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This is a low budget, high brow sci-fi movie about a young computer programmer with a likable mug (Domhnall Gleeson, son of the great Brendan). It has been making decent money in a slow roll-out and now is in wide distribution in the U.S.
Albert Brooks’ casually-dressed CEO supervillain
He gets invited by his CEO (Oscar Isaac) to spend a week at his Hank Scorpio-like boss’s fortress of solitude in northern Norway to work on a secret project: can the trillionaire’s creation, a beautiful robot princess (Swedish starlet Alicia Vikander, who will be in eight movies this year), pass the Turing test by getting the lonely nerd to fall in love with her?
The expert cast has much experience with these kind of upscale roles.
Vikander’s very good at playing intelligent, aristocratic young ladies whom bright men want to rescue. Actresses are getting posher these days, and Vikander can give Keira Knightley and Carey Mulligan a run for their old money.
Vikander and Gleeson were cast opposite each other in the subplot of the recent Anna Karenina as Kitty and the proto-hippie idealist Levin.
Ex Machina is even closer to Ms. Vikander’s recent movie A Royal Affair, with a screenplay by Lars von Trier, in which she plays a Voltaire-reading 18th Century Danish queen who has a dangerous affair with her husband’s most Enlightened adviser.
Isaac gets a lot of work these days because he seems like a highly intelligent individual, but too many of his big roles have been in excessively restrained movies like Inside Llewyn Davis and A Most Violent Year. Here Isaac finally gets to show off, chewing the scenery as an egomaniacal Dr. Frankenstein who thinks he’s always one step ahead of his underling.
The dialogue isn’t bad, although the sets look like they would have been cutting edge in 1995. Ex Machina is directed by Alex Garland, Danny Boyle’s sci-fi screenwriter (28 Days Later and Sunshine), moving up to the director’s chair. Not surprisingly, it’s talky and static, but not in a bad way.
……hah……nobody ever chooses Italy!
Fun thing about Oscar Isaac*? The way that the lumpengentsia try to convince themselves that he’s not a White man.
*http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/oscar-isaac-658886
“…pass the Turing test by getting the lonely nerd to fall in love with her?”
This seems like a very low bar.
*http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/oscar-isaac-658886Replies: @anonymous, @Lex Corvus, @emilio zapata, @Anonymous
All that list says is that he’s hispanic. Anti immigration and pro immigration people are just as likely to erroneously say that hispanic and white are mutually exclusive.
That being said you don’t know for sure what his exact racial background is
As I said before, this is a guy who played a fictional version of Bob Dylan (Inside Ilewyn Davis) and King John (Robin Hood).Guys who aren't White don't get cast in those kinds of parts.
Real Hispanic Amerinds/Mestizos (Mestizo as in being more than 25% Amerind) are boring.That's why Hollywood prefers White/mostly White Hispanic actors: Ricardo Montalban, Jose Ferrer Cesar Romero, Anthony Quinn, etc
RE: Oscar Isaac and the PC Left’s attempt to find a Mestizo-Amerind leading man,
As noted in the previous post, they’ve tried awfully hard to convince themselves that the guy who played King John for Ridley Scott isn’t White.But their frustration comes from the fact that Hollywood can’t seem to find a an actual Hispanic Amerind/Mestizo leading man.So, they’ve got to grasp at White guys with Spanish surnames/Latin American ancestry.
Case in point: Texas Rising.It’s a History Channel docudrama on the Texas War of independence that will air later this month.Guess who’s going to play General Santa Ana? Olivier Martinez, a French actor whose father was Spanish……
As noted in the previous post, they’ve tried awfully hard to convince themselves that the guy who played King John for Ridley Scott isn’t White.But their frustration comes from the fact that Hollywood can’t seem to find a an actual Hispanic Amerind/Mestizo leading man.So, they’ve got to grasp at White guys with Spanish surnames/Latin American ancestry.
Case in point: Texas Rising.It’s a History Channel docudrama on the Texas War of independence that will air later this month.Guess who’s going to play General Santa Ana? Olivier Martinez, a French actor whose father was Spanish……"
How many Mestizo/Amerindian Hispanic males are actually decent looking enough to be leading man material in Hollywood? Most of them are quite ugly in the looks department. There is a reason why you do not see a lot of White women dating Aztec looking Hispanic males.
