[ SECRET POST #5039 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5039 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian either...

[(Anonymous)]

Which should an American movie care more about?

Re: Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian either...

[(Anonymous)]

Historical accuracy. Misrepresentation doesn't achieve anything other than to fuck.with people's sense of history.

Re: Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian either...

[(Anonymous)]

I reject the notion across the board that historical accuracy is a necessity for historical movies. I reject the notion in general so I don't accept it here.

Re: Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian either...

[(Anonymous)]

I reject the notion that contemporary American racial issues should be applied to other countries' and their histories. I reject the notion across the board and I most certainly do not accept it here.

Re: Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian either...

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not necessarily saying it should be. My point is that if you want to use contemporary notions of race at all, contemporary American understandings of race are clearly the ones that are relevant. I wouldn't say that a Greek movie or an Ethiopian movie should use American understandings of race.

And it's not at all clear to me that you should use contemporary understandings of race at all. But if you're going to turn history into contemporary entertainment, and you're going to interpret history through modern eyes, and you're an American making an American movie, then the lens you use is probably going to be American. And that's basically OK.

Re: Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian either...

[(Anonymous)]

Ah... the American Imperialist dream at work.

Re: Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian either...

[(Anonymous)]

I would say the same about someone in any country. A New Zealand film about Cleopatra, if it's going to take account of contemporary social mores, is probably going to take account primarily of New Zealand social mores.