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Some ramble thoughts about Netflix's Cleopatra (Patreon)

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2023-05-09 17:21:42
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It arrives tomorrow (and while I'm not watching Netflix rn due to the strike), I am both frustrated by the anti-Black backlash, the fact that we have such a poor history of the African continent and everything in between. As this is a ramble it was off the cuff so feel free to check me in the comments. 

The book I mentioned was Cleopatra: A Life by biographer Stacy Schiff and it was the book that was the basis for the Cleopatra film with Angelina Jolie. 

GreatCleopatravideo:https://youtu.be/9eGPBX7gY44

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Cara

The Cleo backlash loses me when someone says 'black folks gotta in everything' why shouldn't we be? We've been everywhere. It's unconstructive.

Cara

Also it's crazy how Catherine the Great was done better by erb.

Cabbage

I'm glad I'm not the only person who heard about this and immediately thought "why Cleopatra again" lol. For as long as cinema has existed and as popular as Ancient Egypt is as a historical subject, it is shockingly impossible to find a movie about Ancient Egypt that is as accurate as possible and features actual Ancient Egyptian figures instead of Greek colonizers or fantastical mummies lol. Give me a Hatshepsut movie! Her life and reign was incredibly interesting and took place during one of the most prosperous periods of Ancient Egyptian history!!!

Sarah Sward

Thank you for this! As I’ve been diving deeper in ancient history over the past few years I’ve realized just how badly history was taught to me in school and especially how race history is taught. I wish more people would say things like this louder so we could have more nuanced conversations about antiquity and race and culture and these historical figures who were incredibly complicated people. (Also how everything we know about cleopatra was taken from a very Roman lens and they all hated her so there’s that on top of everything else).

sunlit_music

Thanks for making this video! I would love to see a movie about Nerfertiti. You're right, we need more movies about Egyptian queens who were Black.