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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]when it comes to acting and fiction, I don't think you can use history as a way to shut people of color out of roles.

I'm curious how many of these people who just can't get past the historical "inaccuracy" balked at a straight cisgender man playing a trans person on transparent. Or Jared Leto in Dallas Buyers Club. Or Emma Stone playing that Hawaiian character in that movie. Or Tom Cruise as the last samurai. Or Mackenzie Davis playing a Korean character in The Martian.

But all of these are fine right because not history? Whatever.

We get history from documentaries and textbooks and lots of other places. It is absolutely racist to say that a film can't take creative license to cast a black or another person of color because it takes you out of the moment. It is art. Get comfortable with their own discomfort because yea[/quote]

The alternative perspective is that cinema is a powerful tool that allows people to too easily believe it speaks a truth. No one sees opera or Shakespearean plays as historically accurate or "truth" because they are different forms of art. We understand they're not meant to be substitutes for real life. But movies can be different. I don't categorize all movies in the same way, some are clearly just fantasy, some are clearly just fun, but others do attempt to be more realistic and I don't agree that it's fair or just to distort history to portray a certain message or to be "woke". In fact, one can argue it's a form of cultural appropriation by inventing a fictionalized past that never existed. There's a big difference between a straight actor playing a gay man and, say, having a black Mr. Darcy in a Pride and Prejudice production. The past was, like it or not, a severely racist time in just about all cultures and societies.

Would you accept a white actor playing a warrior in a movie about the Zulus? Or an Asian man as an Ottoman sultan? Or a black emperor in the imperial Chinese court?

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why is it different? Why wouldn't it not take you out of the moment to see someone you know is straight playing a gay man?or does it only work the other way when someone who is gay is playing a straight person?
and for what it's worth, pride and prejudice is not history. It is fiction. So they wanted to make an all black version of it or a mixed-race version of it I would not care.
 It worked for Hamilton and it can work elsewhere to.

we just need to get the mouth-breathers to stop talking about history when what they're really talking about is not understanding how whitewashed history was before
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