Queen Cleopatra Bombs
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- Queen Cleopatra Bombs
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#queencleopatra #cleopatra #netflix
When Egypt got pissed at Netflix, I laughed so hard and haven’t stopped
You know you messed up when an entire country wants to kick your ass 😅😂
Same!
Who they going to insult next? Iran? China? The whole of South America?
I thought it was fantastic.
@@albatross4920 Entire countries. Greece is mad too.
I liked the "Totally diverse, all black cast" part :D Love it how todays time diversity equals to how many black people is present.
White dudes are definitely the protagonists lolol
All those black Egyptians had modern haircuts. Ancient Egyptians wear wigs!
As a wyte supwemasist(tm) I welcome our new Egyptian brothers and sisters. Come on in, its a party. We have Mexicans, Asians, Indians, a growing number of black people and a viral tiktok turtle.
@@Volyren How is a turtle racist?
@@msmaria5039 google ...actually, just yt search 'racist turtle' and you'll see. Its cute and funny.
(Spoiler: he attacks black shoes because he thinks they are rival turtles, but when its a white shoe, he ignores it. Because turtles arent white, they're dark. But everyone calls him racist, and for once, everyone is in on the joke, so no one is cancelling turtles. The most wholesome, feelgood kinda racism there is. 😋
Netflix should do an Rosa Parks movie but it’s played by a gay Athiest Swede that has never seen a black person before
Netflix shout then play a Marilyn Monroe show but it's played by a black lesbian and the singing cast will be lgbtq people of the spectrum then the writers will be all man hating females, iwith monroe's husband as the bad guy
Or maybe do a story on Marin Luther king Jr and say his father was Jewish. (I mean no disrespect)
As long as we're playing this game I want a remake of Schindler's List starring Tyler Perry as Madea as Oscar Schindler. I think everyone's head would explode.
@@full-timeanimeman4341 Just have MLK be played by Jerry Seinfeld. That'll work. 😉
@@full-timeanimeman4341 Well his speech writer was.
This so called documentary exists because Jada sees herself as Cleopatra.
Probably. Either that or her first series on an African Queen didn't do well.
KWEEN
She’s the Kween Africa deserves
Yep
talk about mindy kaling putting herself in the brownie velma show.
Historians: "Cleopatra was a descendant of a long incestuous dynasty founded by Alexander's general Ptolemy, so it could be said that her skin was white or olive at much."
Netflix: "So, she was black..."
Historians: "What?! We didn't say she was black! She wasn't as white as an scandinavian princess, but that does not mean her skin was..."
Netflix: "Thanks for the information. Take them out, security"
Lol
😂😂😂😂
Thanks for your "documental" go out if my suscriptions.
Egyptologist Sally-Ann Ashton who worked as a consultant for Netflix stated, “Cleopatra ruled in Egypt long before the Arab settlement in North Africa,” Ashton said in a statement. “If the maternal side of her family were indigenous women, they would’ve been African, and this should be reflected in contemporary representations of Cleopatra.”
dont forget about "my grandma said" 😂
If they wanted a black woman ruler in ancient times, they could have done the Nubian Queen Amanirenas, she was interesting and it could have gotten lot of people to learn about her.
But then again we’re talking about Hollywood and the woke…..
Came to write this comment
These people are the same people who thought it was a good idea to make a movie about what are essentially the BAD PEOPLE FROM GERMANY of Africa, AND PORTRAY THEM AS HEROES!!!
Pundits still would have been triggered by it and would still spam We Wuz memes at it.
Or maybe if they still wanted an Egyptian queen what about Nefertiti or Hatshepsut? At least then it wouldn’t be so egregious as making a Greek/Macedonian woman black. There are other Egyptian queens out there.
The Hollywood Wokes are not really interrested in black african Queens of Kings, they are only interrested in outrage marketing despite it doesnt work for any numbers.
Hollyweird people: "Egypt is in Africa, so we'll set the record straight: Cleopatra was black!"
