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Netflix’s ‘Queen Cleopatra’ gets lowest audience score of any show in TV history: Forbes
Egypt Independent – May 16, 2023
Netflix’s “Queen Cleopatra” documentary has received the worst audience rating ever in TV show history on Rotten Tomatoes, according to a Forbes report.
The series got a one percent audience approval rate due to the great turnout of Egyptians to express their anger at its falsification of history, Forbes reported.
The Netflix film about the story of Cleopatra made her appear dark-skinned as if her origins were African and not Macedonian.
Hawass answers back protesters
Egyptian archaeologist Zahi Hawass said that during one of his lectures in Los Angeles he was protested by people objecting to his refusal to consider Cleopatra being black.
They carried banners with slogans against him, he said, adding that they had fallen for false information.
The real Cleopatra had her image preserved in a portrait statue, now in the British Museum. She was Macedonian, a descendant of one of the generals of Alexander the Great, who conquered Egypt in the fourth century B.C. Unfortunately, America’s school children aren’t taught enough genuine history to know that.
During a phone interview with “Hadith al-Qahira” (Cairo Talk) talk show on the “al-Qahira wal Nas” (Cairo and the People) channel, Hawass stressed “We are not against blacks, and if the same situation happened with the continent of Asia, I would object to them.”
He emphasized that Cleopatra was burgundy in color, and not dark-skinned, and this a fallacy bought into by African Americans.
Hawass pointed out that “our film, which we released about Cleopatra, also received international attention, and this film responded strongly to the whole world.”
‘They are stealing my culture’!
Egyptian satirist and journalist Bassem Youssef slammed Netflix’s “Queen Cleopatra”, calling it a falsification of history after it released the special trailer for the documentary series which revolves around the Queen Cleopatra VII, the last
Youssef Tweeted: “People from West Africa and other nationalities agree with the point of view that I put forward. It is very important when we defend our point of view or our history that we do this with politeness and respect for other civilizations.”
“It is never true that while we defend our history we insult or underestimate other ethnicities or civilizations, that is why I insisted that I speak with respect about the civilizations of West Africa, because these people are not our enemies and they will respect us when we respect their history.”
One of Netflix’s most disliked trailers
The “Cleopatra” documentary trailer officially has become one of Netflix’s most disliked trailers, on YouTube, with more than 250,000 dislikes, which forced Netflix to close comments on the trailer, in an attempt to control the accusations brought against it of falsifying history, and preventing audience from expressing their opinions, according to the Mirror newspaper’s website.
They wish they had a better term than “White Supremacy”; they hate White people but do not sound good if they simply say it, they need to sound as if they hate something bad, so they use this term, but it can give the impression that Whites are on top and are on top for good reasons. In language, there is nothing they can do, and have to just keep mangling clarity
“LOL” just isn’t good enough.
First it’s Cleo the Negro then it’s Cleo the Hebrew.
Let the poor lady Rest In Peace already and find other people to make movies about. Are film and television companies so low in imagination they have to keep regurgitating the same jumble year after year?
Dead Roman Empire Movies are all tiresome. Go pick on the Hittites.
Rarotflmfao, Cleopatra black, Fecking Idiot’s…
“…which forced Netflix to close comments on the trailer, in an attempt to control the accusations brought against it of falsifying history,…”
Leaving aside this incident, I would have thought that Netflix ( which I don’t subscribe to by the way ) has as it’s primary aim to falsify history to suit the jews.
Most Africans in America came from Central Western Africa from Senegal down along the coast to the Congo.
The Afrocentrists (We was Kangz crowd) should take the time and look at a map of Africa and consider the distance between the lands where they came from and Egypt and consider the difficulty crossing Sahara Desert (which is about the size of the contiguous United States).
It’s like claiming ancient Scythians built Rome.
They have no claim to Egypt whatsoever. The blacks that were in Ancient Egypt were Eastern African, and there are big differences. As for the prevalence of dark-skinned people in Egypt that is certain by the many paintings they have left behind, so yes, there were East African Nubian people in Egypt, but Cleopatra was not one of them
The race BS has been flowing for a long time…
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What we fail to discuss, is the fact that “netflix” is set up as a propaganda apparatus, nothing else.
Zahi Hawass is a familiar name to readers of Graham Hancock, Robert Bauval, John Anthony West and like-minded revisionists of ancient history. As the Egyptian Minister of State for Antiquities, Hawass habitually brought bureaucratic obstacles to bear in an effort to impede, or outright prohibit, the field research of authors who were challenging established academic paradigms.
