MeisterEckhart wrote on Sep 26
th, 2022 at 12:43pm:
Frank wrote on Sep 26
th, 2022 at 12:17pm:
MeisterEckhart wrote on Sep 26
th, 2022 at 11:41am:
Frank wrote on Sep 26
th, 2022 at 11:35am:
There needs to be a degree of verisimilitude to make a tale, a parable, illustrative and its meaning believable. You wouldn't cast two rabbits when staging the he story of the hare and the tortoise. Or Boris Johnson to play Bazza O'Bama. It would be a jarring, unbelievable distraction.
Verisimilitude, eh! So you're sold on the witches and their prophecies, then. Would they have to be Scottish women, or could you live with them looking more like dishevelled androgynous Romanies ?
You are grasping at straws only you can see.
There were no African nobles and kings in medieval Scotland just as there were no fair of hair and red of face Zulu kings. And if Billy Connoly had been cast as a Zuli king circa 1234 AD you would have seen it as the joke it would have been.
Well, Macbeth, like so much of Shakespeare, dramatises universal themes of the human condition - betrayal, guilt, remorse, retribution, vengeance. It is not faithful to historical fact.
That is why Shakespeare speaks to all ethnicities. Were Macbeth to be played in India, Japan or Nigeria tomorrow, the actors' skin colour would be irrelevant.
Disney Chooses Bald Actress To Play Rapunzel In Live-Action Remake
U.S. — Disney has chosen a bald actress to play Rapunzel in the upcoming live-action remake of Tangled. Director Guy Ritchie announced the casting at a press conference alongside Disney CEO Bob Chapek.
"We are thrilled to have this mega-talented bald actress joining us to star in this film," said Ritchie. "She has long been an outspoken advocate for the alopecia community and we know she'll lend her unique lived experience as a person of baldness to the iconic role of Rapunzel."
Several fans were upset with the casting, pointing out that the actress is bald, while Rapunzel has hair. "I'm all for diversity," said Disney fan Janet Cutler. "My pronouns are Xe / Xer. But this is a bit too far. Rapunzel is supposed to have hair. It's sort of core to the entire story."
Another Disney fan echoed the sentiment. "Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair," said Disney fan Andrew Steeplechase. "That's one of the key quotes in the story. I'm not sure that works as well with a bald Rapunzel."
Historians and experts pushed back against the desire for a haired Rapunzel. "Demanding that Disney cast Rapunzel —
a fictional character I might add — with an actor who has hair, is simply ableist, sexist, racist, and several other -ists," said Sandra Rice, the chair of Harvard's Folklore and Mythology department. "Sadly, this is another example of the white cis-hetero patriarchal system that we live in."
Rice then began to sob.