Oh god, it’s real.
“This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman.”
Submitted 2 months ago by andros_rex@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 2 months ago
wuzzlewoggle@feddit.org 2 months ago
So it was 30 years ago. I feel like, even though things are far from perfect now, nowadays a comment like this would draw quite a few more critical looks than back then.
Jerkface@lemmy.world 2 months ago
People in 1994 knew exactly how fucked this was.
qarbone@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It was also 30 years closer to Harriet Tubman in a time when black civil rights were not even as as sanded smooth as they appear now
andros_rex@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Look up who Alec McGuiness played in Lawrence of Arabia.
state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Or look at Mickey Rooney in Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Or Elizabeth Taylor in Cleopatra. Or John Wayne in Gengis Khan.
skisnow@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
It’s such an insane story that I wonder what the other side of it is. It’s easy to imagine the guy just having got out of a meeting ten minutes earlier with “if you don’t get Julia Roberts into a movie by the end of the week, I’ll see you never work in this town again!” ringing in his ears.
bappity@lemmy.world 2 months ago
This is obviously a perfect role for Ryan Gosling
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 2 months ago
AI Morgan Freeman
k0e3@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Why AI? Wtf, you made me think he died. Don’t do this to me.
slaacaa@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I think he is already scheduled to star in the MLK movie, so not sure he would have the time
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Hollywood Executives can collectively only name at most seven actors at a given time.
RagingRobot@lemmy.world 1 month ago
All of these large industries are run by idiots
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 month ago
They’re run by the same average people who work for them. You don’t need to be an idiot to fuck up running something as large and complicated as a trans-national corporation. You don’t need to be a genius to coast in a position that already prints money.
We’re simply not that different from one another. The genius/idiot dichotomy is far more about variances in education, culture, and propagandized bigotry than finding actual differences in intellect.
TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 2 months ago
FriendBesto@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
I do not get it. I just see 3 pictures of Tubman.
NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
I want to argue but tbh it was so long ago that I don’t really see a difference
JustJack23@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
Hmmm so you need woman of colour? Maybe Gal Gadot? /s
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
If Hollywood ever did a film about Gaza they would unironically use Gal Godot in the role of a Palestinian woman.
andros_rex@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It also be “both sides have something to learn from each other!” Oscar bait a la Crash or Green Book.
ICastFist@programming.dev 2 months ago
No doubt with lines like “They only hate Israel because of their religion” and “The IDF is protecting me, despite being Palestinian”
TheBat@lemmy.world 2 months ago
GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
“Hollywood is crazy. The Last Samurai, staring Tom Cruise…?!”
FriendBesto@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
The last Samurai is not played by Tom Cruise. He plays a guy who gets to know and grows to respect the last Samurai and Japanese culture.
Ken Watanabe as Lord Moritsugu Katsumoto, he plays the eponymous “Last Samurai.”
Clearly you have not even watched the damn movie. Or what is your point?
But we are all good with a black woman playing the real life British Anne Boleyn?
Man, can’t wait until we find out which white actor will play Barack Obama in his biopic. I mean, diversity is our strength.
TargaryenTKE@lemmy.world 2 months ago
1-You had to actually watch the full movie to get any of that context
2-It’s still Cruise’s face front and center on every piece of promotional art
3-As much as I hate that this is true, the vast majority of people who saw that movie did not do so because they heard Ken Watanabe was in it
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I have watched the movie. It shows a European in a role absolutely impossible in upper layers of Japanese society of that time.
GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
So, you missed the link…? Or, just lost your sense of humor in the war?
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Yeah, Tom Cruise was The First Weeaboo.
FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 2 months ago
What are they gonna do next? The Last Ni*** on Earth, starring Tom Hanks?
- this is a quote from Chapelle’s show, just to be clear
gradual@lemmings.world 2 months ago
Hollywood is a cult.
GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Blueberry pancakes are delicious.
pineapplelover@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Next Summer they’ll show Black Hitler
andros_rex@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I would not be surprised if that was the title of Kanye’s next album.
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 2 months ago
KanyeClayton West
Dozzi92@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Maybe he’s doing a reverse Joaquin Phoenix, going from music artist to actor, just with more antisemitism.
MTK@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Hitlack or Blitler?
CalipherJones@lemmy.world 2 months ago
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Conan had Jewish Hitler on at one point. I think Sarah Silverman talked about it on a podcast recently but I can’t remember which one right now
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 month ago
How did they get so far as producing an entire episode? Seriously?!
HollowNaught@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Am I the only one who doesn’t know who Harriet Tubman is?
tino@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Probably not, but she’s an important figure of the American history. The real question, though, is who will know about Harriet Tubman in a few years, once she gets erased from American history books.
essell@lemmy.world 2 months ago
At least people will be able to remember she looked like Julia Roberts
FriendBesto@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Yeah, she died in 1913, if she has not been erased in 112 years, and with people still want to make a movie about her…
Perhaps you may be leaning into conspiracy theories and are fear mongering yourself and others. Stop it.
