Queen Cleopatra - The Most Hated Show Of All Time?

We live in a divided world, dear viewer, it seems that even the

most

innocuous topics or the

most

fundamental aspects of reality are now subject to constant debate and contention, and nowhere is that division more obvious than in the world of media, where every new movie and television

show

becomes a battleground between wars and factions, each determined to prove themselves right, but some

time

s, just some

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s, a project emerges so monumental, epic, and completely terrible that it manages to unite to the entire world with absolute contempt. As happened before with Santa. Inc, a theoretical comedy made by two mean-spirited, talentless hackers posing as comedians who haven't actually produced anything remotely funny in over a decade and who attempted to use feminism and identity politics to attack the literal embodiment of goodwill and generosity at Christmas time. nothing less is a bold strategy cotton, let's see if it works for them and it seems to be happening again with the release of Queen Cleopatra a Netflix documentary series produced by one of the least popular actresses in Hollywood and that says something, believe me, focused on African rulers throughout history, I mean, calling it a documentary is a bit like Colin and his glorious bastards, a historically accurate depiction of World War II, but don't worry, we'll get back to that soon, I think the program caused a storm. of controversy and backlash earned him the lowest rating I've ever personally seen on Rotten Tomatoes and even got him sued on behalf of the entire country of Egypt, damn this thing is as popular as the salad bar at the party lizzo's birthday, so why are people so mad about this anyway?

Well the main criticism centers on the recasting of Cleopatra, sorry, reimagining because I guess that's what we call it now when we blatantly try to rewrite verified historical facts to fit our own 21st century narrative and Gaslight anyone who catches the eye about our hateful bigots, kind of like how the woman king tried to reimagine a brutal expansionist military dictatorship that massacred entire communities and happily sold its own people into slavery as a progressive, enlightened society to be cherished and protected and a unit of female warriors. who once lost over 500 soldiers to kill a total of six French soldiers as an elite fighting force that would turn the Avengers into absolute terror oh yeah I think I can smell shit you know it's always fun to see the Avengers come in Hollywood activists. the pages of history in search of some hidden truth, though they ultimately validate all of their long-standing prejudices and personal hang-ups and when they inevitably fall short, they just throw up their hands and say so, we'll just make it up, instead I'm sorry .

Imagine it again, the thing is, works of historical fiction like The Woman King or Braveheart or 300 usually come off a little weak because, well, the clues are in the name, works of fiction, yes, fiction based on real events, very vaguely in some cases, but fiction in all cases. Same thing, I'm not a big fan because I know how many people can get fooled by things like this, but hey, I wasn't born yesterday either. The real story is often confusing and complex and doesn't offer big satisfying emotional payoffs. What people expect from movies that tell compelling stories that people want to see sometimes means twisting and embellishing the truth.

However, documentaries are a very different Beast because the goal is to give the audience an accurate and unbiased view of real events backed by facts and evidence. According to eyewitnesses and experts in the relevant fields, its purpose is to separate fact from fiction and delve into the real reality behind common myths and beliefs, and that is where Cleopatra runs into trouble because the entire motivation of this

show

seems Being the exact opposite, it is there to bend and distort reality to turn it into something it was not at all in order to fit. The showrunners' narrative sees the stated goal of the African Queen series as shedding light on important black rulers throughout history. unknown and ignored people who actually had a huge impact on the world, as producer Jada Pinkett Smith said, we don't see or hear stories about black

queen

s often and that was very important to me, as well as my daughter and just the community to be able to know those stories because there are tons of them, fair play, Jada.

I can totally get behind her after all, there are plenty of people and historical events that haven't gotten widespread attention that deserve the trouble I suspect they ran into. with this is that the female rulers who have organized nation-states in sub-Saharan Africa that had a significant and lasting impact on world history are probably a little weak in their foundations and instead of digging deeper to find darker figures who might not have a dominant base. appeal, they just decided, we're going to take Cleopatra and make her our own now because everyone knows Cleopatra, right, she's the kind of name that will bring a lot of attention to your series and if you can somehow convince enough people that she actually It was black.

