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[-] Korne127@lemmy.world 179 points 1 month ago
[-] the_tab_key@lemmy.world 85 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Completely unrealistic and unwatchable. Suit needs to be tan.

[-] FriendBesto@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 month ago

Take it easy man, we do not want to over stage Citizen Kane, here.

Mr. Tan Suit would win best supporting actor, AND best costume design, by itself.

[-] OCATMBBL@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

World's first white first black president.

[-] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 124 points 1 month ago
[-] wuzzlewoggle@feddit.org 57 points 1 month ago

So it was 30 years ago. I feel like, even though things are far from perfect now, nowadays a comment like this would draw quite a few more critical looks than back then.

[-] Jerkface@lemmy.world 85 points 1 month ago

People in 1994 knew exactly how fucked this was.

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[-] andros_rex@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago

Look up who Alec McGuiness played in Lawrence of Arabia.

Or look at Mickey Rooney in Breakfast at Tiffany's. Or Elizabeth Taylor in Cleopatra. Or John Wayne in Gengis Khan.

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[-] bappity@lemmy.world 67 points 1 month ago

This is obviously a perfect role for Ryan Gosling

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[-] TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 58 points 1 month ago
[-] FriendBesto@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 month ago

I do not get it. I just see 3 pictures of Tubman.

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[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 54 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Hollywood Executives can collectively only name at most seven actors at a given time. An entire nine-digit annual industry run by a bunch of coked-up goldfish.

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[-] JustJack23@slrpnk.net 51 points 1 month ago

Hmmm so you need woman of colour? Maybe Gal Gadot? /s

[-] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 41 points 1 month ago

If Hollywood ever did a film about Gaza they would unironically use Gal Godot in the role of a Palestinian woman.

[-] andros_rex@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago

It also be “both sides have something to learn from each other!” Oscar bait a la Crash or Green Book.

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[-] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 34 points 1 month ago

Next Summer they'll show Black Hitler

[-] andros_rex@lemmy.world 41 points 1 month ago

I would not be surprised if that was the title of Kanye’s next album.

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[-] HollowNaught@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago

Am I the only one who doesn't know who Harriet Tubman is?

[-] tino@lemmy.world 85 points 1 month ago

Probably not, but she's an important figure of the American history. The real question, though, is who will know about Harriet Tubman in a few years, once she gets erased from American history books.

[-] essell@lemmy.world 41 points 1 month ago

At least people will be able to remember she looked like Julia Roberts

[-] jaybone@lemmy.zip 19 points 1 month ago

Elon Musk will build The Above Ground Railroad to save white South African immigrants from the tyranny of paying taxes.

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[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 month ago

Does the phrase "underground railroad" mean anything to you?

[-] CanadianCarl@sh.itjust.works 32 points 1 month ago

Not everyone is from North America. That is like me asking you, does "Dr. Kwame Nkrumah" mean anything to you?

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[-] HollowNaught@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago
[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Okay, Harriet Tubman, born into slavery in the early 1800s, escaped slavery, probably best known today for making 13 trips to the South and guiding 70 slaves on their escape to free states via a system of secret routes, sympathizers and safe houses referred to as The Underground Railroad. Tubman went on to serve as a spy for the Union army during the American civil war, and was a figure in the women's suffrage movement, surviving into the 20th century.

So, the fact that she was a black woman is kind of important to Harriet Tubman's lore, and casting Julia Roberts in the role is rather inappropriate.

The Underground Railroad had nothing to do with actual trains, but they used a lot of railroad related terminology as code speak. Trail guides were referred to as "conductors," safe houses were "stations," etc. Very little of it was actually underground; I'm sure a few slaves hid in root cellars or caves along the way, but there were no tunnels. Escapees were sometimes carried by boat or train but most traveled on foot and/or by wagon. There's a sort of folklore image of slaves traveling at night under the cover of darkness, navigating by the North Star. Allegedly, the song "Follow The Drinkin' Gourd" was a slave song that contained coded instructions for navigating along the Underground Railroad by landmarks along the trail and by using Merak and Dubhe in Ursa Major to identify Polaris...I'm pretty sure this is 20th century embellishment to the story but it's a prominent visual, kind of like Johnny Appleseed's pot hat.

This bit of history is taught so widely in American schools that the term "underground railroad" has just become our word for a secret, grassroots network of routes, safe houses and guides for transporting refugees out of danger.

[-] MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Here you go. She was a pretty amazing person. If you're from the US and didn't learn about her in school, your school failed you.

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[-] sirico@feddit.uk 27 points 1 month ago

This is crazy, I mean Roberts is from the South and Tubman from the north, no one's going to believe it!

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[-] mrbubblesort@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago

Halle Berry though... 🤔

[-] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 30 points 1 month ago

Kevin Hart.

[-] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 month ago

Martin Lawrence would rock it in "Big Tubman's House"

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[-] muusemuuse@lemm.ee 20 points 1 month ago
[-] x4740N@lemm.ee 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The article led me down a rabbit hole leading to an article about the ghost in the shell movie adaptation promo meme generator being used to criticise the whitewashing in the movie adaptation

Fuck whitewashing

[-] GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 month ago

"Hollywood is crazy. The Last Samurai, staring Tom Cruise..?!"

[-] FriendBesto@lemmy.ml 45 points 1 month ago

The last Samurai is not played by Tom Cruise. He plays a guy who gets to know and grows to respect the last Samurai and Japanese culture.

Ken Watanabe as Lord Moritsugu Katsumoto, he plays the eponymous "Last Samurai."

Clearly you have not even watched the damn movie. Or what is your point?

But we are all good with a black woman playing the real life British Anne Boleyn?

Man, can't wait until we find out which white actor will play Barack Obama in his biopic. I mean, diversity is our strength.

[-] TargaryenTKE@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

1-You had to actually watch the full movie to get any of that context

2-It's still Cruise's face front and center on every piece of promotional art

3-As much as I hate that this is true, the vast majority of people who saw that movie did not do so because they heard Ken Watanabe was in it

[-] GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 1 month ago

Yeah, no confusion here.

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[-] andros_rex@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Tbh - if you do any academic study of history, that’s what it all starts to look like.

I tried to watch Spartacus because Kubrick and… I couldn’t. Those fucking hairdos. The depiction of Marcus Aurelius in Gladiator upset me - like no, the man was not a proto Thomas Jefferson (and even the IRL Jefferson made his money on child slavery and raped children.) Wuxia is so much fun but there’s never going to be a period accurate Three Kingdoms (which is a 14th century novel anyway)

Medieval history especially…. That’s pages and pages, and I’m not even really that much of a medievalist.

[-] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 month ago

I do historical reenactment, so I have a hobby that involves researching the age of a certain embroidery stitch, for example.

I've learned to just switch off that part of my brain for games and movies, or I'd cry a lot more. I just project them to an alternate reality where they totally had nylon in 1200.

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[-] BillDaCatt@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago
[-] andros_rex@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Fun story - I went to a troubled teen facility, and we had “group.” There was no actual qualifications required for the people running “group.”

We watched Tyler Perry movies. (Also at one point Ip Man which is a goated film.) I learned the phrase “give head” or similar while watching How Did I Get Married. I was asked to think about the lessons that this movie could apply to my interpersonal relationships - I had never considered how the frequency of oral sex would decease after marriage.

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