'The Woman King' | Sept 2022 | Viola Davis, Lashana Lynch, John Boyega, Thuso Mbedu

[Warren Peace]

Currently at 98% RT with 47 reviews

of course it does

 

[Rekkapryde]

That BP stimulus got these studios changing history to make a dollar off us
. fukk the historical facts of what they really did. This might be the first case of reverse blackwashing

What’s next….

The KKK: All-American Heroes.

 

[Jazzy B.]

Why the hell would Viola agree to this movie?


Slave catchers/traders as the protagonists?


CACS being given an "out" with regards to their role with slavery


Then they're gonna call this "black woman empowerment"


I just read there's a sexual assault scene that's probably gonna be a black man assaulting a black woman

 

[Red Shield]

Ain't shyt else out or coming out so this might do decently for a week or 2

 

[CHICAGO]

Why the hell would Viola agree to this movie?


Slave catchers/traders as the protagonists?


CACS being given an "out" with regards to their role with slavery


Then they're gonna call this "black woman empowerment"


I just read there's a sexual assault scene that's probably gonna be a black man assaulting a black woman

I 100% BET SHE DIDNT KNOW
shyt ABOUT THEIR HISTORY
WHEN SHE TOOK THIS ROLE
AND THEY SIMPLY SOLD HER
ON SOME FEMINIST, WOMAN KING EMPOWERMENT LIKE THE AVERAGE
MOVIEGOER WHO WATCHES THIS.



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[Jazzy B.]

I 100% BET SHE DIDNT KNOW
shyt ABOUT THEIR HISTORY
WHEN SHE TOOK THIS ROLE
AND THEY SIMPLY SOLD HER
ON SOME FEMINIST, WOMAN KING EMPOWERMENT LIKE THE AVERAGE
MOVIEGOER WHO WATCHES THIS.



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She needs a new agent


This is the type of movie that can permanently stain an actor's career.


Viola calling these women "superheroes"


The more I read up on the tribe this movie is based on and has as protagonists the worse it gets. These people were DESPICABLE.

 

[humminbird]

I'm interested to see how this film does in the box office

 

[Rekkapryde]

I 100% BET SHE DIDNT KNOW
shyt ABOUT THEIR HISTORY
WHEN SHE TOOK THIS ROLE
AND THEY SIMPLY SOLD HER
ON SOME FEMINIST, WOMAN KING EMPOWERMENT LIKE THE AVERAGE
MOVIEGOER WHO WATCHES THIS.



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Yup

Probably thought and told her the script version was what really happened and shyt.

 

[ColdSlither]

I 100% BET SHE DIDNT KNOW
shyt ABOUT THEIR HISTORY
WHEN SHE TOOK THIS ROLE
AND THEY SIMPLY SOLD HER
ON SOME FEMINIST, WOMAN KING EMPOWERMENT LIKE THE AVERAGE
MOVIEGOER WHO WATCHES THIS.



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On Double Toasted, I think they implied that Lupita Nyong'o may have left the movie because she felt uncomfortable after finding out their role in the slave trade.

 

[Rekkapryde]

On Double Toasted, I think they implied that Lupita Nyong'o may have left the movie because she felt uncomfortable after finding out their role in the slave trade.

my baby Lupita.

Sad shyt is I can EASILY see the producers lying to Viola and John Boyega about the Dahomey people.

 

[QBN]

On Double Toasted, I think they implied that Lupita Nyong'o may have left the movie because she felt uncomfortable after finding out their role in the slave trade.

Yeah, Lupita was in a doc called "Warrior Women". Link above has Dutch subtitles only so when people are speaking in African languages you won't get the translation, unfortunately. But by context and the english narration, you can figure most of it out. At about 40 min, she talks to descendents of other African tribes that were enslaved by the "Dahomey Amazons". Doc ends with Lupita realizing that these women "were not heroes" but had a "complicated history" or something like that.

 

[ColdSlither]

Yeah, Lupita was in a doc called "Warrior Women". Link above has Dutch subtitles only so when people are speaking in African languages you won't get the translation, unfortunately. But by context and the english narration, you can figure most of it out. At about 40 min, she talks to descendents of other African tribes that were enslaved by the "Dahomey Amazons". Doc ends with Lupita realizing that these women "were not heroes" but had a "complicated history" or something like that.

Thanks, I'm going to have to check this out later this evening.

 

[Burned Verses]

From the wikipedia

Role in slavery[edit]​

Main article: Slavery in Africa
Historically, Dahomey was a kingdom that conquered other African states and enslaved their citizens to sell in the Atlantic slave trade, and most of the kingdom's wealth was derived from slavery. The Agojie had a history of participating in slave raiding, and that slavery in Dahomey persisted after the British Empire stopped Dahomey from continuing in the Atlantic slave trade.[44]

In the film's setting of the 1820s, Nanisca confronts Ghezo about the immorality of selling Dahomey slaves to the Portuguese and suggests trading in palm oil production instead.[35] Nanisca being fictional, the confrontation did not take place. History vs. Hollywood said that from 1840 to 1870, the Agojie(female) favored trading in palm oil instead of slaves and that their male-warrior counterparts opposed this.[44]

 

[CHICAGO]

From the wikipedia

WOW...

THEYRE ALREADY EDITING THE WIKI
TO MAKE THIS shyt MORE FAVORABLE.



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[Rekkapryde]

WOW...

THEYRE ALREADY EDITING THE WIKI
TO MAKE THIS shyt MORE FAVORABLE.



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Beyond pathetic.

My thing is fam, if they were selling the OPPs tribes to slave traders...ehhhh

But They were doing this to THEIR OWN PEOPLE??!!???

fukk outta here.