Oh, it’s the poor hacker guy from Dredd.
*http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/oscar-isaac-658886Replies: @anonymous, @Lex Corvus, @emilio zapata, @Anonymous
For convenience, here’s a linked version of the Isaac URL: Oscar Isaac
*http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/oscar-isaac-658886Replies: @anonymous, @Lex Corvus, @emilio zapata, @Anonymous
He could play a Mexican and I’ll find it believable.
I thought Oscar Isaac was Jewish. He shares a resemblance to David Krumholtz. He might have some Crypto Jewish ancestry by way of Iberia.
So, French and Jewish (Sephardic?) .No reference to Amerind or Black ancestry.If he has any, it's quite low.
The sweet spot for Hollywood liberals.A White guy who can, via the magic of the Hispanic category and a Southern European phenotype, quasi-plausibly claim non-White status.
Oscar Isaac has a likable screen presence. First saw him in Body of Lies as DiCaprio’s Iraqi helper and was very surprised that he’s not Arab. As King John in Robin Hood he played a bad guy but was still likeable. He was the only highlight in the otherwise dull movies Inside Llewyn Davis and A Most Violent Year.
Here’s his page at jewornotjew: http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1855
they rate him as barely a jew
The VFX of Ex Machina were impressive.
We take it for granted, but that would have been stunning and insanely expensive not many years. Cheap VFX means we can get low budget, art-house sci-fi flicks. Which is fun.
I look forward to seeing what people make.
Ex Machina is excellent, by the way.
I enjoyed Ex Machina.
The ending was kinda lame, but endings are always the hardest in scifi.
I enjoyed that the trailer misled me.
As noted in the previous post, they've tried awfully hard to convince themselves that the guy who played King John for Ridley Scott isn't White.But their frustration comes from the fact that Hollywood can't seem to find a an actual Hispanic Amerind/Mestizo leading man.So, they've got to grasp at White guys with Spanish surnames/Latin American ancestry.
Case in point: Texas Rising.It's a History Channel docudrama on the Texas War of independence that will air later this month.Guess who's going to play General Santa Ana? Olivier Martinez, a French actor whose father was Spanish......Replies: @Jefferson
“RE: Oscar Isaac and the PC Left’s attempt to find a Mestizo-Amerind leading man,
As noted in the previous post, they’ve tried awfully hard to convince themselves that the guy who played King John for Ridley Scott isn’t White.But their frustration comes from the fact that Hollywood can’t seem to find a an actual Hispanic Amerind/Mestizo leading man.So, they’ve got to grasp at White guys with Spanish surnames/Latin American ancestry.
Case in point: Texas Rising.It’s a History Channel docudrama on the Texas War of independence that will air later this month.Guess who’s going to play General Santa Ana? Olivier Martinez, a French actor whose father was Spanish……”
How many Mestizo/Amerindian Hispanic males are actually decent looking enough to be leading man material in Hollywood? Most of them are quite ugly in the looks department. There is a reason why you do not see a lot of White women dating Aztec looking Hispanic males.
I could play a Mexican, and you would find it believable. Doesn’t change the brute facts of race.
OT:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/05/16/asian-american-groups-accuse-harvard-of-racial-bias-in-admissions/27438565/
Let it burn!
Oh, I’m sure that he has a bit of Amerind blood in there, somewhere.Then again, so does Chuck Norris.
As I said before, this is a guy who played a fictional version of Bob Dylan (Inside Ilewyn Davis) and King John (Robin Hood).Guys who aren’t White don’t get cast in those kinds of parts.
Real Hispanic Amerinds/Mestizos (Mestizo as in being more than 25% Amerind) are boring.That’s why Hollywood prefers White/mostly White Hispanic actors: Ricardo Montalban, Jose Ferrer Cesar Romero, Anthony Quinn, etc
Here he is describing his background:
http://www.goldenglobes.com/nominee-profiles/oscar-isaac-inside-llewyn-davis-5971
So, French and Jewish (Sephardic?) .No reference to Amerind or Black ancestry.If he has any, it’s quite low.
The sweet spot for Hollywood liberals.A White guy who can, via the magic of the Hispanic category and a Southern European phenotype, quasi-plausibly claim non-White status.
