Cleopatra Loses Netflix $2 Billion In Egypt Lawsuit

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  • Опубликовано: 7 окт 2023
  • Netflix's Cleopatra documentary was ridiculed all over the internet a few months ago, but now Netflix is in a lawsuit with Egypt which may lose them $2 billion and possibly even more due to lawyer and court fee's which in a case this big will add up. However it begs a bigger question which is why Hollywood have to market every show and movie with a political spin rather than with quality of story.
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  • @midnightfun1277
    @midnightfun1277 8 месяцев назад +5363

    Its a slap in the face for a whole country. They literally gaslighted a whole country and still had the audacity to act like they are the victim.

    • @Ender7j
      @Ender7j 8 месяцев назад +36

      Much like how the person behind this behaves

    • @williampotter2098
      @williampotter2098 8 месяцев назад +143

      Two countries, Egypt and Greece.

    • @cringe_lord5762
      @cringe_lord5762 8 месяцев назад +34

      A literally crocodile tear, disgusting

    • @merykhan97
      @merykhan97 8 месяцев назад +114

      Well, they tried to gaslight them. Both Egyptians and Greeks know their history very well.

    • @mnomadvfx
      @mnomadvfx 8 месяцев назад +61

      Technically they gaslit 2 considering she was Macedonian Greek.

  • @davidraper5798
    @davidraper5798 8 месяцев назад +5900

    You can paint Cleopatra blue for all anybody cares but don't call it a documentary unless you have some hard facts to back it up!

    • @ShyOff
      @ShyOff 8 месяцев назад +82

      True

    • @ShakaHapa
      @ShakaHapa 8 месяцев назад +172

      Yep that’s the thing. Netflix messed up with that one

    • @mobbs6426
      @mobbs6426 8 месяцев назад +52

      The BBC would have eaten this up for Doctor Who

    • @Catherine.Dorian.
      @Catherine.Dorian. 8 месяцев назад +64

      You now have me envisioning a cleopatra in the style of Zoidberg, maybe she could be half crab!

    • @bmwg35
      @bmwg35 8 месяцев назад +7

      Bingo

  • @valmarsiglia
    @valmarsiglia 16 дней назад +1020

    An ancient Roman would look at this and probably ask "Uh, why does Cleopatra look Nubian, and why do the Romans look German?"

    • @emib6599
      @emib6599 12 дней назад +43

      Thinking how many german origin soldiers generals and emperors they had, that's somewhat realistic.

    • @valmarsiglia
      @valmarsiglia 12 дней назад +74

      @@emib6599 In the late republic? Lol.

    • @emib6599
      @emib6599 12 дней назад +14

      @@valmarsiglia I said "somewhat" movies with the Roman Empire were never with a realistic depiction.
      For example you always saw the colosseum, even of lot of them were set before it was built, but for a narrative and scene impact purpose it always worked.
      Romans stated trying to integrate different cultures right after they expanded outside Italy, because even holding their "first provincia" was difficult because of the various italic cultures.
      So if you are not doing an history documentary, showing the romans as multiethnic make sense.

    • @valmarsiglia
      @valmarsiglia 12 дней назад +48

      @@emib6599 Multiethnic? Yeah, one looked Swiss, another looked Dutch, another looked English... especially Caesar, who looked like an SS Obersturmbannführer. 😅

    • @valmarsiglia
      @valmarsiglia 12 дней назад +29

      @@emib6599 OMG, looking at the IMDB page, all the Romans are played by Englishmen and one Irishman. They went out of their way to hire the most pallid, blue-eyed Brits and Irishmen they could find to underscore the Romans' "whiteness." 😅

  • @kilicm
    @kilicm 2 месяца назад +1993

    -I remember my grandmother saying to me Cleopatra was black.
    -Oh really, how old was your grandmother, two thousand years?

    • @binkao2938
      @binkao2938 2 месяца назад +39

      This lol

    • @bresteto
      @bresteto Месяц назад +14

      😂😂

    • @bubzy3591
      @bubzy3591 27 дней назад +1

      These people are just making everyone resent black people……… I thought they wanted to get rid of racism………but the way they are going about it is only promoting racism…………these people are utterly and horrifically just inept and have no self awareness and sense of perspective, just me me me victimized mentality. Nobody respects crybabies, every race was enslaved at one point in history, but if you ask a black person they would try to discredit these facts………… sigh…..

    • @darugdawg2453
      @darugdawg2453 21 день назад

      She has dementia

    • @Flowerchild778
      @Flowerchild778 20 дней назад +5

      😂

  • @alfredstimoli2590
    @alfredstimoli2590 8 месяцев назад +20245

    The amount of racism you need to change the race of a historical character and then to laugh in the faces of the citizens that historical character belongs to and accuse them of racism, is truly galling.

    • @2GooDProductions
      @2GooDProductions 8 месяцев назад +1033

      @@caveatlector2671 they dont even realise they are doing it, self awareness is their weakest trait.

    • @uhnborhn5032
      @uhnborhn5032 8 месяцев назад +576

      They accuse you of doing the thing they are, in fact, doing.
      What it does is makes it incredibly difficult to argue because of how irrational they're being.
      They made skin color the issue, by forcing a change in rhe skin color of the original character into a "minority" color.
      Yet your the issue, for making their skin color issue an issue. Lol

    • @williampotter2098
      @williampotter2098 8 месяцев назад +807

      Let's do a documentary on Martin Luther King and use a white actor and see what happens ....

    • @GladDestronger
      @GladDestronger 8 месяцев назад +81

      Yeah, nothing could ever go wrong with that idea. Nope. Oh wait... Yeah it would. People will be throwing a shitfit.

    • @jstring
      @jstring 8 месяцев назад +303

      @@williampotter2098nah I’m thinking use a Hispanic or Asian actor. The I have a dream speech in those accents would be great.

  • @rinoamenna
    @rinoamenna 8 месяцев назад +7723

    it's cute that she thinks its about her or her skin tone & not realizing its about destroying HISTORY

    • @ricsim78
      @ricsim78 8 месяцев назад

      Destroying history and making it whatever they want it to be rather than what really happened.

    • @SM-nz9ff
      @SM-nz9ff 8 месяцев назад

      Its cute that she is talking to actual Africans....LOL yes the actual black people are racists against the black British person LOLOL

    • @reddnuckles
      @reddnuckles 8 месяцев назад +49

      History, you say? So where's all that backlash for white people playing Egyptians. Those Persians had all the smoke for a black girl playing Cleopatra, and the funny thing is, Egypt claim it has nothing to do with Greece and their Cleopatra. Since she isn't really Egyptian. So I would ask why so serious and now want to sue? I smell selective outrage. 🤣🤦🏾

    • @ricsim78
      @ricsim78 8 месяцев назад +1143

      @@reddnucklesFunny you could not see the difference. The old Cleopatra MOVIE was not trying to make a statement with the "white casting", and was a MOVIE. This is a "DOCUMENTARY" featuring a black Cleopatra, with "experts" claiming it is legit. The fact you could not figure this out by yourself is the only outrage I have! 🤦‍♂

    • @reddnuckles
      @reddnuckles 8 месяцев назад

      @@ricsim78 I can tell you were very emotional typing that response to my comment. I didn't mention anything about about the old Cleopatra movies. High emotions is the #1 factor for selective outrage and you're clearly guilty of it sir. The History Channel have a large catalogs of Egyptian documentaries dated in the late 80s, all of the 90s and 2000s. What did you see on the majority of those films white americans playing Egyptians. No one said a word. The first "Documentary" showing a black woman playing a white historic figure broke the internet. You say it's not about race? All you hear is "they just need to make it historically accurate" and I would agree. C'mon..the modern day Egyptians never cared for Cleopatra why now? Because if it was another studio behind the film they wouldn't care. So they use the guides of racism to vent their frustration, so they can make a case to sue Netflix. AkA selective outrage, in its natural form. The only color those Egyptians care about is money green and they pulling everyone into their B.S. Why sue? Ms Cleo don't represent you. I would understand if Greece sues Netflix.🤦🏾🥱

  • @Spectrum0122
    @Spectrum0122 3 месяца назад +1165

    They really had someone's grandma say "trust me bro"

    • @cosminmilitaru9920
      @cosminmilitaru9920 Месяц назад +12

      She must know better than Egypt and Macedonia. Cleopatra's family didn't even speak their language.

    • @ricardohoang8452
      @ricardohoang8452 Месяц назад +28

      When someone’s grandma said “trust me bro”, you know things are messed up 😂

    • @johnprice4847
      @johnprice4847 11 дней назад +1

      ​@@cosminmilitaru9920Macedonia? The Slavic country or the Greek region?

    • @antonischatz.2133
      @antonischatz.2133 11 дней назад

      @@johnprice4847 The latter.

    • @garyvincent7397
      @garyvincent7397 10 дней назад

      @@johnprice4847 yes and a the empire that a man now known as Great Al, conquered a lot of the world, including Egypt (who welcomed him wilingingly and who much preferred him to the previous Persian rule) which promptly went to Ptolemy son of his general Lagos, (uh from my vague memory) and a few generations later of ptolmic pharoahs you get wabam, lady cleo the woman in question

  • @thepanda1044
    @thepanda1044 2 месяца назад +1100

    Netflix: We're making Cleopatra black.
    Egypt: *We know our own history*

    • @jonatanpersson82
      @jonatanpersson82 10 дней назад +21

      And doing it for a documentary, not a functional story

    • @yesthejets3368
      @yesthejets3368 День назад

      ​@@jonatanpersson82egypt doesnt own Cleopatra this is so dumb

    • @waludalu5102
      @waludalu5102 День назад +16

      @@yesthejets3368 it's like saying Americans don't own Abraham Lincoln so we can depict him as a ray sist slave owner

    • @theunknown1760
      @theunknown1760 День назад

      No your just stupid lol​@@yesthejets3368

    • @epsilonsix1996
      @epsilonsix1996 День назад +3

      ​@@yesthejets3368 Egypt doesnt own their own history?

  • @Drixenol86
    @Drixenol86 8 месяцев назад +12192

    Kudos to Egypt for actually doing this.

    • @zimriel
      @zimriel 8 месяцев назад +430

      If they win I hope Greece sues next.

    • @mnomadvfx
      @mnomadvfx 8 месяцев назад

      No choice really.
      With the military coup in 2010 they received a gut punch to tourism, so they have to take control of the narrative.

