LOL And the cast is too old for this. But at least black people are FINALLY getting some roles. Shakespeare originally wrote it for a black cast.
shareThat's a half truth, Shakespeare originally wrote it for a black all female cast, and initially it was meant to be a musical, not a tragedy!
shareI think Denzel can pull it off.
shareShakespeare was a black lesbian, you racist homophobe!
shareAnd the reason why we need to shit on Shakespeare is . . . what? No, really, I want to know. I understand the contempt for religious figures, political figures, current pop culture figures, because we have become a culture of contempt and bitterness, attributes that have somehow come to be perceived as clever. But what the crying FUCK did Bill Shakespeare ever do to you sorry assholes?
shareLOL It's even more ridiculous than I thought. Denzel and Frances are about 30 years too old! Half the cast is black, which makes no sense at all. Why not remake the basic story but set it in Nigeria? But at least MacBeth gets to kill an old white man! And his guards, probably. But, the sad thing is a black man will end up killing another black man in the end, the good and power Macduff will revenge the murder of his good white King Duncan. While white people stand around and gawk.
Forbidden Planet is inspired by The Tempest. Is it really so hard for them to do the same with Macbeth? Instead of trying to literally remake it for BET?
You're right, but we live in stupid times.
shareThat was my first thought, Washington and McDormand are just too fucking old for the roles.
They look sixtyish, and this was a society where people were grandparents by thirty and considered old at forty. If an ambitious couple were going to make a grab at the crown in primitive world where life is nasty, brutish, and short, they'd do it when they were much, MUCH younger.
A24 studios...didn't they do the Desi,,,, I mean Green Knight?
shareI heard it was a black and white movie, but didn't realize they meant it literally. Why didn't they do Othello instead then?
shareOthello is trademarked by Mattel. The only way they can circumvent it is to make Reversi instead.
shareLenny Henry (Black British actor) once played lead role in Othello on stage about a decade ago and was well received by critics. People can tell the difference between fact and fiction; look at the recent Anne Bolyn series for example.
shareFunny how white people have been eviscerated for cultural appropriation for decades, told how wrong it was, how offensive. Who told them that? Repeatedly? Why, black people did. The very people who seem to have no problem stealing any and all cultures. I guess because they don't like their own.
shareAnd maybe to a larger (or equal?) extent cultural Marxists. You can see the subversion that's been escalating over the decades to the clown world we live in now.
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