I am mad about "The Green Knight."

[KiwiFuzz]

800++ year old indigenous legend? One of the oldest literary works from a particular country? Something 100% homegrown and deeply rooted in national mythology? Something written when they themselves were fairly recently held under foreign rule?

Clearly time for some woke casting!

 

[frozenrunner]

They want to get the casting wrong. They want the "official" version (the one that people who don't read will see) to differ from what made the source material great. They want you to look like an unreasonable purist to people who don't know the material. They want all this because it will upset you, because they think upsetting you is accomplishing something, because they're petty and fucking stupid.

 

[RumblyTumbly]

I actually heard The Green Knight film was pretty good. I was actually interested in seeing it.

 

[hot hot leg]

What are you gonna do about it?

 

[KiwiFuzz]

What are you gonna do about it?

Felt cute, might raid Northumbria later.

 

[Dr. Pasquale]

Besides the race switching, movie looks good

Might watch it on the high seas

 

[NyQuilninja]

Got free tickets go see it tomorrow in theaters. Will report on whether its shit or a hit. Never read the poem so I'm going in blind

 

[Pokemonquistador2]

I heard a rumor they put some gay shit in it. I'm not watching it if Sir Gawain takes it in the ass from the Green Knight.

 

[James Roancrest]

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

Did that fox just fucking howl?
There's fucking furries on staff, I just know it.

Still looks impressive, may give it a watch. But mostly a helpful reminder I need to flesh out my bookshelf with both some of the Arthurian stuff and more Kipling.

 

[Tasty Tatty]

They want to get the casting wrong. They want the "official" version (the one that people who don't read will see) to differ from what made the source material great. They want you to look like an unreasonable purist to people who don't know the material. They want all this because it will upset you, because they think upsetting you is accomplishing something, because they're petty and fucking stupid.

or worse: "ACSHUALLY, back then there was probably ten black people living there, so it's entirely possible that..."

These people are really masters of stretching truths and facts.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

Tbf, modern day india (where the lead actor seems to come from) has nearly as good hygenic standard as ancient Britain.

 

[NyQuilninja]

So watched the film and......
Nope. it's like watching the cut scenes on a video game. 2 hours of nothing happening except this pahjeet wandering around looking at stuff. I don't mind art films however they have to at least have a story. This films sucks

 

[Uranus Pink]

Still looks impressive, may give it a watch. But mostly a helpful reminder I need to flesh out my bookshelf with both some of the Arthurian stuff and more Kipling.

Not English but I do suggest picking up the Frank/ French Legends of Charlemagne/Song of Roland. Which aside from the Japanese turning every other male character into fujioshi bait had gone remarkably unmolested by the wokists.

 

[Screamer]

Dev Patal has been chosen as an approved person of color to represent some modern look of Britain. So they now casting him in multiple roles where he's the wrong race.

By frequently casting him as white characters, doesn't this undermine his ability to actually represent people of Indian ancestry?

By trying to establish him firmly as historically British, as English through this stunt casting. It completely undermines the racial representation in his past roles and his ability to authentically represent his racial background going forward. It's unliking him from his race to audiences.

There's nuisance here, because not every role he plays needs to or should be about race or representation. Yet when he is cast as the wrong race, that makes it directly about it. Hence the issue in how he can ever authentically represent his actual race going forward.

Plays white characters, also an adopted Indian guy raised by white parents in Australia who goes grapples with racial identity, his lost culture and going in search of it.

You can't have it both ways. It's actually denigrating to South Asian representation in cinema.

 

[Uranus Pink]

You're talking about the English aristocracy who were quite happy those heathen uppity Pajeets died in the tens of thousands to millions in any one of their famines. Many of which the English had cause or worsen. Destroying their culture is the least the modern aristocracy can do without setting off the modern day uppity streetshitters.

 

[Buttigieg2020]

It’s occurred to me that outside of Hamilton, it’s weirdly uncommon to have American history or mythos be brown washed, like British culture seems to, then I realized it’s probably because they don’t want minority slave owners lol.

 

[Sex Cannon Lupa]

How much is Alicia Vikander in this? How naked does she get?

 

[Gar For Archer]

They want to get the casting wrong. They want the "official" version (the one that people who don't read will see) to differ from what made the source material great. They want you to look like an unreasonable purist to people who don't know the material. They want all this because it will upset you, because they think upsetting you is accomplishing something, because they're petty and fucking stupid.

Except like who the fuck is seeing this? I legit never even heard of this movie til this thread. This isn’t gonna be some blockbuster “definitive version” of the story with real cultural significance along the lines of Braveheart - it won’t even be forgotten because to be forgotten implies that there was a fuss made about it at all in the first place.

 

[frozenrunner]

Except like who the fuck is seeing this? I legit never even heard of this movie til this thread. This isn’t gonna be some blockbuster “definitive version” of the story with real cultural significance along the lines of Braveheart - it won’t even be forgotten because to be forgotten implies that there was a fuss made about it at all in the first place.

This isn't a special case, it's just how Hollywood works now. Across the pond, all projects are required to contain a certain number of black people in BBC productions. Hollywood uses groupthink-enforced informal rules like that because they're all woketard shitlibs, but if they haven't already started formalizing the same kinds of official industry rules, they will eventually.

Dev Patal has been chosen as an approved person of color to represent some modern look of Britain. So they now casting him in multiple roles where he's the wrong race.

By frequently casting him as white characters, doesn't this undermine his ability to actually represent people of Indian ancestry?

By trying to establish him firmly as historically British, as English through this stunt casting. It completely undermines the racial representation in his past roles and his ability to authentically represent his racial background going forward. It's unliking him from his race to audiences.

There's nuisance here, because not every role he plays needs to or should be about race or representation. Yet when he is cast as the wrong race, that makes it directly about it. Hence the issue in how he can ever authentically represent his actual race going forward.

Plays white characters, also an adopted Indian guy raised by white parents in Australia who goes grapples with racial identity, his lost culture and going in search of it.

You can't have it both ways. It's actually denigrating to South Asian representation in cinema.

Eventually we are going to Horseshoe Theory our way back to John Wayne playing Genghis Khan-levels of miscasting, and that's hilarious.

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Never, ever trust any narrative work in current year that "deconstructs" anything. That's literally Critical Theory being used to destroy things of value to replace them with whining about racism and White Man Bad.