    • @scarlett19b
      @scarlett19b 8 месяцев назад +219

      @@zimriel *Let's not forget about Macedonia & Armenia!*

    • @yong9613
      @yong9613 8 месяцев назад +41

      Should sue for 20billion USD instead

    • @headsNshoulders
      @headsNshoulders 8 месяцев назад +17

      ​@@zimriellol why would they sue? Egypt is saying she was Greek
      You sound but hurt

  • @SoCalDreaming87
    @SoCalDreaming87 8 месяцев назад +8469

    Pull the race card when logic and history is against you? Sounds about right.

    • @JeffBird86
      @JeffBird86 8 месяцев назад +326

      We should include race card as part of the Karen card.

    • @SoCalDreaming87
      @SoCalDreaming87 8 месяцев назад +127

      @JeffreyBird-mt8tl In the Karen starter pack. I would add a high level clearance, fake government ID too.

    • @Batzarn82
      @Batzarn82 8 месяцев назад

      You gotta love how everything is seen as racist when it goes one way but when it goes the other way nothing is racist and they can just blatantly lie and ignore history. Netflix never should have called this a documentary and maybe they would have gotten away with it.

    • @Thomas-uz3zf
      @Thomas-uz3zf 8 месяцев назад +133

      Never underestimate a woman's ability to make things worse

    • @MyTripToThePhilippines
      @MyTripToThePhilippines 8 месяцев назад +154

      This actress is now the Rachel Zegler of Netflix.

  • @Mobri
    @Mobri 2 месяца назад +515

    Isn't this a type of cultural appropriation? Claiming an entire culture and group as your own and then shamelessly flaunting it in a movie is pretty wild.

    • @enkisdaughter4795
      @enkisdaughter4795 13 дней назад +37

      That’s Murica for you.
      Take someone else’s culture and history and portray it as something completely different (think of the Mel Gibson’s film Braveheart, which was so historically inaccurate it was untrue and caused problems here in the UK).
      Why didn’t Netflix make a show about the Kushite Kings and Queens (ancient Egyptian 25th dynasty) instead of hijacking a Ptolomy Queen (Ptolomy was a General of Alexander the Great’s)?
      Flippin’ ‘eck, my classmates and I were taught about the Kushites over 50 years ago in school.
      When Alexander died, without an heir, his Generals carved up his empire between themselves:
      ¥ Ptolemy - Egypt
      ¥ Seleucus - Mesopotamia, and all of the East
      ¥ Antigonus - much of Asia Minor
      ¥ Lysimachus - Thrace, and
      ¥ Antipater - mainland Greece
      Kushite Kings who ruled Nubia and Ancient Egypt:
      ¥ Piye - 747-716 BCE
      ¥ Shabaqa (716-702 BCE)
      ¥ Shebitqu (702-690 BCE)
      ¥ Taharaqa (690-664 BCE), and
      ¥ Tanutamani (664 BCE)
      Amazing that I found this online in just a few minutes.
      This programme should have been listed as a “mocumentary” and definitely NOT a documentary.
      Are the researchers at Netflix so bad at their jobs that they can’t find any real information with all the resources they have at hand? Heads need to roll.

    • @Cypherwraith001
      @Cypherwraith001 10 дней назад +17

      ​@@enkisdaughter4795 I think it's an issue of "building on an established brand". Companies see it this way:
      Which will make more money? Telling the true story of an Egyptian Monarch from one of the Nubian dynasties that no one has heard of? Or taking a leader that has name recognition, and insisting that they're black to capture a portion of that audience?
      If they cared about presenting truth and elevating real black stories, they could. They just don't think that would be profitable.

    • @DisDatK9
      @DisDatK9 10 дней назад +17

      Its the DEFINITION of Cultural Appropriation. And its the absolute worst kind of it. Imagine if we made a "Documentary" about Shaka (the Zulu chieftan, also known as "The Black Napoleon") and made the entire cast white with the director saying "I dont give a shit what schools say, Shaka was White!" People would lose their freaking minds. That there are those who don't see this as horribly racist and disgusting is incredible to me.

    • @DFlaminberry
      @DFlaminberry 6 дней назад

      Its okay when leftist do it lol

    • @MacabreAfterparty
      @MacabreAfterparty 5 дней назад +4

      ​@enkisdaughter4795 the actress who played cleopatra and is screaming racism is actually quite British herself so I don't think it's an American issue alone

  • @johnkinker2351
    @johnkinker2351 2 месяца назад +584

    they got sued and lost 2 billion to Egypt... for a 3% audience score .
    the only people that watched that disaster was their INTENDED AUDIENCE and their score was 3%🤣🤣🤣

    • @eliasvonbrille
      @eliasvonbrille 16 дней назад +19

      They haven't lost the Lawsuit yet.
      And they probably won't lose 2 Billion.
      I am fully on your side but why is everyone lying? I was actually confused about if the Lawsuit is already over or not in the beginning.

    • @feloniousbutterfly
      @feloniousbutterfly 13 дней назад +4

      Who is the "intended audience" then?

    • @achimdemus-holzhaeuser1233
      @achimdemus-holzhaeuser1233 8 дней назад +1

      what was the intended audience ? deconstructive hatewatchers and critics ?

    • @vegasboy5931
      @vegasboy5931 6 дней назад

      ⁠​⁠@@feloniousbutterflyProbably a group of deranged liberal arts rejects looking to be empowered by blatant woke revisionism

    • @nathanieldelatorre3655
      @nathanieldelatorre3655 3 дня назад +2

      ​@feloniousbutterfly isn't it obvious, black or really woke

  • @maxim7781
    @maxim7781 8 месяцев назад +4116

    She calls Netflix “entire streaming service” like it’s bigger than Egypt 😂😂😂

    • @BoyBattery
      @BoyBattery 8 месяцев назад +88

      😂😂😂😂😂

    • @thahirshibu5042
      @thahirshibu5042 7 месяцев назад +109

      It's smaller than the entire of the Vatican City

    • @stargazer-elite
      @stargazer-elite 7 месяцев назад +46

      TO BE FAIR while I’m not sure about Netflix specifically but a lot of American companies are big/more powerful then SOME countries like Disney is practically a mini country that exists in both the physical and digital worlds Elon musk the richest person on earth could straight up buy certain countries if one man can do that imagine what a whole mega corporation can do

    • @valyshknee4203
      @valyshknee4203 7 месяцев назад +179

      @@stargazer-elite egypt has lots of oil, egypt has the suez canal, egypt has a giant army, who is more powerful? egypt.

    • @Snake-ms7sj
      @Snake-ms7sj 7 месяцев назад

      Netflix is more like a steaming service. A steaming pile of dog 💩

  • @blue-phoenix115
    @blue-phoenix115 4 месяца назад +4658

    Cast Tom Cruise as Martin Luther King. Then when people complain, label them a racist.

    • @zerogrey3798
      @zerogrey3798 3 месяца назад +236

      I've been waiting for Mat Damon to be cast as Shaka for the next Shaka Zulu reboot. I can't wait!

    • @TuckaBuck89
      @TuckaBuck89 3 месяца назад +43

      Great comment, thanks!

    • @magellankiller
      @magellankiller 3 месяца назад +24

      Yeah! Sure and ya' betcha!
      Let's see uh, Samuel L. Jackson cast as 'Honest' Abe Lincoln perhaps?
      Can't wait for THAT one myself!
      You people ARE some petty MF's I'd like for you to know!
      I wonder if any of you are over the age of 40 AT LEAST considering the level-or lack thereof-in the course of maturity.

    • @hugopalencia6507
      @hugopalencia6507 3 месяца назад +11

      You mean Elizabeth Taylor was from Egypt?

    • @Rakkasan11b
      @Rakkasan11b 3 месяца назад +101

      @@magellankiller the IRONY in your using of the word "PETTY"...hilarious! WTF you so butt hurt about anyway? haha

  • @Dantheman225500
    @Dantheman225500 2 месяца назад +206

    I love how Netflix literally grabbed a random old lady to say she was black as a way to convince the public. That is truly the most half assed propaganda I have ever seen.

  • @chetsirene3835
    @chetsirene3835 2 месяца назад +298

    the whole world: was Cleaopatra Egyptian or Greek?
    Netflix: yes she was Black. we have no proof other than a grandma saying that. yes.

    • @Dinosaur315
      @Dinosaur315 11 дней назад +21

      Also North "Macedonia":Noo she was ours and a slav, even though we have no solid proof either and just make up our own conclusions and myths 🤣

    • @antonischatz.2133
      @antonischatz.2133 11 дней назад

      @@Dinosaur315 When you have no national identity, you forge one.

    • @captaingreek
      @captaingreek 4 дня назад +6

      Absolutely Greek from the Ptolemaic Dynasty.

  • @RealLuvKraft
    @RealLuvKraft 8 месяцев назад +2013

    She is so arrogant. This is real life history. If you falsely portray history you will get backlash

    • @bladerunner3314
      @bladerunner3314 8 месяцев назад +122

      No matter what they tell you in school, Stalin was black.

    • @Vergil66895
      @Vergil66895 8 месяцев назад +96

      ​@@bladerunner3314good joke homie! But i think that a certain austrian painter was black!

    • @madmantheepic7278
      @madmantheepic7278 8 месяцев назад

      Would be funnier if the silly austrian painter was jewish instead

    • @georgebailey8179
      @georgebailey8179 8 месяцев назад +22

      @@bladerunner3314 She sure was.

    • @crazyralph6386
      @crazyralph6386 8 месяцев назад

      She’s a nobody now, just like that terrible actress who played Reeeva in Obi Wan.

  • @gix2lee
    @gix2lee 8 месяцев назад +5829

    The entitlement, arrogance and ignorance is so staggering that it requires a whole country to get up and take legal action. The real Egyptians are taking a stand and protecting their history and culture. I’m glad they’re sticking up for historical facts and their heritage.

    • @ScoobySnacksYum
      @ScoobySnacksYum 8 месяцев назад +46

      Yeah. It's like all those movies that portray ancient Israelites as white people with fair skin, light eyes, etc. Just absurd and blatantly racist. What decent person thinks Jesus, Mary, and Joseph looked like northern Europeans? It's so twisted that people have portraits of a pale-skinned, blonde and blue-eyed Jesus hanging on their walls. Entirely disrespectful.
      It's really beyond the pale (pun intended) to think that Cleopatra might have been mixed-race--father of Greek origin and mother with some amount of sub-Saharan ancestry. It's not like Nubians hadn't been traveling to Egypt for centuries and at one point conquered and ruled Egypt during the 25th Dynasty.

