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Reservation Dogs actress gripes about the movie

posted 8 months ago by jk90us (5832)
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And here we go. 🙄

Indigenous actress Devery Jacobs of Hulu’s Reservation Dogs griped about Flower Moon not portraying its Osage characters with “honor or dignity” and for further dehumanizing them by depicting their deaths, even though the damn movie is based on actual events where they’re murdered.

https://variety.com/2023/film/news/devery-jacobs-slams-killers-of-the-flower-moon-scorsese-osage-characters-victims-1235765582/

[–] Spuds (80) 8 months ago

If someone wants to gripe about something that was wrong with the movie, they should complain about not using an Osage actress for the lead and using some actress from a different tribe. It was like hiring a Korean or Chinese actress to play a Japanese woman. I'm sure a white man isn't going to notice a difference, but if you were Osage you would notice she doesn't look like an Osage. That is a valid complaint about the movie that tried to get the right actors for all the other roles based on their actual race but figured any Indian was just as good as any other and ignored reality that their are differences in tribes.

[–] jk90us (5832) 8 months ago

I also noticed the new Snow White isn’t white. 🤔

[–] Spuds (80) 8 months ago

Oh the new Sandy Brown movie by Disney?

[–] Juschill (793) 8 months ago

This only works in one direction.

[–] jk90us (5832) 8 months ago

It “works” in neither direction.

[–] PrimeMinisterX (8445) 8 months ago

How many world-class Osage actresses can their possibly be? I assume that just having to cast a Native actress at all meant that Marty was working from a pretty small pool of qualified candidates.

[–] Spuds (80) 8 months ago

You never know when you don't look. Besides, her role was pretty limited. It wasn't one that required anything special to do.... but it just shows that Hollywood doesn't want to do real casting only wants to pretend they are being authentic.

[–] PrimeMinisterX (8445) 8 months ago

To be fair, the whole thing about "acting" is that people pretend to be something they're not.

[–] NukeDude (605) 8 months ago

LOL...since WHEN has the film industry engaged in "real" casting?

Maybe, maybe a few times over decades.

Besides, all acting is nothing but "dressing up and pretending."

((Sheesh...everyone these days is an activist it seems.))

[–] Spuds (80) 8 months ago

To me it doesn't matter, but when you have an industry that wants to say the voice actor of a Simpsons character has to be the same as the cartoon, or thinks only a gay actor can play a gay part...well these people need to follow through all the way or just admit they are hypocritical fucks that are just pandering to a few social media mobs.

[–] Stratego (29537) 8 months ago

So Leo and Rob had the same ethnicities as their characters? Or doesn't that matter because they're white?

[–] legnadibrom (5856) 8 months ago

white's have no culture

[–] Stratego (29537) 8 months ago

Okay, trollboy.🍆

[–] MrMovie (853) 8 months ago

These dumb cunts want to destroy history and pretend it didn’t happen. Really fucking stupid people

[–] roger1 (2784) 8 months ago

...and Scorsese and Leo went to the trouble of re-writing the script so that it (in their words) would NOT be about the white characters first and foremost (and also so Leo could get a more meaty part as a villain.)

You can't please everyone...so you've got to please yourself.

[–] RipRoss (399) 8 months ago

This reminds me of the feminists who complained about Game of Thrones because the women (like the men) were portrayed as nuanced characters with flaws instead of as perfect superwomen.

[–] Hybrid66 (1505) 8 months ago

They can fuck off

[–] liscarkat (17106) 8 months ago

To any rational person, it just doesn't matter.