was it the glorification and the active and brutal slaversy that you liked, remeber this tribewere the slaver takers, these were the slavers, not the slaves, so I of coutrse you find a movie and the role of a woman supporting and defending slavery to be good
@@bokvarv1926 It was the rewritten history she liked, because she can live a lie and pretend she's on the side of the "good guys," who are actually the slavers and human sacrificers.
I love Lashana!!! An amazing actor. What a powerful movie. Thank you for the representation, it is so needed right now. Great interview, great questions 🥰
I'm glad that this movie came out. It has opened up a glorious debate that's never been delved into. Slavery was a thriving trade within Africa long before the Europeans arrived.
I learned that in school. I blame the school system or those who didn't pay attention if they were taught about it for the lack of discourse. I've been called racist for mentioning that for years
Correct, it was thriving everywhere and had nothing to do with race at that time for the Africans who sold other Africans (unity was based on tribes, not shared race). What the americas did to Africans and eventually African Americans was an entirely different thing. Europeans are still at fault for the degradation and mistreatment of black people that they continued for hundreds of years and for the institution of slavery that they created within America.
@@josflorida5346 well are you? And before you get offended by that consider, a lot of racists in this country (not necessarily yourself) Bring it up as a means of vindicating the north Atlantic slave trade, or downplaying it. So are you bringing it up for those reasons, or do you bring it up to outline how Europe exploited the internal politics of The African continent such as it was at the time.
I honestly was not familiar with Lashana Lynch before seeing the Woman King. (I don't see a lot of movies, but I made it a priority to see this one). That said, she captivated!!!! I'm a fan! She was just fantastic in this film.
I loved Lashanna's character and she brought her character to life. I was so sad on her last scene and it warmed my heart at the very end after the credits. I'm so glad I stayed. Girl you slayed.
so authentic that a white woman wrote it! black female celebs are the worst of us the bottom of the barrel in every possible way it's time to admit 1=1=2
It's authenticity Amazing, we're Amazing, genuinely Amazing, we women warriors are Amazing BUT WE LOVED SELLING OUR OWN PEOPLE. Just don't tell the audience because we want them to think we're Authenticity Amazing.
Lies… The growth of Dahomey coincided with the growth of the Atlantic slave trade, and it became known to Europeans as a major supplier of slaves. As a loosely centralised kingdom, it was constantly organised for warfare for defensive purposes. As stated by King Kpengla, “We Dahomeans are surrounded by enemies who make incursions, we must defend ourselves. Your countrymen, therefore, who allege that we go to war for the purpose of supplying your ships with slaves, are grossly mistaken.” Captives taken in warfare were sold to Europeans or became slaves in Dahomey, where they worked on royal plantations and were routinely mass executed in large-scale human sacrifices during the festival celebrations known as the Annual Customs of Dahomey.
I been watching every interveiw about woman king, because after they ask the prerequisite “doin it for the ancestors, we trained so hard” parts, they ask a question that leads to a uniques bit of insight that i didn’t see in the other interviews. I’ve learned so much about the film industry and the art of acting. This is a great movie. An epic heartfelt action film.
It’s the bit where The Predator says to The Woman King “What the F are you?” is where I realised The Predator was the most intelligent life in Hollywood…
I feel like some of you don’t know how movies work. There will always be some parts that are true to history and then some dramatization or exaggeration of the history to make it more entertaining or show what we WISH would’ve happened in history. I never see these types of comments on shows or movies based on white history like The Vikings or The Last Kindgom. You all are so upset for another reason, let’s be honest.
@@jayak3768 The authenticity is in the depiction of African culture prior to slavery, which is what they talked about in the interview if you even took time to watch it. Our ancestors were beautiful kings and queens, soldiers, had their own religions and customs, etc. As an African American its important to see ourselves and ancestors depicted in media in a positive way. I grew up seeing anorexic African kids with swollen bellies living in dumps. This is a much needed movie just like black panther and I can’t wait to see more like it. 😊
@@JohnsonKayla12 But the period invoked wasn't even remotely prior to slavery in Africa, your ancestors were brutal slavers. If you feel the need to build some sense of racial self worth on the basis of absurd lies go ahead but at the moment in America where this film was made, a lot of people, many of them black are demanding that white society faces up to the dark truth of much of its history. So it should hardly be surprising if they expect the same of the black community.
I'm starting to think none of the cast did any research. Or maybe they just don't care. I expect it from the British blacks but the Americans doing it is just disappointing.
I believe the film makers were trying to cast Lupita Nyong'o for in role in the film, but she kept turning them down because she knew the actual history.
I believe the film makers were trying to cast Lupita Nyong'o for in role in the film, but she kept turning them down because she knew the actual history.
@@ShilanLatraceMusic Nope, she was going to star in the movie until she read the actual real history and immediately pulled out... This tribe was one of the most evil tribes in history, they killed and enslaved thousands unpon thousands of members of there own race... Why make a movie that glorifies a tribe that enslaved and killed so many of there own race????
