The Woman King - So woke, you will need a case of melatonin to sleep.

[Commander X]

 

[Wormy]

And this, Establishment Left, is yet another reason I don't come visit your house these days....

 

[Jewthulhu]

I always said if Hollywood wants to make famous people in history non white they should make shit based on the history of non white cultures.

It's an interesting choice to start with a nation that was seemingly entirely built around the African slave trade.

 

[Commander X]

In one of George Macdonald Fraser's Flashman novels, Flash for Freedom, his cowardly, self-interested blackguard anti-hero Flashman (a blasé imperialist who manages to come out of situations smelling like a rose, or rather a hero of the British Empire) is forced by scandal to spirit out of 1848 London on a cargo ship, only to realize too late it's a slave ship and he's under the command of the mad Captain, Jack Spring. Spring heads to pick up his cargo in Dahomey. Flashman gets a look at their woman warriors, and after describing their uniforms consisting of white turbans, wrap-around blue skirts, belts festooned with human skulls and lion claws, and bared breasts, Spring can't stop going on about them.

"D'you realise what you're seeing, Flashman?" says he. "Do you? Women warriors — Amazons! The kind of whom Herodotus wrote, but he knew nothing of the reality. Look at them, man — did you ever see such a sight?"

Well, they were likely big wenches, certainly, and they bounced along very jolly, but when I watch a wobbling buttock I prefer it to be unobscured by a dangling skull. And I'm no hand with women who look as though they'd rather kill and eat me than grapple in the grass. But Spring was all for 'em; his voice was husky as he watched.

"D'you know what they call themselves? Mazangu — the fair ones. You see how every company leader wears a spotless turban — they call 'em Amodozo. Doesn't that name bring back an echo from your school-days — think, man! Who was the leader of the Amazons in the continent of dick washers — Medusa! Amodozo, Medusa. Mazangu, Amazons." His face was alive with a delight I'd never seen before. "These are the cream of the Dahomeyan army — the picked bodyguard of the king. Every voyage I've made, I vowed I'd bring back half a dozen of them, but I've never been able to make this black Satan part with even one. He'll part this time, though." He rounded on me. "You've a gift of languages, have you not? On this voyage we'll learn it — we'll find out everything there is to know about 'em, study them, their history, their customs. The real Amazons! By the holy, I'll make those smug half-educated Balliol sons-of-b––-s sit up, won't I though? They'll find out what real scholarship is!"

I suppose I've been in some queer places, with some d––d odd fellows, but nothing queerer than watching those big black fighting sluts march by while a classically-educated slaver skipper babbled to me about anthropological research. I thought it had been lust that excited him, at the sight of all those black boobies quivering, and it was lust, at that — but it was scholarly, not carnal. Well, if he thought I was going to huddle up with those female baboons, studying present infinitives, he was dead wrong.

 

[anti SJW]

In one of George Macdonald Fraser's Flashman novels, Flash for Freedom, his cowardly, self-interested blackguard anti-hero Flashman (a blasé imperialist who manages to come out of situations smelling like a rose, or rather a hero of the British Empire)

LOVE those books. The movie was well done, too. I thought. I managed to find the movie on Blu Ray.

 

[Banana Hammock]

anything interesting that occurred in Africa did so when Europeans rocked up and started uplifting the stone age savages at gunpoint

That's why I think a historically accurate version would be amazing. They have this big scene hyping up all of the "kingdom's" warriors, and then the French roll up and completely massacre them.

 

[Skitarii]

Could've literally done a movie about Ethiopia fighting the Italians, or Ethiopia fighting the Egyptians, or Alodia fighting the Mamluks etc

 

[S@credC]

In all honesty, I think that well researched historical epics about other places in the world would be good...however this film looks like none of that. It looks horrible, like maybe don't make a movie glorifying the actual slaver state.

If you listen to some pro-black commentators, it soon becomes clear that, to them, "Black liberation" doesn't mean deconstructing racist systems and beliefs and letting black people live their lives in peace and dignity. It means "swap places with Whitey".
So I guess black folx doing the enslaving is...uh, empowering?

 

[Chocolate Wombat]

That's why I think a historically accurate version would be amazing. They have this big scene hyping up all of the "kingdom's" warriors, and then the French roll up and completely massacre them.

The thing is these women warriors had guns, so did the men in the Dahomey army. They had guns, superior numbers and the homefield advantage and still got their asses handed to them.

 

[Banana Hammock]

The thing is these women warriors had guns, so did the men in the Dahomey army. They had guns, superior numbers and the homefield advantage and still got their asses handed to them.

Even better.

 

[Skitarii]

The thing is these women warriors had guns, so did the men in the Dahomey army. They had guns, superior numbers and the homefield advantage and still got their asses handed to them.

And European style training... and still lost to France during melee duels and bayonet charges.

Think about it, literal spear-chuckers couldn't even win a spear-chucking contest against pale-faced batty boys

 

[Articles and Nudes]

The nicest thing said about their combat prowess is that they "fought admirably"...alongside accounts of firing from the hip, not bothering to aim, and their melee tactics being a glorified free for all with no cohesion or teamwork.

 

[Iceland Heavy]

I'll give them that they decided to make their own pseudohistorical version of The Last Samurai instead of blackwashing someone else's history for the nth time. That's about the most positive thing I have to say.

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

The nicest thing said about their combat prowess is that they "fought admirably"...alongside accounts of firing from the hip, not bothering to aim, and their melee tactics being a glorified free for all with no cohesion or teamwork.

Those real life Europeans were being very unnecessarily polite and generous in a situation that is guarantee to have them be portrayed as super evil colonialists in the film.

 

[Secret Asshole]

Could've literally done a movie about Ethiopia fighting the Italians, or Ethiopia fighting the Egyptians, or Alodia fighting the Mamluks etc

Or the Kingdom of Mali with the richest man in history being black and single handedly making gold so cheap he had to buy it all back and keep it in Cairo for a decade before the price went up again.

But nah, lets have it about a slave trading nation fighting the British who didn't engage in slavery at the time and prevented it from happening to preserve their culture of mass human sacrifice and enslavement.

 

[I (Don't) Have A Gun]

I'm actually surprised we haven't seen more films like this.
Black Panther came out in 2018 and made a lot of money and Hollywood loves hopping onto trends (even if they're not trends yet).

 

[Pentex]

"The slave trade has been the ruling principle of my people. It is the source of their glory and wealth. Their songs celebrate their victories and the mother lulls the child to sleep with notes of triumph over an enemy reduced to slavery."

-Ghezo, King of Dahomey, 1818-1859 (John Boyega)

 

[God of Nothing]

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"The slave trade has been the ruling principle of my people. It is the source of their glory and wealth. Their songs celebrate their victories and the mother lulls the child to sleep with notes of triumph over an enemy reduced to slavery."

-Ghezo, King of Dahomey, 1818-1859 (John Boyega)

god, how do you fuck up this hard?
a simple google search would've done wonders

 

[Chocolate Wombat]

god, how do you fuck up this hard?
a simple google search would've done wonders

This is what happens when someone wants to make propaganda to elevate an ethnic group but doesn't really know anything about that group's history.

 

[God of Nothing]

This is what happens when someone wants to make propaganda to elevate an ethnic group but doesn't really know anything about that group's history.

so blacks being blacks
like how they thought they were kangs but were really dick washers or cutters or whatever