First Images of Viola Davis in "The Woman King" (2022)

[Edub]

I’m cool…. they can charge they batteries (for no reason mind you) , alone without me ….dont care if it’s non fiction

 

[IVS]

Not watching Not supporting. Da fukk! A king is a man. Will always be.

Theres a word for female rulers. The Warrior Queen is more apt. But Hollywood subliminally programming you

 

[Grand Eeezus Maxwell]

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[LevelUp]

 

[GodinDaFlesh]

We really gon rock with ADOS pretending to be African Reverse tether


I kid, I kid

 

[BlaccSunrise]

Dahomey Amazons - Wikipedia

Raw and impregnate the entire tribe. It's time to bring back giants on this planet.

 

[Black Lightning]

Watch a movie about slave catchers?

 

[Apollo Creed]

Raw and impregnate the entire tribe. It's time to bring back giants on this planet.

they probably would have captured and sold you into slavery

 

[The Wall Is Undefeated!]

I have a feeling this film will be another load of Hollywood agenda and black feminism crap. There are so many red flags in the pics. Hell, The fact that the movie is called 'The Woman King' should be cause for concern.
You can already tell from the pics of Viola Davis with the 'strong and independent woman' haircut.

I bet one of the Dahomey Amazons has a white love interest. That said white love interest will be strong, brave and understanding of the black woman.
I bet that they portray King Ghezo (played by John Boyega) as weak-willed and abusive.
I bet Viola Davis' character is perfect in every way (Mary Sue).
I bet they'll be some form of 'nikkas ain't shyt' trope.
I bet they'll be a love sub-plot that will involve lesbianism because one of the lover's husband or boyfriend was abusive to her.
I bet that the Dahomey Amazons will be the only warriors standing after a massive battle (obviously every black male warrior will be dead).

I'd love to be proved wrong... but I doubt it.

 

[MischievousMonkey]

"Fortunately for the Tofinu, the slave hunters pursuing them were not allowed to follow them onto the lake because of a religious custom that disallowed them to travel on water... ."

https://hsjchronicle.com/benin-form...lage-of-ganvie-on-lake-nokoue-in-west-africa/

I'd add to your accurate post that that quoted sentence seems very reductionist when it comes to the extent of the defenses put in place to escape slave raiding in Ganvie:

Safe at last - Ganvié,

[Defensive strategies]

• The first chapter, "Lacustrine Villages in South Benin as Refugees from the Slave Trade", written by Elisée Soumonni, explores said villages' historical establishment and peopling, through successive migration waves from people fleeing the devastation brought by the Atlantic Slave Trade, from the end of the seventeenth century up to the 1880s
• Most of the waves were composed of different peoples of Aja origin, at first, then joined by other elements such as Yorubas
• These waves led to the birth of the Tofinu people, speaking their own language, and remarkable by the mixing and intermarrying of the different elements, sometimes rival ones, that came to be driven to the same place due to the terror brought by the trade. The mixing of the different ethno-cultural groups was a way of guaranteeing cohesion in the light of the danger that surrounded the area
• The choice of the location was everything but a coincidence, since the environment - the lake Nokoué, surrounded by marshlands and irrigated by the So river - provided protection against slave raidings; the Dahomey soldiers being unskilled with canoes and poor swimmers, they had trouble getting through swamps and areas flooded with water
• Still, it was a raid attempt, almost successful, on the people of Sindomè near the lake, as well as the fall of Allade to Dahomey, a powerful city providing protection to the Tofinu, that drove its inhabitants to move even further, on the lake, building houses standing on stilts: that's how the village of Ganvié (literally meaning safe at last) was born
• Said raid attempt was thwart by Finondè, a kidnapped Tofinu that the raiders kept on their craft as a guide, that helped overturn the boat. The precise location of this event is sacred to this day, and Finondè has been made a god, revered to this day in what is the most important cult in Ganvié
• The mastery of their environment was essential to the survival of the isolated Tofinu; harsh conditions, with very few cultivable lands, made them fishermen; their innovative fishing techniques, such as the use of akadjas, allowed them to feed themselves efficiently and sustain their growth in numbers
• The skills of the Tofinu as canoeists were not their only weapon against slave raiders; javelin launchers, sledgehammers, swords, locally made and imported guns... were also part of their arsenal to preserve themselves from capture
• Conflicts with neighboring polities led to the Tofinu sometimes being on the attacking hand; resulting captives were integrated to their society as free men, and wives. It is said that Tofinu sometimes raided the mainland for women if wives were to lack
• Isolation, fear and trauma brought by the constant danger of a neighboring active slave trade, didn't find relief with colonization and even independence; the chapter explores how the historical context of the slave trade can help understand how the grim present situation and future prospect of the Tofinu find its roots in this particular past period; the place that was designed to welcome refugees can no longer suffer its isolation, shortage of health, education and economic opportunities, nor sustain its growing population; while the environment, degraded by colonizers and ill-advised indifferent governmental policies, tremendously impact the livelihood of the people. The area strikes the highest rate of infant mortality in Benin with 16.6%, while hardly one child out of two makes it to ten years old

 

[Wiseborn]

Looks dope. I will check it out.

 

[Mzee Tchalla]

Another strong independent black woman propaganda piece.

 

[The Wall Is Undefeated!]

got bad news for you breh and it’s written by a yte woman

It was written by both Dana Stevens and Gina Prince-Bythewood (who is also the director of the movie).

 

[get these nets]

It was written by both Dana Stevens and Gina Prince-Bythewood (who is also the director of the movie).

Yeah Gina's been in Hollywood since A Different World. She is in the last frame of the opening of the show where they reach for the globe. Between Whitley and Debbie Allen.

 

[Kliq_Souf]

Y’all niccas really tripping over a title
“Men are kings”

Looks decent