By Grand Rapids Anonymous
friday, october 25, 2024 at 9:32:00 p.m. edt
GRA: Twenty three years ago, Russell Crowe received an Oscar for Gladiator,a popular and critically acclaimed film (which I didn’t see).
Here in 2024, Ridley Scott, director of the 2001 epic, resurrects the roman theme, but with one mandatory (it seems) addition: bLACKS.
From the trailer I viewed, rome looked more like the cast of the jeffersons and among the updated demographics, Denzel Washington plays an arms dealer, Macrinus. Other blacks were seen in the clips I viewed and as I looked on-line, there was plenty of b(l)acklash against rap music being part of the soundtrack. Other criticisms by critics—both pro and amatuer—concerned the blackwashing of history, by the film industry.
“what we’re seeing here is an obvious ‘affirmative action’ replacement of Whites by blacks, in areas of the world, where blacks would not likely be seen, if the movie was made in a realistic way.”
This movie opens november 15th.
Ridley Scott defended the casting, calling the movie—“fiction.”
And ridiculously, racially woke.
--GRA
Ridley Scott:
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-RM
Recently watched a movie I hadn't seen for some time, PLANET OF THE VAMPIRES, an Italian flick directed by the erratic Mario Bava (1965, released here in 1967- I actually saw it when it came out, on a double bill with THE ST. VALENTINE'S DAY MASSACRE!). Well, it wasn't so hot, BUT I'm bringing it up because it was blatantly ripped off by ALIEN! The concept of astronauts lured to a planet by a distress call is there, followed by aliens taking over human bodies, and the kicker is a scene where the astronauts discover the body of a huge dead creature in a space vehicle, definitely "borrowed" for the later movie. Bava was also a production designer, and the look of his movie must have influenced both Scott and ALIEN designer H.R. Giger. Of course, ALIEN was the better movie- and Cameron's sequel, ALIENS, even better- and that one ripped off about a DOZEN other movies!
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Timing and fine tuning("ripping off") previous movies can sometimes create new classics. They just haven't done that in a long time in Hollywood.
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jerry pdx
ReplyDeleteBlacks did get brought up to Italy by the Romans to get chopped up in the arena, along with exotic animals from Africa. Maybe a few were enslaved but they had plenty of slaves and arena fodder from northern Europe. Sure, just like the rest of Europe, there were a few blacks but they were rare. Revisionist history won't stop until a few become 50% and that they invented everything that came out of the Roman Empire.
Rich people live in the world of their choosing.
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"Rich people live in the world of their choosing"- I sometimes wonder WHY these people want the kind of world they've created- no art, no music, no literature, hideous fashion, the breakdown of language, horrible unlivable cities, even the destruction of traditional differences between men and women. Even if they live in an isolated bubble, you'd think this isn't what they'd want for themselves or their descendants.
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Correction: Romans did bring blacks and other exotic animals from Africa...
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