Oh you racists...

I think what people are complaining about is....how much the film downplays what really happened with that tribe.
It makes them look like a bunch of heroic women who kicked the ass of the evil, colonizing men. The way this movie mis-portrays what really happens is not only a perfect example of "wokeness", it's also rewriting history in order to make one group look bad and another group look good.

If people did their own research on this tribe, they (should) be outraged that they are being glorified.

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There's quite a few black people out there that are starting to speak out against this movie too because it downplays the role Dahomey had in the slave trade.

Personally, I don't like it when films totally change historical events but I can live with it because I'm used to. Movies don't have to portray history exactly the way it happened but I do prefer that they keep it as close as possible.

It's one thing to create a new story, it's another to create a story based on historical events and then bastardize it by altering the way it really happened so people think something happened when it really didn't.

Try saying that again if a white, blond, blue-eyed guy is cast as the next Black Panther or a white, blond, blue-eyed actress cast as Princess Tiana. Nobody will be able to hear you over the deafening screams of hypocritical, racist blacks and white liberals when they reveal just how bigoted they are versus the people they hate.

No one had problems about Black Panther or Nope movies and other. They were made with black leads using characters that were not stolen from Whites.

Problem with this one is that its purposely racist and deliberately lies about historic events to use it for their racism. Not to mention that it glorifies slave traders and makes them heroic people who they were not. Again - Hollywood and Viola Davis glorifies tribe that were catching black people, tortured them, killed and sold to slavery for personal gain. Why would any self respected black people support it is beyond me. Hollywood thinks that they are too stupid to understand reality.

Whats hilarious is that script was written by two White women. And director looks like she is mixed race.

And from 6 producers - only two are black including Viola Davis who sold herself to wokeness long time ago. 4 other are White.

This movie was made by White woke people to pat themselves on the back that they are white saviors and do something good for "poor oppressed black folks". Thats why they shifted historical events to make Whites bad. Thats why people hate this woke racist garbage.

this aged poorly

This movie is inaccurate historically. Dahomey was enslaving Africans before the intercontinental slave trade began and they continued to do so even after Britain outlawed it in 1840. The Agojie were not heroes by any measure. They killed slaves as part of their training. There are accounts of them executing hundreds of men women and children during royal funerals and religious rites. They never willingly gave up the slave trade. They were forced to do so by the French