    • @scarlett19b
      @scarlett19b 8 месяцев назад +130

      @@ScoobySnacksYum *Cleopatra was Macedonian Greek Descent.. not just Greek..*

    • @moshe4787
      @moshe4787 8 месяцев назад

      @@ScoobySnacksYum SMH LOL What's so sad, stupid, and hypocritical about these commenters is they are praising Cleopatra for the same thing Netflix has done. Cleopatra was a Greek, Macedonian that appropriated the Egyptian culture through invasion and those people in the land now calling themselves Egyptians are the genetic by-products of numerous invasions. Netflix could've easily chosen the grandmother of King Tut, Queen Tiye and looking at her image would've shut these "modern Egyptians" up.

    • @zebnemma
      @zebnemma 8 месяцев назад

      Every single person who took part in changing Cleopatra into a black woman: "I'm more important than history, who the fuck is Cleopatra? I am more important than a historical queen and to demonstrate that I'm going to erase the real Cleo from history". It's pure power tripping from people with delusions of grandeur. Including the actress herself. Any sane actor would not want to take a role that insults history itself. Maybe she only did it for the paycheck maybe then I could understand. I would respect her more if she just said "I just did it for the money, I don't actually agree that the real Cleo was black" but she is defending this shit so fuck her. She is not more important than Cleo, and she never will be.

    • @stefanvukicevic834
      @stefanvukicevic834 8 месяцев назад

      Modern Egyptians are Arabs ,so they have nothing to do with ancient Egyptians,true descendants of ancient Egyptians are Copts who are minority in todays Egypt

  • @gregpeterson3144
    @gregpeterson3144 2 месяца назад +320

    Cleopatra (a Greek name) was of a Greek dynasty called Ptolemaic, which started with a general of Alexander's army (Ptolemy) who was installed as a king of Egypt.

  • @AKnight95
    @AKnight95 11 дней назад +43

    It's funny that Egyptians have been saying that she was Greek for close to 3000 years

    • @divisionagentbailey6727
      @divisionagentbailey6727 День назад

      No they haven’t

    • @waludalu5102
      @waludalu5102 День назад +7

      @@divisionagentbailey6727 grandma's off her pills again

    • @camronrapp4146
      @camronrapp4146 День назад +3

      ​@@divisionagentbailey6727Dude what? It's basic knowledge

    • @gibbygibbstein7858
      @gibbygibbstein7858 День назад +5

      ​​​​@@divisionagentbailey6727 Cleopatra's father was Ptolemy XII Auletes, who was a Macedonian (greek territory) general. Cleopatra was born in Alexandria to a Macedonian man and woman. She was born in Egypt, but she is Greek.

    • @whoeverest_the_whateverest
      @whoeverest_the_whateverest 22 часа назад

      She lived less then 2100 years ago, they couldt be speaking it for "close to 3000 years ago"

  • @iamsoldtojuandelacruz3137
    @iamsoldtojuandelacruz3137 7 месяцев назад +3159

    She misconstrued the lawsuit as a personal attack or racial discrimination while in fact it is a battle for historical truth.

    • @DiegoFarre4
      @DiegoFarre4 7 месяцев назад +118

      r/iamthemaincharacter

    • @DasFork
      @DasFork 7 месяцев назад +102

      Exactly. Additionally I find it ironic that the "documentary" that racially discriminate screeches racial discrimination when they get called out on their shit.

    • @deansusec8745
      @deansusec8745 7 месяцев назад +78

      as well as misappropriation of a nation's culture and history.

    • @paulbedichek5177
      @paulbedichek5177 7 месяцев назад

      When she insists the entire country of Egypt is racist, it is simply projection, American blacks are extremely racist.

    • @MrBroken030
      @MrBroken030 7 месяцев назад

      Imagine being this self centered and ignorant, amaaaaazing!

  • @lunabunnii
    @lunabunnii 8 месяцев назад +3925

    The fact that the lead actress laughed at the ENTIRE country for being offended about their history being portrayed incorrectly and called them all racist is INSANE! I would bet she's the type of person who cries and screams when people get HER OWN culture and history wrong and that people should listen and portray it correctly because it's THEIR history but in the same breath say everyone else is racist about a them pushing a THEORY about a historical figure that can be proven wrong with artifacts from that time🙄

    • @stevengrice1807
      @stevengrice1807 8 месяцев назад +257

      She have to know something about her own culture first. Which she does not.

    • @dalemcdenver7816
      @dalemcdenver7816 8 месяцев назад +291

      She said racism is a *very* modern ideology. That says it all. These people don't know anything outside of what they where told by smarter, more manipulative people with an axe to grind that came before them.

    • @Drixenol86
      @Drixenol86 8 месяцев назад +133

      Just because you play Cleopatra doesn’t mean you ARE Cleopatra.

    • @sidd_not_vicious2609
      @sidd_not_vicious2609 8 месяцев назад

      she is most likely a perpetual victim about everything from being a woman to her skin color and thinks all people who cant stand her are rascist..no we just dont like you

    • @Angyali
      @Angyali 8 месяцев назад +38

      111. like from me to this comment. The lead actress clearly has no undertanding on culture - popular or historical.

  • @amazingworld1255
    @amazingworld1255 16 дней назад +61

    Julio cesar- african actor
    Hannibal- chinese actor
    Aquiles- swedish actor
    Alexander- indian actor
    Martin l king- irish actor

    • @Dinosaur315
      @Dinosaur315 11 дней назад +2

      Omg so racist except Julio Ceasar and Alexander the great 🤣🤣🤣

    • @sahiltamuli1753
      @sahiltamuli1753 7 дней назад +7

      Tf you mean expect Alexander and Julio​@@Dinosaur315

    • @TheMaronite
      @TheMaronite 3 дня назад +3

      Hannibal is Phoenician. Hannibal had Light brown hair, fair Mediterranean skintone, and light brown eyes. Hannibal was literally called "Bane Tsur" aka "The Son of Tyre," and therefore if anyone is actually eligible for hannibal, it would be a lebanese actor, since lebanese have the highest percentage of Phoenician Dna in the world (93%) and still practice phoenician customs (like dabke and labbadeh hat)

    • @ThoronSage
      @ThoronSage 3 дня назад +1

      ​@sahiltamuli1753 I think it's because the original poster made them african/black and Indian - and apparently it's not racist to misrepresent a historical figure if the actor is black.
      That's my interpretation anyhow.

    • @Trontotario2
      @Trontotario2 57 минут назад

      Can you not spell the names right?

  • @valproton3841
    @valproton3841 2 месяца назад +86

    Quite right too, there is no mystery of who she was. Cleopatra was a descendant of its founder Ptolemy I Soter, a Macedonian Greek general and companion of Alexander the Great, not African or even Egyptian.

  • @lorenzothehandaforlifeplan435
    @lorenzothehandaforlifeplan435 8 месяцев назад +1335

    The actress, clearly, has the intelligence range of a teaspoon.

    • @_TravisTouchdown
      @_TravisTouchdown 8 месяцев назад +4

      How dare you!
      The teaspoon clearly has more brain cells than she ever will.

    • @OtakuV2
      @OtakuV2 8 месяцев назад +71

      Shoe size iq

    • @cmc5394oparva
      @cmc5394oparva 8 месяцев назад +60

      If brains were fuel, she couldn't power a flea's motorcycle around a raindrop.

    • @davidripley2916
      @davidripley2916 8 месяцев назад +26

      Never trust spoons 🥄.
      Always stirring it. . . 🤣

    • @MyTripToThePhilippines
      @MyTripToThePhilippines 8 месяцев назад +50

      I think you just insulted tea spoons.

  • @vanessasanha528
    @vanessasanha528 7 месяцев назад +4838

    NEVER THOUGHT THAT A WHOLE COUNTRY WOULD SUE an American company like that… and they soooo deserve it!! It puts a big smile on my face 😄

    • @feston4032
      @feston4032 7 месяцев назад +127

      First, they ruin snow white which ruins many peoples childhood including mine, now they ruin Egypt actual history and got sued by the whole nations lmao

    • @amirmsebe
      @amirmsebe 7 месяцев назад +31

      😂😂😂 well... We do have black skinned people here in south india. Can we do acting??? As this actress talks about skin color... There are other dark skin color people in other countries too. Y don't this actress give up her role my region dark skin person??

    • @jjhaya
      @jjhaya 7 месяцев назад +14

      I hate the fact that this channel is clickbaiting and ragebaiting at the same time . The lawsuit is still ongoing and so the dude shouldn't use "loses" but "is about to lose" or something else.
      Although I agree that the documentary should be as accurate as possible including Cleopatra's race I doubt Egypt is gonna win this case, especially for 2 Billion dollars .

    • @avioracrown6967
      @avioracrown6967 7 месяцев назад +1

      Not make a dent of their finance
      They will always do this

    • @vanessasanha528
      @vanessasanha528 7 месяцев назад

      @@amirmsebe dude what are you talking about? Cleopatra was caucasian from Greece! She wasn’t fking black !!

  • @tidela4714
    @tidela4714 11 дней назад +44

    So let me get this straight: they made a documentary radically (and against basic historical fact) claiming that Cleopatra was black because Egypt is an African country. _But,_ when Egypt itself calls out this claim, they’re racist towards black people? 😂

    • @HugeHaddock
      @HugeHaddock 2 дня назад +8

      Yep. And, fun fact. Cleopatra herself wasn't even Egyptian, she was mainly Greek

  • @leegibson5469
    @leegibson5469 25 дней назад +41

    I love how they preach to us about not caring about skin color but go out of their way to change the skin color of established characters.

    • @lockheedmartinf-22raptor73
      @lockheedmartinf-22raptor73 11 дней назад +8

      Not even established characters, SOMEONE WHO ACTUALLY EXISTED. it's wild.

    • @leegibson5469
      @leegibson5469 11 дней назад +2

      @@lockheedmartinf-22raptor73 you are correct that was my bad

    • @Luthiart
      @Luthiart 3 дня назад

      The woke never proposed that we should not care about skin color. They care about skin color very much. Telling a wokie that you're "color blind" is actually offensive to them. They want you to FOCUS on race and consider skin color the most important characteristic a person has.
      The woke think of people in terms of groups, not as individuals - which is the crux of bigotry. They do not believe in equally, either. They believe that some groups should be elevated while other groups are denigrated and suppressed... depending on skin color (and victim status).
      But that's not racism! 😆

  • @RCEASTMIDLANDS
    @RCEASTMIDLANDS 7 месяцев назад +4249

    She has some nerve accusing Egypt of racism when she literally appropriated Egypt's culture and history.

    • @googull4778
      @googull4778 7 месяцев назад +81

      Solid point.

