Do you bite your thumb at me, sir?
I actually liked him in that movie, which I like it in general. The movie asked most of its cast to up the campiness and they all delivered. Highly theatrical, which is exactly what this movie needed.
welcome to modern day kike influenced media where everything is made to piss you (a man) off and suck off an audience that doesn't give 2 shits about it (women) look at gaming, movies, sports, wrestling all have bent the knee to kikes and cunts running everything.
I don't think it's necessarily that they want to piss people off, this is just a side effect they enjoy, like taking a pill for a medical condition and liking the high that produces.
Remember that video of liberals being asked if they thought it was racist to ask black people to have IDs: they all answered that it was indeed because they didn't know where to obtain them or didn't know how to use the internet to get them because they lived in poor communities with no access to technology. Then, they asked black people and they all had IDs and explained clearly how they got them and one of them even said the address of the ID office.
One of the reasons for dumb adaptations and that might include that terrible translation, is that they believe that certain minorities might not be able to understand "complicated" language. So, instead of saying "father, return to me", they would say "dad, come back", which is still absurd because most blacks don't even know what a father is. But the point is, they still try to appeal to a non existing audience because if any black wants to read the Odyssey, they already did in the original "complicated" translation. They only see that most blacks have never read the classics and instead of admitting that it's out of lack of interest, it's because 1. they don't see themselves portrayed (which is kinda true, because blacks only go for things that feature other blacks) or 2. they simply don't like to read them because they think it's boring. So, this "modernization" is a way to appeal to them, which might or might not work.
And it's not necessarily for intellectual reasons, rather because they want them also to consume this product.
Oh, so that's who John Leguizamo is. I didn't know the name but recognised him instantly. So let me get this straight, he's complaining about the Spanish and Portuguese looting South America of gold and silver? The other factual errors he made aside, isn't his ancestry Portuguese or Spanish? Are South Americans of all people now playing the "European Colonisers oppressed us" card?
His speech is quite outdated and I'm sure he won't want an upgrade because the upgrade is inconvenient to his beliefs. More and more scholars, and I've mentioned this before, are accepting that the process of Conquista (not Colonialism, they aren't using that word anymore because it doesn't really fit the dynamic we had with Spain) was not the genocidal, brutal dominance they claim it was. Spaniards in fact invested most of this money in the Americans, while only sending Spain some tax money.
It was the English, who, after used San Martin to "liberate" the countries from Spain, got paid when he sent them the gold reserves of, as far as I know, Peru. He might have made the same in other countries, I am not sure.
So, yeah, Leguizamo is full of Leyenda Negra and he won't walk back that.
The actor would also need to be fully invested in the show and not have one foot out the door to Hollywood.
The actor playing the Doctor would have to play the doctor, no matter wha'ts his position in Hollywood, because that would be his job. Saying "actually, I'd love the doctor to be a dancing faggot" is not a good characterization, despite somehow he was.
I didn’t even know he was hispanic, I thought he was just a guinnea, I know Italians with that last name. Couldn’t even cast the neighboring culture in this movie.
Some Spaniard last names have an obvious Euro influence. Say, some Italian name being Spaghetti was "Español"-ed into Espagueti. Leguizamo is a Basque name, derived from "Leguizamon", meaning something like "from Leguiza". Spaniard through and through. All Hispanic names you all know are in fact of Spanish origin. There are some very native names here, but I am very sure, at a 99% certainty, that you've NEVER EVER read of an actual last name of pre-Hispanic origins.
His second last name (remember we have two) is Pelaez, also very Spanish, derived from "son of Pelayo", with a Greek origin meaning something like "of the sea". It's quite ironic that the most fitting guy here is the Latino, because he's a med, unlike all the others. LMAO.
