(11-18-2015, 05:51 AM)Graeham Wrote:(11-18-2015, 05:15 AM)Oli! Wrote:(11-18-2015, 04:56 AM)Graeham Wrote: I get the impression that the movie is going for the heroic pseudo-mythical angle rather than anything that's historically accurate. Which is perfectly fine - it'll likely do fairly well for itself and as with so many things if someone happens to dislike it they can just avoid going to see it.
So a movie about Norsemen and Vikings punching their way through Valhalla and fighting with Valkyries and riding Hresvelgr with a cast of nothing but black people with Bostonian accents wouldn't be weird to you then.
Because that's what this is.
Would I find that weird? Sure. That's a bit more extreme than what's going on in the trailer for the movie though.
Not really?
I don't see how one is more extreme than the other, they're perfectly parallel examples.
People with little to no ethnic connection to the culture and location used as the backdrop for the film are cast in the entirety of its important roles and most others, to the point where the actual races that have a tie to that location and mythology have virtually no presence, while speaking with out-of-place accents.
That's both this film and the theoretical Black Norsemen film I have presented, to the letter.