@@Lowlander-ci7is I love how people act as if the personally know people like Lupita and why they made the decisions they made. If that were the case she wouldn't have been in Black Panther. The Dora Milaje are literally the Dahomey tribe in that movie. I understand that this tribe played a part in the slave trade. I also understand that if it weren't for Europeans there wouldn't have been a demand. There is another side to this story that people are ignoring. But I don't have time to go into it. Regardless, this movie has given a platform to amazing actresses that wouldn't have been given elsewhere. America was built off the backs of black slave labor, corporations made wealthy from slaves nobody wants to talk about that, but now all of a sudden people want to be outraged over a movie featuring a cast of all black women. Sounds sus to me. And that's all I've got to say about that.
Based on how this movie was presented, it made me question myself on what a woman king actually is. I found it to subjective, in it being that on one hand, one can say, broken women who's unresolved traumas caused them to reject their femininity, or women who chose to use and channel their pain into an inner strength to defend themselves and defeat any all threats to their womanhood. I know that the movie is about so much more, but that was an aspect of it that was most thought provoking to me.
No it isn't its propaganda to make you sound as confused as you do if you think that the blonde white woman that wrote this dysfunctional trash did so to empower you I have a beach house to sell you on mars
I pick the latter. I think it's about the inner strength to defend themselves and defeat all threats to their womanhood. You saw the movie? Remember the "gift " the general gave the Oba? She wasn't about to let anyone rob her of her dignity. I don't think being fierce, strong and fearless goes against being feminine. Spartan women fought just as well as their men and nobody ever called them masculine. I really see these women as being no different. The world has tried to brain wash women (especially black women) into thinking that their strength is unattractive. Have you noticed? People calling Michelle Obama and Viola Davis tranny's...its nothing new. I love that this movie embraced it.
@@Mrstrangert392 To be comparable, that fictional movie would also have to have the North fighting for slavery and the South fighting to end it. A complete reversal of motivations.
@@ceciliai.ogwude2845 That's not the point. They didn't have to make them the heroes of the movie. And they did get pretty much destroyed by the "white men" in the actual war that happened. And most women can't, there is an reason all of the tests and physical requirements to enter the armed forces are way lower for women.
@@OHCAM5 if you knew the plot of the movie you'd know this argument is hilarious at best. Watch the damn movie before complaining cos which "white men" in the movie exactly are you referring to?
@@ceciliai.ogwude2845 They don't fight against white in the movie? They don't fight to keep the slave trade going in the movie? The fact this says it's based on real events and changes those events is what is wrong with the movie
@@OHCAM5 The fact you think white men are the center of the universe is hilarious. Before the interruption of white man, africans had their own issues. They fought wars that had nothing to do with white people. So sorry to disappoint and not focus on white men in a movie about an African kingdom🤣 No wonder you're so pissed. You wanted a specific story told and that's not the focus of the movie. Imagine if the movie 300 only told the story of how Sparta fell at the hands of the Thebans. Or how they declared war on helots as an excuse to murder their slaves. The Agogie were legend. You not liking the idea of women warriors doesn't change that. This movie doesn't hide the history of that kingdom. So just watch it and stop with the fake outrage.
So all the trolls who are obsessed Dahomey’s involvement with the slave trade: 1) such contradictions never bother you when the movie is about the founding fathers. 2) Movie is not about the slave trade, it is about this regiment the Agojie which is one of the few all female armies in world history. 3) The title character is a fictitious character running one of the many regiments in this army, she confronts the king head on on the issue of slavery, they do not shy away or white wash this fact the way Hollywood did with movies regarding 1776. 4) not all of it is fiction and artistic license, the scene where the title character confronts the king she tries to convince him to move the kingdoms economy off of slavery and onto Pom oil production. This actually did happen, there was a push among a small group of the women generals but sadly it did not work. 5) this movie is not about Wakanda. It is about a forgotten chapter in history in which a patriarchal kingdom actually turned to the recruitment of women. The fact that slavery was involved does not make the figures represented a rewrite of history, it makes them human. I mean when you watch films about other figures in history do you really believe that the founders were not cruel to persons of color, that Queen Elizabeth (I)did not torture Catholics, or that queen Isabella‘s military campaign to recapture Spain was a mistake as she disrupted a 500 year old peace. 6) And if such contradictions in portrayals I just mentioned bother you as well, then you have no business objecting when Confederate statues come down or when a state abolishing Columbus Day. Because unlike this movie (Which falls under arts and entertainment) such symbols actually were established as a means to rewrite history. And I’m sorry but you don’t get to complain about one unless you’re going to be consistent with the other. 7) those of you who have been accused of racism should note pointing out Dahomey’s participation in the slave trade is a frequent tactic by racists and white supremacists as a means of vindicating or downplaying Europe and colonial North America’s Legacy with regards to slavery and institutional racism.
You should note that those who have been accused of racism can safely ignore it, as accusations of racism have become meaningless by the lazy use of them to deflect from reasonable criticism of the deep involvement of African peoples in perpetrating slavery and the slave trade over many centuries.
Yall really wish you weren't judged by that right? Don't worry there are a whole host of other colonizer atrocities to choose from. The plague of the earth.
Reading the reviews and also reading the historical background from many contributors, I don't think this movie tells an authentic picture of the events. Per my understanding it looks like the movie is based on victimizing one race and demonizing the other. Not sure if it helps in people recognizing the true story and instead just getting carried away with false emotions, furthering the divide.
