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> I must confess that I did roll my eyes at black characters acting normally in the middle of a tavern in medieval Europe recently. It ruins the whole viewing
by allendoerfer 4y ago
> I must confess that I did roll my eyes at black characters acting normally in the middle of a tavern in medieval Europe recently.
It ruins the whole viewing experience, because you stop buying what you see. Characters are just very obviously not believable anymore. People in present times still react strongly to people of different skin color if they are not used to seeing them. And I am supposed to just let it slide, that a group of illiterate people, whose access to media consists only of some paintings in church to illustrate the Latin sermon they cannot even understand, just did not react whatsoever to some obvious foreigner, who - by definition, not because of the skin color - could very likely have robbed and killed them?
- docmars 4y agoToday, anything that could possibly incite violence or impart "otheredness" towards an "oppressed" people group will not do in film, the risk is too high (albeit manufactured from nothing), lest they experience the total condemnation of Twitter for not following the latest narrative and appealing to this very small group of radical activists who are almost singlehandedly dictating what modern multimedia is allowed to portray.