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Take On Me by a-ha: Have you seen this music video?

Yes, I have

I haven't, but I've heard the song

Never heard this song

Voting ended onJul 2

We had a cover, now the original!

#request #Take On Me #a-ha #pop music #new wave pop #1985 #alternate version #(did you know? this was *not* the first video filmed for the song!)#anglosphere #norwegian music #animated music video #animation #poll #poll blog #music poll #music video #Youtube

It’s extremely obvious that America bomb threat procedures are heavily influenced by… The Troubles. Because security practices are apparently trapped in a not just pre 9/11 but pre 1998 mindset due to another Anglosphere country having a conflict where bombings and bomb threats were major tactics, and this really feels like it’s only a big deal because shared language, whereas the shared culture focus would be a lot more concerned about Brazilian bombings and protest culture or something like that.

Like, widespread political/terrorist bomb threats were only a thing in pre Good Friday Accords UK! Why the heck are we still acting like the IRA is going to blow up an office building in Montana any day now?

I get that it’s an established tactic and high school prank but we don’t put this much worry into tactics and threats that have actually happened in the last 10 years and in this country. Everyone doesn’t have a lock-glueing SOP or a protesters use ladders to get on your roof SOP and those are actual tactics that have been used in the United States in the last decade.

#bomb threat #irish republican army #ira #security industry #terrorism #the troubles #original post #american politics #uk politics #anglosphere #clearing the drafts

I have seen some discussions on the Odyssey casting kinda misconstrue what some people over here are saying.

Because here is the thing: I am all in all very happy with the very inclusive casting. I think Lupita makes for a great Helen. I am - despite it all - quite happy to see a trans guy casted just as a guy. There is a lot of things that I do like here.

But also, I absolutely do get the anger of some Greek people online over the fact that there was basically no Greek person cast in any of the main roles. Because yeah, that is a fucking problem with American meidia (meaning: most blockbuster media) doing anything, really.

We had the discussion a couple of times already on Asian casting. Where people were somewhat able to understand that actually, maybe, it is not great to cast like a Chinese American person to play a Thai character for example.

But outside of people I know within the industry, I rarely see people understand this issue towards European casting.

Here's the thing: whenever an American studio casts for a project set in or dealing with European stuff, they are almost certainly either casting a British person for the role, or they are casting an American who then will speak in a fake British accent. Because to most Americans Europe begins and ends with the UK.

This leads to the scenario where all in all both in actual acting and voice acting non-British European actors are underrepresented. There are a handful of actors from France, Germany, and the Scandinavian nations that have made it big, sure, but actors that are from none of those nations (that are in the end the nations that within Europe most people will consider "white") are insanely rare.

Slavic characters will rarely ever be played by Slavic actors (let alone an actor from the actual cultural background). Characters from Spain, Portugal, Italy or Greece will be rarely ever played by actors from there. And, let's be totally honest: given that about 90% of Americans are ignorant of the South Eastern block in Europe to exist (places like Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria and so on) they do appear so rarely in movies or shows, that obviously nobody is being cast from there either. (I mean fuck, this South Eastern block somehow always gets replaced in US Media by made up nations that dabble with a visual mixture of Slavic, Romani, and European Muslim signifies, often in somewhat racist ways.) And while we are on it, Romani characters...

And yes, that is fucked up. Especially as generally speaking, let's be fully honest: until the moment in which people are actively interested to appropriate parts of Roman and Ancient Greece history and mythology, it is not as if Greek or Italian people are getting treated as "white" most of the time. At most they are going to be treated as "second class white". If Luigi had been named Anton Schuster, he likely would not have been charged with terrorism, y'know?

Like, yes. Some of the people complaining are complaining because they are racist and transphobic and have an issue with Elliot Page or any one of the Black actors being casted for the Odyssey. But there is also a lot of people who are actually fine with Black and trans actors, but would have preferred to possibly see some Greek Black or trans people in the movie. Because, guess what: there are Black Greek people, and trans Greek people. There are even Black and trans Greek actors. And the fact that you cannot name one is kinda proving my point.

And, well... Look, I have spoken with people before who are working in the industry, including casting. And I know there have been efforts made in some productions to actually do cast the European characters appropriately. And those people then got told: "No, the dialects would just confuse the American audience. We will cast this character British. It will instill a vague idea of Europe in the audience. That's good enough."

And I am sorry, but... this is a problem. The way the anglosphere gets constantly centered in international media productions is a problem. And it grows double into a problem if it affects scenarios where it affects a group of people worst who are seen to have a privilege that in actuality they do not have. Like, everyone is sooooo happy to tell you how the Greek culture really was the cradle of European civilization. But when the EU is disenfranchising Greece over and over again, then those Greek people are suddenly framed as uncultured, lazy, and corrupt and actually not white at all. Most Greek people I know have been forced to do the thing that a lot of other non-white people have to do when interacting with people who are truly seen as white: change their names into something that the colonial core considers "easy to pronounce". Because your average American cannot be arsed to pronounce Efstathios Rondopulos, just like they cannot be arsed to pronounce Zhu Xengchi or Tawia Barwuah.

Look, due being sick and all, I have yet to see that movie. I assume, though, based on experience with Nolan, that it will be a technically marvelous movie with great cinematography, very good VFX, and overall great acting. And I also assume I will still hate it for the writing, because I have yet to like the plot of any one Nolan movie. But to me the issue is not that they cast a lot of Black actors here. I love that in fact. It is that they did not cast Greek people. In any major role.

#the odyssey #christopher nolan #racism #hollywood #movies #anglosphere #anglocentrism #europe #greece #ancient greece #homeric epics #eu #casting

Growing up outside of the anglosphere you hear things like "Dwarves are always scottish coded" "Orcs have a black coding problem" and I'm like... yeah... I... guess? It's difficult to tell since media gets changed a lot through transtalting and dubbing.

For example, dwarves have always looked more like a viking stereotype for me because well, they have long beards and are hoarse in their manners and that's the only referent I have to interpret them. Dwarves dubbed in spanish speak very much like a normal person but even then they throw in fancy register to sound old-timey.

Things like "Orcs are black coded" I... don't see it because black stereotypes in my mind are pretty much the grandfather of the boondocks. Next to one another, orcs are just mythological monsters like ogres, or giants, I lack a lot of context to make the connection.

#fantasy #orcs #elves #dwarves #hispanosphere #anglosphere #dubbing #allegory

WHICH CORE COUNTRY OF THE ANGLOSPHERE ARE YOU FROM?

United-Kingdom

United States

Canada

Australia

New-Zealand

I'm from another country of the anglosphere

I'm not from a country of the anglosphere

Voting ended onDec 9, 2023

We know tumblr is dominated by the anglosphere, but how is it distributed between its core countries?

"The five core countries of the Anglosphere are usually taken to be Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. These countries enjoy close cultural and diplomatic links with one another and are aligned under military and security programmes." (Wikipedia)