It shows a black tribe that has no problem with the slavery system (which I fully understand differs from real history, likely for dramatic effect in the movie), and a black tribe who was also involved in the slave trade up until a certain point. I don’t see how that demonizes white people at all. White people are so afraid of taking accountability that they look for blame when it’s not even directed at them.
Viola Davis: "Most of the story if fictionalized. It has to be... We have to entertain people. If we just told a history lesson... that would have been a documentary... If people want to learn more, they can investigate more." And, as people have investigated, we found your movie was the exact opposite of true history.
I'm waiting for the sequel. The Dehomme and the Confederate states join forces to defeat freedom. The world's first super hero slaver,, MLKs dream has come true.
Slavery has been around since antiquity, since the ancient Egyptians at least. It wasn't even questioned until the 19th Century Abolitionists. Do a film about black women who actually did something useful, like Harriet Tubman or Elizabeth Freeman, not a shrew with a machete.
I am from the OYO tribe of the Yorubas in Africa so its apparent why this is quite personal. My ancestors were grossly misrepresented in this insult of a story. The OYOs are literally known as the most hospitable people of Yorubaland. Hospitality is our whole creed and till now our peace is still threatened by brute tribes we refused to counter attack (a little research about terrorism in southern Nigeria will prove this) . We do not need this representation. Please leave us alone in your web of profiteering, lies and indignance. Make more stories about slave trade in America you know nothing about us and you therefore cannot represent us!
Why would the interviewer as about light skinned people???? They were not in AFRICa at that time!!! You fell some type of way !!!!Give the ❤️❤️❤️❤️it deserves Karen
@@dilldirk284 trust me I know the complete story. I actually know more of the story then most..I said what I said..it's a good movie. And it has prompt a much needed conversation. Mission completed.
So James Bond is now a bald black woman? This is an abomination for true James Bond fans. No 007 fan will be OK with this. I guarantee the movie will flop. Why is it Hollywood feels the need to be PC in light of being creative and true to the origins of a series? You have to take a wonderful franchise and F it up. Amazingly stupid.
Number one this is not a James Bond movie so take that over to the James Bond post please. The number two she does not replace James Bond she's a separate character that is also a 00 agent. How can she be James Bond is in the movie as Daniel Craig? Stop being butt hurt especially if you don't know what you're talking about go see the movie first
@@RTDavis0503 Why would you ASSume that I did not see the movie? You have no knowledge of that. I did see the movie. It’s standard PC crap for modern Hollywood and that’s why usually movies like this lose lots of money. It’s not about everybody feeling warm and fuzzy inside and everybody’s gotta have their specific ethnic version of a long-standing movie character. How would you feel about a white male actor being cast as Frederick Douglass? You’d be pretty offended wouldn’t you? It’s just as stupid.
@@RTDavis0503 Since Daniel Craig dies at the end of the film she obviously takes the place of 007. She had his agent number in the movie. Calm down because it will never be as popular as the original James Bond films.
They could've done the correct story and still gone with the female empowerment and standing their ground narrative, but nooo they changed history and for what???
Do any of these actresses still hype this movie up?? SMH if it wasn't so ass backwards from the actually history. And marketed like it was actually the true story is just wrong.
Shes a great actress, Her character Izogie was excellent. Great movie. It was written by white women it was an entertaining movie. Researching the real history was sad and tragic as most West African Countries
I believe the film makers were trying to cast Lupita Nyong'o for in role in the film, but she kept turning them down because she knew the actual history.
@@MeanBeanComedy no. Just Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress. Sorry. I want another Black woman to win Best Actress in a leading role other than Halle Berry. Even if they are not Americans
Is she aware that the Dahomey captured neighboring African tribes and sold them into slavery to the Europeans? I wish I can be there to see her face when she finds out!
@@RTDavis0503 I didn't see this movie. So you're telling me that they actually depict the Dahomey capturing and selling slaves to the Europeans? But later changing their minds?
Clearly you have not seen the movie. In the movie, it's very clear that the Dahomey are selling slaves. It's part of the storyline. So, I'd guess yes... she and the entire cast are aware of it. It's in the damn script!
@@roots4140 I know that I haven't seen it, but are you sure we're talking about the same movie? Based on previews it says that the Dahomey are protecting their kingdom from the Europeans that are coming to enslave them. So are they simultaneously enslaving their fellow Africans and fighting to keep themselves from enslavement? Please explain, otherwise I have to wait till it's on Netflix. And I have to sit through 2 hours of annoying Wokeism...
@@ampmri2434 we deserve it, Henrietta lacks was a black woman whose cells lived outside the body which resulted in life changing research, these cells were not in white, indian, asian women, a African professor was the only person to solve a 150 year old math equation so this proves we are to be celebrated I thought Asian, Indian, Caucasian, was the smartest race but they couldn't solve the equation a black man did.
@@daniellebrooks7510 you sound kind racist. Or some kind of race supremacist. There's nothing "better" about black people. Just as there is nothing "better" about white people.
The Door of No Return memorial in the beach of Ouidah. Check it out. If you are not African by nationality today and only African by race, that is the place where the Agojie took your great grandfathers and grandmothers to be loaded on the European ships. If you believe in an afterlife, imagine their disappointment watching Viola and all of the cast glorying their captors.