Same Hollyweird people: "Why are YOU making such a point of her race?"
Rest of the world: double facepalm.
😂😂😂😂
Obligatory facepalm scene from the producers
TJ, your an Idiot, She was Proven to be WHITE, get over it, just because Black people have no History worth talking about, doesn’t mean you have to Stick your Black noses into everyone else’s History, Stop living in these Fantasy World,s were Everything is Black.
Ah yes, the woke people and Hollywood believing that Africa is a country. Would only literally explain why they think that way.
I was looking around online and I found this. It might interest you. I'm going to go to all my intuitive posts and add this. There's always more evidence of stuff the more you look.
Abreujamen de las Estorias
I am never going to stop pointing out how racist and insulting it is that producers think that "diversity" means race-swapping black people into roles where their presence makes no sense. As pointed out here, they could write stories about diverse people, they could produce documentaries on African history or folklore, they could write new content that is super diverse (The Expanse excelled at this). ROP could have included a nation of people of color, fleshed out the culture, the characters...but no. We're supposed to feel "represented" because they inexplicably throw a random black dwarf and elf into an otherwise white race of people. It's not just idiotic - it's insulting. And I am so sick of people of color celebrating this kind of crap as some kind of "victory," when all it is is Hollywood telling you they want your money enough to throw you a bone, but they don't actually respect you enough to include you as equals.
What irks me is how black folks defend and take pride in this crap. Like, congrats on being "represented" by another white character in a black shell.
Exactly, lazy race swapping isn't a victory. Its an insult that proves they don't really care but are pretending to because marketing said they would make more money that way.
Part of the joke above is that 'All Black' is it is ~not~ Diverse, it just fulfills 'Diversity Quotas', because the Quotas aren't about Diversity.
👏👏👏
Couldn't have said it better myself. And yes, Rings of Power should have fleshed out the Haradrims from Far-Harad and included a few characters that migrated to Middle-Earth to rebel against Morgoth. Nobody would have had a problem with it, just as nobody would be saying anything if The Little Mermaid reboot was an original African mermaid fairytale, or if Netflix made a few documentaries depicting the history of African kings and queens. It's not the presence of Black people that's insulting, it's the incompetent hands of the people running the shows and movies.
I think they should be very proud of themselves.
I mean really…they made a show somehow rated lower than Velma in audience score in the SAME YEAR. That’s honestly very impressive.
Failure and Leftism are joined at the hip.
Never thought I’d see ratings lower than monstrosities like Velma, She Hulk, and Rings of Power, and yet here we are. Part of me thought it was edited at first!
The bar just keeps on getting lower and lower. Pretty soon there will be a show in the negative ratings lol
Quite an accomplishment tbh.
To be fair, it did double its audience score. So it's got that going for it.
Which is nice. 😉😆😁😉😆😁
It's also one of the top watched things on Netflix.
I figure no critic is touching this thing because they know going in they can't give it a fair shot. As soon as they say something positive about it, they themselves are getting roasted.
I just feel bad for the people who actually watched this thing so they could give it a review. Good, bad, or ugly.
yeah i think people are starting to hate watch
People are watching to see how it is before they judge. How does 1 critique it w/o watching. It is top 10 for now...but it won't sustain itself there for long like things ppl actually like and enjoy watching.
For a black African queen that fought against the romans and won. Netflix could have went with Kandake Amanirenas. Not Cleopatra.
I don't know that story.
The feminine name "Candace" is derived from "kandake" which is "queen" in the language of ancient Kush.
@@pittland44 That's why we need it, African history are rich. These people are just lazy at research
Also, even before this series, I already getting sick and tired of seeing Cleopatra again and again in media. Let's just move on & introduce someone new
@@dwivaraditya8079 I would argue the series where they did Cleopatra really well was HBO's "Rome." That whole show though was rock solid from start to finish.
They couldn’t find an actress in the United States who was black enough to play her…
This is Jada's narcissist self insertion fanfiction where she is cleopatra lmao
EDIT: America is black washing history claiming it to be accurate because of the current zeitgeist.
