Boycott Boots

I try not to bovva boots either

 

1. What a big man you are offering someone out on a football forum. Grow up you moron.

2. Are you actually asking if his profile picture is of him? How long you been supporting the club? Six months?

 

Nah I disagree, your menopause one was decent too

 

Yep, exactly what I was meaning when I started the thread - which has gone on a fair few different tangents.

Love it. I hope the bbs never changes!

 

It's not the advert in itself, it's the woman who is in it, many on this post are assuming it's about a pigment in someone's skin, it's not, it's about the woman who said the Royal Balcony had a problem with pigment

 

They do.

They don't like the Blacks them Germans who live at the Palace.

 

Is she wrong?

 

They've lost over 8million quid off their share price.Serves them right !

 

In many people eyes and views she was, hence the backlash

 

Or maybe more in ‘some’ people’s eyes.

 

That as well

 

True to a point, but when you're talking about historical context I beg to differ. The fact that Anne Boleyn was played by a black lass is is not important per se, but if one wants a historical context its plain wrong. It suggests that Boleyn had black roots. Patently incorrect and misleading. She was a white lass and should, if the film was intended to have historical accuracy, been portrayed by a white lass. If it wasn't meant to be historical but just a 'take' then why call her Anne Boleyn? Its the film's objective in this case that needs understanding. If its serious then the actor/actress should be white. If its not serious then fair enough, black lass is great. If we want something that is near enough to the truth that we don't overly question it then we always have Anne Boleyn as white, we dont have Henry VIII as a woman, we dont have Thomas Cromwell as a dwarf and we don't have Cardinal Wolsey as a disabled chap. There are 'sensible' limits to suggesting its ok for anyone to fit certain roles as the blackface furore has shown in the last few years. Commonsense sometimes should prevail and with regard to commonsense I think it was wrong to have a black lass doing Anne Boleyn in a genuine historical context.

 

Well known Frenchman Joaquin Phoenix played Napoleon last year.

Countless English actors blag American accents in films - and vice versa.

Or does it just matter when it's skin colour?

 

I'm not falling into the racism trap pal. I'm talking about defined historical accuracies here. If you are implying in any way I am racist please say so. You would be totally wrong of course but feel free. Read my post again, think about it and try not to play the racist card again please. Ta.

 

So only a fat racist drunk can play Churchill then going by your argument.

 

Nope. If a film is to be historically accurate then casting and setting have to reflect things that appear correct and believable. Stop trying to score points. I've not written anything obscene. Have just expressed a point of view which I believe to be perfectly sound.

 

No film, play, book is ever 100% historically accurate - it's all a personal view. If you can't suspend belief when watching to the extent you can't see beyond someone's physical appearance then it's your problem alone.

And I didn't say you wrote anything obscene, maybe you're hard of reading.

 

And don't insult please. I can read as can you. Cheap.
And as an aside, of course youre correct. If we wanted complete historical accuracy we would have to have the actual historical figures. We dont though do we? So we have to make do with the production/director's slant. Its incumbent on them to make us suspend our disbelief to the extent that, in a historical film, we can say 'yeah I can see that'. If they can't do that they've failed. So, the black Anne Boleyn fails for me. That's all.

 

Quote where I said you said owt obscene then.

 

I didn't. I merely said Id not written anything obscene.