Speaking of Underdog, Polly Purebread.
Posted on 09/15/2022 10:20:39 AM PDT by Rummyfan
Although presented in the film as an underdog, the real-world version of the kingdom is notable for its vast contributions to the Atlantic slave trade, and its brutality toward its captives from its subjugated neighbours.
Viola Davis’ latest action film, “The Woman King,” glorifies the Agojie, the female fighting force of the west African Kingdom of Dahomey in the 19th century.
Although presented in the film as an underdog, the real-world version of the kingdom is notable for its vast contributions to the Atlantic slave trade, and its brutality toward its captives from its subjugated neighbors.
The movie, which is currently being lauded as a celebration of African resilience and womanhood due to its fierce depiction of black Amazonian warriors, couldn’t be further from the reality of the Dahomey kingdom, which was first put in its place by the British for the practice of slavery, and later defeated by the French.
The movie lauds the Dahomey warriors as underdogs that punched up and defeated French colonialists, as depicted in vivid and highly imaginative fight scenes showcasing the Agojie’s martial prowess against superior French firearms.
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Never happen. I suspect this movie will be a boxoffice dud.
Good. Prices were artificially high. Please bring on the “crash” (they say that like it’s a bad thing).
I wish Hollywood would switch gears and feature black contributions to science and technology. Something positive for a change.
‘The Woman King’ glorifies African slave-trading kingdom”
The woman wasn’t the King, she was the General of the army.
I saw the trailer and wrote it off as woke propaganda. There actually as a Sudanese leader who was a successful war leader (woman) but why deal with truth when fictional trash sells just as well if not better?
Seconded.
Another Comedy. I’m not a comedy fan.
So an African country made bunches of money selling other Africans to Europeans as slaves. Show this film in Europe where the buyers are.
The real one was Amanirenas of the Kush kingdom.
Speaking of Underdog, Polly Purebread.
“feature black contributions to science and technology”
They should focus on the black African Nobel Prize winners in math and science....
Oh wait...
Excellent Poontang watching.
Dahomey?
Really?
Da Homies?
The only slave-trade of popular interest was mainly an arrangement between England and Africa. And the spillover into the US was facilitated by the Tories.
“The movie lauds the Dahomey warriors as underdogs that punched up and defeated French colonialists, as depicted in vivid and highly imaginative fight scenes showcasing the Agojie’s martial prowess against superior French firearms.”
Then they were essentially wiped out by the French...
Viola Davis recently criticized lukewarm attendance, though her whining gave the impression that she wasn’t quite through portraying former first lady you-know-who.
wiki
he growth of Dahomey coincided with the growth of the Atlantic slave trade, and it became known to Europeans as a major supplier of slaves.[2] As a highly militaristic kingdom constantly organised for warfare, it captured children, women, and men during wars and raids against neighboring societies, and sold them into the Atlantic slave trade
Are they going to make a movie about the “Dindu Nuffin” tribe, as well?
Two comments - this bit of history, such as it is, happened long after the West African slave trade had been suppressed (1890).
Dahomey as a state entity did participate in the trade extensively, and its reasonable to say that it owed its growth and power to it, but in an earler time, the 17th-18th centuries.
The French took the region with very low casualties. The battles were the usual colonial massacres of ill-armed and ill-trained natives. Note: we tend to over-emphasize those few cases where the colonizers were defeated, but these were the exceptions.
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