    • @jojothepolyglot1866
      @jojothepolyglot1866 7 месяцев назад

      You know nothing about Egyptian culture....The People you see in Egypt at the moment are NOT the indigenous people of Egypt and are mostly descendants of either, Roman, Greek, Assyrian ,Persian or Ottoman invaders etc...Google the ''THE FORGOTTEN PYRAMIDS OF SUDAN''....They are NOT forgotten by the way, Someone just doesn't want to mention the fact that there are more Pyramids in Sudan because that would ERASE A LOT OF WHAT IS BEING TAUGHT AS HISTORY IN SCHOOLS! People living in Egypt at the moment are as Indigenous as Europeans in the Americas! I am a history graduate from Africa and the History we are taught and know if we tell it Hollywood and the West might not like it. Egyptians and mostly North Africans don't call themselves Africans for a reason and they NEVER try to tell us about these history because they know we know...

    • @Virakotxa
      @Virakotxa 7 месяцев назад +102

      It's because racism "It's a very modern ideology" ...

    • @SanityMustPrevail
      @SanityMustPrevail 6 месяцев назад

      🤡🤡

    • @omnipotentpumpkin9755
      @omnipotentpumpkin9755 6 месяцев назад

      America whitewashes Egyptian history since the beginning of the entertainment industry so when someone counters it I suspect Americans are actually the ones that are mad. It's most likely not Egypt doing this but Americans who don't like someone countering their propaganda. No doubt same people who financed this video.

  • @christianschaefer9343
    @christianschaefer9343 7 месяцев назад +1357

    And I remember actual Egyptologists saying; "We don't care what Shelley Haley tells you on Netflix. Cleopatra was ethnic Macedonian Greek."

    • @peterkorek-mv6rs
      @peterkorek-mv6rs 7 месяцев назад +17

      "and now off the record. greeks and macedonians were probably entire different tribes. there is also alot of stuff for 2 bn $ trials"

    • @manchagojohnsonmanchago6367
      @manchagojohnsonmanchago6367 7 месяцев назад

      Yeah she was some lusty big schnozzed big booty greek overlord

    • @TheBohemianCat
      @TheBohemianCat 7 месяцев назад +53

      ​@@peterkorek-mv6rssounds like slavic/Titoist propaganda

    • @MTLGSE
      @MTLGSE 7 месяцев назад

      ​@@peterkorek-mv6rslmao. You're a nitwit.

    • @JacobRodgers1up
      @JacobRodgers1up 7 месяцев назад +1

      Yakub. That's it.

  • @goretti2127
    @goretti2127 2 месяца назад +43

    Well done Egypt as a Irish woman I’m so proud of you

    • @officercat7907
      @officercat7907 6 дней назад +1

      Up to mighty London came an Irish lad one day

    • @HugeHaddock
      @HugeHaddock 2 дня назад

      ​@@officercat7907All the streets were paved with gold!

  • @Tatenak
    @Tatenak 9 дней назад +15

    It's just so hypocritical of the creators to be all about true ethnic representation in mainstream media; wanting the actors or actresses to be the same ethnicity as the character, yet didn't bother putting actual Egyptians in the film.

  • @S4NiYa3108
    @S4NiYa3108 8 месяцев назад +3161

    Cleopatra was of Greek descent and wasn't the most beautiful woman in the world. She was, however, very educated, knew how to speak the language of the people she ruled over, and very charismatic and charming.

    • @thejessegrant
      @thejessegrant  8 месяцев назад +518

      According to research and historical document that would be the smart conclusion to reach. However Netflix disagree ahaha

    • @S4NiYa3108
      @S4NiYa3108 8 месяцев назад +252

      @@thejessegrant I miss when facts were important

    • @Coramelimane
      @Coramelimane 8 месяцев назад +292

      If you think about it, her being so erudite, charming, intelligent and charismatic made her more beautiful then just her looks. Being able to hold an intellectual conversation in those days was the height of attractiveness.

    • @LoKaioh
      @LoKaioh 8 месяцев назад +60

      @@Coramelimane Well said

    • @menillos
      @menillos 8 месяцев назад +13

      hot enough

  • @keithgrant7950
    @keithgrant7950 3 месяца назад +1507

    They should also consider suing the Actress for stating that Egypt is only doing this because they are RACIST

    • @nvelsen1975
      @nvelsen1975 Месяц назад +95

      Falsely claiming they act purely out of racism is pretty up there in terms of 'actual malice', malicious intent, which is the central burden of evidence in most defamation laws.
      'Course, Egypt being defamed, their country would actually have jurisdiction, so they wouldn't even need to wage a case in the US with its weird laws.

    • @magellankiller
      @magellankiller Месяц назад

      And just where is she truly wrong in what she had stated?
      If up to You People NOBODY CAN BE RACIST-that is as long as You white People aren't in the crosshairs.

    • @ArielShayk
      @ArielShayk 26 дней назад +37

      Tht actress is ignorant

    • @magellankiller
      @magellankiller 26 дней назад

      @nvelsen1975
      Hokey Smoke!
      Talk about dredging up anything and everything to pose the possibility of even a shadow of the very THOUGHT of NOT being the center of characterization(s) that is tantamount to it being considered as the very definition of libel and/or slander.
      Do you now see how YOU PEOPLE sound in your attempts at somehow leveling the playfield so that YOU People may retain the notion as the priority in Race relations in this matter?
      Unbelievable......

    • @Gamer-dude247
      @Gamer-dude247 21 день назад

      The level of self importance within this actress is outstanding, a new level of arrogance just emerged, what a disgusting human being she is.

  • @simon6071
    @simon6071 Месяц назад +38

    Hollywood and the advertising industry's racist pandering to black people has gone from cringe worthy to insufferable.

  • @RandomMan7491
    @RandomMan7491 2 месяца назад +33

    I hope Egypt gets every penny of that money.

  • @roaroa5291
    @roaroa5291 8 месяцев назад +2477

    I think the man who filed the lawsuit should file another lawsuit against the actress for defamation. Let her defend her claims that his lawsuit is rooted in racism in a court of law.

    • @KJ-vp5fn
      @KJ-vp5fn 8 месяцев назад +241

      Also include that grandma... smoking too much bad weed that she's tripping on history with her distorted illusion

    • @sba8710
      @sba8710 8 месяцев назад +16

      @@KJ-vp5fnI dont think there is a claim against the grandma.

    • @AtticusKarpenter
      @AtticusKarpenter 8 месяцев назад +143

      Agree. Her answer is outrageuos and insane, what kind of media person can casually said something like "oh, entire country dont want me to falsify their history? They just threatened and racist!". She *must* bear legal responsibility for this, so as not to create a precedent when a celebrity can be as much an asshole and a boor as she wants and still go unpunished.

    • @nicomeier8098
      @nicomeier8098 8 месяцев назад +9

      100%!

    • @chuckymeyerme
      @chuckymeyerme 8 месяцев назад +7

      100% forsure

  • @theblackbaron4119
    @theblackbaron4119 3 месяца назад +778

    I don't remember in my lifetime that there was a "documentary " which was so bad, that they got sued by the country it's history it was about.

    • @DireW0lf0
      @DireW0lf0 3 месяца назад +40

      Basically the take -away from this is don't make a "documentary" with sources such as old Uncle George or Dave down the pub!

    • @magellankiller
      @magellankiller 3 месяца назад

      Most assuredly none of us have as long as the character in focus is not Black or even Brown. Personally I at MY age cannot recall but only a very FEW 'documentaries' of any other than white people and some so obscure as to my having to look them up prior to the documentary.
      Kind of like watching an episode of "Finding Your Roots" as I can recall that once the hip-hop stars had been covered and the ratings had been leveling off it became a requirement of mine at least to look up the people prior to the episode as it was "so who the HELL are THEY?" time and again each week.

    • @markcab2055
      @markcab2055 3 месяца назад

      What is really funny now is anybody that says they dont like a movie or film made is a racist, everything is racist. My chicken the other day laid a white egg instead of brown, great now I have a racist chicken, what to do, how do I explain to my chicken she is now a racist.

    • @MrEvansjethro
      @MrEvansjethro 3 месяца назад +8

      The most frightening to a thief is when the owner reclaim what was stolen.

    • @rdred8693
      @rdred8693 3 месяца назад +11

      @@MrEvansjethro And they stole one of the most iconic pieces of Egyptian, hell WORLD history! It's disgusting.

  • @1MrBlue3
    @1MrBlue3 2 месяца назад +13

    Why don't we make a Martin Luther King movie with him being White with blue eyes, and watch how the black community reacts.

  • @hasspass8751
    @hasspass8751 4 дня назад +10

    Instead of blackwashing Cleopatra why dont they make a show about an actual black Pharaoh called Piye

    • @schylerlongwell5424
      @schylerlongwell5424 3 дня назад +1

      Cause it was never about proper representation of people's culture and only about selling to the lowest common denominator

    • @TheGrandy123
      @TheGrandy123 16 часов назад +1

      👏👏 there were 6 nubian pharaons. They should talk about them. There are plenty black sovereigns. They should do a serie about them. It will be more accurate and interesting as african history is under represented on those platform. This would be great. Not blackwashing historical figures.

  • @devinjohnson1749
    @devinjohnson1749 7 месяцев назад +2727

    It’s wild to me that the actor thinks she’s that important that she takes the lawsuit as a personal attack on herself and her skin tone. The amount of delusion and audacity and quite frankly the stupidity it takes to feel like that, is mind blowing to me. The narcissism in society is completely out of control.

    • @teecakes
      @teecakes 7 месяцев назад +155

      This ACTRESS (so an expert at NOTHING let alone history) thinks it's more logical that think she's right, rather than take the word of The Entire Country of Egypt who say she's plain wrong about her historical fact-checking. Nope, she's right and they're racists, all however-many hundreds of millions of people living in Egypt-- (who are African, so yes a Black woman calling an entire African country racist in 2023 lol)
      You can't make up this kind of entitlement. Only in Hollywood!

    • @Einwetok
      @Einwetok 7 месяцев назад

      Sounds like she ascribes to that racist revisionist diatribe those nation of islam idiots spout, what a bunch of moore-ons.

    • @rodneybray5827
      @rodneybray5827 7 месяцев назад

      She's also blind to how racist it is to change Egyptian history. But then again, she's been told that only white people can be racist. So it is even more puzzling that she'd be accusing Egyptians of being racist. Apparently being black, especially in America, means everyone is racist!

    • @kunglengphou8146
      @kunglengphou8146 7 месяцев назад

      She can't even act

    • @Ludak021
      @Ludak021 7 месяцев назад +34

      Her skin tone is mixed so she has nothing on that front going on for her. She is of no race, no historical heritage, just a fleeting memory in those who are still alive and care for her.

