Comments by "TheEvertw" (@TheEvertw) on "Queen Cleopatra - The Most Hated Show Of All Time?" video.

  1. Hollywood has repented of white-washing like Taylor playing Cleopatra. But at the time it was a logical decision. Movies at the time were made for white people by white people. Because white people invented the medium and popularized it, and it took some time before it spread to other ethnicities. For that particular movie, they wanted a true STAR to play the leading character, and at the time there simply were no great stars of Macedonian ethnicity. Nor any other ethnicity than white Caucasian, with a few exceptions like Omar Sharif. But I don't think Omar would have been a great choice to play Cleopatra, even though he was actually Egyptian. An actress like Irene Papas, who was actually Greek, might have played her, but she was nowhere near the box-office draw that Taylor was. And at the time, whether a movie was a success or not was largely determined by who starred in it. So then it is an easy business decision to cast Taylor instead of Papas. Gina Lollobrigida was considered for the role, which might have been a better match to Cleopatra's ethnicity, but other matters than ethnicity were more important at the time. Like business interests.
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  2. ​ @ErenYeager-ng3hi  Racists act like Hollywood white-washing was somehow anti-black people. It wasn't. It was a consequence of logical business decision. Black-washing, in contrast, is 100% racism.
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  3. It is a prime example of "projection". Accusing others of behaving like you, before they can attack you along that line. Very aggressive and immature.
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  4. Entitlement. Never ever having heard NO, and always using your ethnicity as an excuse for bad behaviour.
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