Oof, that’s a big mistake on my part. Sorry Schimkowitz! And thanks for pointing it out.

Actually, this was my bad. They’re CinemaCon trailers so haven’t made it to the YouTubes yet; I owe the AV Club an apology for misplaced snark.

Is the AV Club not allowed to embed/link to trailers anymore, or something?

Here, for anyone who’s interested:

Well, generally, when people write an article about a movie trailer, they’ll put in the movie trailer. But here we all are.

So... the problem with what you’re saying here - both in the post I’m replying to and in this thread - is that it comes across as apologia for Afrocentrism. It might be partially to do with the way you’ve entered the conversation, but it’s also because of the content of your arguments. I’m not saying that to have a…

Yeah, I don’t think I disagree with most of the points you’re making. The only caveat I’d make would be concerning the lack of modern black movie stars. I think - as you suggested - that’s less to do with inequality nowadays as it is to do with inequality back in the days when movie stars were still a thing. Which is…

To be clear, when I said ‘people of a certain political persuasion,’ I phrased it like that to mean both groups. Progressives are annoyed by whitewashing, the right is annoyed by the inverse. Both of them celebrate it when it goes their way, and when it doesn’t they say: ‘Oh, so it’s okay when [character] is changed…

Further, the notion that anybody can be certain, solely due to the fact that Cleopatra was Macedonian, can be certain of her skin tone, to the point of criticizing a portrayal as ahistorical, is an inherent contradiction...

Everybody has a right to care about anything, regardless of whether or not they have a tangible or intangible connection to whatever that thing is.

No problem! And yeah, docudrama is more appropriate

So... giving your post a charitable read, you seem to be under two misconceptions:

It is a documentary, though. Check out the trailer.

Those Roman coins did no-one any favors. Mark Anthony looks like a creepy child’s drawing:

So, unless Amir is ethnically Greek but just happens to have been born and raised in Egypt, he’s as ethnically and genetically distant from Cleopatra as almost any random person you’d find in the Levant.

Just to point out the very obvious thing that this article completely sidesteps:

I’ll admit, I don’t really know how it would work. My guess is it would probably have to involve placing limitations on who can use the technology itself before it gets perfected, but IDK.

Fair enough!

Now imagine that but every one of those people spreading misinformation has the power to manufacture evidence proving their point, and hopefully you see where I’m coming from.

People aren’t gonna lose interest in them just because they’re fake. See: any number of currently-available genres of porn.