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Netflix To Release Cleopatra Docuseries Depicting The Queen As Black
Daily Caller ^ | 4/12/2023 | Corey Walker

Posted on 04/13/2023 5:20:19 AM PDT by Bon of Babble

Netflix announced on Wednesday that it would be releasing a documentary on the life of Cleopatra with one significant change, her ethnicity.

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To: DaiHuy

well, the Hamilton musical is fiction.

I don’t mind a fiction which changes things around — like Lincoln as a vampire hunter :)

But portraying this as a documentary.....


61 posted on 04/13/2023 6:24:39 AM PDT by Cronos
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To: Bon of Babble

62 posted on 04/13/2023 6:25:19 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: rlmorel
I saw “The Ten Commandments”, and the Pharoah and the queen were both white!

Good point -- though technically that wasn't a documentary, but it could be construed as such.

63 posted on 04/13/2023 6:25:53 AM PDT by Cronos
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To: Bon of Babble

They even got the crown wrong. First, there’s only one cobra on an Egyptian crown, not two. But queens didn’t wear that one, except for a few that were basically standing in and acting as regents. Cleopatra and other queens wore the Vulture crown instead.


64 posted on 04/13/2023 6:31:01 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Bon of Babble

Ofcourse, everyone of any consequence was black. They was kangs..


65 posted on 04/13/2023 6:32:07 AM PDT by riri (What’re y’all talking bout? I just got a new set of Michelins for the house!)
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To: Tom Tetroxide

well, there are different “levels” - if something claims to be a documentary, then it should be true to history.

Portraying a known historical figure to be of a recognizable physical difference as a “documentary”? NO, that’s wrong.

Portraying a known historical figure to be of a recognizable physical difference as a “drama based on historical figures”? Like “the Crown” — or “William Wallace” — well, MAYBE (the Crown’s casting of middle-aged and older Prince Phillip went against my sensibilities) — as an amateur historian I say no — I dislike the fact that people think “Braveheart” shows any resemblance to historical reality.

Portraying a historical figure on an explicitly stated fiction? Sure, why not — like Idris Elba as Heimdall (he was great) or Tilda Swinton as the ancient one (again, I thought she was great in that role)


66 posted on 04/13/2023 6:33:04 AM PDT by Cronos
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To: MMusson

“blue eyed” — most likely no.

We have zero historical statements or depictions showing her eye color.

Her hair was referred to as auburn. So most likely she wasn’t blue-eyed. Most likely.

She was also Greek (mostly), so again lower likelihood of being blue-eyed.

Definitely not “non-zero possibility”, but the probability of her being blue-eyed is very, very low


67 posted on 04/13/2023 6:36:43 AM PDT by Cronos
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To: telescope115

a whoopi goldberg as cleo in a musical is fine - I don’t see the cats in well,Cats, as realistic


68 posted on 04/13/2023 6:39:23 AM PDT by Cronos
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To: Bon of Babble

Well I guess that if Velikovsky can rewrite history and make up poor history then so can lefturd loons.


69 posted on 04/13/2023 6:43:14 AM PDT by mjp (pro-freedom & pro-wealth $)
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To: Bon of Babble
Facts never stopped a large amount of people from believing Alex Haley's version of events. I suspect that's the goal here, as well.
70 posted on 04/13/2023 6:45:30 AM PDT by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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To: Bon of Babble

This is rape of history. Netflix is intentionally corrupting the minds of its viewers.


71 posted on 04/13/2023 6:48:07 AM PDT by nwrep
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To: Bon of Babble


"THAT'S OUR CLEOPATRA!"
72 posted on 04/13/2023 6:48:59 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Tom Tetroxide

“Should we call it, “black washing” of history?”

Good one! Blackwashing is a great term and very applicable to many things going on now.


73 posted on 04/13/2023 6:49:46 AM PDT by cymbeline
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To: Bon of Babble

BTTT


74 posted on 04/13/2023 6:50:45 AM PDT by nopardons
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To: dfwgator

Can’t wait to see them portray Hitler as a black man.

Follow ups will be a Black Stalin and Black Mao - all 3 depicted as heroes. Feral box office receipts will be off the charts - and that’s just the receipts that weren’t stolen!


75 posted on 04/13/2023 6:55:03 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Bon of Babble
Black Cleopatra is not historically accurate, but has been part of African American folklore since at least the early 20th century. Almost to the point of being a religious doctrine.

But even in better times, one didn't turn to the movies for historical accuracy.

76 posted on 04/13/2023 6:55:13 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along. )
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To: Bon of Babble
Next remake, Zorba the Greek:


77 posted on 04/13/2023 6:55:40 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Gov't declaring misinformation is tyranny: “Who determines what false information is?” )
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To: Bon of Babble

78 posted on 04/13/2023 6:59:07 AM PDT by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President 2024. A real conservative.)
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To: moviefan8

Just checked out a $10 in my wallet. He’s white. After all the federal government wouldn’t lie to us would they?


79 posted on 04/13/2023 7:01:50 AM PDT by mware ( )
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To: Bon of Babble

Marxists denigrated Southerners because they were the low hanging fruit. Now they are going after history further back. Jesus is next as will be the Romans. I wonder when they will finally get around to exposing all of the warts that are associated with MLK, Jr.?


80 posted on 04/13/2023 7:31:41 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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