I seriously don't understand the issue with the depictions of the Zulu in the movie? They aren't portrayed as stupid, inept, or ahistorically. Does any movie featuring non-white indigenous people just get a warning, despite the content or context of the film?
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Outdated because it depicted Africans as relatively competent warriors who could use successfully use superior numbers to destroy a British column at the Battle of Isandlwana despite having stone age weapons? Instead of depicting them as completely useless like their modem counterparts?
Really Rorke's Drift was an absolutely amazing defense and by all rights they should have been wiped out like their compatriots at Isandlwana. It's no criticism on the Zulus that they lost.
It doesn't help 'the narrative' at all as it doesn't disparage either side, the Zulus were cunning and tactical while the British managed to turn their little outpost into a stronghold under very little time and hold out long enough to survive the seige.
So no vulnerable 'minority' (despite it being in Africa) and no Whites destroying innocent natives.
It's showing another culture in its natural state. That's literally it. The whole point of the "cultural appropriation" nonsense has been to make everyone too afraid to tell stories about people with different backgrounds and customs for fear of accidentally being "racist."
f2movies
That is all.
or 123movies
It's lawyer-HR logic. Context doesn't matter. Anything that can conceivably be made into a legal or PR case gets "bumper rails" added to cover their collective asses.
You're seeing the stupidity and hypocrisy of white leftist karens in action...
IT HAS BLACK PEOPLE IN IT IN LOINCLOTHS... Ergo... They're uncivilized, ergo, this is obviously white patriarchal portrayal of black people and people should be made aware that black people aren't like this at all!
And now I'm going to, again, post this now THIRTY YEAR OLD CLIP of a late night, brilliant sketch comedy show to show that, yes, at one time in America - these same attitudes were around back then but we called them out for the stupid ideas they were! (sketch starts at 1:50 )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aadNfeYocis
I didn’t know Tubi did that. Zulu was a critically acclaimed movie not sure what is wrong with it. Haven’t seen it since I was little but I’ve heard nothing but good thing
Yeah the ads are annoying but it's not overwhelming at least. I'm lost about the warning as well. The movie was well received by the Zulu community in the 60s. The grandson of King Cetawayo portrayed his grandfather in the movie. So he couldn't have been offended by it.
Exactly. I guess modern day people are offended
That's my point, what are they offended by? If they are mad the Zulus wore loin cloths and had spears, too bad it's what is accurate.
Most true believers probably couldn't even tell you. They're just made uncomfortable by white men in military uniforms who aren't righteously slaughtered to the last man by black kangz. Deep down in their souls, it's really just hatred, after all. Some might be able to recognize their discomfort with the uniforms and babble semi-coherently about colonialism, but that's probably it.
Agreed. Guarantee it’s some modern sjw type
They are mad because Whites are killing them and it's not being treated like a bad thing (even though Zulus were getting their own kills as well and were never portrayed as mindless barbarians )
They don't know what's wrong with it, but feel that something must be. Like in that one Game of Thrones meme. It's the NPC programming after one too many conflicting firmware updates.
The only film set in Africa you need to watch is Empire of Dust.
Not familiar with that name? What is it about?
Shows how low IQ races stay in the dust.
A Chinese construction company is hired to pave a road in the Congo and the protagonist is the boss of the worksite and it's a fish out of water story because he's never encountered such shiftless lazy workers. It's the origin of the memetic phrase "it's so tiresome."
The ending with singing Zulus is hokey, but the only problem is the stereotype warnings themselves. Also, cancel any and all legally sanctioned streaming services. It's not 2010 anymore, when Netflix was disrupting the dysfunctional state of Hollywood and cable TV.
I will say Tubi and the other free streaming services have a great library of older content
If you can't find something readily on pirate sites, go for it. Oft the most easily found ones opportunistically regurgitate current popular slop without any thought of acting as archival institutions.
Boycotting these predatory businesses (and lobbied-for copyright law) should be the norm for any healthy society and self-respecting subculture. This video is the strongest presentation of the topic I'm aware of.
The warning is for fragile leftists who despise any media that portrays Whites as the "good guys" even though the movie did not disparage the Zulus one bit. Everyone in the movie with intelligence feared the fuck out of them for good reason.
There are two views of history the Whig view which is there is only one story; the story of the human race. And that story is all about progress. And so if one people are less technologically advanced then they are a lesser people. (This is why the left is always pushing the Wakanda Forever bullshit.
The other view of history is the Oswald Spengler Clash of Civilizations. There is no grand story of progress. Empires are created, expand, maintain, decline, and fall.
The movie Zulu fallows the second view of history and the left hates it because they are Utopianism and the view that there are different civilizations aiming to achieve different things gets in the way of that.