That would depend on whether the movie is at least semi-honest, which is a possibility. The trailer may be misleading. I would be surprised if there wasn’t a Come to Jesus moment in the movie when at least some of the internal factions in the Dahomey court truly repent of slavery. I know how I’d script it if I wanted to tell an honest story.
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????
I had never heard of the Sir Henry Flashman books. Sounds like an interesting series.
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.
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!