Or, “Journalist dismayed by white actors playing white characters in period drama.”
I’m not at all sure what historical inclusivity might mean, given the racial demographics of rural England at the time of Brontë and Austen, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Indeed, what Ms Flint seems to want sounds more like ahistorical inclusivity. And whether incongruous, politically corrected racial casting choices constitute “imagination,” rather than A Following Of Very Modern Fashion, is a question I leave to the reader.
Ben Hur is my favorite movie, but I’ve always been bothered by the fact that there wasn’t any Amish or Hmong representation in it. I wonder if Disney would consider correcting this glaring oversight/omission?
With A.I. that’s doable.
To paraphrase Glenn Reynolds, I’ll start taking them seriously when they cast Roseanne Barr as the lead in a $200m biopic of Shaka Zulu. Perhaps Britney Spears as Sojourner Truth? Melissa McCarthy as Rosa Parks?
“I’m not at all sure what historical inclusivity might mean…”
It’s a euphemism for abject, horrifying, race hatred. The very idea of objecting that white actors are playing the roles in a play about rural England in the mid-19th Century is nothing but hate.
No, there weren’t any non-White people in rural England in the 1850s. No, there weren’t any non-White people in the upper classes anywhere in England in the 1850s. If some history nerd manages to find one somewhere, the exception proves the rule. Yeah, bully for you, you found -one-. Hurrah. And all the rest are White Englishmen. Because it’s England. Duh.
We are meant to pretend that Denzel Washington (an American!) can play Mr. Darcy because it’s supposed to be good for us, being that we are all uncultured heathen swine or something similar.
Could British Vogue please hurry up and go out of business? I tire of seeing this sort of hatred in the interwebz. To quote Adam Baldwin from Serenity, “She is starting to damage my calm.”
Suck it up. That Margot Robbie movie ‘Mary, Queen of Scots’ featured black characters who were part of the aristocratic circles. What a laugh.
If blacks were in aristocratic circles, then they were responsible for slavery.
Perhaps we should have a motion picture with black Africans selling black slaves to black Europeans running slave ships, who then sold them to black Thomas Jefferson et al.
I won’t believe we have true inclusivity until Dillon Mulvany gets cast as as the Black a Panther.
Redo Gone With the Wind with black slave holders and white slaves. Or better Mandingo.
Well, there is a movie where Blacks are the dominant race in America and Whites are considered “genetically inferior”, starring John Travolta:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Man%27s_Burden_(film)
I’m old enough to remember Google AI decided that George Washington was an “urban” appearing darkie. So, I guess the computer knows best?
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/o3h-oePZtoU/maxresdefault.jpg
…the rest of it I just pissed away.
Anyone who hasn’t stopped reading by the end of “Journalist Dismayed…” has way too much time on their hands.
Think of the aggregate millions of hours of television viewing time squandered by stoned liberal lunatics listening to Rachel Madcow scream and cry endlessly about Donald Trump ending Western civilization.