Then you learn a lot of praise from your great friends in Hollywood because, after all, how do we really know what Cleopatra was like? It's not that her Macedonian Greek heritage was a well-documented matter of verified historical records or that we have countless portraits. statues, busts, freezers and even coins with his face on them, all depicted with classical Greek facial features, oh wait, but hey, maybe they have some incredible new evidence that just came to light or compelling testimonies from respected figures in their fields. I imagine she has curly hair like me and a similar skin color I remember my grandmother telling me I don't care what they tell you in school Cleopatra was black well, if your old senile Grand figures that a Ptolemaic ruler born thousands of years before his life he was black, so I'm convinced that yes, I can definitely smell shit, but it really gives you an idea of ​​the mentality of the showrunners in this case, the childish and simplistic idea that if you choose to believe in something, then magically becomes the truth, even if all the evidence at your disposal says the exact opposite, it's the same reason I'm not actually 200 feet tall and made of solid gold.

Even the Egyptians have gone to war against this thing, said the head of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, Mustafa Waziri. that calling Cleopatra black would be a falsification of Egyptian history and Netflix is ​​trying to create confusion to spread false information that the origin of Egyptian civilization is black. See, that's the problem with trying to appropriate an actual documented historical figure and pass off your desire. compliance fantasy like a legitimate, unbiased documentary, you really have to provide receipts to back it up and if the best you can come up with is that my grant told me to believe a comforting lie to make me feel better about myself, then interestingly enough, people is going to push against this, so how do you think the runners reacted to this backlash?

Did you take this criticism on the chin? Acknowledge the complaints and apologize for any offense caused. Are you serious? Well, not really, why shouldn't Cleopatra be a melanized sister series director? Tina garavi asks: why do some people need Cleopatra to be white? Her proximity to his whiteness seems to give him value and for some Egyptians it seems to really matter, no joke. Tina, I suspect it does matter, that you are trying to rewrite her own story. them and projecting 21st century American ideals onto something you have little to no understanding of. It's not just that I directed a series that portrayed Cleopatra as black and that I asked Egyptians to see themselves as Africans and they were mad at me for it, I'm okay with this, well, as long as you're okay with it, then I guess it's okay, it doesn't matter that you insulted the cultural heritage of over a hundred million Egyptians and converted almost everyone. internet against you and your shitty projects the only thing that really matters is what you want what makes you happy the truth you choose to believe you know I'm trying to think of a phrase that best sums up this type of mentality shh humorous no I have nothing, so Cleopatra was black, we don't know for sure, but we can be sure she wasn't white like Elizabeth Taylor.

We need to have a conversation with ourselves about our colorism and the wise internal white supremacy that Hollywood has. indoctrinated us with oh come on look I can see what you're trying to do here, you're trying to equate two very different things to divert the whole question away from yourself, what if my supposed documentary that claims to be based on The Concrete scientific facts are actually wildly inaccurate nonsense with no basis in reality. This fictional movie I saw half a century ago was also wrong, so it's totally fine. No, it's not like that. John Wayne playing Genghis Khan in The Conqueror was also ridiculous.

Hollywood. nonsense from a different era of cinema, but if you try to make a factual documentary claiming that Genghis Khan was actually a black man because we don't know for sure what he was really like, then you would rightly piss off all of Mongolia. In the process, what I'm saying here is that no one is buying, you're desperately trying to sell them and you can't just use racism as a magic shield to deflect any criticism that comes your way, the fact is you did it. something you knew was a lie that you tried to pass off as truth because you exist in the kind of bubble where everyone's fantasies become their own Unique Reality and no one questions it, so you just assume the rest of the world thinks the same. same.

In the same way and when you received the harsh reality check that you absolutely deserved, you resorted to the same tired excuses that are thrown out every time a lazy career takes a turn. The Hollywood production comes Under Fire, it didn't work then and it certainly won't work for now, but hey, maybe Cleopatra can serve as a lesson to future generations of documentary filmmakers that what we want to be true often is. very different from what is actually true and if you can't deal with that then maybe you shouldn't do them. First of all, that's all I have for today.

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