"Will Smith's bald husband..." OH DAMN That hit hard.
As a person of Mediterranean descent, with a big, sculpted nose, it would have been really cool to see an actress who looks like me play Cleopatra. Because based on her busts and coins and such, she had a nose that looks a lot like mine. But...okay...
That’s what I’m saying. A Lady with curly red hair and a Mediterranean nose woulda already been something you don’t see everyday
She was greek
@@wadereynoldsdeadpool5768 Greeks are Mediterranean 😂 huh.
@@mirbear72 🤣🤣
Metatron made a great video on this, and he gave an awesome historical example of an African queen that actually existed.
Also, Metatron recently got most, if not all, of his videos demonetized.
A lot of people already suspect that this is a "response" to the Cleopatra video.
@Myuutsuu85 I know.
And the fact that a very knowledgeable teacher of history and language was demonitized for responding to a factually inaccurate documentary should worry everyone.
Pundits don't care to learn about Africa, they wouldn't watch it.
@@Myuutsuu85 thankfully that has been rectified and is monetized again thanks to Shadiversity
“Y’all tend to scream “racist” whenever someone criticised you”
It’s their fetish. They literally get off on this sort of thing.
It is not persoanl, it is just business. Of course, you would have NO CLUE because you are a child of the matrix, television and bogus public educational system. Let’s get the definition of Ham out of the so-called Jewish generated Zondervan’s Pictorial Bible Dictionary: “Ham - The youngest son of Noah, born probably about 96 years before the Flood; and one of the eight persons to live through the Flood. He became the progenitor of the dark races; NOT THE NEGROS, but the Egyptians, Ethiopians, Libyans and Canaanites.” The original Ham was dark brown. The definition of Ham above tells us t things: 1. The TRUE egyptian is a dark brown skin tone. 2. The TRUE people of Yisrael are brown also, not caucasoid. The present so-called Egyptians have been transplanted in the those lands, PERIOD.
Genesis 10:6-20 - And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan. {10:7} And the sons of Cush; Seba, and Havilah, and Sabtah, and Raamah, and Sabtechah: and the sons of Raamah; Sheba, and Dedan. {10:8} And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth. {10:9} He was a mighty hunter before the LORD: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD. {10:10} And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar. {10:11} Out of that land went forth Asshur, and builded Nineveh, and the city Rehoboth, and Calah, {10:12} And Resen between Nineveh and Calah: the same is a great city. {10:13} And Mizraim begat Ludim, and Anamim, and Lehabim, and Naphtuhim, {10:14} And Pathrusim, and Casluhim, (out of whom came Philistim,) and Caphtorim. {10:15} And Canaan begat Sidon his first born, and Heth, {10:16} And the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite, {10:17} And the Hivite, and the Arkite, and the Sinite, {10:18} And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad. {10:19} And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou comest to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest, unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha. {10:20} These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations.
Also, if she is greek, why in the heck are you FAKE egyptians crying about it???????
...and yet there are endless videos and comment sections with people crying and lamenting about a stupid documentary about an overrated, failed ruler.
Remember when being considered honest, and having an aspiration to be thought of as an honest person, was a high and noble goal to work towards? One of the reasons I loved fantasy stories when I was growing up is those values aligned with my own. How casually people lie, twist and deceive these days. It's almost considered naive and maybe a little tragic, to still value and believe in virtues. Especially if those beliefs emerge outside of a space where some self righteous preacher is ranting them at you from a pulpit.
We live in a time where many people will tell you that humans are fundamentally greedy and selfish and that the only reasonable thing is to embrace that. Wild.
Humans are a species of survival, not honor. People no longer believe those are necessary for survival, just the opposite actually.
How does that quote go? "The truth is like poetry-- And most people fucking hate poetry,"
Mindy Kaling: I just made the most hated series ever in Rotten Tomatoes.
Jada Pinkett Smith: Hold my husband.
