‘Sweetness In The Belly’: First Clip Of Dakota Fanning As A White Ethiopian Muslim In Refugee Story
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So is this suppose to change something ? People still don have to like it.
Hush, I want to be angry at the headline without reading anything else or thinking
It adds context instead of just being clickbait. The book was great, btw.
That its not remotely like the headline insinuates? But sure, rage on.
Hopefully they add some Hollywood spice to it since it sounds bland. She should go to Ethiopia to steal the Ark of the Covenant that's apparently there and bring it to the British Museum.
This is like if someone made a movie based on The People In The Trees and making the protagonist a good guy...
If you don't like it you don't like it, but don't fucking hate it because of a clickbait title that doesn't represent the story.
Honestly I kinda of wish they had gone with a Black english woman. One of the few things that is never explorered in fiction is the disconnect between descendants of slavery and Africans. There is a real gulf and pain there that needs exposure
Not even from Ethiopia, she was raised in Morocco. That headline is dumb.
I was gonna say, the book synopsis explains the movie premise (i.e. it's not like they randomly decided to cast Dakota Fanning as an Ethiopian) but there's probably something to say about choosing to adapt a story where the Ethiopian just happens to be white.
Oh sorry - "Woof!" and "Yikes!" on, then. Maybe retweet some hot takes!
At a glance, probable white saviour trope in a movie set in a country which was ruled by the British Empire.
This kind of changes everything beyond that ridiculous headline. Sounds like an interesting and endearing story?
Religion, race, ethnicity, language, nationality, country of residence and country of origin are all different things but a lot of modern bigotry expects them to be the same and illicts inappropriate responses when they aren't. People who find themselves between cultures feel this discrimination a lot and it's rarely a focus of popular imagery or study.
haven't seen it, don't know the context, but it's a bit weird the man on the poster is not credited
I haven't seen it and based on the critical reception it does seem like a poorly made film but from reading the plot on Wiki, it doesn't seem to necessarily feature white savior tropes. It probably deserves some credit for having a mixed race couple pairing involving a south asian which you rarely see in hollywood. Though of course that doesn't excuse poor filmmaking.