😂 “You know that your taking care of as a black woman, You know that your ancestors aren’t going to be rolling in there grave.” 😅 a film glorifying slave trading! Either they didn’t bother using the internet to research the tribe or they wanted to rewrite a nasty part of history to their own happy ending story. That’s like making a movie about Hitler and glorifying his preparations for WW.
The film was the best movie I’ve seen in years and her character was my favorite! I cried like a baby when she died.
Same. I was so depressed afterwards, I wasn't able to enjoy the love scene and the abs.
was it the glorification and the active and brutal slaversy that you liked, remeber this tribewere the slaver takers, these were the slavers, not the slaves, so I of coutrse you find a movie and the role of a woman supporting and defending slavery to be good
@@bokvarv1926 have that energy for the europeans who made it a commodity
@@mboogie777 They didn't. Slavery had been a commodity before Europe existed as a political power.
@@bokvarv1926 It was the rewritten history she liked, because she can live a lie and pretend she's on the side of the "good guys," who are actually the slavers and human sacrificers.
If Marvel ever does a Storm movie or if DC does a black Wonder woman movie , Lashana gets my vote for the part.
I love Lashana!!! An amazing actor. What a powerful movie. Thank you for the representation, it is so needed right now. Great interview, great questions 🥰
The Dahomey were slavers that fought FOR slavery. Dam. The sanitization of history is dangerous
Whites invented slavery
Yeup.
Imagine hating a movie so much that you make comments ON ALL the videos concerning said film 🤣
@@ceciliai.ogwude2845 sorry i made you mad.
@@ceciliai.ogwude2845 Imagine hating slavery so much you clap for a movie about people who stole Humans and sold them.
She is stunning!!! Absolutely beautiful. And she played this part like it was her hold essence.
Born to play a slave trader! 😁😎
I'm glad that this movie came out. It has opened up a glorious debate that's never been delved into. Slavery was a thriving trade within Africa long before the Europeans arrived.
So your saying Africans invented slavery?
I learned that in school. I blame the school system or those who didn't pay attention if they were taught about it for the lack of discourse. I've been called racist for mentioning that for years
Why the lies? If Africans invented slavery we would be worth 750 million
Correct, it was thriving everywhere and had nothing to do with race at that time for the Africans who sold other Africans (unity was based on tribes, not shared race). What the americas did to Africans and eventually African Americans was an entirely different thing. Europeans are still at fault for the degradation and mistreatment of black people that they continued for hundreds of years and for the institution of slavery that they created within America.
@@josflorida5346 well are you? And before you get offended by that consider, a lot of racists in this country (not necessarily yourself) Bring it up as a means of vindicating the north Atlantic slave trade, or downplaying it. So are you bringing it up for those reasons, or do you bring it up to outline how Europe exploited the internal politics of The African continent such as it was at the time.
then why hide the slavery aspect so much , why not mention Boyegas character begged the British not to end the slave trade. authentic my behind.
Also the fact that these women "warriors" were more of a palace guard and when they finally fought in battle they were destroyed handedly.
It wasn’t hidden…. You should watch it
I honestly was not familiar with Lashana Lynch before seeing the Woman King. (I don't see a lot of movies, but I made it a priority to see this one). That said, she captivated!!!! I'm a fan! She was just fantastic in this film.
Beyond fantastic!!
I loved Lashanna's character and she brought her character to life. I was so sad on her last scene and it warmed my heart at the very end after the credits. I'm so glad I stayed. Girl you slayed.
Hands down the best 2022 movie. Whatever you think it is, it's not. it is worth watching. I love all their chemistry. This movie is FIYAH.
Glorification and white washing of a slaver nation?
"our story", not the story
Nice. She did a phenomenal job. All of the cast did. God's Love and Blessings!
@@thedreflacko I sure felt that way watching the film...all warm and giddy inside🤗👍. God's Love and Blessings!
So authentic that almost every aspect of the story is fictitious
so authentic that a white woman wrote it! black female celebs are the worst of us the bottom of the barrel in every possible way it's time to admit 1=1=2
Your right they need to emphasize it was no such thing as slavery before Europeans came
@@daniellebrooks7510 Huh? It was the opposite. The Europeans were fighting in this movie to *end* slavery.
@@daniellebrooks7510 lmao black people were selling each other into slavery hundreds of years before the Portuguese arrived
@@MeanBeanComedy Absolute lies ....
This movie was sooo good! And I pretty much fell in love with Lashana Lynch, full stop.
Same, she had my heart all twisted up 😭😍
Me too I got butterflies for her 💞🫀
They sold slaves and captured neighboring tribes to sell as slaves and sacrificed them! They are not to be Celebrated
@@JohnsonKayla12 girl same here 😂
I absolutely looovveed Lashana's character in this movie. She was so authentic! And she was also a badazz!!!!!
“Represent our ancestors”
This is my wife in my head
It's authenticity Amazing, we're Amazing, genuinely Amazing, we women warriors are Amazing BUT WE LOVED SELLING OUR OWN PEOPLE. Just don't tell the audience because we want them to think we're Authenticity Amazing.
The movie addresses this love.
You were my favorite character lashana!
Mine too I was mad when she died!
