Conservatives want the LGBTQ community dead. Corporations just want money. Hmmm I wonder which one is better... I love watching losers cry about colours whether it be the colours of the rainbow or the colour of a fictional characters skin. Just a hateful bunch in general with nothing better to do with their lives other than be mad about anything they can be.
Historical characters should be portrayed accurately. I dont think anyone with an ounce of intelligence disagrees. Fictional characters looking different literally doesn't matter.
Nothing wrong with portraying historical characters accurately. The point a lot of people are not getting is that it’s also fine to not do that if you choose not to. Everyone has enough of a mental capacity to understand the fantastical or unrealistic aspects of any media they consume, but for some reason they can't get past this one, strangely.
It's just... who the hell cares? What's it to you? Nobody is being intentionally misled here. It's just an stylistic choice. Only way it bothers you is if you are a megapurist stickler, and the VAST MAJORITY of people are not.
Movie gun silencers have been violating the laws of physics for the last 80 years and nobody has said a thing, but Denzel Washington portraying a fictional european king is where we draw the line and start complaining? Is it any wonder this raises suspicions?
If it doesnt matter then why change it? To me it says more about the studios. They're saying, "we don't care enough about you to invest the time and money to create an original, interesting character or story so we'll just thrust you into this already successful franchise
Because the western media is dominated by white (for understandable, if completely amoral reasons), and seeing your non-white race represented on media feels nice. In the face of little boys and girls feeling nice, it's pretty brutish to complain about historical accuracy in something that's not a textbook or a documentary, and is just meant to entertain people, even non-whites. It doesn't take anything away from you, although it does make sense to feel frustrated when you feel corpos are pandering (bad!) to a changing climate (good!)
Most big studios nowadays pander to the investors, and investors are scared of anything new. Using material that's already been established and already has a fan base means that right away you'll have people watch your show or movie regardless of how trash it might be, so it's a much safer bet than something entirely new. It's for this reason that nowadays movies all try and create sequels and prequels and spin offs and cinematic universes.
Using old characters and changing their race is a symptom of this, not a cause. They're not creating new cool characters of color because they're not creating anything new at all anymore.
Again, I don't disagree? But that wasn't anywhere in this comment chain, the comment in question literally just said "historical characters", nothing about documentaries
Probably talking about the Cleopatra documentary, which, against their point, pretty much everyone agrees was awful.
In it they cast a black woman as Cleopatra, despite her iirc being of Greek descent. They also had a ton of other inaccuracies. I never watched it myself so I can only go off of what others have said.
The reason it doesn’t add to their point is that such a small minority was okay with it that it proves nothing about broader opinions about what’s okay regarding diversity inclusion. Of course I could be mischaracterizing their intentions, I just don’t see why they’d bring it up otherwise.
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u/LordAppleton Jun 01 '23
At least the pandering makes conservatives upset.