I cant mount a film of this budget, where I have to rely on tax rebates in Spain, and say that my lead actor is Mohammad so-and-so from such-and-such, Scott told Variety. Im just not going to get it financed. So the question doesnt even come up. Ridley Scott is one of those guys who’s apparently hellbent on historical accuracy but doesn’t care enough to cast a person of color as Moses or a goddamn African queen while simultaneously filling out the rest of the movie with Black servants and thieves, David Dennis Jr. wrote in a post on Medium. But to make the main characters white and everyone else African is cinematic colonialism. It’s creating a piece of historical art that carries on oppressive imagery that’s helped shackle entire countries and corners of the world.
Posted on: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 23:46:57 +0000
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