The Metatron just released a video where he talks about an ancient kushite queen who took on the Roman Empire and won. That woman was actually black and a warrior. If these people were really interested in making media about black queens they'd make one about her but they aren't. They want to be subversive and change history.
And he was demonetized right after that.
Pundits would still get triggered by it and spam We Wuz memes at it regardless.
@@bericdondarrion3553so ge got demonitized for telling a story truthfully, why am I not surprised 😒
The producer of the show believes that the nowadays Egypt was formerly known as Wakanda (or Wokeanda) and Cleopatra was a descendant of Black Panther.
Wakanda cheese you want on that burger?
@@JM-vp8zc I’d say Swiss, because the logic and plot of the series is full of holes! 😂
"Will Smith's bald husband.." OMFG I haven't laughed that hard in a month....
I would love to see some Ethiopian history. It has a unique cultural past by having the one of the biggest Christian religious traditions completely seperate to any European missonary work or conquest. The effect this had on local culture mixed with traditionally ethnic practices is something I'd like to see. The history of Aksum would be interesting as well.
Heck, they were also the first people who adopted the Jewish religion and had contact with King Solomon.
It also had many powerful and influential female leaders due to their system of government so it would have been really interesting
Jada Smith's Cleopatra is the equivalent of Mindy Kaling's Velma., where they just basically put themselves as the main character.
They are Marxist revisionists
Changing a country's history to claim it as a "documentary" is being a bigot. History should stay as it is, and be preserved.
Hollywood is just freaking hypocritical. I live in Québec and we had a holiday show called Ciné-Cadeau. They had Christmas shows, Astérix, Tintin, Lucky luke but they also Chinese and African myths and legends told through cartoon medium. One of them, inspired by West African mythos was Kirikou and the Sorceress Karabas. Two french guys got me to learn more about some West African mythos than all of Hollywood put together.
I watched that in a cinema in my small Italy city when it was available many years ago ❤ loved it
Audience score has risen by 1% since I looked at it... the director must've decided to vote.
That was Will Smith's bald husband, right?
😂
That burn is a classic.
After all, she is full of toxic masculinity, that's what it would be when a man openly cheats on his wife and forces her to accept it...
Nah, she was a producer. Probably had a hand, but not the final say, usually
Unfortunately, the Netflix's show is not the first time SJW butcher Cleopatra. I recently found a cringe-worthy German docu-series called "Women Who Made History", in which, among other famous women, the story of Cleopatra is told. In the episode dedicated to the Egyptian queen, Antony's troops defeat Octavian in Actium thanks to a strategy devised by Cleopatra, being Agrippa's supposed victory just something that the First Emperor made up in order to avoid his reputation being damaged. There is not a single piece of evidence that states Augustus' victory in said Battle was just a fabrication, and I remind you that we are talking about a documentary whose purpose is to "inform"
What
I’m not saying it’s aliens…
Omg ? Wow
Netflix in a nutshell. Their in house "documentaries" are as truthful and faithful as Jada Smith is to Will.
hey, when I win a great naval battle the first thing I do is abandon my army and most of my navy, sail home and kill myself.
As an Egyptian-American I don’t get many opportunities to really connect to my roots here in America. Neither does my family. That said, when real Egyptian representation shows up, we want to know all about it. And honestly, an Egyptian story REtold by an all American/European writers & cast is sooo tone deaf 😭 plus the afrocentrism.
Marvel’s Moon Knight had more actual Egyptians writing and acting in it! And ngl, it was awesome
God bless the Egyptians even though y'all do have too many gods the women are gorgeous
@@wadereynoldsdeadpool5768 ummm that was primarily the ancient Egyptians who ascribed to their pantheon, today it's majority Muslim.
@@Jadefox32 did u not know that the pantheon is coming back
@@Jadefox32How unfortunate their vibrant culture was replaced with Arab colonialism.
Egyptians have a great culture and History. I had to fight with many people who have this afrocentrism view of Egyptians. It's mostly an ignorant American thing.
