Tech billionaire Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla, Inc. and the founder and CEO of SpaceX, mocked Netflix and fashionable Hollywood’s strategy to filmmaking and tv collection.
Dublin, Wednesday 31th October 2013: Pictured on the The Internet Summit 2013, RDS. Picture by Dan Taylor/Heisenberg Media
Musk took to Twitter, the place he shared a meme that reads, “Netflix ready for the struggle to finish to make a film a couple of black ukraine man falls in love with a transgender russian soldier.”
Accompanying the textual content it exhibits a distorted man sitting on a rusted hanging swing.
Supply: Elon Musk Twitter
Earlier than sharing this meme, Musk shared the “I Help The Present Factor Meme,” which depicts a NPC avatar presently holding a Ukraine flag, with a lot of different flags together with the transgender flag within the background.
Supply: Elon Musk Twitter
RELATED: Netflix’s Vikings: Valhalla Race And Gender Swaps Historic Norwegian Ruler Jarl Haakon
Musk’s meme relating to Netflix and fashionable Hollywood is especially related given the streaming service simply launched their Vikings: Valhalla collection that race and gender swaps Norwegian ruler Jarl Haakon.
Within the collection, Caroline Henderson performs Jarl Haakon.
Vikings: Valhalla. (L to R) Caroline Henderson as Jarl Haakon, Bradley Freegard as Canute in episode 101 of Vikings: Valhalla. Cr. Bernard Walsh/Netflix © 2021
The collection creator Jeb Stuart defined his choice, “I did plenty of analysis on the Vikings and I definitely wasn’t about to place an individual of coloration into a task that the actor would spend on a regular basis saying, ‘I don’t know why I’m right here.’”
“However the truth of the matter is that we do know that the Vikings spent a great little bit of time by the point of my story going via the Mediterranean and so they spent plenty of time in Egypt,” he asserted.
He then claimed, “However in addition they discovered as they went into completely different cultures, they didn’t dominate. They didn’t conquer, what they did was they assimilated, and so they introduced folks in.”
Vikings: Valhalla. (L to R) Caroline Henderson as Jarl Haakon in episode 101 of Vikings: Valhalla. Cr. Patrick Redmond/Netflix © 2021
Stuart then declared, “For this specific time, we all know for a truth that there have been folks of coloration who had give you the Vikings across the Iberian Peninsula.”
“There have been Vikings who ended up in Eire who have been from North Africa. There have been Sub-Saharan Vikings who had come up and had married Vikings or had been introduced into it,” he continued.
He then concluded, “Was [Jarl Haakon] based mostly on a selected individual? No, but it surely was based mostly on an amalgamation of a lot of attention-grabbing tales.”
Vikings: Valhalla. (L to R) Caroline Henderson as Jarl Haakon, Frida Gustavsson as Freydis in episode 102 of Vikings: Valhalla. Cr. Bernard Walsh/Netflix © 2021
RELATED: Netflix Interval Drama Bridgerton Options Race Swapped Model of Historic Determine Queen Charlotte
Netflix beforehand launched a race-swapped Queen Charlotte of their interval drama Bridgerton.
The choice to race swap the historic determine was defended by writer Julia Quinn, whose Bridgerton books the collection is predicated on.
Quinn argued, “Many historians consider she had some African background. It’s a extremely debated level and we are able to’t DNA take a look at her so I don’t assume there’ll ever be a definitive reply.”
She then questioned, “What if that was one thing that had been acknowledged and accepted on the time? What if she used that place to deliver different folks of color to positions of energy? What would society have regarded like?”
Supply: Bridgerton
RELATED: Anne Boleyn TV Sequence Author Makes an attempt To Clarify Race Swap
Netflix just isn’t the one one to race swap historic figures. Channel 5 in the UK race-swapped Anne Boleyn by casting Jodie-Turner Smith within the position.
The present’s directed Lynsey Miller defended the choice to race-swap the character stating, “I really feel very strongly that we now have the most effective actress for the position so I’m completely happy to face by it.”
“I’m very happy with what we now have created collectively, so allow them to discuss. There are going to be lots of people who don’t prefer it, however I really feel like there must be house for that and there are going to be lots of people who find it irresistible. I’m certainly one of them,” she added.
Supply: Anne Boleyn
The present’s author Eve Hedderwick offered a special rationalization, “We wished to ensure the world of our Tudor courtroom didn’t look precisely like interval dramas that we’d seen up to now.”
“As a result of it’s such a widely known interval of historical past and Anne’s story itself has been very well coated, we wished to ensure that it felt contemporary and alive and completely different,” she elaborated.
Hedderwick added, “And in addition, reflective of our society in the present day — in order that hopefully we might appeal to new audiences who possibly didn’t see relevance in watching a narrative like this beforehand.”
Supply: Anne Boleyn
RELATED: Jodie Turner-Smith Addresses Taking part in Race Swapped Anne Boleyn
Hollywood, on the behest of activist teams like GLAAD, has additionally been together with transgender characters. Most just lately, the creators of The Matrix retroactively declared their work as a transgender allegory.
These claims got here from Andy Wachowski, who now calls himself Lilly Wachowski, in a video uploaded to the Netflix Movie Membership.
The upcoming Batgirl film additionally just lately forged transgender actor Ivory Aquino to play Alysia Yeoh. DC Movies beforehand forged non-binary actor Quintessa Swindell to play Cyclone aka Maxine Hunkel within the upcoming Black Adam movie.
There’s additionally a rumor that the movie will retcon Pink Twister Mathilda ‘Ma’ Hunkel right into a transgender character.
Supply: Justice Society of America #3
RELATED: Report: Kevin Feige Misspoke When Confirming Transgender Character for MCU
Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige additionally claimed that Marvel Studios would introduce a transgender character into the Marvel Cinematic Universe again in December 2019.
When requested, “Are there any present plans on bringing extra LGBT+ characters into the MCU particularly the T, trans characters?”
Feige responded, “Sure, completely. Sure.” He added, “And really quickly. In a film that we’re capturing proper now. Sure.”
RELATED: Loki Director Kate Herron Confirms Focus On Sequence Was To Acknowledge Loki As Bisexual
Marvel Studios director Kate Herron additionally claimed that her principal concentrate on the Loki collection was to acknowledge Loki as bisexual.
She wrote on Twitter, “From the second I joined Loki it was essential to me, and my purpose, to acknowledge Loki was bisexual. It’s a part of who he’s and who I’m too.”
“I do know this can be a small step however I’m completely happy, and coronary heart is so full, to say that that is now Canon in MCU,” she concluded.
Supply: Kate Herron Twitter
The examples may go on, however what do you make of Elon Musk sharing these memes?
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