This is the worst when the film is legitimately bad, too.

Like, we all pretty much agree Gods of Egypt was a bad movie, but it's still got defenders because they think we're mad about the Black God and not the whole entire cast of White Guys.

Even worse is Captain Marvel. It's just a terrible non-plot without any character growth and intrigue, it's the female version of Green Lantern 2011, but unlike Green Lantern we can't all agree it's a bad movie for all the same reasons.

I absolutely care about historical accuracy! That's why that show depicting Rome in all white is so fucking dumb. It was a Mediterranean Empire, for fuck's sake! It had people from all around the Mediterranean, even in the upper echelons. For instance, there were emperors from the Balkan and modern central Turkey.

But anyway, what matters more to me than the ethnicity or appearance of the characters is the faithful representation of social and political structures or technological restrictions. Race can play a part in this, but it's hardly the only part and rarely the most important. Wealth, while often correlated with race, is generally the more significant factor.

For example: Arrows piercing plate like so much paper understates the power advantage between those who could afford proper protection and those who had to make do with textile armor. I don't care if the guy inside that cuirass is white, black, green with purple dots or actually not a guy: an arrow slowed by friction hitting a sloped steel sheet at an angle is gonna slide off. I'd rather see an Asian female knight stride into battle with confidence and terrify lightly armoured peasants than have a male knight shot through the chestplate.

Poor Elon Musk. The casting choices on The Odyssey have deeply affected his big, sensitive heart. But you wouldn't know it, due to his mature stoicism.

I mean, you expect he'd tweet up a storm, post after post after post after post after post after post after post after post after post after post after post after post after post after post over several days, making him look like some sort of whiny, tantrum-throwing white supremacist.

But, no. The control that selfless Titan of Industry has over his emotions is inspiring!

There's always been race swapping in films. Just look at John Wayne portraying Genghis Khan.

Some people don't want to let anyone else tell a story.

And sometimes its just racism.

I don't care about the race of the actor 99% of the time until they race swap a character just for the sake of inclusiveness.

If you wanna be inclusive then make a new character of that race.

I always tell people like this that jesus was a short brown skinned jewish man and I take offense to white people portraying him in video and people portraying him as white in paintings too and I swear they would shoot me on the spot if we u.s. losers but we are canadian losers.

I will believe its about equality when we get Black Hitler in a Netflix historical drama. WITH the gay sex scenes, please.

Look, I just want historical accuracy in my movie about sea monsters and cyclopses!

As we all know, despite part of the story taking place in Africa, there were no black people in ancient Greece!

You know what we call people whose job is to pretend to be other people they are not? Actors.

It's even better when they want "historical accuracy" in a fictional world that's based on medieval times.

Donnie Darko. Now there's a movie I haven't thought about in a while.

Dont forget about the whitewashing too.

John Wayne as Genghis Khan!

Bridgerton probably gives these people seizures

If there's ever a Hollywood Adaptation of Hamilton, I hope that Lin keeps to his casting choices as reflecting modern America, not 1776 America.

The Conservatives would lose their mind. But I also couldn't imagine a white guy playing Hercules Mulligan. Certainly not singing Yorktown.

Actually probably most of the original cast would be in it, anyway. Sort of like In The Heights, except hopefully reprising their own original roles.

Certainly wouldn't be a sung-through musical though. Hollywood would need to split it into two, with extra "world-building" and dialogue, like they did with Wicked.