Lies…
The growth of Dahomey coincided with the growth of the Atlantic slave trade, and it became known to Europeans as a major supplier of slaves. As a loosely centralised kingdom, it was constantly organised for warfare for defensive purposes. As stated by King Kpengla, “We Dahomeans are surrounded by enemies who make incursions, we must defend ourselves. Your countrymen, therefore, who allege that we go to war for the purpose of supplying your ships with slaves, are grossly mistaken.” Captives taken in warfare were sold to Europeans or became slaves in Dahomey, where they worked on royal plantations and were routinely mass executed in large-scale human sacrifices during the festival celebrations known as the Annual Customs of Dahomey.
Nobody ever said this was a true story sour puss
@@shanettahodge5080 of all the tribes in Africa that had female warriors, why is this one celebrated?
I been watching every interveiw about woman king, because after they ask the prerequisite “doin it for the ancestors, we trained so hard” parts, they ask a question that leads to a uniques bit of insight that i didn’t see in the other interviews. I’ve learned so much about the film industry and the art of acting. This is a great movie. An epic heartfelt action film.
Look at all them typos lol. Am very excite.
She’s wonderful !!!!
She bodied this role. Ingozi is my fave character of the film. Seeing Lashana interview-I mean she really bodied this role!!!
Nothing authentic about this.
One of the best movie I ever watched. Salute Queens!!!!
The part where the woman king shouted: “Get to the choppaaa” brought tears to my eyes. 10 out of 10 So brave and beautiful!
It’s the bit where The Predator says to The Woman King “What the F are you?” is where I realised The Predator was the most intelligent life in Hollywood…
Say you have a small package without saying you have a small package.
@@ms.chellylumpkins1143 at least they know who their fathers are.
@@ms.chellylumpkins1143 Say you've got a baggy passage without saying you've got a baggy passage.
@@wjumeau SO stunning and brave!
I feel like some of you don’t know how movies work. There will always be some parts that are true to history and then some dramatization or exaggeration of the history to make it more entertaining or show what we WISH would’ve happened in history. I never see these types of comments on shows or movies based on white history like The Vikings or The Last Kindgom. You all are so upset for another reason, let’s be honest.
It's all lies, nothing is real do ur research
Well in this case it is not authentic as the title of the video suggests here.
@@jayak3768 The authenticity is in the depiction of African culture prior to slavery, which is what they talked about in the interview if you even took time to watch it. Our ancestors were beautiful kings and queens, soldiers, had their own religions and customs, etc. As an African American its important to see ourselves and ancestors depicted in media in a positive way. I grew up seeing anorexic African kids with swollen bellies living in dumps. This is a much needed movie just like black panther and I can’t wait to see more like it. 😊
Well said sistah !!!
@@JohnsonKayla12 But the period invoked wasn't even remotely prior to slavery in Africa, your ancestors were brutal slavers. If you feel the need to build some sense of racial self worth on the basis of absurd lies go ahead but at the moment in America where this film was made, a lot of people, many of them black are demanding that white society faces up to the dark truth of much of its history. So it should hardly be surprising if they expect the same of the black community.
Some things are worth fighting for, but for everything else, there is mastercard.
I'm starting to think none of the cast did any research. Or maybe they just don't care. I expect it from the British blacks but the Americans doing it is just disappointing.
I believe the film makers were trying to cast Lupita Nyong'o for in role in the film, but she kept turning them down because she knew the actual history.
They did.
I loved this movie and I love her so much! She was my favorite and I def cried when she died 😫🥹♥️♥️ We need a part 2 plz ! 🤭😘💕
I cried so bad man like full tears down my face
I've seen her in Marvel properties and I had absolutely no idea she was British.
She's not british, she's African.
@@cedward4314 she is BRITISH, born in london, england, race has nothing to do with your nationality
She’s Jamaican
@@mikephillipe7958 A British territory.
You still don't, she's not
I absolutely loved her role in the movie! 🙌🏾❤️🖤💚
She's beautiful
👓
I really liked her character...I really want the watch her work..
Trying to rewrite history as always 😂
They built the pyramids don't you know 🥴
Jealous much. You don't bathe, don't wash your chicken and the sun hates you. Your opinion is null and void.
@@ms.chellylumpkins1143 the mirror loves you 🥴
@@ms.chellylumpkins1143 You have Rickets.
@@ms.chellylumpkins1143 "daughter of the earth, baked by the sun melanin warrior" cringy Ray cyst 😀👍🏻
Run this woman her Oscar neeeeowww
So you support slavery... racism is a disgusting loathsome act enjoyed by sick people. You should be ashamed of yourself.
Heeellllllllllllll no.
I believe the film makers were trying to cast Lupita Nyong'o for in role in the film, but she kept turning them down because she knew the actual history.
False, there was conflict with shooting Black Panther.
Good for her.
Lol...right. As expected, that's not what happened.
@@ShilanLatraceMusic Nope, she was going to star in the movie until she read the actual real history and immediately pulled out...
This tribe was one of the most evil tribes in history, they killed and enslaved thousands unpon thousands of members of there own race...
Why make a movie that glorifies a tribe that enslaved and killed so many of there own race????
@@Lowlander-ci7is I love how people act as if the personally know people like Lupita and why they made the decisions they made. If that were the case she wouldn't have been in Black Panther. The Dora Milaje are literally the Dahomey tribe in that movie.