  • @fredricklloyd5300
    @fredricklloyd5300 8 месяцев назад +1295

    I sincerely hope the actress gets named in the lawsuit as well for her baseless comments about racism. You shouldnt get to claim racism without basis.

    • @sjetsakai7772
      @sjetsakai7772 8 месяцев назад +22

      Wont happen since it's not about her. Netflix screwed up. She's just an actress. That would have to be a separate lawsuit.

    • @MyTripToThePhilippines
      @MyTripToThePhilippines 8 месяцев назад +78

      She is becoming the Rachel Zegler of Netflix.

    • @Catherine.Dorian.
      @Catherine.Dorian. 8 месяцев назад +19

      @@MyTripToThePhilippineswhat’s funny is she won’t actually be there. Because while she’s probably as insufferable, sadly Rachel somehow has a bigger career. Was this actress in anything else we even know?

    • @gbonkers666
      @gbonkers666 8 месяцев назад +1

      So they should people for their opinion?

    • @ithamarlowe6158
      @ithamarlowe6158 8 месяцев назад +45

      Racism is so rare these days! 9 out of 10 times the person claiming racism is delusional

  • @xanafein8453
    @xanafein8453 8 дней назад +6

    The funniest thing about Adele crying about this backlash is that she is ACTIVELY engaging in the great british past time of stealing from other cultures. Only this time instead of artifacts it's the cultural identity of a historical figure. Instead of putting it in a museum the docuseries will become a peice of lost media no one will ever care about.

  • @Shorty_Lickens
    @Shorty_Lickens 2 месяца назад +15

    0:57 And to drive the point home, an entire country insulted and maligned is somehow all about HER.
    The ego in modern actors is fucking unbelievable, especially from so many who are basically no-names and have no real success behind them. At least Brando could act, yeah he was a piece of shit too, but he delivered the goods when he was told.

  • @bobuxsniffer6956
    @bobuxsniffer6956 7 месяцев назад +328

    as an asian I humbly accept my role for Nelson Mandela
    just basically what Egypt feel

    • @frocat5163
      @frocat5163 3 месяца назад +18

      Let's remake _Roots_ and cast LeVar Burton as the plantation owner... Tom Holland can play Kunta Kinte.

    • @peekaboo1575
      @peekaboo1575 3 месяца назад +5

      Pretty much this.

    • @retLIFE
      @retLIFE 3 месяца назад +6

      Why not play MLK and give the “I have a dream” speech

    • @garymallard4699
      @garymallard4699 3 месяца назад +6

      My Grandma swore on a Bible that Mandela was a White Dutch Woman !! 😂

    • @docbailey3265
      @docbailey3265 3 месяца назад

      Well fine. I’m available for a documentary about Sun Tzu.

  • @AlwaysAskQuestion
    @AlwaysAskQuestion 8 месяцев назад +783

    "My Acting is Terrible, My Knowledge of History is Wrong, I'm Being sued for spreading Misinformation... they must hate me be because of the color of my skin..."
    I Love how it's always about Skin Color but never about The Actual Situation.

    • @PaulKMF1
      @PaulKMF1 8 месяцев назад

      These Afrocentrics are only concerned about skin color.

    • @1977ajax
      @1977ajax 8 месяцев назад +22

      What else has she got but a popular LIE.

    • @johnconstable8512
      @johnconstable8512 8 месяцев назад +11

      so TRUE haha

    • @louisc.gasper7588
      @louisc.gasper7588 8 месяцев назад +20

      And the sour cherry on top of the whole rotten mess is that it is only the color of her skin that got her the job.

    • @rainmirron
      @rainmirron 8 месяцев назад +1

      Yeah, except a lot of the times it is about skin color. This situation is an exception, not a rule.

  • @jacksonhodge4638
    @jacksonhodge4638 2 месяца назад +23

    Shaka Zulu was Chinese.

    • @BroadwayRonMexico
      @BroadwayRonMexico 7 дней назад +3

      Shaka Zulu was Albanian 🇦🇱 💪🇦🇱

    • @ShadeHeart94
      @ShadeHeart94 9 часов назад

      @@BroadwayRonMexico This is the comment I came here for 😄

  • @CBBC435
    @CBBC435 2 месяца назад +28

    Thank God. The only thing these idiot corporations heel to is the disruption of their bottom line.
    Thank you Egypt!!

  • @arconisthewolf4430
    @arconisthewolf4430 8 месяцев назад +1806

    You know it's mental when a whole country decides to sue netflix

    • @thejessegrant
      @thejessegrant  8 месяцев назад +138

      I know right

    • @waynehewett4017
      @waynehewett4017 8 месяцев назад +1

      Why
      Netflix is lying and giving misleading information
      Cleopatra was black cos someone's grandmar said so
      How stupid is that
      Where's the proof and evidence to back up Netflixs claims
      Netflix stated this was a documentary
      I hope Netflix has to pay dearly in court

    • @TheGeoDaddy
      @TheGeoDaddy 8 месяцев назад

      If WOKE Countries - like the UK, US, Canada and Aussyland - wanna TRASH their own History with Cultural Marxist, Secular, Racist and Transexual Ideology… that’s their business but the concept that they can TRASH other People’s History, Culture and Heritage… is criminal disrespect for National Sovereignty and should be penalized.

    • @riheg
      @riheg 8 месяцев назад +137

      To be fair, they are obsessed with their culture and history and rightfully so. Tourism is also a huge part of their economy.

    • @danlo7698
      @danlo7698 8 месяцев назад +100

      Mental on the SIDE OF NETFLIX!! EGYPT IS RIGHT! GET THAT MONEY

  • @vithepiltoverenforcer8778
    @vithepiltoverenforcer8778 8 месяцев назад +760

    This needs to happen every time. Don't let them race swap historical figures in any documentaries!

    • @skellyBones6910
      @skellyBones6910 8 месяцев назад +43

      Can't wait to race swap Nelson Mandela 💀

    • @theimp5901
      @theimp5901 8 месяцев назад +39

      It started with their version of Anne Boleyn being black. I ended Netflix then.

    • @physc0tr00per
      @physc0tr00per 8 месяцев назад +9

      ​@@theimp5901no it didn't. The Anne Boelyn drama was produced and broadcast by Channel 5 in the UK. 😂😂😂😂
      The netflix docudrama Blood, Sex and Royalty had Amy James-Kelly (who is white) playing Anne Boyelyn.

    • @wvanyar1801
      @wvanyar1801 8 месяцев назад +8

      But but it is a documentary, Cleopatra lived in Egypt. So, we have one known fact, so that makes it a documentary, right? Since we have one right fact all our other ridiculous claims have to be true as well?
      How dare you say our facts are wrong, you must be raciest.
      Sarcastic mode off, or is it how these people really think?

    • @NTJedi
      @NTJedi 7 месяцев назад

      Another 50 years and schools will be claiming the founding fathers of the USA were from Africa.

  • @WhiteAnims2
    @WhiteAnims2 6 дней назад +5

    Next Netflix documentary series: "ADOLF HITLER"
    Featuring - Will Smith as Adolf Hitler

    • @DeadlinePhil
      @DeadlinePhil День назад

      Replace Will Smith with Kanye West and it would actually be funny.

  • @fast457
    @fast457 9 дней назад +6

    Next time they should make a documentary of Abraham Lincoln played by a black actor.
    "I don't care what they tell you in American history, Abraham Lincoln was black."

  • @iberiusthebrave6304
    @iberiusthebrave6304 8 месяцев назад +2043

    That older lady saying that her grandmother believed cleopatra was black and not a product of greek incest is crazy af. Schools can say whatever they want but you gotta read the actual sources from antiquity to learn who she was, it’s not hard to find out.

    • @TheGosgosh
      @TheGosgosh 8 месяцев назад +184

      Who’s her grandma anyways? I didn’t see anything that her grandma is some expert in Egyptian history. So what does her very subjective opinion have to do in a „documentary“?

    • @lisaa.4667
      @lisaa.4667 8 месяцев назад +147

      I read a biography of Cleopatra not too long ago. She was not a notable beauty, but was well-educated, charming, seductive, and intelligent. She came from a Macedonian family, descended from one of Alexander the Great's generals, which had been very inbred for several generations. The family (Ptolemies) was notable for killing close relatives in order to gain the throne. Cleopatra herself was forced to marry her younger brother, whom she later went to war with, and he ended up slain in battle. She seduced and had children with the Roman generals Julius Caesar and Mark Antony in order to gain power and to survive her siblings' plots. She probably fell in love with Marc Antony and they married. They both committed suicide when they lost the war against the first Roman emperor, Augustus, whose sister was Mark Antony's former wife, Octavia. Octavia later raised Marc Antony's children by Cleopatra.

    • @smorgasbroad1132
      @smorgasbroad1132 8 месяцев назад +118

      That lady's grandma probably also told her to take Robitussin(™️) for a toothache. Being a black grandma doesn't give her any authority over anything, including history.

    • @shadowbroker4619
      @shadowbroker4619 7 месяцев назад +1

      Until DNA testing became affordable many American Blacks believed they had Native American in them. Same issue, their parents and grandparents had told them so. I remember RUclips being flooded by videos of these people getting their Ancestry results to find out they were 0% Native American and more often than not, part White. Not everything you’re family says is true. In reality their ancestors didn’t want to admit that their skin was lighter because they had White in them. Or their features were different than most Africans for the same reason. Native Americans we’re an acceptable scape goat since they obviously weren’t plantation and slaves owners. Ancestors of Black slaves don’t have any family records though (none going back to their African roots and most not even any of their family in America before the civil war), so most of the time they really didn’t know their origins. This Cleopatra thing is different though. It is very well documented and proven historical fact that she was Greek. Nobody questions that Mark Antony was Roman! What baffles me most though, is why not really claim their own heritage? There were and are amazing sub Saharan African cultures. The Kushites built more pyramids than the Egyptians. They were a powerful nation that even took over Egypt for a short period of time. Their surviving artwork and statues show them looking Black. Darker skin, different facial features, etc… Why not do a real documentary on them? Be proud of your own cultures and stop trying to change PROVEN history.

    • @fredjones554
      @fredjones554 7 месяцев назад +11

      It struck me as truly insane

  • @shannonowens8476
    @shannonowens8476 7 месяцев назад +926

    I hope Netflix loses this lawsuit and is forced to pay the entire $2 billion.

    • @olaflange5254
      @olaflange5254 7 месяцев назад +12

      That would partially be my money. I don´t look forward to a Netflix without money, cause that surely will not improve the quality of entertainment I get

    • @Shatterfury1871
      @Shatterfury1871 7 месяцев назад

      ​@olaflange5254
      Of course it will improve the quality!
      They will need to stop pandering to woke garbage and make movies based on reality.

