English
2.7
2023
United Kingdom
As Egypt's last pharaoh, Cleopatra fights to protect her throne, family and legacy in this docuseries featuring reenactments and expert interviews.
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MovieGuys wrote:Queen Cleopatra, the series. Lets start with the obvious, she was Macedonian Greek. The MSM have been bleating and moaning, squealing at anyone daring to point out the obvious. They say no one can be sure but we have historical documents that do describe her and busts, that make it pretty clear who she was and who she was not.
Putting this aside, is this series any good? I'd say its alright. I think it tries to justify its choices by adopting an overly serious tone. It does call on academics to, I'm guessing, amongst other things, to validate its position.
The results a series that's not serious (or plausible) enough to be treated as an historical recreation but just serious enough, to rob this series of any joy and life, it could otherwise have had.
I'll add I'm not criticising the actors, they are paid to do a job and to be fair, they do it very well.
In summary, to my mind revisionist, moderately watchable and well acted. What you make of Queen Cleopatra is, of course, up to you.
Splinter wrote:A simplistic drama/documentary view of Cleopatra and her entanglements with Julius Caesar and Marc Antony which has yet again ignited the black debate.
No one really knows if Cleopatra was African black, as it were, yet even the Egyptians are enraged that she is portrayed in this way, although the actress, Adele James is of mixed race and therefore coffee coloured.
I say simplistic because it's an accurate historical account of Cleopatra's life for anyone who wants a quick history lesson, but it's tainted by modern verbiage from the quasi academics who provide historical input.
It's odd that so many people are stuck in a never ending argument about Cleopatra's colour, yet no one, as far as I can see, has even mentioned the fact that she married two of her brothers.
We'll finish it tonight, not having watched something amazing, which it certainly isn't, because it definitely has an agenda, but because we have learned a little more about that epoch.
GenerationofSwine wrote:Well, here it is. Hollywood race swapped Cleopatra, and then called Egypt "racist" for wanting to preserve it's history from being rewritten.
And now, to not be called "racist" by the people who rewrote history to put in their racial politics, you have idiots claiming that no one knows if Cleopatra was African or not... so mission accomplished, they successfully re-wrote Egyptian History, shamed the Egyptians, and insulted their heritage so much that Netflix is being sued by Egypt... and in the process convinced some woke morons that history can be rewritten, to suit racial politics, and they are somehow evil racists for not believing the fiction.
And then of course those same idiots point out that Cleopatra was a product of inbreeding "that no one mentions," which is sort of the point, the Ptolemaic Dynasty was proudly inbred... because the founder was a general for Alexander, and like Alexander, from Macedonia. That doesn't really strengthen the argument that doesn't really strengthen the argument that "No one knows if Cleopatra was Black," it sort of reinforces the point that she wasn't.
They were so Greek, that she was the first one in her Dynasty to speak the native language... I mean, really, if you can't accept the facts, YOU have the problem, not the people arguing she wasn't Black. And if you don't know your history... you REALLY shouldn't be weighing in on the debate... because other people actually know theirs.
This is a train wreck, the least that they could do is drop words like "Docu" Jada's grandma might have some yarns to spin about Egyptian history... and mine did too, mostly about the healing effects of putting onions in your shoes. But just because grandma tells you something, doesn't mean it's true.
So what you have is a fictionalized depiction of Cleopatra... REAL cultural appropriation, if you will... that insults Egyptians today, historian, and anyone with an IQ above 40.
itsonlikedonkeykong wrote:A fictional fantasy being passed off as a documentary. Need I say more? It is ridiculous that something like this can be funded and supported by Netflix. Culturally appropriating and changing a whole history and culture, completely undermines archeological and historical facts just to serve the delusions of the culture-less. Someone's grandma claims Cleopatra is black is just a fraction of how big of a joke this so-called documentary is. Embarrassing.
