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The Woman King (2022)
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Correct. There was a continent called Africa in the 18th century. Based on a true story.
I think that if they had followed the history of the region, and how it built its wealth and power off of raiding its neighbours and selling the people they enslaved to western slavers and was eventually taken down by a bunch of freed slaves, this would have made a much better film.
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Race baiting at its finest, if its not i'll eat my proverbial hat but i suspect that is firmly safe on its imaginary stand, there is not a chance in hell this will carry any historical basis in the current climate, which is a shame as if it does, the story is worth telling.
afaik the Dahomey were fighting against the British blockading the slave trade, as it was one of there primary sources of income, lets see how this pans out!
afaik the Dahomey were fighting against the British blockading the slave trade, as it was one of there primary sources of income, lets see how this pans out!
easier to rewrite history and have zoomers believe it was real
Yeah thank god we had realistic historically accurate films in my day like 300, Braveheart, Gladiator etc.
Lol at your woke obsession, I imagine you nearly blew your top at shock horror ....women ! and oh no surely not....black women !
Hollywood has done this from the dawn of film making and always will.
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Without watching the clip, is that the same lead actress from Vikings: Valhalla?
300 and Gladiator didn't claim to be based on historical events? Braveheart at least got some elements correct..
There's a much better story out there if they had followed actual true events.
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It doesn't look very diverse to me.
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It was the French not British, they fought two wars against them and the land was annexed by the French in 1904.
Most surprising thing is that they choose to make a movie about the worst regiments in Africa. Raided small villages, sold and enslaved people, made human sacrifices, cannibalism, among many other atrocities. Glorifying evil?
Guaranteed it won't be shown like that though.
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I really rate Viola Davis so I'm looking forward to watching this. Probably wont visit the cinema given the time to do that these days is a myth but when it hits streaming services, it'll be on my list for sure.
I don't care if it's historically accurate down to the last minutia but as long as it's entertaining. Plenty of interesting stories to be told out of Africa so it'll be a nice change.
I don't care if it's historically accurate down to the last minutia but as long as it's entertaining. Plenty of interesting stories to be told out of Africa so it'll be a nice change.
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Got to love the IMDb reviews.
"About as history accurate as space jam"
"Turned the villains into heroes"
Exactly what I said previously. I knew Hollywood would do this. This tribe were not heroes, they were evil.
But saying that, I'll give it a watch and gauge my own opinion.
"About as history accurate as space jam"
"Turned the villains into heroes"
Exactly what I said previously. I knew Hollywood would do this. This tribe were not heroes, they were evil.
But saying that, I'll give it a watch and gauge my own opinion.
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Not.............suspicious.........at all...............
Although TBF RT does have literally hundreds of movies with 2500+ 99%-100% user reviews and I'm sure everyone of them is absolutely 100% deserving of that score, every single one I was never going to watch this film so the controversy has bypassed me but it's a surprise to see that historical peoples that we nowadays would call "bad people" and have spent time tearing down statues of (i.e. slave traders) are now being re-imagined as the heroes by two white female screenwriters and everyone of the "left" seems OK with that, which I find odd.
I mean either slaver traders are bad, in which case the film is about celebrating bad people, or else slave traders are good and the film is about celebrating good people - which is it?
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Rewriting history, based on a true story.... Yes, this kingdom existing, as did the woman warriors but that's about it.
The rest is alternative reality, or fantasy.
Wow, so many fake reviews on RT.. haha
They were an awful people, invaded neighbours, murdered, raped and pillaged, the survivors were sold or used as slaves. They had a monopoly on the west coast of Africa when it came to the slave trade which their economy depended on, we blockaded their coast and recused over 150k slaves.
They invaded a French controlled region in the end, and got their arses handed to them, they lost thousands. good for the French.
The rest is alternative reality, or fantasy.
Wow, so many fake reviews on RT.. haha
They were an awful people, invaded neighbours, murdered, raped and pillaged, the survivors were sold or used as slaves. They had a monopoly on the west coast of Africa when it came to the slave trade which their economy depended on, we blockaded their coast and recused over 150k slaves.
They invaded a French controlled region in the end, and got their arses handed to them, they lost thousands. good for the French.
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Ah, this was the film Lupita Nyong'o originally signed up for then left when she started reading about the actual history.
Somebody should do an historically accurate version of this, maybe from the perspective of two separated slaves, before and after capture, one they keep and one that gets sold and rescued by the British. Would probably be a eye opener for a lot of people. Maybe they get reunited somehow? Would make for an interesting story.
Sadly anything that remotely portrays us as the good guys just wouldn't get made these days.
Sadly anything that remotely portrays us as the good guys just wouldn't get made these days.
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Rewriting history, based on a true story.... Yes, this kingdom existing, as did the woman warriors but that's about it.
The rest is alternative reality, or fantasy.
Wow, so many fake reviews on RT.. haha
They were an awful people, invaded neighbours, murdered, raped and pillaged, the survivors were sold or used as slaves. They had a monopoly on the west coast of Africa when it came to the slave trade which their economy depended on, we blockaded their coast and recused over 150k slaves.
They invaded a French controlled region in the end, and got their arses handed to them, they lost thousands. good for the French.
For a minute there I thought you was talking about English history but then I remembered this film isnt about white people.