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“Lack of Women” and “Lead Actors of Color” in Historical Flick on Battle of Dunkirk
Gateway Pundit ^ | July 21,2017 | Jim Hoft

Posted on 07/21/2017 7:54:00 AM PDT by Hojczyk

The much-anticipated movie “Dunkirk” opens this weekend in theaters.

USA Today contributor and Social Justice Warrior Brian Truitt blasted the movie this week for not including women and actors of color — in the Dunkirk battle story!

That’s how insane the left has become!

The Daily Wire reported:

USA Today’s Brian Truitt describes himself as a “shameless geek,” but oddly enough omits the fact that he is also just as shamelessly ignorant when it comes to the signaling of his own CorrectThink virtue.

In his review of Dunkirk, director Christopher Nolan’s big-budget look (opening this weekend) at an actual historical event that took place in the early days of World War II, Truitt offers potential ticket-buyers the following trigger warning:

The trio of timelines can be jarring as you figure out how they all fit, and the fact that there are only a couple of women and no lead actors of color may rub some the wrong way.

(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: dunkirk; hollywood; militaryhistory; moviereview
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To: Renegade

There is a movie called Atonement that had a harrowing scene of the Dunkirk evacuation in which there is a black soldier. It has resulted in a lot of debate on line but apparently British troops were not racially segregated. Anyway, happy to see Dunkirk does not have Denxel Washington or Morgan Freeman playing a British military officer.


21 posted on 07/21/2017 8:10:34 AM PDT by Atticus
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To: Hojczyk

They should do a remake of “Malcolm X” with the lead played by a an overt gay Mexican.


22 posted on 07/21/2017 8:10:40 AM PDT by Fido969 (IN!)
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To: Hojczyk

“In his review of Dunkirk, director Christopher Nolan’s big-budget look (opening this weekend) at an actual historical event that took place in the early days of World War II, Truitt offers potential ticket-buyers the following trigger warning:”

I would like to see Chris Rock play George Soros whenever a movie about him comes out.


23 posted on 07/21/2017 8:10:53 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (“The fundamental question of our time is whether the West has the will to survive.”)
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To: Hojczyk

Idiots.
The “package” is held by a woman in her head.


24 posted on 07/21/2017 8:10:53 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: Hojczyk

If they want to watch a war movie with a lot of “Actors of Color” I suggest they watch “Zulu.”


25 posted on 07/21/2017 8:11:21 AM PDT by henkster (Ask your favorite liberal to take the "Snowflake Challenge.")
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To: Hojczyk; Army Air Corps; GraceG; SkyDancer
It is like being upset of the lack of people of color or women in the Film "Waterloo"

Napoleon Commits the Guard.

26 posted on 07/21/2017 8:12:49 AM PDT by KC_Lion (If you want on First Lady Melania's, Ivanka Trump's or Sarah Palin's Ping Lists, just let me know.)
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To: Eddie01

“Don’t forget the midgets.”

Lesbian midgets with a broken legs.

Jesse Helms would approve.


27 posted on 07/21/2017 8:12:53 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (“The fundamental question of our time is whether the West has the will to survive.”)
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To: Renegade

The British had plenty of colored people under arms in both WWI and WWII from the empire - Sepoys from India and soldiers from South Africa, Rhodesia, etc. It just so happens they were not among the British Expeditionary Force that got routed out of France.

And what’s the point of a movie about Dunkirk anyway? I like movies about battles we won, not ones where we got routed. Kind of like President Trump and the kind of war heroes he likes.


28 posted on 07/21/2017 8:12:57 AM PDT by ichabod1 (Smoke does not mean fire when someone threw a smoke grenade.)
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To: PGR88

I told you not to France at the end of May,but NO!


29 posted on 07/21/2017 8:13:15 AM PDT by Dr. Ursus
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To: Hojczyk

I can see their point. Movies like Shaft, Malcolm X, Harlem Nights. Movies like dat. They never did have enough white folks in them.


30 posted on 07/21/2017 8:15:28 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just have a few days that don't suck.)
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To: ichabod1

To your point, Churchill warned that while the evacuation at Dunkirk was miraculous, a retreat should not be mistaken for a victory.


31 posted on 07/21/2017 8:16:40 AM PDT by Atticus
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To: Hojczyk

You know, rather than all of us getting ticked off because of the galactic-level stupidity of the idiot Leftist (but I repeat myself) writer of this inane review, maybe we can make something positive out of this?

Instead of getting mad, use this as a tactic (in the tradition of Alinsky) to make fun of your nearest and dearest Lefty friends, family and acquaintances. Make fun of some idiot statement of theirs by saying something like, “You idiot, I’ll bet that you’re even upset that the film “Dunkirk” didn’t have women or blacks in it - despite the FACT that there were no women or blacks in combat positions in the British or German armed forces in Dunkirk in 1940. Are you so wedded to your ideology that you can freely dispense with actual, historic, facts? If so, why should anyone listen to you, ever?”

Use this as you see fit, BUT USE IT!


32 posted on 07/21/2017 8:17:13 AM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: Hojczyk

Did Brian actually assume these peoples race and gender? Why... Brian is worse than Hitler.


33 posted on 07/21/2017 8:17:43 AM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: Eddie01

The transvestite, AADHA, multicultural midgets.


34 posted on 07/21/2017 8:18:03 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just have a few days that don't suck.)
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To: Hojczyk

Can’t they CGI a black woman as Hitler in this movie?


35 posted on 07/21/2017 8:18:30 AM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: Eddie01
Don’t forget the midgets.

They tossed that idea.

36 posted on 07/21/2017 8:20:23 AM PDT by Disambiguator (Keepin' it analog.)
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To: Hojczyk
It is simply de rigueur for those on the Left. They love to re-write history to suit their fancy and cannot understand when they are called out for it.

"Facts be damned. We must brainwash the next generation to see things our way!"

37 posted on 07/21/2017 8:20:23 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts ("Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment." - Will Rogers)
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To: PGR88; All
Yes, what the film Dunkirk was lacking is the Hollywood stereotype big-boned sassy-black woman, talking truth to the white men on the beach.

Yes, an Oprah-lookalike, 'speaking truth to POWER', a la Blaxine Waters, while an 88 shell blows right up in her a*ss!
38 posted on 07/21/2017 8:20:27 AM PDT by notdownwidems (Washington D.C. has become the enemy of free people everywhere!)
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To: SMARTY

They are trying to change history. One of the reasons I no longer watch movies.

I will watch Dunkirk.


39 posted on 07/21/2017 8:20:34 AM PDT by redgolum
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To: Hojczyk

Dunkirk preceded the devastating invasion of Africans and Pakis in to the UK. The literal barbarians have breached the walls


40 posted on 07/21/2017 8:23:14 AM PDT by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column)
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