The idea to fictionalize history due to the whole "Representation is important" is just demeaning the imaginary person over the real life person. It's like congratulating them on the things they didn't do.
shareWhy not just create new stories, and characters that create the representation...rather than color/gender swapping older beloved ones?
Oh yeah....that's right, creating anything new is not the goal. My bad, I forgot.
No, we can't agree on that. Movies ALWAYS deviate from source material. Always have. Always will.
Originality is scary for the business people finding movies. But, even original stories featuring Black casts always get attacked by the racists, so let's not pretend that fealty to the source material or originality is the issue.
Democrat party Clown World will never agree to that. They follow the Communist method of rewriting history to fit their insane ideology.
shareWriters need to have some freedom.
But there's some kind of contract between creators and public: you can make changes, but those changes shouldn't alter what people were and what they did. You can shape the details, but you should keep the core.
You wanna write a story about Leonardo da Vince and include some fictional lover or some fun conversations? Be my guest. You wanna transform him into some dumb sexist guy and introduce a fictional black woman as the real brain behind his inventions? That would be insulting.