Posted on 08/04/2022 3:29:17 PM PDT by sphinx
The left’s obsession with centering everything on race and sex has reached a new and despicable low with an upcoming movie called “The Woman King.”
The “historical epic film” centers around the real African kingdom of Dahomey, which existed during the Scramble for Africa in the age of empires, around 1800 to 1904.
Viola Davis plays General Nanisca, leader of an all-female band of warriors known as the Dahomey Amazons, as she struggles against European attempts to conquer the kingdom....
The weirdest thing about this controversy surrounding the trailer is that the story of Dahomey is a genuinely interesting historical narrative....
Maybe I’m all wrong and this movie will dive into the scourge that the Kingdom of Dahomey represented in real life. But in our society shaped and molded by the left, where women and blacks often are depicted as blameless innocents only to be acted upon by evil white men, I’m not getting my hopes up.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailysignal.com ...
Dangit, I had a brain fart there, I pride myself on knowing these things.
I cut the Cable and watch DVD’S only,1200 at last count.
‘Cold Mountain’
‘Saving Private Ryan’
And
‘Idiocracy’ with ‘Seinfeld’
Are my Faves.
At a buck or two each I have my Sanity.
.
I’ll keep an eye out for
‘AMAZONS!’
Flashman is a walking bundle of every vice known to man. On the plus side, he is a big, strapping, athletic man, a superb horseman, and has a wonderful gift for languages. All of this is essential to his later career. He can fight when he's cornered and has nowhere to run, but for Sir Harry, that is always a last resort.
The author, George MacDonald Fraser, is absolutely brutal on the myriad sins of the British upper classes at the time. BUT he is equally brutal on the villainy and corruption of the native elites across the empire. As the story unwinds across many later books, the heroes also emerge: the good soldiers on both sides.
Take the books in the order of publication. From a literary standpoint, they are the best. As Flashman's history continues, Fraser becomes increasingly concerned to get Sir Harry in and out of the most notorious military disasters of the 19th century. He survives the retreat from Kabul, the Charge of the Light Brigade, the Sepoy Mutiny (where he is at Cawnpore, among other notorious episodes), and desperate encounters in the Sikh wars, Ethiopia, and the South Seas with the White Rajah. He even survives both Isandlwana and Rourke's Drift, as well as a close encounter with Ghezo and the Dahomey Amazons. It takes some heroically intricate plotting across a dozen or so books to get him into all these situations, but Fraser pulls it off. The books become a comic novelization of 19th century British imperial history.
Be aware that, while Flashman is a comic invention, the history is honest and the footnotes are true. Flashman is usually detailed to staff and is often loaned to the intelligence service. He is often undercover. All of this allows him to be a fly on the wall as he flits through the epic events of the Victorian era. Always read the footnotes. The more incredible the event, the more careful Fraser is to document it.
By the way, surely I’m not the only person here who first met the Dahomey Amazons via Sir Harry Flashman’s misadventures in the slave trade? Surely????
You aren’t. I wonder if anyone would publish them in these woke days.
Thanks for the ping.
5.56mm
You are in for a treat.
After slavery was outlawed, dahomey’s domestic exports of palm oil couldn’t match the economic boom of slavery.
Kingdom of Dahomey was major supplier of slaves for the slave trade. Traded the slaves for ‘stuff”.
But, that’s OK, because they were Black.
It were the French who finally conquered the kingdom in the name of ending slavery.
See even Wiki here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahomey
A remake of Zulu? Not mentioned in the article is the 1979 prequel meant to at least address the prowess of the Zulus and showcase their win against the British in the larger battle of Isandlwana: Zulu Dawn.
An excellent film dealing with African history is SHAKA ZULU, adapted from the book of the same name by E.A.RITTER (the book is better but the film is very good). I think the film was originally a TV mini-series. Very good, very high production values.
Then there’s any version of THE FOUR FEATHERS. Some spectacular battle scenes.
These are both PRE-WOKE films, so there are no axes being ground.
That’s typical of them. The woke actually support slavery.
Thanks. I also got a freepmail vote for THE FOUR FEATHERS. Two freeper votes put it on my watchlist.
FLASHMAN!!! One of my favorite characters in all of English literature! George MacDonald Fraser, one of the best writers of all time! The first of the series that establishes his character (after TOM BROWN’S SCHOOL DAYS), is an absolute classic! At the end when he tries to surrender the Flag of England to the Afghans and is knocked unconscious by a shell burst, wakes up alive in a hospital, and immediately asks about a senior Sargent who tried to stop him from surrendering the flag who knows that Flashman is a cringing coward, and he is greatly relieved to hear he is dead, is a great moment in...what? SATIRIC SARCASTIC LITERATURE?
Found wrapped in the English Flag, The Lion of Afghanistan, and nobody alive to say otherwise. GREAT STUFF!
Every narrative, in movies and in real life, has villains and heroes.
The key matters are which group is cast as villains, which group is cast as heroes, and whether that casting comports with past present or future reality.
Native americans,blacks ,Arabs and even Muslims are fine when they enslave people..........BUT DON’T LET THE WICKED,ROTTEN WHITE MAN ENSLAVE ANYONE...That’s when it gets real bad.....
The one with Jane Russell? The Paleface or something like that? I had to turn that one off.
Flash man is great.
Have you read Fraser’s other works?
Like McAuslan in the rough?
Thanks! You gave me a history lesson on something I’d never even heard of!
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