the ancient greeks didn’t even have English accents…
How do you know?
I was there.
He didn’t specify what kind of English accent. I think he meant they didn’t have posh or Shakespearian accents. But can you imagine them with English hooligan accents?
Brutus: Yo bruv, Caesar got I fookin’ wicked army stepping in here.
Other senator: He don’ know what he stepping in. He bout’ to get dippin’ if he come in our chamber. <throws up the V at Caeser>
old english accent.
Those weren’t Greeks.
I asked them
If they weren’t English, how come all their stuff is in London?
But did their armor have titty windows?
Only time skin color matters in casting is when it would fuck up the story, and that is exceedingly rare
Now I want to see a movie about historical slavery in the USA but only white people have been cast as the slaves.
That would be amazing, in multiple ways.
There’s a movie, White Man’s Burden, that hits in a similar way to what your idea does. Travolta and Harry Belafonte in world where African people had been in the role of what Europeans did in the Americas, set in the modern era (at the time of the film) in a post slavery world.
It was a thought provoking film at the time, and holds up moderately well. Travolta and Belafonte managed to play off of each other extremely well and not make it feel preachy or forced.
I learned about putting salt on the ketchup instead of the french fries from that movie
gangsta rap replaced by rancid
Lin Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton (all theater, in general) is proof enough that race and even gender is almost completely irrelevant when acting. Even historical reenactments.
Do we even have a description of what Helen of Troy was supposed to look like, other than “really hot”?
Because I don’t know if you’ve seen Lupita Nyong’o…but, she definitely fits that particular description.
I just think we should let actors play roles. I don’t care if it’s a man playing a woman, or what their ethnicity is, or if the eye color is wrong. I care that they do a good job in the role.
I think anyone who focuses on the ethnicity or skin tone of an actor as something for them to complain about is a twat.