I'm going to disagree. At 1:29. I do believe Adele's shock at the outrage. Between ego and echo chamber I fully believe she and rest of the team thought they would be praised for this portrayal of Cleopatra.
But! My grandmotha told me don't believe the ratings!
"Will Smiths bald husband." ouch.
As i said before here, i'd love to see more African stories and historical stuff come out.
I looked back into the African side of my family a lot, while i seen a lot of cool stuff being able to learn more would be great, i'm always up to learn more.
It's just a shame they choose to race swap then put out more actual African history.
I sailed the High Seas of the internet and downloaded the first episode. This show is less historical than the Flintstones. After watching this show, I went to my Love Me wall, took down my Master's diploma in History and apologized to it.
Danny Devito as Abraham Lincoln?
Welp that's a comedy movie waiting to happen
Johnny Depp as MLK !😂
Good on you! I am a huge fan of Caesar and Cleopatra, the historical figures.
A running joke on Caesar - _by his own army_ - was that, "he was every woman's man and every man's woman" I respect that guy.
Danny DeVito as Abraham Lincoln is the greatest idea I've ever heard.
Lmao!! Oh the hypocrisy of the show runners is truly glorious!🤣🤣
So American. I remember the late Peter Ustinov, in his memoir Dear Me(circa 1970), explained that when entering the USA he was asked his skin colour, to which he replied pink. They argued with him that he was white, so he took them to better lighting and explained his skin colour was pink and not white..... Lol
My absolute fave part of the mockumentary was when the historian stated "My grandmother told me: 'No matter what anyone ever tells you, Cleopatra was black'". I about damn near fell out of my chair when I heard that. And I agree that Devito playing Lincoln would be hi-la-ri-ous!!!
We also know Cleopatra comes from a long line of inbreeding.
Apparently not a lot knew. You get some idjits defending the rumor that don't hold water that Cleopatra's mom was a local priestess for a temple. Load of bull. She wouldn't be in line for succession if she wasn't pure. Her father knew and that's why he trained her hard to be one. For the inbreeding, the chin and nose do not lie.
And soon it will get sued. If it dont the judge in question will get sued.
"Will Smith's bald husband"
JSG, that was just chefs kiss....well done sir
I was looking for this comment 😂😂😂
Always a highlight when you drop new videos. Your have such sound wisdom and insight.
"...bald husband...". Lol, damn, that was cold
We handing out lawsuits like battle pass prizes
Jada Pinkett Smith: "Cleopatra was black...."
Egypt: "Get our Queen's name out yo' DAMNED MOUTH!!!"
I love the scene when Cleo said to Julius "It's Morphin time" and everybody just turns into Transformer.. Can't wait for their season 2 : Elizabeth "The Queen's New Groove".
When you need to recast, rewrite and reshoot your entire already produce series.
Can't wait for the George Washington documentary starring Lizzo...
@@scionofdorn9101 I think Elijah Wood would be better for the role tbh
Ngl, I initially thought the critic score would nearly 100 percent or at least over fifty since the audience score was nearly zero. Lol
Great, now I want to see Danny DeVito impersonate Abraham Lincoln and recite the Gettysburg Address.
I think Netflix needs to adapt Just Some Guy into an anime series because that intro is just awesome.
Good sir, I just discovered your channel and you are very well-spoken in your delivery. Gained a new follower here.
I guess I have to congratulate the producers and Netflix for this new milestone of a mockumentary
Sometimes the best we can hope for someone is that they are a good example of what not to do
I've been listening to your channel for a while now. Your views are concise, well expressed and thoroughly thought through. (Unlike many of the people who whine at you). I seriously hope you continue on this path. Did you have to add to the list of "films that'll never be made but should"? Danny Devito as Lincoln? This has to be made!
You think they will understand after something like this but Hollywood is not a fast learner.
It's netflix not Hollywood. AND neither never learns
@@olyviermonteau4300 Netflix is not a place, I was talking about where the producer lives and the mentality behind this thing. So yeah, Hollywood my dude.
