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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2015-09-05 03:35 pm

[ SECRET POST #3167 ]


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(Anonymous) 2015-09-05 08:21 pm (UTC)(link)
It is a thing that exists in the world.

(Anonymous) 2015-09-05 08:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Bah! So we should also accuse Taylor Swift of homophobia because her video didn't address how gay people were treated in the 50s? HER VIDEO DOESN'T EVEN ADDRESS THE KOREAN WAR! Or the Cuban Revolution.

(Anonymous) 2015-09-05 08:29 pm (UTC)(link)
the video isn't set during the korean war or the cuban revolution

(Anonymous) 2015-09-05 08:32 pm (UTC)(link)
It is set during the 1950s. Korean War and Cuban Revolution were also during the 1950s. Also, the first Sudanese War.

(Anonymous) 2015-09-05 09:31 pm (UTC)(link)
It's not set in Korea or Cuba. If it was set in Cuba during the revolution, I would consider it similarly weird for it not to at least display an awareness of those historical events. I'm not saying it has to condemn it but it was a thing that existed and it's dishonest to try to display the aesthetics of that time period without that side of their reality.

(Anonymous) 2015-09-05 09:59 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't think it's dishonest to portray a movie set being closed off and removed from the actual place and people who live there. That's how movie sets tend to be.

(Anonymous) 2015-09-06 06:14 am (UTC)(link)
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Jesus Christ. Would you be defending T Swift playing a German woman having fun in WWII era Germany frolicking with an Aryan looking German man? Do you know how many African people died or were tortured in colonial Africa? Do you know how Africa is so fucked up today because of it. What a dumb setting for a music video.

(Anonymous) 2015-09-06 06:21 am (UTC)(link)
Listen anon she's not celebrating Nazi Germany. She's just playing an actress on the set of Triumph Of The Will

(Anonymous) 2015-09-06 08:10 am (UTC)(link)
Less useful because Triumph Of The Will was a contemporary documentary.

The phrase you want is "She's just playing an actress on the set of Inglourious Basterds or Downfall or Swing Kids or something."

(Anonymous) 2015-09-06 08:41 am (UTC)(link)
lol that analogy is hilariously and obviously wrong. the video is not about someone shooting an anti-colonialism movie in the 2010s, which is what the equivalent of Inglorious Basterds would be. the video is set in the 1950s, when colonialism was still actively happening in Africa, and it's not anti-colonialism - it just ignores colonialism entirely in favor of just focusing on glamour and wealth.

I agree that Triumph of the Will is not actually the right analogy (because it's an explicitly political documentary) but cmon son, jesus christ your analogy is fucking bad and dumb lmao

(Anonymous) 2015-09-06 12:38 pm (UTC)(link)
That doesn't work unless the movie they're filming is a propaganda piece about how colonialism is the greatest thing ever.

(Anonymous) 2015-09-06 12:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Do you not see the difference between a German woman frollicking around with a German man and an American woman frollicking around with an American man on a movie set in the German countryside?