I understand that this tribe played a part in the slave trade. I also understand that if it weren't for Europeans there wouldn't have been a demand. There is another side to this story that people are ignoring. But I don't have time to go into it.
Regardless, this movie has given a platform to amazing actresses that wouldn't have been given elsewhere. America was built off the backs of black slave labor, corporations made wealthy from slaves nobody wants to talk about that, but now all of a sudden people want to be outraged over a movie featuring a cast of all black women. Sounds sus to me. And that's all I've got to say about that.
Based on how this movie was presented, it made me question myself on what a woman king actually is. I found it to subjective, in it being that on one hand, one can say, broken women who's unresolved traumas caused them to reject their femininity, or women who chose to use and channel their pain into an inner strength to defend themselves and defeat any all threats to their womanhood. I know that the movie is about so much more, but that was an aspect of it that was most thought provoking to me.
No it isn't its propaganda to make you sound as confused as you do if you think that the blonde white woman that wrote this dysfunctional trash did so to empower you I have a beach house to sell you on mars
Normally a female ruler of equal standing to a king would be a queen, but this character is a general, we have words for these definitions already.
@@Blodhelm Look it up. There have been women kings
I pick the latter. I think it's about the inner strength to defend themselves and defeat all threats to their womanhood. You saw the movie? Remember the "gift " the general gave the Oba? She wasn't about to let anyone rob her of her dignity.
I don't think being fierce, strong and fearless goes against being feminine.
Spartan women fought just as well as their men and nobody ever called them masculine. I really see these women as being no different. The world has tried to brain wash women (especially black women) into thinking that their strength is unattractive. Have you noticed? People calling Michelle Obama and Viola Davis tranny's...its nothing new. I love that this movie embraced it.
@@Blodhelm better yet watch the movie. You'll understand why she is the woman king and not queen or just general
What's next a pro Nazi flim?
Nope, not when the baddies are Who Aight Dudes.
Or a pro Confederate movie were the slave owners are the good guys and the northerners who want to free the slaves are the bad guys
Lack of knowledge and understanding
It will never see the light of day.
@@Mrstrangert392 To be comparable, that fictional movie would also have to have the North fighting for slavery and the South fighting to end it. A complete reversal of motivations.
You know that tribe of people owned slaves right and that's how they made their wealth.
I wonder how long they trained to do these stunts because they were AMAZING ❤💥🔥🔥👏🏾
hahaha rewiritn history to be woke, when they were the biggest slavers
You can not spell 🤣
@@malamala6787 fast 'typpping'
"Walk like you have 3000 Ancestors walking behind you."
This movie would have been perfect without the "based on real events" part.
But the Agogie existed though. Which I think is triggering for all guys hell bent on convincing women that they can't fight in wars.
@@ceciliai.ogwude2845 That's not the point. They didn't have to make them the heroes of the movie. And they did get pretty much destroyed by the "white men" in the actual war that happened. And most women can't, there is an reason all of the tests and physical requirements to enter the armed forces are way lower for women.
@@OHCAM5 if you knew the plot of the movie you'd know this argument is hilarious at best. Watch the damn movie before complaining cos which "white men" in the movie exactly are you referring to?
@@ceciliai.ogwude2845 They don't fight against white in the movie? They don't fight to keep the slave trade going in the movie? The fact this says it's based on real events and changes those events is what is wrong with the movie
@@OHCAM5 The fact you think white men are the center of the universe is hilarious. Before the interruption of white man, africans had their own issues. They fought wars that had nothing to do with white people. So sorry to disappoint and not focus on white men in a movie about an African kingdom🤣
No wonder you're so pissed. You wanted a specific story told and that's not the focus of the movie.
Imagine if the movie 300 only told the story of how Sparta fell at the hands of the Thebans. Or how they declared war on helots as an excuse to murder their slaves.
The Agogie were legend. You not liking the idea of women warriors doesn't change that. This movie doesn't hide the history of that kingdom. So just watch it and stop with the fake outrage.
She was amazing I told every one about her in this role ❤️
Authentic? So you're going to show the Dahomey capturing and selling slaves?
That's gonna be in part 2 😆
That’s actually a big part of the story line, the fact that these people were slave traders
So all the trolls who are obsessed Dahomey’s involvement with the slave trade: 1) such contradictions never bother you when the movie is about the founding fathers. 2) Movie is not about the slave trade, it is about this regiment the Agojie which is one of the few all female armies in world history. 3) The title character is a fictitious character running one of the many regiments in this army, she confronts the king head on on the issue of slavery, they do not shy away or white wash this fact the way Hollywood did with movies regarding 1776. 4) not all of it is fiction and artistic license, the scene where the title character confronts the king she tries to convince him to move the kingdoms economy off of slavery and onto Pom oil production. This actually did happen, there was a push among a small group of the women generals but sadly it did not work. 5) this movie is not about Wakanda. It is about a forgotten chapter in history in which a patriarchal kingdom actually turned to the recruitment of women. The fact that slavery was involved does not make the figures represented a rewrite of history, it makes them human. I mean when you watch films about other figures in history do you really believe that the founders were not cruel to persons of color, that Queen Elizabeth (I)did not torture Catholics, or that queen Isabella‘s military campaign to recapture Spain was a mistake as she disrupted a 500 year old peace. 6) And if such contradictions in portrayals I just mentioned bother you as well, then you have no business objecting when Confederate statues come down or when a state abolishing Columbus Day. Because unlike this movie (Which falls under arts and entertainment) such symbols actually were established as a means to rewrite history. And I’m sorry but you don’t get to complain about one unless you’re going to be consistent with the other. 7) those of you who have been accused of racism should note pointing out Dahomey’s participation in the slave trade is a frequent tactic by racists and white supremacists as a means of vindicating or downplaying Europe and colonial North America’s Legacy with regards to slavery and institutional racism.