I think Netflix just approves and buys random stuff hoping for hits. At least Merpeople looks better than Disney's live action (CGI) Little Mermaid.
Well Hollywood also has the very bad habit of learning the wrong lesson from things. I remember hearing people say that "black superheroes aren't marketable." Of course this was when black superhero movies were the likes of Meteor Man, Blank Man and Steel (starring the Lawrence Olivier of our time, Shaquille O'Neal). They make superhero movies with black characters that aren't even jokes, and they wondered why they bombed. Then Marvel took a gamble on Blade with Wesley Snipes and treated seriously and with respect and it not only made good money, it kick-started a franchise and launched Marvel Studios and taught Marvel that you can take comic accurate characters and put them on the big screen and it will resonate with audiences.
@@pittland44 Blade isn't really a superhero movie though.
Looks like the drama is as gripping as you'd expect from a documentary and the documentary has the accuracy you'd expect from a drama
Will Smith’s bald husband !🤣🤣🤣
GI Jane 2 cant wait to see it
I actually want to see Danny Devito play Abraham Lincoln now. "South Carolina succeed. So I started blasting!"
“You don’t cast Danny Devito as Abraham Lincoln…although that would be kinda funny.” I almost fell out of my chair and spit out my lunch at that image. 🤣
This is an unprecedented success, nothing else managed to double its rating that fast 😂
I can't help but think these producers feel nobody would watch a show about an unknown African ruler; that if they don't stir up controversy, nobody will know their show exists.
That's exactly why. Maybe a few years back when they started this crap they still got views because people didn't realise how bad it'd get so US access media could claim 'it's only a few alt right trolls who moan'. They're finding "all publicity is good publicity" is crap. But they're not ready to say "we got it wrong". As an Aussie I've noticed there's a hell of a lot of Non US programming on Netflix now. The only reason I keep my sub.
Not an excuse for tokenism and race swapping still.
Wow, audience score used to be 1% earlier, so now it doubled! Success!
I really appreciate your takes on entertainment.
10% now among critics, at 4.3/10, with the most recent critic's review blurb being:
“It is patchy sub-Game of Thrones cosplay interwoven with academics you’ve never heard of.”
Ouch!
I think part of the problem is that if they were up front about it, some people would still freak out, but most wouldn’t care. If they said they wanted to reimagine the story of Cleopatra with a black lead, most people wouldn’t care. But when you try to insist that you’re making an accurate retelling and everyone knows it isn’t, you’re going to catch heat for it. Hollywood has been accused of whitewashing for decades. And it’s true, though it’s far less common now. But they never tried to assert that Egyptians were white. They just wanted to get famous white actors to play these rolls of Egyptian gods or half-Asians or whatever. And it’s fair that some people don’t like that. But they never tried treated the audience like idiots and tried to make them believe they were always white. At least, not in the last decade. Obviously it has happened and there’s been pushback against it.
Cleopatra is almost as big of a bomb as it’s producer’s marriage.
This shows ratings kinda resemble the amount of hair on Jada Pinkett's head. It's 2%, when professional critics say it should be 11%.
an easy fix to their search for a kick ass queen who was melinated could have occurred if they looked to the kingdom south of Egypt. In Kush, they'd find the Kendake who actually kicked Roman ass and even got Augustus Caeser himself to give into an entire list of demands.
It's hilariously ironic that the 'African' Queen they choose to deify was in fact a coloniser from a 350 year lineage of past Greek and Roman colonisers.
True. I can't help but wonder if they actually are so delusional as to not get what they were doing, with that and the rest of the nonsense
Danny Davito as Abraham Lincoln would be EPIC!!!
Just a small correction: Historical record absolutely does not say that Julius Caesar was gay. It is a rumor spread during his time to damage his reputation. Caesar was actually a pretty prolific womanizer.
