r/Angryupvote • u/Interesting_Tale • 13d ago

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u/[deleted] 13d ago

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u/justmyaccount624 13d ago

Its the setting not necessarily the historical accuracy. You have dragons in Game of Thrones but that doesnt mean you can have fighter jets and nuclear bombs, it betrays the setting of the movie

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u/stevent4 13d ago

How does it betray the setting by having a black women playing a person who didn't even exist?

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u/blah938 13d ago

I mean, the city is real. And it's been attacked and burned multiple times. She might have been real, or at least had a real world inspiration.

In any case, why race swap her? Are real African stories just that bad?

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u/stevent4 13d ago

But it's not a real story, it's a fictional one, there aren't mythological monsters in Greece or Turkey. Why does accuracy not matter there but it matters when it comes to the skin colour or someone? Where do we draw the line? Should they be a Greek actor or would a white Scandinavian woman draw the same amount of controversy because I highly doubt they would

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u/blah938 13d ago

Ok cool. Let's set Harry Potter in LA, make the hogwarts castle a single conference room, and you know, just destroy all the aesthetics of it. It's not real, so it's fine.

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u/stevent4 13d ago

That's a much bigger change than just changing the skin colour of a character so it's not really a comparable argument but it would also be fine if someone did that, they'd be a bit fucked given they probably don't have the rights to make a Harry Potter story.