Here, from Wikipedia:
Parks, monuments, and historical sites
National parks and national monuments related to Tubman in the United States are the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Monument and the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical Park, both in Maryland,[215] and the Harriet Tubman National Historical Park in Auburn.[216] The Salem Chapel in St. Catharines, Canada where Tubman worshipped, is a National Historic Site of Canada.[217]
The city of Auburn, New York has several historical sites related to Tubman, including her gravesite.[218][219] Other state and local historical sites about Tubman include the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad State Park[220] and the Harriet Tubman Memorial Garden[221] in Maryland, and the Harriet Tubman Museum is in New Jersey.[222]
Artistic portrayals
Tubman is the subject of many works of art. Musicians including Woody Guthrie, Wynton Marsalis, and Walter Robinson have written songs celebrating her.[223] She is the subject of operas by Thea Musgrave,[224] Nkeiru Okoye,[225] and Hilda Paredes,[226] as well as plays by Carolyn Gage and a collaboration of May Miller and Willis Richardson.[227] Tubman is the focus of novels by Elizabeth Cobbs,[228] Marcy Heidish,[229] Anne Parrish,[230] and Bob the Drag Queen,[231] and is a character in novels by Terry Bisson,[232] Ta-Nehisi Coates,[233] and James McBride.[234]
Since Tubman’s life was first dramatized on television in a 1963 episode of the series The Great Adventure,[235] she has been portrayed in TV productions such as The Good Lord Bird,[236] Timeless,[237] Underground,[236] and A Woman Called Moses.[238] Cynthia Erivo received an Academy Award nomination for portraying Tubman in the 2019 biographical film Harriet.[239]
Dozens of schools,[247] streets and highways,[248] church groups, social organizations, and government agencies have been named after Tubman.[249] In 1944, the United States Maritime Commission launched the SS Harriet Tubman, its first Liberty ship named for a black woman.[211]
On November 11, 2024, Tubman was posthumously commissioned as a one-star general in the Maryland National Guard in recognition of her military service during the Civil War.[250]
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Does the phrase “underground railroad” mean anything to you?
CanadianCarl@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Not everyone is from North America. That is like me asking you, does “Dr. Kwame Nkrumah” mean anything to you?
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 2 months ago
We call it the subway nowadays.
Whelks_chance@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Like the Eurostar
JandroDelSol@lemmy.world 2 months ago
TL;DR, she was an insanely brave black woman who helped a metric fuck ton of slaves escape the south.
Hadriscus@lemm.ee 2 months ago
She’s the original free runner www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1dhATC-ekQ
LordCrom@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Never be afraid to ask a question to rectify a lack of knowledge.
Cocopanda@futurology.today 2 months ago
Being rich doesn’t mean you’re smart.
mriswith@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The average Hollywood executive is really dumb, but they tend to be great talkers and networkers.
ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 2 months ago
they tend to be great talkers and networkers
This is selling them a bit short. They’re also generally pretty good at raping aspiring actresses.
sirico@feddit.uk 2 months ago
This is crazy, I mean Roberts is from the South and Tubman from the north, no one’s going to believe it!
FriendBesto@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
True! It’s called acting for a reason.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 month ago
Howdy y’all- cough cough Hey youse guys. I’m walkin’ 'ere!
mrbubblesort@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Halle Berry though… 🤔
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 2 months ago
Kevin Hart.
BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Martin Lawrence would rock it in “Big Tubman’s House”
jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
I’m going to hell for this upvote.
criss_cross@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Would have been a better role than catwoman
D_C@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I’m a top exec for a very big movie company and I hear you on this. No more Julia Roberts. Got it. Roberts out, Catwoman in. …
Someone get me Michelle Pfeiffer on the phone. I have a great idea, Catwoman as Harry Tubmen.
That’s an Oscar winner, right there.
andros_rex@lemmy.world 2 months ago
LordCrom@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Queue Dave Chappelle and his sketch ‘Negrodamas’
Quote
I predict a movie called The Last Black Man on Earth, starring Tom Hanks
andros_rex@lemmy.world 1 month ago
amda@feddit.nl 1 month ago
Thanks for sharing! Had no idea NASSA existed 🫡
muusemuuse@lemm.ee 2 months ago
citation needed
x4740N@lemm.ee 2 months ago
The article led me down a rabbit hole leading to an article about the ghost in the shell movie adaptation promo meme generator being used to criticise the whitewashing in the movie adaptation
Enzy@lemm.ee 1 month ago
I vote for Danny DeVito
jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
They should get Lisa Kudrow to play Rosa Parks.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 month ago
Reminds me of the bit at the end of Deadpool when he says they were considering Keira Kightly for Cable because she has range.
BillDaCatt@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Tyler Perry?
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s weird how the reverse is somehow ok now. Anne Boleyn played by a black woman why not? Historical accuracy sucks.
insaneinthemembrane@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Same as when SNL wanted men to play female politicians in sketches when Amy Poehler and Tina Fey were right there and smashed it in the end.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
This is what makeup is for
mariusafa@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
I mean they do this all time, for example, that amazon series about lord of the rings.
samus12345@lemm.ee 2 months ago
HawlSera@lemm.ee 2 months ago
You are drunk, and possibly racist, no one is doing blackface!
Korne127@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Image
the_tab_key@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Completely unrealistic and understandable. Suit needs to be tan.
FriendBesto@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Take it easy man, we do not want to over stage Citizen Kane, here.
Mr. Tan Suit would win best supporting actor, AND best costume design, by itself.
Case@lemmynsfw.com 1 month ago
Don’t forget his choice in condiments.
OCATMBBL@lemmy.world 2 months ago
World’s first white first black president.