Hawass, the man, projects an overweening pomposity and a ludicrously high self-regard, despite his clearly apparent limitations of intelligence.
Here, in characteristic disregard for fact, Hawass, by some random conjuring of detail, attributes a skin tone of burgundy to the last Cleopatra.
The poor woman must’ve suffered from terrible hives. No wonder she bathed in hippo’s milk.
The colour burgundy derives from the name of the French wine, Burgundy.
When the Ptolemaic dynasties of Egypt fell in 30 BC, the germanic ruffians of the Burgundian tribe were not, as yet, exporting bottled wines to North Africa.
The use of burgundy as an adjective in English is relatively recent, historically. Hawass could not, therefore, have been citing any contemporaneous description of Cleopatra VII, nor any document from classical scholarship.
I wonder why Hawass opted for a dull burgundy of skin colour? If you’re making it up anyway, why not go for something a bit more daring, like a piebald Cleopatra?
The ancient Macedonians were “unhellenised” Greeks. Modern Macedonians are largely Eastern Slavs and Bulgars. None among the said peoples are purple.
Race mixing on stage & film where euro history/culture is concerned is why my interest in these productions is waned.
An all white ‘Porgy & Bess’ would at least be amusing…
They’ve already done this with Jesus, whether or not He existed. Two thousand years ago and before the age of international travel a man born in the Middle East would have had olive skin, brown eyes and dark hair and beard. He would not be a blue-eyed blond like He is portrayed as today. He would look more like Osama bin Laden than George Bush and He used to be depicted as a darker man until around the 13thC.
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Along with that Netflix has ALSO been investigated for money-laundering.
If that is true it might not be just a propaganda outfit but also a sort of criminal cartel. The movie industry has been famous for having warm and tender relations with both the government and the mob.
I’d never watch their stuff anyway.
Great comments thanks.
Netflix “programming” is incompetent at the best of times. Compared to other video streaming services it is b rated. It will be obsolete one day due to competition that’s a given.
@Disciple #8
Excellent. Go and make more disciples in all white nations. The future is ours.
teenage mutant ninja Myrtle, Sorry to burst your bubble, but just to let you know that Egyptians where origianlly White with Blue eyes as well as being Brown. They became what is known as Mediteranean Brown after many eons of mixing with Black workers who were brought in to do the work that the indiginous wouldn’t do!
Zahi Hawass has attracted these headlines for being less wrong than the Blacks who want to culturally appropriate Cleopatra.
Zahi Hawass is a known gatekeeper for mainstream academia. I’ve take great interest in the works of Graham Hancock in recent years. I also highly recommend this guy below. His channel might be my favourite of all time:
https://www.youtube.com/@UnchartedX
The mainstream by “championing” Hawass are therefore promoting his worldview. He is the perennial “sensible” conservative who, like Trump, is just a limited hangout.
The mainstream shepherds the people between two “acceptable” opinions: 1/ You can believe Hawass or 2/ You can believe Ancient Aliens. (Elsewhere a choice between Trump and Biden…)
TTS has not tackled the issue of very ancient human civilisation preceding a cataclysm that has been described by the uniformity of world myths regarding floods.
Ancient human origins are being covered up for some reason. If the TTS can take timeout from giving its attention to the ever consuming questions of: Covid, Russia, drag queens, the economy, and so on, these questions of origin might give greater perspective on current issues.
My other comment should have another “they” near the end; reading it now, I see the error and how it is not grammatical. An ungrammatical sentence comes across like a cripple at the Olympics. The computer now says I got “ungrammatical” wrong as well
Cinema attendances are tanking,
Many, closing down.
The ‘story lines’, Production, are poor quality. (in the main).
Some attendee behaviour is appalling.
A Black Lord Nelson, or Black Welsh Coal mining Families, being slaughtered by WHITE British soldiers <– Who all come from super rich, well heeled stock. – for striking for better pay & living conditions, won't save the Cinematic industry. (lol).
But ALL ! every one of 'em, The white Generation X,Y & Z mobs & whatever the future kids are going to be called, Will ALL believe it.
How else could it end, When white people openly accepted & being told, You can't speak what you are thinking.
Never watched Blackatra, never will.
That makes me a white supremacist antisemite holocaust denier and thus liable to be arrested the next time I land in the States.
So, let the dominoes fall, no Cleopatra means no USA, I am bawling at the top of my lungs already (why did mom make me a Nazi?)
Eddlieb–Whites go dark nearer the Equator without the help of African genes; it is just an adaptation, and is the reason Kipling spoke of the “Aryan Brown”. Sunlight is damaging and the skin learns to protect the body