    • @therealunclevanya
      @therealunclevanya 7 месяцев назад

      Go woke, go broke. Another service will replace them. No loss.

    • @mj_out
      @mj_out 7 месяцев назад +89

      @@olaflange5254 Are you playing devils advocate right now?! This whole shitshoe wouldn't be IF they had used your money to make a good documentary.

    • @Mawyman2316
      @Mawyman2316 7 месяцев назад

      @@olaflange5254they haven’t produced anything good, basically ever. Sooooooo not much will change whether they have your money or not

  • @willyvereb
    @willyvereb 7 дней назад +3

    Egypt needs money badly so 2 billion dollars would actually be a godsend. Thank you Netflix!

  • @rwang1618
    @rwang1618 8 дней назад +2

    When a company miscasts an actor/actress, creates a stupid story, or goes to production hell all by itself, we call it old-good stupidity.
    When a company creates a "documentary" and purposefully spreads lies about the subject it tries to cover, despite overwhelming evidence against it, it is just evil.

  • @Ana_826
    @Ana_826 3 месяца назад +1343

    the lawsuit is not against her skin being black, it is against the historical inaccuracy of a whole country, of a whole civilisation. Not every single thing is about race

    • @nothintoreadhere6168
      @nothintoreadhere6168 2 месяца назад +93

      Literally erased her entire identity

    • @oldol12
      @oldol12 2 месяца назад +63

      And not to mention, that this actress should accuse the ancient people of racism, because they dared to portray Cleopatra with european features 😂.

    • @Ana_826
      @Ana_826 2 месяца назад +7

      @@oldol12 🤣🤣 100%

    • @Ana_826
      @Ana_826 2 месяца назад +41

      @@nothintoreadhere6168 this is called black washing. don’t worry you can laugh at this joke, I am a black myself

    • @halfdome4158
      @halfdome4158 2 месяца назад +44

      ​@@oldol12Cleopatra was Greek, European.

  • @drskeleton7119
    @drskeleton7119 19 дней назад +4

    Nothing but pure respect for Egypt for standing their ground 😊

  • @13SScorpio
    @13SScorpio 2 дня назад +2

    As far as I know Cleopatra was a descendent of Ptolemy (the general of Alexander, not the mathematician). Thats why Egypt was called ptolemaic Egypt under her dynasty.
    Cleopatra being greek descendant isn't even controversial. It was the generally accepted consensus in historical science both in Egypt and the West.
    How could Netflix not see that this was going to blow up in their face?

  • @Speculativedude
    @Speculativedude 8 месяцев назад +641

    Something else of note. Not only is Cleopatra shown to be black, but almost every Egyptian shown is portrayed as sub-Saharan African black. Now historically there would have been some black folks in Egypt, but not almost every person as shown on screen. So not only Cleopatra herself is shown in a non historically accurate light, but most of the other people are as well.

    • @ianaherne77
      @ianaherne77 8 месяцев назад +62

      Yes, north Africa was settled be Greeks and people from Levant for many years. It most likely was super diverse.

    • @missmae198208
      @missmae198208 8 месяцев назад +81

      Correct, Egypt has more in common with Mediterranean Europe and the middle east than it ever did with sub-Saharan Africa. It's why Egypt and the sub-Saharan look so different then and now. It's two different places with very different influences.

    • @NeptunesLagoon
      @NeptunesLagoon 8 месяцев назад +59

      Nubians were not allowed into Egypt by well known decrees, and Bantu( west congoid sub saharans, the ones desperately trying to lie about everything, because... feelings...) didnt know Egypt existed.... SMH

    • @logikgirl12
      @logikgirl12 8 месяцев назад +1

      Kemet

    • @austinjt4264
      @austinjt4264 8 месяцев назад +56

      @@logikgirl12 That's Black Land... not Land of The Black.
      Stop being delusional.
      The word "Kemet" referring to soils that is black in color. Not the people.

  • @austinbridges518
    @austinbridges518 7 месяцев назад +851

    As a non-Egyptian man, I find this be a great win for Egypt.

    • @ChrisM-bn5vr
      @ChrisM-bn5vr 7 месяцев назад +6

      Well it hasn't even happened, this guys title is clickbait. The lawsuit has barely even started yet, no one has won any money. There's no way Egypt will actually get $2B from this lawsuit, they're dreaming if they think that will happen.

    • @handsomeman-pm9vy
      @handsomeman-pm9vy 7 месяцев назад +5

      But what about CleoBlactra? LMFAO

    • @drpeppersnumber1fan
      @drpeppersnumber1fan 7 месяцев назад +1

      @@ChrisM-bn5vrchris nobody asked

    • @ChrisM-bn5vr
      @ChrisM-bn5vr 7 месяцев назад

      @@drpeppersnumber1fan I don't need someone to ask me something to state that the lawsuit hasn't happened. Nobody asked for your opinion either.

    • @drpeppersnumber1fan
      @drpeppersnumber1fan 7 месяцев назад +2

      @@ChrisM-bn5vr lmao i didnt say anything abt opinions. i never even said my opinion but ok. keep being weird chris

  • @m20superbazooka49
    @m20superbazooka49 17 дней назад +2

    At this rate if Netflix makes a movie/documentary about Gandhi, he will be black or LGBTQ. And if we complain they’ll label us as bigots…

  • @claudiodominguez.
    @claudiodominguez. 6 дней назад +3

    Egypt isn't a Disney movie it's a country !

  • @Jeromad
    @Jeromad 8 месяцев назад +844

    I hope Egypt wins, this revisionist history has got to stop (looking at you as well diverse Anne Boleyn)!

    • @spentlizard353
      @spentlizard353 8 месяцев назад +43

      The ironic thing about this statement is that the Anne Boleyn series is probably one of the most historically accurate depictions of that whole scenario, and at no point do they claim the race of the actress portraying her is meant to reflect the race of the actual Boleyn. It’s a historical drama series, and a drama is much different than a documentary. These are actors who are acting out a role.
      With Cleopatra however, they’ve gone explicitly out of their way to say “Cleopatra is definitively black and that is final,” in abject defiance of the actual truth. This is a purported documentary that claims to be the voice of the truth, yet is insistent on a blatant inaccuracy as the truth.

    • @gbonkers666
      @gbonkers666 8 месяцев назад +5

      @@spentlizard353 And the actress who plays is simply Brava!

    • @batbrick3949
      @batbrick3949 8 месяцев назад +4

      While I agree that the Cleopatra documentary was historically inaccurate crap, the lawsuit is problematic. If successful, it would set a legal precedent for future lawsuits against the entertainment industry, based only on historical inaccuracy. This is not the solution to the problem.

    • @pigpuke
      @pigpuke 8 месяцев назад +56

      @@spentlizard353 "...at no point do they claim the race of the actress portraying her is meant to reflect the race of the actual Boleyn." Okay, I'll call bullshit on that. The race of the actor is itself a statement when it comes to playing the an actual person from history, any claim otherwise is a bald face lie and gaslighting. There is no shortage of white English actresses who they could have cast and there is no reason not to have other than the show producers racism. Go ahead and lie to us that you'd be okay with casting John Travolta to play Nelson Mandela in a documentary about how he was imprisoned for being a black agitator during South Africa's apartheid.

    • @TheRealSladeValentine
      @TheRealSladeValentine 8 месяцев назад +39

      @@spentlizard353 it isnt only Anne Boleyn they have done it too tho
      Joan D'Arc was race swapped. so was McBeth (Mac Bethaid mac Finláech) was race swapped. Jarl Haakon was race and gender swapped
      somehow thats fine to do but i bet my left arm that if a white actor would play Martin Luther King in a movie the world would be too small
      go sell your double standarts elsewere dude for real

  • @TaliaIGhul
    @TaliaIGhul 7 месяцев назад +656

    To that woman's grandmother who claims Cleopatra is black, I want to know what her grandmother would feel like if Jennifer Lawrence were to portray Rosa Parks in a Rosa Parks documentary.

    • @stukz7094
      @stukz7094 7 месяцев назад +166

      I remember my grandma told me, I don’t care what they tell you in school, Rosa Parks was white

    • @PrinsPrygel
      @PrinsPrygel 7 месяцев назад +89

      @@stukz7094 And what was worse, she was a ginger.

    • @thecreator9913
      @thecreator9913 7 месяцев назад +41

      ​@@PrinsPrygeland a Karen

    • @akonikimobautista9307
      @akonikimobautista9307 7 месяцев назад +21

      @@PrinsPrygel This comment made me die laughing!

    • @BozesanVlad
      @BozesanVlad 7 месяцев назад +45

      Martin Luther King was a white guy, a swede blond guy that liberated blacks and whites alike, enslaved by blacks.
      Roots by kinta kunte is about a poor white blonde Russian family enslaved by big bad blacks, they fight for them freedom.
      Nelson Mandela was a polish blonde guy that ended South African aparthide.
      One day I'll see documentaries like that :D

  • @emodante1084
    @emodante1084 7 дней назад +2

    Are there any updates about the lawsuit?

  • @Izzysai
    @Izzysai 2 месяца назад +6

    Bro, why wouldn't you ASK Egypt to help on this project. Wtf!

  • @DEATH-THE-GOAT
    @DEATH-THE-GOAT 8 месяцев назад +456

    Raceswapping of famous historical people is one of the most racist thing you can do. For if it didn't matters why shange the race.

    • @MyTripToThePhilippines
      @MyTripToThePhilippines 8 месяцев назад +31

      Next, Jesus will be portrayed by a Chinese actor in an upcoming Documentary. And Hitler by an Eskimo. Why not?

    • @Dinofrog17
      @Dinofrog17 8 месяцев назад +20

      Imagine they make a documentary on Elvis Presley and cast him as a black man coz music is rock n roll.

    • @austinjt4264
      @austinjt4264 8 месяцев назад +14

      @@Dinofrog17 I rather they have cast a White Girl to portray Beyonce!

    • @mnomadvfx
      @mnomadvfx 8 месяцев назад

      @@austinjt4264But can a white booty match that glorious derriere?! 😂🍑

    • @samsampleman2439
      @samsampleman2439 8 месяцев назад

      ​@@MyTripToThePhilippinesNah, Hitler will be white for sure. Only the good white characters get race swapped...

  • @uzaautumus
    @uzaautumus 5 месяцев назад +426

    “Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and ruin what good forces have invented or made.”

