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Originally Posted by Sirtel
That's as stupid as color-blind casting in movies. E.g. non-white aristocrats in the courts of medieval Europe, instead of making a movie about non-white people that's historically true (or as true as Hollywood history can be  ). There were kingdoms and empires in other places than Europe, with no white people in them. Why not make a movie about them? |
You run into the issue that you have to avoid so many nasty historical facts no matter where in the world you set your film.
I still remember being called into a parent/teacher/principal conference when my daughter did a essay on the slave trade where she wrote that for the most part, European slavers did not go out hunting slaves, they anchored offshore and traded for the slaves being supplied by other Africans or they purchased the slaves from an established factor who purchased them from their African owners. The documentary shown to her class was the usual crap with the Europeans landing and hunting down the inhabitants who were living lives straight out of a Disney film. This type of expedition did happen but often more often than not resulted in more deaths on both sides than could be considered economically viable.