You should note that those who have been accused of racism can safely ignore it, as accusations of racism have become meaningless by the lazy use of them to deflect from reasonable criticism of the deep involvement of African peoples in perpetrating slavery and the slave trade over many centuries.
She is my favorite!!! In the movie
Your favorite slave trader in this movie. Yes, the Dahomey were slavers!
When she die in the movie,I cried.
Spoiler alert!
@@calaragazza3556 Ops my bad 😆 🤣
An epic story about some of the most badass slave traders in Africa. Can't wait!
If you can watch 12 years a slave you can watch this
@@daniellebrooks7510 what do you mean by that? I haven't seen that movie
She''s amazing
And now she promotes slavery. The blatant lie the announcer said is the problem.
Whites invented slavery
Yall really wish you weren't judged by that right? Don't worry there are a whole host of other colonizer atrocities to choose from. The plague of the earth.
Reading the reviews and also reading the historical background from many contributors, I don't think this movie tells an authentic picture of the events. Per my understanding it looks like the movie is based on victimizing one race and demonizing the other. Not sure if it helps in people recognizing the true story and instead just getting carried away with false emotions, furthering the divide.
It shows a black tribe that has no problem with the slavery system (which I fully understand differs from real history, likely for dramatic effect in the movie), and a black tribe who was also involved in the slave trade up until a certain point. I don’t see how that demonizes white people at all. White people are so afraid of taking accountability that they look for blame when it’s not even directed at them.
You are white. Aren't you ?
Viola Davis: "Most of the story if fictionalized. It has to be... We have to entertain people. If we just told a history lesson... that would have been a documentary... If people want to learn more, they can investigate more." And, as people have investigated, we found your movie was the exact opposite of true history.
I'm waiting for the sequel. The Dehomme and the Confederate states join forces to defeat freedom. The world's first super hero slaver,, MLKs dream has come true.
LOL exactly.
She is AMAZING as Izogie!!!
Love Lashana Lynch!!!
Do you love that she played a slave trader?
LaShauna is so beautiful ❤
“Authentically” must translate into something totally different for sub-Saharan decent people.
Slavery has been around since antiquity, since the ancient Egyptians at least. It wasn't even questioned until the 19th Century Abolitionists.
Do a film about black women who actually did something useful, like Harriet Tubman or Elizabeth Freeman, not a shrew with a machete.
Lotta,lotta,love.👏♥️👏
She's so proud of playing a slave owner all of them are and it's sick 😫. They sold there people out
Whites invented slavery
I am from the OYO tribe of the Yorubas in Africa so its apparent why this is quite personal. My ancestors were grossly misrepresented in this insult of a story. The OYOs are literally known as the most hospitable people of Yorubaland. Hospitality is our whole creed and till now our peace is still threatened by brute tribes we refused to counter attack (a little research about terrorism in southern Nigeria will prove this) . We do not need this representation. Please leave us alone in your web of profiteering, lies and indignance. Make more stories about slave trade in America you know nothing about us and you therefore cannot represent us!
There's no way they shot Lashana Lynch out of focus for this whole interview. Throw the whole 1st AC away.
This sister was FIERCE. Her acting and stunts were SUPERB. This was an awesome movie and Those black women were absolutely stunning. Well done!!!
Exactly I agree 💯
Izogie and Amenza are my new favorite superheros.
This was the top movie for movie I even feel this movie is better than the black panther and that’s truly saying something about ❤❤❤
You did an EXCELLENT JOB Sistah! EXCELENT❤️🙏🏽❤️🙏🏽❤️🙏🏽😎😎😎🔥🔥🔥💪🏽🥰💪🏽🥰💪🏽🥰
Why would the interviewer as about light skinned people???? They were not in AFRICa at that time!!! You fell some type of way !!!!Give the ❤️❤️❤️❤️it deserves Karen
So amazing, her acting was so beautiful
I absolutely love the movie and this story deserves to be told..great job ladies. This was powerful!
It’s not a real story?? Learn what the tribe actually did….. like trade in slavery
@@dilldirk284 trust me I know the complete story. I actually know more of the story then most..I said what I said..it's a good movie. And it has prompt a much needed conversation. Mission completed.
Dummy the story wasn't told it was made up. Do some damn research
@@iwazarlayahrevelationprodu4860you know nothing
The story is a lie, the Dahomey captured slaves, don't be so gullible.
So James Bond is now a bald black woman? This is an abomination for true James Bond fans. No 007 fan will be OK with this. I guarantee the movie will flop.
Why is it Hollywood feels the need to be PC in light of being creative and true to the origins of a series? You have to take a wonderful franchise and F it up. Amazingly stupid.