    • @scarlett19b
      @scarlett19b 5 месяцев назад +8

      *It's basically like what Julius Caesar tried to do to Egypt!*

    • @uzaautumus
      @uzaautumus 4 месяца назад +4

      @@scarlett19b Facts

    • @dennisweidner288
      @dennisweidner288 3 месяца назад +1

      @uzaautumus I wish that was true.

    • @scarlett19b
      @scarlett19b 3 месяца назад +1

      @@dennisweidner288👉🏽 *Excuse me but what!?* 👈🏽

    • @dennisweidner288
      @dennisweidner288 3 месяца назад +3

      @@scarlett19b I wish that evil could not create anything new, the question posed by uzaautumus to begin this thread.

  • @jeremypayne5078
    @jeremypayne5078 8 часов назад +1

    "My grandmother told me that despite what's in history books, Ceopatra was black."
    *citation needed*

  • @charbird20
    @charbird20 8 дней назад +2

    I hope this sets a precedent for everyone else and countries around the world who are able to. This cultural appropriation and misinformation needs to stop.

  • @sketos_d
    @sketos_d 5 месяцев назад +358

    Its a disgrace that, unlike Egypt🇪🇬, the government of Greece🇬🇷 does absolutely nothing against that insulting sh*t

    • @DireW0lf0
      @DireW0lf0 3 месяца назад

      You forget that although Mediterranean, Greeks are considered white so therefore have no say in anything!

    • @TuckaBuck89
      @TuckaBuck89 3 месяца назад +6

      I dunno. Maybe at that time it wasn't a big deal. They may have had much bigger problems, like the Romans!!! To use today's feelings about something that occurred 2000+ years ago is just as inappropriate as Netflix changing history.

    • @koppsr
      @koppsr 3 месяца назад +41

      @TuckaBuck89
      I think he was talking about Cleopatra being of Greek descent.
      She came from the bloodline of one of Alexander the Great generals.

    • @sketos_d
      @sketos_d 3 месяца назад +8

      @@TuckaBuck89 the greeks weren't indifferent to those topics.

    • @mickeyconnor830
      @mickeyconnor830 3 месяца назад +3

      ​@@koppsrBig whoosh on their part 😂

  • @scarlett19b
    @scarlett19b 8 месяцев назад +573

    *I am Coptic Egyptian Descent and what Netflix did was totally Unacceptable!*

    • @achingknuckles6915
      @achingknuckles6915 8 месяцев назад +41

      I'm a white American and what netflix did was totally unacceptable

    • @sensufr219
      @sensufr219 8 месяцев назад +28

      I’m a green turtle and what Netflix did was totally unacceptable

    • @Anna-fw7lm
      @Anna-fw7lm 8 месяцев назад

      Americans.
      With only one word you can explain the lack of knowledge, respect, context, those people have; the lack and misinterpretation of what culture is, the narrow view of the 'time' (I mean, my house is older than US itself) the need to always have someone or something to go back at (and if they don't have it, they fabricate it)
      The older I get, the more I'm convinced they should not touch things that aren't 'theirs' without supervision because they'll dumbify and ruin 'em.
      Obviously, greeks and italians are ferociously with egyptians in this!
      We show them how our wars, dominations, alliances, our ancestors cutting each other's throats or learn from one another, or love one another, through millennia all that tie us as sibilings!!

    • @TheRealCaptainFreedom
      @TheRealCaptainFreedom 8 месяцев назад +27

      @@sensufr219 I’m totally unacceptable and what Netflix did was also totally unacceptable.

    • @guillaumebartys4437
      @guillaumebartys4437 8 месяцев назад

      I'm a little bitch and what netflix did was pretty good !!

  • @dturpin2638
    @dturpin2638 2 месяца назад +6

    Who even is that old lady talking about her Granny? She's Netflix's ace in the hole defense? They're in trouble.

  • @voctur
    @voctur 15 дней назад +4

    How is possible?
    Her grandma told her that Cleopatra was black 😭

    • @c.d.rstudios4691
      @c.d.rstudios4691 12 дней назад

      Her grandmother doesn't know shit apparently

  • @robsmoviecollection3715
    @robsmoviecollection3715 8 месяцев назад +652

    "100 percent fundamentally rooted in racism" . I wonder what the actress would say if they made a "documentary" about Rosa Parks and cast Meryl Streep. Would she object? I wonder what she would "fundamentally" root her opinion in?

    • @mrprism5382
      @mrprism5382 8 месяцев назад +105

      Cast Ryan Gosling as Obama in an Obama documentary

    • @azizabahati7037
      @azizabahati7037 8 месяцев назад +1

      She’s not Black American so she may not care. However I would being that IM Black.

    • @pelicanofpunishment6
      @pelicanofpunishment6 8 месяцев назад +47

      @@azizabahati7037 She may not be American but she'd DEFINITELY throw a hissy fit. Seems the type to me. And, of course, no such action should ever be taken. But she'd likely want death to the creators if they did it for a joke.

    • @collegemaster5683
      @collegemaster5683 8 месяцев назад +39

      Ooh, can't wait for Chris Hemsworth as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

    • @yong9613
      @yong9613 8 месяцев назад +2

      Guess what people? We can now use AI generated imagery! Even down to the colour of the skin!!!!

  • @Steroyd666
    @Steroyd666 8 месяцев назад +539

    This court case needs to be televised, I just want to see the defendants talk about their grandma as a point of reference. 🤣

    • @MyTripToThePhilippines
      @MyTripToThePhilippines 8 месяцев назад +59

      I think Amber Heard had better witnesses for her defense than this Netflix case will have.

    • @coronelkittycannon
      @coronelkittycannon 8 месяцев назад +47

      Netflix presents: Egypt vs Netflix
      haha

    • @bmacaulay18
      @bmacaulay18 8 месяцев назад +19

      Solid strategy. Kind of like "Mama said" in The Waterboy. 🤣😂🤣

    • @sayLeotardbutsayitChinese
      @sayLeotardbutsayitChinese 8 месяцев назад +24

      "But Meemaw said we wuz kangs!"

    • @pheunithpsychic-watertype9881
      @pheunithpsychic-watertype9881 8 месяцев назад +27

      ​@@sayLeotardbutsayitChinesemeemaw left out the fact that kangz owned slaves. Those kingdoms didn't just pop out of the ground by them raising their fist in the air and saying "Pride powers activate"

  • @KevinWarburton-tv2iy
    @KevinWarburton-tv2iy 2 месяца назад +3

    Egyptians were seen as Copper-Skinned not black & they certainly did not have African facial features. There were some Blacks in Egypt. but they were only ever a Minority.

    • @toriesout8692
      @toriesout8692 Месяц назад +1

      A minority is still an existence.

  • @lloyd081877
    @lloyd081877 4 часа назад

    Rewriting history is one of the most dangerous things humanity can do. We, as a society, have forgotten why history needs to tell the truth.

  • @HeyhoBrando
    @HeyhoBrando 6 месяцев назад +175

    The people that are saying Egypt are racist for saying this,
    Make a documentary of Martin Luther King Jr and have Robert Downy Jr play as him, if race means nothing it shouldn’t mean anything right?
    Like where are these same people that are always saying that actors should look like thier character or so. It’s crazy!

    • @maxnum1sgameclub263
      @maxnum1sgameclub263 3 месяца назад +11

      Nah robert would be to handsome ^^ i need to see Danny Devitto in that role. It would be funny as hell!

    • @RonTodd-gb1eo
      @RonTodd-gb1eo 3 месяца назад +12

      Even in pure fiction nobody would get away with an Eskimo playing Rosa Parks, or a Māori Martin Luther King.

    • @non7top
      @non7top 3 месяца назад +4

      ​@@RonTodd-gb1eotook me a bit to realize that Eskimo is the name of a nation. In here eskimo is an ice cream brick on a wooden stick.

    • @dianelitman5956
      @dianelitman5956 3 месяца назад +2

      Eskimo bars were the best, now you can’t get them. But I still give Eskimo kisses.

    • @RonTodd-gb1eo
      @RonTodd-gb1eo 3 месяца назад

      Huge difference between an actor blacking up to play a black character and a character blacking up especially if that character is portrayed as an idiot.@@acatte1

  • @bigrikstube
    @bigrikstube 7 месяцев назад +217

    10 seconds it took her to call an entire country RACIST.

    • @Theofiilus2978
      @Theofiilus2978 7 месяцев назад

      Everything slightly negative about those people (not all blacks but like that actress) is racist according to them.

    • @DESIBOY-fe7nm
      @DESIBOY-fe7nm 7 месяцев назад

      I bet the Egypt couldn't care less about her remarks.

    • @felixseagal4954
      @felixseagal4954 2 месяца назад

      Because it's the only argument she could present. It's like having a business card in your pocket that says YOU ARE A RACIST instead of actual information.

    • @Dinosaur315
      @Dinosaur315 11 дней назад

      Race-obsessed narcissists trying not to call others racist for no reason for 5 seconds (impossible challenge)

  • @gavincurtis
    @gavincurtis День назад +2

    Now I want ET to play Cleopatra.

  • @bernardjon07
    @bernardjon07 День назад +1

    They should make a Martin Luther King documentary with a white guy as the King and see how people react in America.

  • @nickkowak9628
    @nickkowak9628 8 месяцев назад +218

    If you hire Jada Pinkett Smith as a directory you deserve every L there is.

    • @zimriel
      @zimriel 8 месяцев назад +26

      like taking her for a wife

    • @Father_of_Death
      @Father_of_Death 8 месяцев назад +15

      I think I'm going to go watch her death scene from "Scream 2" now.

    • @radiantveggies9348
      @radiantveggies9348 7 месяцев назад +5

      ​@@Father_of_Deaththank you for this

    • @inferiorinferno8859
      @inferiorinferno8859 7 месяцев назад

      @@zimriel Please don't mock Will for being in an abusive relationship with her, that's low

    • @geoolympics
      @geoolympics 7 месяцев назад

      @@inferiorinferno8859 Didn't she say they've been separated since 2016? Besides being LEGALLY married, is that REALLY a relationship?

  • @jk19781
    @jk19781 6 месяцев назад +171

    Cleopatra was a Ptolemaic Egyptian. She was a direct decendant of Ptolemy 1 Soter. The bodyguard of Alexander the Great, who we all know was Greek. The greeks and their ancestors ruled Egypt for 300 years. Im actually surprised they didn't make the romans black, too.

    • @Netseer2000
      @Netseer2000 3 месяца назад +18

      The BBC made the Trojans black in a production.

    • @Netseer2000
      @Netseer2000 3 месяца назад +18

      I just remembered I had once clicked a Netflix movie on the Trojan War and when Zeus was shown black I immediately stopped watching it.