I think he was saying that he just may as well be gay, or bi or whatever. It wouldn't have been that odd in the context of Roman culture. Not like Cleopatra, who we know for sure wasn't a black woman.
I think he meant as in mind as well.
gay was accepted in roman culture but you were expected to get married and father children. gay was for amusement not a lifestyle. they looked down on exclusively gay folk because they were not doing their duty to rome.
Specifically, gay sex in roman male citizens (lesbians, alas, were usually ridiculed) was tolerated as long as it was active: an adult citizen playing the bottom role was considered disgraceful, one of the many problems they had with Elegabalus.
As for Ceasar, since the soldiers called him "husband to all wives and wife to all husbands" I think they were making fun of him (a raunchier play on memento mori)
@@dariovirga7711 It was also how Cicero signed his death warrant in the 2nd Philiipic when he said of Marc Antony "You are Rome's Helen of Troy, but it is only fitting, seeing as the woman's role has always suited you best"
Yeah the Danny Devito being Abe Lincoln would be funny as hell
Man I’m so tired of this stuff. As a black man I’m like come on. Did they really think they were going to pass this off for historical documentary so to speak. I could let it slide for drama purposes but come on who y’all think y’all fooling.
YT close captions officially upgraded you. For me the video ended with:" But, what do i know? I'm just some God."
This is one of those things where you know they did it just to make you mad, so if you walk right into the trap you're willingly going down into the mud with them. It's a shame that they aren't interested in telling really interesting stories. Cleopatra was a common Greek name, Alexander the great's sister was named Cleopatra. If you wanted to make an interesting story you could go with his mom, Olympias. People were afraid she was a sex sorceress and she carried around and slept with live snakes. Or go to the other end of the Achaemenid empire (the Persians from "300") to Tomyris. She was a warrior queen from the steppe who killed Cyrus the Great, the founder of the empire, to avenge the death of her son. The frustrating thing is that if they want to tell stories about women from history there are a lot of them out there.
Edit: I thought about this some more and they could have made a series about the Queen of Sheba or the woman who overthrew her line, Gudit. They both ruled over Egypt, or parts of it, and they were both black and had interesting (though possibly mythical) stories.
Edit 2: I was reading more and just a couple years after Cleopatra died the Romans tried to keep going south into Africa's Kush kingdom. They had a vicious war with the one-eyed, dual sword wielding black queen and her sons which they eventually lost. The Romans never went south again. That would have made for a more interesting series.
I didn't know I wanted to see Danny DeVito play Abraham Lincoln until now.
Did your audio set up change? Videos sound different then they used to. Not a bad thing - just caught me off guard.
Fuck...now I want to see Danny Devito playing Abraham Lincoln. Someone please make this happen.
What really annoys me is that this nonsense was put forward as a "documentary".
@@blindlobster Lol, people would still care, don't lie.
@@MagcargoMan definitely, but it most likely wouldn't have been as bad as it is
I think that's the main issue, honestly. Just take that title away, and it would probably be somewhat respective as a piece of fiction, at least in terms of historical accuracy
@@christophermonteith2774 Yes - that's it, exactly. 👍
They yell out colonizer when it fits their needs and proceed to colonize other cultures and can’t take that fact! Incredible.
I saw an interview with Nerdrotic the other day and the interviewer brought up a very fascinatingly terrifying point: Hollywood's not really doing black peoples any favors. In fact, they're systemically trying to make people sick and tired of them. The more they keep shoehorning black people into roles that clearly are pandering and just not appropriate for them, the more the viewing audience realizes and the more annoyed they'll get of seeing them being pushed forward while others aren't getting that same shine in the light. In fact, so many African Americans are already sick and tired of this shit and can feel this storm coming their way. Don't be surprised to find out Hollywood knows this and continues this crusade. At this point if it's apparent to so many people, then there's something there.
agreed, this actually hurts true diversity.
Whenever a minority is organically in a tv/movie in future projects ppl are going think about this, Little Mermaid, etc..
