RichAssPiss 4,929 Posted October 11, 2020 Share Posted October 11, 2020 Look at Twitter. This is just a terrible idea. The choice to make a blockbuster sized movie about a possibly white woman who ruled Egypt is just terrible optics. It has Gods of Egypt / Exodus whitewash teas all over it. Even if she were white, obsessively making movies about this one opulent white woman is foolish. Maybe explore other parts of history for a change. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gagaforgaga2010 120 Posted October 11, 2020 Share Posted October 11, 2020 11 minutes ago, LadyBenedetto said: When did they imply that Angelina should ? Also, saying that Greek = Italian = white is meaningless. Cleopatra had an African back ground, even if she was greek, she has always been represented as a brown woman until Liz Taylor. Hollywood should take a little history class on the ethnicity and give major roles to poc when they belong to them https://images.app.goo.gl/SULw32d96YNJVdir6 I suggest you take a good look at contemporary depictions of Pharaoh Cleopatra. Any simple Google search will show what Cleopatra's contemporaries saw. None of them portray her as a Woman of Color. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 11, 2020 Share Posted October 11, 2020 52 minutes ago, gagaforgaga2010 said: Cleopatra was whitewashed. I repeat Cleopatra was whitewashed. https://medium.com/@dankanator_ofcl/dear-hollywood-please-dont-make-cleopatra-white-again-2fea179c1031 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jester 6,313 Posted October 11, 2020 Share Posted October 11, 2020 2 hours ago, slayo said: Gaga should not get the Cleopatra role. Cleopatra was not a white woman, this film would be very bad for Gaga's image. Cleopatra was literally caucasian wtf You social warriors are doing way too much at this point Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LilyLark 10,104 Posted October 11, 2020 Share Posted October 11, 2020 2 hours ago, slayo said: Gaga should not get the Cleopatra role. Cleopatra was not a white woman, this film would be very bad for Gaga's image. Actually, Cleopatra was Macedonian Greek (so white).... (Nefertiti was Black). But yeah, the common misconception is that Cleopatra was not white so she'll get dragged if she gets the role regardless. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LilyLark 10,104 Posted October 11, 2020 Share Posted October 11, 2020 Honestly, I'm always kind of shocked at how people fail to recognize that Greeks, Nubians, Kushites, etc. (basically, people of multiple different races) ruled in Egypt at various times. You can't just go "Egyptians were all white or all Black." It was a multicultural society. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pennywise 36,079 Posted October 11, 2020 Share Posted October 11, 2020 Can we ban people for being delusional? So long ggd, it was nice while it lasted. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 11, 2020 Share Posted October 11, 2020 1 minute ago, LilyLark said: Honestly, I'm always kind of shocked at how people fail to recognize that Greeks, Nubians, Kushites, etc. (basically, people of multiple different races) ruled in Egypt at various times. You can't just go "Egyptians were all white or all Black." It was a multicultural society. And it still is ! The problem we have is beyond the fact that she was white or black, the question is very difficult to answer and there are studies on it. We are just tired to see Hollywood assuming that figures like her were white by default... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
vyniildisk 12,689 Posted October 11, 2020 Author Share Posted October 11, 2020 4 minutes ago, Pennywise said: Can we ban people for being delusional? Ban me u mean? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pennywise 36,079 Posted October 11, 2020 Share Posted October 11, 2020 Just now, Dulo Peep said: Ban me u mean? No why would I say anything like that about you So long ggd, it was nice while it lasted. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
vyniildisk 12,689 Posted October 11, 2020 Author Share Posted October 11, 2020 Just now, Pennywise said: No why would I say anything like that about you i expected more from you Penny. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 11, 2020 Share Posted October 11, 2020 13 minutes ago, Jester said: Cleopatra was literally caucasian wtf You social warriors are doing way too much at this point Social warrior ? Thank God we have social warrior, otherwise we’d still sit in the back of the bus. White people can’t understand how tired we are of seeing historical figures such as Cleopatra or Jesus assumed to be white just because you know, white is cool, Jesus can’t be a brown man even though he was a middle eastern (if he existed). There are a lot of questions about her ethnicity for a reason, and sorry buy a white person just coming here to say oooouw, poc are at it again is just racist and miseducation on racial stigma. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gypsy101 5,453 Posted October 11, 2020 Share Posted October 11, 2020 2 hours ago, Dulo Peep said: So Angelina should? Cleopatra was greek and Macedonian, and Gaga is Italian, italians are part Greeks too italians are part greek? i don’t think that’s right. they’re both mediterranean though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pennywise 36,079 Posted October 11, 2020 Share Posted October 11, 2020 5 minutes ago, Dulo Peep said: i expected more from you Penny. Waking up and IMMEDIATELY going on ggd doesn't do any good to me So long ggd, it was nice while it lasted. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gagaforgaga2010 120 Posted October 11, 2020 Share Posted October 11, 2020 22 minutes ago, LadyBenedetto said: https://medium.com/@dankanator_ofcl/dear-hollywood-please-dont-make-cleopatra-white-again-2fea179c1031 Read my previous posts. You will not win this argument with me. I am educated. I am researched. I refuse to accept your blackwaahing just like I call out whitewashing when it's done. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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