. Who cares.
The AI depictions of Jewish holocaust survivors and European royalty is the line.
Entertainment? I will judge it on quality.
Claiming educational? No. shite no.
I can live with James Earl Jones being Mark Hamil's father.
I can't comprehend Napoleon as a gay trans via AI.
This post was edited on 4/13/24 at 11:01 am
Posted on 4/13/24 at 11:24 am to 3nOut
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A lot of the shows just cast minorities in historical fiction (Bridgerton) and ignore race all together and that’s mostly fine.
Dumb things for me are Anne Boleyn or Vikings being black.
I have no problem with fictional works if race is completely ignored. Bridgerton, for instance, I had heard of the show, but I had never heard a mutter about the race of the actors playing characters, and it really wasn't addressed in the show. Does it historically make sense? Not especially, but it really seemed as if they just cast everyone completely disregarding race, in almost all cases. If someone would have cast one of the daughters as a black girl, it would have taken away from the show, thus they are all white like the parents.
The little mermaid, snow white, Disney did that solely for diversity, especially in the case of Snow White, she was snow white because of the color of her skin, so it makes 0 sense. I won't watch those.
Historical stories should follow race, and honestly if it went both ways, it would still bother me, it takes away from the film.
Posted on 4/13/24 at 1:42 pm to 3nOut
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A lot of the shows just cast minorities in historical fiction (Bridgerton) and ignore race all together and that’s mostly fine.
Dumb things for me are Anne Boleyn or Vikings being black.
The first is how they laid the groundwork for the second.
The third? They start rewriting actual history in books and schools. In 20 years, schools will teach that America was REALLY founded in 1964 and that MLK is the “Father of our country”.
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