@@alexc8873 Exactly. Yes it's true when it comes to acting and the arts, anyone with the talent and respect for the piece could fill in the role, color of skin be darned, but when so many people see this isn't the case...it's going to cause more damage than good. That's not racism, that's just plain ol' fact. If people starting saying they no longer want to keep seeing black people in roles just so the suits can fill up their "diversity" quota, then the people will be seen as the villains...but how can they, when even some African Americans are saying the same thing?
I'm beginning to think they do this stuff to fuel hostilities on purpose. They just keep upping it time and time again, getting worse and worse, using whichever minority or vulnerable group as a shield to take the heat
It’s really all about NETFLIX and the people behind the show calling it a Documentary.
Their big comeback to people who pointed this out was to say that no one complained about Elizabeth Taylor playing Cleopatra. Well, duh. The movie she was in wasn’t called a documentary or docu-drama. IT WAS A MOVIE. Ya know, just entertainment. It was never pushed for its educational value.
you figure they'd use a better pic of the actress she looks cross eyed
4:54
“Girl you ain’t even white! Don’t nobody care about’chu damselin’!”
Had me FLOORED
"This is my totally I believe you face."
Mate, looks like the rest of your faces!!!
It's racist saying everyone in Africa shares the same heritage, culture, and skin color. The only racists are the show creators.
Look, this new remake of Queen of the Damned was not what I thought it was going to be.
For everyone out there old enough to get this reference, I love you. ^_^
I also liked the laughable idea that Cleopatra is the greatest leader ever. It may not be her fault that she lost her country - she didn’t have much of a chance to succeed, but failing slightly slower doesn’t make you the bestest ever! Plus, I am not sure her actions can be described as, say, selflessly fighting for her people, rather than simply trying to save her own life - understandable and, to Jada-like narcissistic ignorant little minds, pretty much the same thing as being a great leader, but it’s not!
Incest, betrayal, bowing to foreign powers, yeah, I don't get where she was even all that good of one, personally. Hell, backstabbing her allies was the worst move possible
@@christophermonteith2774 Yeah, doing the same cruel evil things as previous unsuccessful rulers (like murdering all your siblings, who might want your power), doesn’t make you a good leader. Had she had the intelligence, decency, foresight, and political acumen to find a way to placate (at least some of) her siblings and have them as allies to defend their country and keep it independent, now that would have been some awesome leadership! But, then, it seems her goals were always mostly about self-preservation, and maintaining as much power as possible! Understandable, under the circumstances, but hardly the attitude of a great ruler, working tirelessly and selflessly on behalf of her people…
You're right, and you express the problems eloquently. Thank you.
It's always satisfying when woke culture fails for once.
"For once"
Actual line from the first 5 minutes of this show: "Cleopatra was a woman who left footprints so deep *no man could erase them*!
Me: Well, honey, let me tell you something, that desert she lived in? That desert identifies as "it" and IT erased those steps in less than a week. That's how deserts work.
Fiance: (black man) *cracks up*
I must say the universally negative reaction to this is encouraging.
I did not know Octavian was the first grand wizard of the KKK. This documentary was eye opening.
I'm amazed, it came up to 2% audience score, it was at 1% for a few days... must have been a lot of Positive 'Review Bombing' ^^
I will admit, the idea of Danny as Abraham Lincoln would be great, it'd need to be a parody of history show/series though... and that sort of thing works when done right.
Been a bit since I've seen a vid of yours. The intro you use now looks VERY GREAT!!!!!!
Based Joker moment.
To quote The Who:
"My heart starts palpitating
When I think my guess was wrong
But I think I'll get alone
She's just a girl
She's a bomb"
They were talking about a girl named Athena though, but it still works.
Napoleon was Chinese.
Well he wasn't French so there's that.
Could have sworn he was Peruvian.
@@Garrus1995 Corsican
@@brendanroberts1310 I was joking, dude. Going along with the original commenter saying he was Chinese.
@@Garrus1995 yeah I know,was just putting the info out there if people didn't know.