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Cleopatra
كليوباترا
2023 · Film · documentary · 90 min
Directed by Curtis Ryan Woodside
Discover the REAL Cleopatra...A figure whose name and legacy is burned into the minds of billions. Coming from a tenacious greek Macedonian family, she had to fight and even kill for her place on the throne, a Noble attempt to save a failing egypt. She left her mark during the final days of ancient egypt. Her story has been warped so much through out history, from biast opinions to praise, yet who was she really? Everyone thinks they know her, everyone has a different opinion, but most of those are modern, based on films and misinformed play writes. How much do we really know about the true… Cleopatra.
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> blackwashing in Cleopatra
Agree on everything else you said, but Cleopatra is different from the other 6 you mentioned, because it's not presented as fiction.
It's not "a show about Cleopatra, where the actor happens to be black". That's fine, whatever, artistic license.
It's "a show that presents itself as historically accurate, and makes the specific claim that you, the viewer, were mistaught in school and they are historically accurate in claiming Cleopatra was in fact black".
When something presents itself as an accurate documentary and then holds up something false as truth, that's a huge difference and is held to a different standard.
Imagine if James Watson funded a documentary saying "actually I discovered DNA alone, Rosalind Franklin had nothing to do with it". It would be rightfully criticized, because it's made up.