That's definitely most of the impetus behind this, but the creators are fucking idiots.
Or get their history lesson from some grandmother.
Yeah, but what would the Egyptians and 99.9 percent of historians know. Clearly, they are all working for the man.It's almost as if tarnishing a part of history by blackwashing a hugely important figure based on some random grandma's "testimony" and calling it a documentary doesn't sit well with people. They made a show so fucking bad and untruthful the actual Egyptian government had to step up to debunk the show's nonsense. That's some next level failing on Netflix's part.
I'm still 50/50 on Netflix doing this on purpose to generate outrage and rage views.
Shouldn't you do basic fact checking before doing a period piece? I know General Knowledge is something US is severely lacking but come on…
But she was a Ptolemy, who descended from the general of Alexander's army, who was Macedonian…
That makes no sense. Not everyone in Africa is Black. That's like saying a director making a movie based on India = Asia = casts Korean person.
I doubt Netflix is playing 4D chess being that clever with Cleopatra. If it was an insane and gross Tom Green comedy show then shock factor viewership is a goal. But not for this kind of series.
To be fair, never doubt the education of the US school system. Youre going to get people who dont even know Canada is north and Mexico is south. Many wont even know there's 50 states. Sometimes you hear 52, which they some reason mix up with a deck of cards as if it's the same count.
I wasn't suggesting that Netflix's objective was to produce a bad show so apologize if my comment came across that way. What I meant to say that if you're going to have a bad show, it might as well be the worst because that seems to help drive views. At least it seemed to help with Velma.
Glad to see the tide is turning against revisionist his
I'm going to have to weigh in here against that director as somebody who has to study Cleopatra VII at degree level, plus own a number of history books on this woman (Adrian Goldsworthy wrote a fantastic book if anybody is interested.
True. Cleopatra was far removed from Macedonia by many generations. However, the Ptolemaic dynasty practiced incest with siblings marrying each other to keep the bloodline pure. Although nobody watched her parents get it on, we can be pretty confident that her mother was Cleopatra V and her father was Ptolemy XII.
Egyptians of this era weren't all sub Saharan black either. They would have looked for the most part as they do today. Egypt and especially the city of Alexandria was also a multicultural society, with Egyptians, Greeks, Phoenicians, Aksumites and Jews etc living together. However, they didn't live together in harmony. For the most part they stuck to their own groups and didn't get on. So, to suggest Cleopatra was black because Egypt is in Africa doesn't make any sense. It shows a lack of understanding of the era.
Finally, here is a busy of Cleopatra made of Cleopatra in the 1st century BC when she visited Rome. This is probably the best we'll ever get to knowing what Cleopatra looked like.
Finally, if Cleopatra was an illegitimate it would have almost certainly been part of Roman propaganda.
TL;DR: the director is clueless
But she was a Ptolemy, who descended from the general of Alexander's army, who was Macedonian…
Wait until season 2
Maybe not malice, but it was about the dumbest thing anyone could ever do in terms of showing you know nothing about the subject you are talking about.
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it's because of sjws like this that there's only 5 critic reviews on metacritic and none of them are from variety, collider, hollywood reporter..
In current year?
It is the modern day thing to do. Funny how any race swap decisions never seem to involve Latino, Mid-easterners, Indian, Native Indian or Asians.