    • @jaybee9269
      @jaybee9269 3 месяца назад +6

      Ptolemy was a general.

    • @jk19781
      @jk19781 3 месяца назад +1

      @jaybee9269 Yes, Ptolemy I Soter was one of Alexander the Great's seven bodyguards, known as
      somatophylakes
      . Ptolemy was a Macedonian general and one of Alexander's most trusted companions. He participated in Alexander's European campaigns of 336-335 and was a key player in the later campaigns in Afghanistan
      Ptolemy served with Alexander from his first campaigns, and was among the seven somatophylakes (bodyguards) of Alexander. He played a principal part in the later campaigns in Afghanistan and India. He participated in the Battle of Issus, commanding troops on the left wing under the authority of Parmenion.
      Jan 19, 2024 - Ptolemy I Soter Macedonian general of Alexander the Great, who ... bodyguard, took part in Alexander's European campaigns of 336-335, and in ...
      Sep 23, 2020 - We know not much about their affair, except for the fact that she bore him two sons, Lagus and Leontiscus, and a daughter Irene ("peace"). In December 330, after the Philotas affair, Ptolemy was appointed as somatophylax, one of the seven bodyguards who served as Alexander's deputies.
      What was Ptolemy I Soter's relationship with Alexander the ...
      Jan 4, 2024 - Ptolemy I Soter was one of Alexander the Great's most trusted companions and generals. He supported Alexander's conquests and played a ...
      Ptolemy was appointed as a bodyguard in December 330, after the Philotas affair. He was struck by a poisoned arrow, but Alexander saved his life by using native herbs to extract the poison.
      Ptolemy was a lifelong friend of Alexander and accompanied him on all his campaigns.

    • @jk19781
      @jk19781 3 месяца назад +14

      @@jaybee9269 Ptolemy served with Alexander from his first campaigns, and was among the seven somatophylakes (bodyguards) of Alexander. He played a principal part in the later campaigns in Afghanistan and India where he sometimes served as a general.

  • @lauravillanueva2175
    @lauravillanueva2175 День назад +1

    The actress has to understand that she’s contributing to whatever is happening here. She may be a fantastic person and actress of true grit, but she has to understand the disrespect. Documentation is already written wrong in more cases than ever before and we should consider keeping the material true fir its entirety.
    Pretty Woman. Sorry situation.”

  • @mkviis
    @mkviis 2 дня назад +1

    That actress saying it is because she is black (the actress). Well it is because Cleopatra was NOT black

  • @68mustangrestoration34
    @68mustangrestoration34 8 месяцев назад +174

    In George Orwell's book 1984 "Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered. History has stopped."

    • @sianais
      @sianais 8 месяцев назад

      The BBC just made a propaganda piece about black people (not some ancient tribe just crawling out wherever that aren't much of anything yet, actual black people in the modern sense) being native Europeans all along. Like how black people are the "real natives" in the US. People are insane. I've come across groups on here claiming to be the true Asians too. This black nationalist sht is getting ridiculous and more pathetic. It's embarrassing.

    • @KingOfMumbles485...
      @KingOfMumbles485... 8 месяцев назад +14

      He was right.

    • @WhoWantsToKnow81
      @WhoWantsToKnow81 8 месяцев назад +5

      That book left me depressed and terrified, because the prophecies are becoming true.

    • @redwavetheinkling4640
      @redwavetheinkling4640 8 месяцев назад +3

      George Orwell in the heaven watching everything happening in the world:
      "TOLD. YOU. SO"

    • @animebrat76
      @animebrat76 8 месяцев назад +1

      Wasn’t that dude a communist? And didn’t he write animal farm

  • @Blaquemajeek
    @Blaquemajeek 8 месяцев назад +190

    Anytime I hear someone say "that's racist" I get the hardest case of the eye rolls.

    • @itsyaboiskyler2519
      @itsyaboiskyler2519 8 месяцев назад +4

      Booombastic side eye

    • @Xbalanque84
      @Xbalanque84 8 месяцев назад +3

      How long before people start responding to such arrogance with lead rebuttals _en masse?_ Because I think we're past due.

    • @RespectMyAuthoritaah
      @RespectMyAuthoritaah 8 месяцев назад

      #MeToo

  • @user-te1fn8cj5r
    @user-te1fn8cj5r 10 дней назад +1

    It's kind of hard to call a country racist when the historical figure in question doesn't even share the same race.
    Most of them aren't claiming she is of native Egyptian decent, most people agree that she is mainly of Greek ancestry.

  • @RealWorldGames
    @RealWorldGames 9 дней назад +2

    Netflix couldnt find an Egyptian to play an Egyptian?

    • @captaingreek
      @captaingreek 4 дня назад

      Maybe a Greek? There is even a Greek show in Netflix! They could just pick up one of that show.

  • @Rowdycons
    @Rowdycons 8 месяцев назад +331

    So... Ignoring all the evidence that an entire country and an entire people have, we're supposed to believe the old lady's grandmother? 😂

    • @philippe2715
      @philippe2715 7 месяцев назад +22

      We just need to ignore the faces on the sarcophaguses , statues, wallpaintings.
      Also ignore the facial reconstructions that happened using the skulls of mummies.
      Those people don't look like black people.
      Also most black people in the US have western african roots. But Egypt is not in West Africa.
      It would be like an Italian claiming Norways history.

    • @silverhawkscape2677
      @silverhawkscape2677 7 месяцев назад

      Yes

    • @egbertkuijpers1387
      @egbertkuijpers1387 7 месяцев назад +1

      Well yes, she said it on the interweb so it mùst be true😅

    • @handsomeman-pm9vy
      @handsomeman-pm9vy 7 месяцев назад +1

      But what about CleoBlactra? LMFAO

  • @rojavida
    @rojavida 8 месяцев назад +585

    I think the phrase that took the biscuit for me was “…suing a “whole” streaming service” as if that is a larger entity than a “whole” country! Who were they going to sue? The actors? The directors? No, of course you are going to sue the whole streaming service.

    • @laninthomasma8814
      @laninthomasma8814 8 месяцев назад +82

      Netflix PRODUCED the show. They're not just streaming it. It's their production. As you way, whom else should they sue?

    • @NTJedi
      @NTJedi 7 месяцев назад +1

      I'm shocked how literally hundreds of people at NetFlix could have stopped this lying documentary... but the executives, director, producers, many actors, many lawyers, many senior staff all agreed to create a lying documentary. It's the equivalent of Apple releasing an apple watch which removes two of the numbers from the clock.... like seriously how stupid are these people at NetFlix?

    • @atrothe
      @atrothe 7 месяцев назад

      If this actress brain was dynamite she would not have enough to blow her nose.

    • @bhartley1024
      @bhartley1024 7 месяцев назад +6

      My man, we're living in a cyberpunk dystopia where companies are often larger and more powerful that countries. If Netflix was a country and its market cap (189.24 billion USD) was GDP, it would be number 70 out of 200+ countries. Egypt is number 21 ($1.264 trillion USD GDP). So Egypt is like 7 times larger, but still in the same ballpark.

    • @jfayiii
      @jfayiii 7 месяцев назад

      How about a fraction of the streaming service? Nope, the 'whole' streaming service.

  • @captaingreek
    @captaingreek 4 дня назад +1

    Cleopatra, a member of the Ptolemaic dynasty, with origin from Macedonia, Greece.

  • @mizomid_simp
    @mizomid_simp 6 дней назад +1

    If they want to make a documentary for black representation, why the hell won't they make a documentary of historical figures who are actually black?! There are lots of black historical figures they can make documentary out of instead of black washing a historical figure who isn't even black

  • @kalord1251
    @kalord1251 7 месяцев назад +619

    As Egyptian i confirm that we reached to level of hate to Netflix more than anyone in last 10 years at the time .

    • @apollontheintp3257
      @apollontheintp3257 7 месяцев назад +25

      You should have asked for 20bn! Netflix must fall!

    • @DaphneMelvin
      @DaphneMelvin 7 месяцев назад +15

      And no one can blame you all! How dare they?!

    • @jax24356
      @jax24356 6 месяцев назад +23

      Thank you for standing against these lies. The documentary made me so angry.

    • @tcmyric4978
      @tcmyric4978 5 месяцев назад

      You’re an invader . Egyptians were Black

    • @SnarkierThan-U-R
      @SnarkierThan-U-R 4 месяца назад +2

      "i confirm that we reached to level of hate to Netflix"
      What does this even mean?

  • @BackFromUranus
    @BackFromUranus 7 месяцев назад +276

    The funny thing about all of this crap is them not realizing that saying "she was in Africa, so she was black" is racist as hell...

    • @RicardoLopez-ub2hs
      @RicardoLopez-ub2hs 6 месяцев назад +15

      is elon musk black?

    • @magimariJY
      @magimariJY 6 месяцев назад

      @@RicardoLopez-ub2hs:0

    • @db7354
      @db7354 6 месяцев назад

      That's not racist, just stupid.

    • @user-zi2sx9ol5x
      @user-zi2sx9ol5x 5 месяцев назад +3

      Is the truth, she was black.

    • @BackFromUranus
      @BackFromUranus 5 месяцев назад

      @@user-zi2sx9ol5x can't tell if you're trolling or just ignorant...oh well...

  • @GigalassII
    @GigalassII 2 дня назад +1

    Thank fuck this bastardization is getting fucked up

  • @adamsteinmetz3223
    @adamsteinmetz3223 11 дней назад +1

    I still didn’t get over the “My grandma told me” line 😂

  • @Wayne-cj7fn
    @Wayne-cj7fn 8 месяцев назад +827

    I just love how if anyone has a problem with the 'Documentary", or the actors, then you must be 'Scared', 'Racist" or 'threatened' by whatever they have changed to fit their own idea.

    • @Anna-fw7lm
      @Anna-fw7lm 8 месяцев назад +49

      Yes we're absolutely scared of the dumbification of history!!!!

    • @JL-go3
      @JL-go3 8 месяцев назад

      Oh they must be talking about me...
      I'm a scared racist misogynistic bigoted evil money loving nazi gangster comrade.

    • @scarlett19b
      @scarlett19b 8 месяцев назад +42

      *Being called "a Racist" for standing behind the truth & telling/sharing Historical Facts has become a badge of honor at this point!*

    • @scarlett19b
      @scarlett19b 8 месяцев назад +1

      @@Anna-fw7lm *I wouldn't necessarily say "Scared" I'd say we're worried/cautious!*

    • @Anna-fw7lm
      @Anna-fw7lm 8 месяцев назад +5

      @@scarlett19b using her own words/reasoning and turn it back to her. It's a come back, rather than a serious statement :)