https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battling_Siki
This guy’s life story is insane.
1st. He’s born in Senegal, technically part of France at the time, brought to Europe and then abandoned. I feel like that’s already more story arc than most movies these days.
2nd. Becomes a teenage boxer. Mediocre boxer.
3rd. Joins France in WWI. France wins the war. He’s a decorated hero, but still black and something of a 2nd class citizen.
4th. Becomes a championship boxer. Shockingly defeating the white French national hero in a huge fight (that may have been fixed) in front of 55,000 people. Also Ernest Hemingway was there front row and he wrote a story about it.
5th. Moves to New York. Refuses to throw fights. Becomes alcoholic and bitter.
6th. Gets assassinated. Dead at age 28.
Tell me this isn’t some sort of Oscar bait fiction?
more story arc
I believe you have your answer right there.
Honestly, there is about three movies worth of story in there. A lot of people seem to think that a movie has as much plot as a novel when it can barely hold more than a few short stories.
I’d absolutely watch it.
I’d also love a movie about Jack Churchill which for some reason doesn’t seem to exist. But in that case it might be that people would find reality too unbelievable to put it in a movie.
Oh, they’re too busy swapping white people for any other race for their next shitty remake of some old movie. They don’t give a damn about actual black people and their stories, that are worth hundreds or those shitty remakes, but won’t cause even a tiny bit of that hype and hatred their race-swaps are causing.
What is wrong with changing the ethnicity of some characters?
It doesn’t seem like their gripe is with the changing of a character’s race, as much as it is about not telling original stories and giving actual minority character’s stories a spotlight.
I feel I phrased that poorly, but I think it’s somewhere along the lines of, “I don’t want to see [traditionally white character] as a black person, I want to see [original black character]'s story be told”
They’re saying that Hollywood execs see that people want more black people in movies, but instead of writing good, interesting original black characters, they’re just casting black actors in pre-existing roles and calling it a day
Rereading the comment I can see that. Been around some people lately with some rather questionable opinions about this and the first sentence raised some alarms. I see it as transition towards more diverse original stories though, I don’t think anything especially the Hollywood execs would change over night, but maybe I am too hopeful.
hollywood is a psyop anyways, indie movies is where its at especially if you wanna watch more original and diverse stories.
Nothing. But not in the every damn remake they release instead of filming original movies.
I’d also love to get some examples, seeing as it’s apparently such a scourge. I know that it sometimes happens but I’m struggling to think of enough examples for it to actually be this big issue like these people try and make it out to be.
Personally, I think that people who cry about the “historical accuracy” of an Ancient Greek myth, and the casting of a demi-god that hatched from an egg, need to fuck off.
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