Another fantasy film wants to be "historically accurate" when it comes to racial dynamics

[britrawick]

#FantasticBeasts producer responds to diversity criticism for the first time: https://t.co/0XTVqvMfwn pic.twitter.com/0IKwFynAxg
- Entertainment Weekly (@EW) November 5, 2015
-In an ironic twist for a story about acceptance, all the leads are white

Comments

[sharktoothdecay]

boooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
that's bullshit

[p_drunkwriting]

It's 2015. It's enough.

It's specially ridiculous to play that excuse when it comes to fantasy, as always. Shut up or just admit you're racist.

[sarahvma]

mte. You can have magic but not POC?

[nightwing30]

Exactly, it's super glaring when genre films/tv do it because they ask the audience to suspend their belief about everything else but having POC pop up is too unbelievable.

[p_drunkwriting]

lol and dead at the low-key trying to make the wizarding world ~*progressive*~ by making them more "inclusive". What a joke.

[sarahvma]

I had a similar issue with Crimson Peak, even though I loved it. Like ghosts are real, but not black people outside of one-line roles as maids? That's cool.

[quoyle]

ugh the scene with the black maids cleaning up the hotel room made me rage

[khaleesi129]

I was thinking the same thing while watching that movie. I'm thinking there were definitely a lot of black people in NY and some wealthy ones too. Hollywood only loves black people in slave roles or servants when it comes to the past. If the Merlin Tv show was done by Hollywood, you better believe that Gwen would never have been black, nor any knights of color. I wish whoever did that show would produce more fantasy shows here, because the U.S can't see black people in period pieces outside of slavery or some kind of servitude.

[sarahvma]

The sad thing about Merlin is that British fans bitched fucking ENDLESSLY about Gwen being a-historical, even after a number of people pointed out that there were indeed black people in Europe during that time who were not slaves.

I mean, the same thing happens with Howard Charles on The Musketeers -- hardcore Dumas fans claimed that having him, Santiago Cabrera (hot Lancelot from Merlin), and Luke Pasqualino (who's Italian, so technically not a POC) in the lead roles "took them out of the story," and stretched believability.

Hardcore Dumas fans.

Who apparently aren't *so* hardcore that they actually know Dumas was, himself, part-black and Charles's casting was meant as a nod to that.

But you know, they just want accuracy. Even when history literally proves them wrong -- they just need it to be "accurate," you know?

[notoriousreign]

Yeah SURE

[viudanegra]

Lol. This excuse.