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If the cast weren't black you all wouldn't care about "historical accuracy"


This cry about so called "historical accuracy" is nothing but thinly veiled racism. The people crying about this film are always saying how people of color should make their own stories and not race swap established characters and then when that is done they still complain about it because the real issue at hand is that his group of people simply does not like to see people of color in movies unless they are token characters or the movie/series aligns with their politics.

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People hate this movie because its racist. Thats the main reason.

No one would care if black filmmakers would made a movie about black characters with black actors about black stuff.

If they would truly tell a story about shameful time when black people in Africa were hunting and enslaving fellow black people and then sell them to slavery then no one would have problems with it. It would be brave in important lesson in history. Because many people in America dont know that face because no one ever talks about it.

Instead those white woke idiots producers and writers (who made this movie) took real tribe of slaveowners and turned them into heroic brave women who were fighting evil white slavetraders. Which is a lie.

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If it were a real History the film would actually be really good but good films aren't what Hollywood is going for anymore.

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People took Braveheart to task for years...decades....because of historical inaccuracies.

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Yep and the funny thing is, braveheart, with all of its inaccuracies, is a documentary when compared to this film and its 'facts'.

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Part of the plot of this film is black people selling black people into slavery. Are you saying the Dahomey were not depicted as taking and selling slaves in this film?

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I am not a fan of historical films, since most of them are inaccurate. So "yes" I would not like any of it, but of course it would also depend on how inaccurate it is. Some movies are incredibly inaccurate, while others take a few liberties for dramatic effect. Not sure how far this one goes and probably won't since I don't plan on seeing it.

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Depends on inaccuracies.

Something that misses or changes some details but keeps the cored idea and the principles the same (like Braveheart, Gladiator, Vikings) are ok. Although the inaccuracies can bother some or even me the fact is: I don't know all the details about Braveheart history so I might not care at all. But there are people that complain about those.

But when you change the core of the story and transform a slave trading tribe in freedom fighters ... that's a different story.

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This sounds like pretty extreme cope tbh

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If they cast weren't African, they'd have to be Muslim slavers taking white slaves from Europe! Nobody's going to make a documentary on the Ottoman Empire with all the inconvenient facts.

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There's "Historical Accuracy" and then there's making heroes out of people who enslaved and sold their own kind. I'd say that point is worth bringing up🤷🏽‍♂️

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