Cancelling The Bard

[Bud_Spencer]

Renowned composer escapes Mao's Cultural Revolution only to run smack dab into ours:

On September 10, freshman Olivia Cook attended Sheng’s composition seminar. The course that year was going to analyze the works of William Shakespeare, and Sheng’s first class featured the 1965 film “Othello,” which featured actor Laurence Olivier wearing blackface. Sheng told the Daily that he showed the film to highlight how opera composer Giuseppe Verdi had adapted the play. Sheng told the outlet that cross-casting happens regularly in opera and didn’t see Olivier’s performance “the same as the minstrel performances which did degrade African Americans.”

https://www.dailywire.com/news/a-re...ts-led-a-revolt-and-now-hes-accused-of-racism

Of course, he did the exact wrong thing and apologized for introducing his little snowflakes to some of the finest literature and drama the West has to offer. There is no forgiveness in the Church of the Woke.

 

[pecksniff]

Othello is not a negro anyway, he is a Moor, that is, a Berber.

 

[Biggs_Darklighter]

Othello is not a negro anyway, he is a Moor, that is, a Berber.

Yeah that'll go over well.

 

[Bud_Spencer]

Othello is not a negro anyway, he is a Moor, that is, a Berber.

That makes him part of the POC coalition and thus anyone can be offended on his behalf...even though he's a fictional character.

 

[Biggs_Darklighter]

That makes him part of the POC coalition and thus anyone can be offended on his behalf...even though he's a fictional character.

The fictional character thing don't work. Ya'll have a hissy at every rumor that James Bond will be a woman or Sulu being gay or just about any change to "traditional" roles. So shut the fuck up with that bullshit.

 

[pecksniff]

And then there's Ghostbusters . . .

 

[Biggs_Darklighter]

And then there's Ghostbusters . . .

Holy fuck I forgot about that. Good thing nobody got upset over changing fictional characters in that one. Dodged a bullet.

 

[Bud_Spencer]

The fictional character thing don't work. Ya'll have a hissy at every rumor that James Bond will be a woman or Sulu being gay or just about any change to "traditional" roles. So shut the fuck up with that bullshit.

There's a difference there, can you see it?

 

[Biggs_Darklighter]

There's a difference there, can you see it?

Yes but it's a subtle difference which results in the same thing...you don't get to use the fictional character bullshit.

 

[LukSkyFokker]

The fictional character thing don't work. Ya'll have a hissy at every rumor that James Bond will be a woman or Sulu being gay or just about any change to "traditional" roles. So shut the fuck up with that bullshit.

Just wait until he hears about the new Thor.

 

[Biggs_Darklighter]

Just wait until he hears about the new Thor.

That's a big story arc in the comic tho. There's nothing to complain about.

 

[LukSkyFokker]

Like that whiny bitch cares.

 

[Bud_Spencer]

Yes but it's a subtle difference which results in the same thing...you don't get to use the fictional character bullshit.

No, it's not really subtle at all. Olivier didn't put on blackface for the fun of it, he put it on because that's what the character was: A Moor.

James Bond isn't a chick.

 

[pecksniff]

James Bond isn't a chick.

And Santa Claus is white.

 

[Bud_Spencer]

And Santa Claus is white.

Shall I introduce you to Sir Ian Fleming?

 

[phrodeau]

Giuseppe Verdi’s “Otello” premiered in 1887, and has nothing to do with the Olivier film of 1965.

 

[Bud_Spencer]

Giuseppe Verdi’s “Otello” premiered in 1887, and has nothing to do with the Olivier film of 1965.

Not true, but so?

 

[phrodeau]

https://dyn.media.titan-comics.com/K1eg1TvW3auUW7pAuJQHs5UFatc=/400x0/https://media.titan-comics.com/comics/variants/DW13D-3.jpg

 

[pecksniff]

Othello is dark enough for his enemies to make something of it in the first act, warning Desdemona's father about his daughter getting with a "Barbary horse." But, these are Italians as written by an Elizabethan Englishman, and neither he nor his audience had ever seen an actual black sub-Saharan African. Othello's racial background only serves to make him, in their eyes, exotic and passionate and hot-tempered.

 

[ishtat]

Better not mention "The Dark Lady of the Sonnets,"

Lucy Negro, brothel keeper and Prostitute; 'Black Luce' was Shakespeare's lover and inspiration according to some experts.

 

[pecksniff]

Better not mention "The Dark Lady of the Sonnets,"

Lucy Negro, brothel keeper and Prostitute; 'Black Luce' was Shakespeare's lover and inspiration according to some experts.

There is also controversy as to whether the person the sonnets are addressed to, or about, is female at all.