Number one this is not a James Bond movie so take that over to the James Bond post please. The number two she does not replace James Bond she's a separate character that is also a 00 agent. How can she be James Bond is in the movie as Daniel Craig? Stop being butt hurt especially if you don't know what you're talking about go see the movie first
In the movie you actually complained about James Bond is still a white man so calm down
@@RTDavis0503 Why would you ASSume that I did not see the movie? You have no knowledge of that. I did see the movie. It’s standard PC crap for modern Hollywood and that’s why usually movies like this lose lots of money.
It’s not about everybody feeling warm and fuzzy inside and everybody’s gotta have their specific ethnic version of a long-standing movie character.
How would you feel about a white male actor being cast as Frederick Douglass? You’d be pretty offended wouldn’t you? It’s just as stupid.
@@RTDavis0503 Since Daniel Craig dies at the end of the film she obviously takes the place of 007. She had his agent number in the movie. Calm down because it will never be as popular as the original James Bond films.
They could've done the correct story and still gone with the female empowerment and standing their ground narrative, but nooo they changed history and for what???
I'm not sure what you mean
The adoration of critics and people who don't look up the actual kingdom and its atrocities.
There is no female empowerment story the Agoji couldn't hold their own against trained male soldiers in any shape or form
Da Homies were slave traders.
Authentic? The movie is based on a historic slave trading ruler, and in the movie she is against slavery.
Izogie and Amenza were my favourite
I love this woman in this movie
Do any of these actresses still hype this movie up?? SMH if it wasn't so ass backwards from the actually history. And marketed like it was actually the true story is just wrong.
Shes a great actress, Her character Izogie was excellent. Great movie. It was written by white women it was an entertaining movie. Researching the real history was sad and tragic as most West African Countries
It's a lie about slave traders. It's not a great movie.
THIS IS PEAK WOKEISM
I love her I DAID WHAT I SAID!
Just finished watching it and it was amazing.
Authentic? LoL. People need to think for themselves
I believe the film makers were trying to cast Lupita Nyong'o for in role in the film, but she kept turning them down because she knew the actual history.
I hope Viola Davis wins an Oscar for this
Is there an Oscar for "Best Actress Portraying a Sanitised Slave-Trader?"
@@MeanBeanComedy no. Just Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress. Sorry. I want another Black woman to win Best Actress in a leading role other than Halle Berry. Even if they are not Americans
@@emiliobello2538 Damn, we truly do live in a society.
@@MeanBeanComedy I don’t know what you mean. But the movie looks great. I saw the preview of it in Mrs. Harris Goes To Paris at AMC
@@emiliobello2538 The Dahomey sold Africans into slavery, that's what he means.
Is she aware that the Dahomey captured neighboring African tribes and sold them into slavery to the Europeans? I wish I can be there to see her face when she finds out!
They showed that in the movie. But the end of the movie they change and no longer wanted to do it
@@RTDavis0503 I didn't see this movie. So you're telling me that they actually depict the Dahomey capturing and selling slaves to the Europeans? But later changing their minds?
Clearly you have not seen the movie. In the movie, it's very clear that the Dahomey are selling slaves. It's part of the storyline. So, I'd guess yes... she and the entire cast are aware of it. It's in the damn script!
@@roots4140 I know that I haven't seen it, but are you sure we're talking about the same movie? Based on previews it says that the Dahomey are protecting their kingdom from the Europeans that are coming to enslave them. So are they simultaneously enslaving their fellow Africans and fighting to keep themselves from enslavement? Please explain, otherwise I have to wait till it's on Netflix. And I have to sit through 2 hours of annoying Wokeism...
I was so hurt when her Character died 💔
The movie was awesome ❤
Great job guys, loved the film, thank you for showing the world we were kings and queens before Europeans came.
Slave-traders*
Why celebrate monarchies?
@@ampmri2434 we deserve it, Henrietta lacks was a black woman whose cells lived outside the body which resulted in life changing research, these cells were not in white, indian, asian women, a African professor was the only person to solve a 150 year old math equation so this proves we are to be celebrated I thought Asian, Indian, Caucasian, was the smartest race but they couldn't solve the equation a black man did.
@@daniellebrooks7510 you sound kind racist. Or some kind of race supremacist. There's nothing "better" about black people. Just as there is nothing "better" about white people.
Don't forget slave owners as well
Worth fighting for slavery, is that what Viola is suggesting. So if black women are this strong, why do we see all the issues today in Africa?
Oscar nominee
The Door of No Return memorial in the beach of Ouidah. Check it out. If you are not African by nationality today and only African by race, that is the place where the Agojie took your great grandfathers and grandmothers to be loaded on the European ships.
If you believe in an afterlife, imagine their disappointment watching Viola and all of the cast glorying their captors.
Perfection
By “Authentic” she means making heroes out of the bad guys…..
Are your ancestors dahomeys?? 🤣
😂 “You know that your taking care of as a black woman, You know that your ancestors aren’t going to be rolling in there grave.”
😅 a film glorifying slave trading! Either they didn’t bother using the internet to research the tribe or they wanted to rewrite a nasty part of history to their own happy ending story.
That’s like making a movie about Hitler and glorifying his preparations for WW.
Just what we needed.
How does she know the Dahomey were her ancestors?
Who is this person and why should I care what she thinks?
FLOWERS TO HER
YASSS ENSLAVE QUEEN