“Oh, I’m sure that he has a bit of Amerind blood in there, somewhere.Then again, so does Chuck Norris.
As I said before, this is a guy who played a fictional version of Bob Dylan (Inside Ilewyn Davis) and King John (Robin Hood).Guys who aren’t White don’t get cast in those kinds of parts.
Real Hispanic Amerinds/Mestizos (Mestizo as in being more than 25% Amerind) are boring.That’s why Hollywood prefers White/mostly White Hispanic actors: Ricardo Montalban, Jose Ferrer Cesar Romero, Anthony Quinn, etc”
Anthony Quinn played an Italian in the film “Jungle Fever”. He played the father of John and Nicholas Turturro.
After looking at many online images I would say that while Isaac does not look like a typical Hispanic he also is not obviously NON-Hispanic, if that makes any sense. I do not believe he is of 100% European origin.
He does not look like a Northern European WASP but if he said he was a Turk or a Greek for example, I would believe him. In others word he looks Caucasoid using the 3 race system.
http://www.viraldoza.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/26-Richard-Nixon.jpgReplies: @Anonymous, @jon
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/05/16/asian-american-groups-accuse-harvard-of-racial-bias-in-admissions/27438565/
Let it burn!Replies: @Wyrd
Down with horistic admissions process that is furry compriant with federar raw!
“After looking at many online images I would say that while Isaac does not look like a typical Hispanic he also is not obviously NON-Hispanic, if that makes any sense. I do not believe he is of 100% European origin.”
He does not look like a Northern European WASP but if he said he was a Turk or a Greek for example, I would believe him. In others word he looks Caucasoid using the 3 race system.
Quinn played Italians, Greeks, you name it.Here’s his bio:
http://www.movieactors.com/freezeframes-12/QUINN-oxbow1.jpeg
*http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/oscar-isaac-658886Replies: @anonymous, @Lex Corvus, @emilio zapata, @Anonymous
He’s olive skinned and looks ethnic. That’s what they mean.
Hollywood cast a Black man to play the father of the Irish, French, German, and Italian actress Kate Mara in the new “Fantastic Four” film.
I wonder if this is a way of Hollywood trying to brainwash White people into believing that racial miscegenation between Blacks and Whites is a good thing like “hey there is nothing wrong with Black-White race mixing because there is a high chance the offspring from these racial unions will come out looking White”.
It means that he is a guy with a Southern European phenotype.
Drop him off in Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica, Greece, Spain, Southern France, the Southern Balkans, etc, and he would fit right in.Hell, drop him off in Wales and he would fit in.He could be Richard Nixon’s cousin:
Carleton Coon's work goes into this sort of thing in quite some detail.Replies: @anon, @Twinkie
http://www.viraldoza.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/26-Richard-Nixon.jpgReplies: @Anonymous, @jon
The “dark” Welsh and Irish types tend to differ from Mediterranean types. The former usually don’t have olive skin and are often very pale and have blue eyes. Also their facial features tend to be broader and less fleshy.
Carleton Coon’s work goes into this sort of thing in quite some detail.
In my experience people in those areas will make jokes about people who look like Hughes having Italian sailors for fathers because it's the closest thing they can think of but I think it actually goes back a long way into the past.Replies: @Steve Sailer
Anthony Quinn even played a Ukrainian pope from Lvov in In the Shoes of the Fisherman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shoes_of_the_Fisherman
Domnall Gleeson played Louis Zamperini’s pilot in “Unbroken”, and Zamperini was played by an english/irish actor, Jack O’Connell. About half the airmen in the movie were portrayed by english, irish, or australian actors. “Band of Brothers” had similar demographics. Even in “L.A. Confidential” both the leads were portrayed by Australians.
For whatever reason, movie directors and producers seem to think that convincing portrayals of WWII-era Americans are best pulled off by foreign actors.
Steve you should make a blog about a Kentucky sheriff who felt relieved that one of his deputies shot a White man and not a Black man. You should title it “White Lives Do Not Matter”.
For whatever reason, movie directors and producers seem to think that convincing portrayals of WWII-era Americans are best pulled off by foreign actors.Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Brutusale
I’ve been told: Young American men upspeak like Valley Girls in 1982. In contrast, when British Commonwealth actors are asked to do American accents, they imitatate downspeaking 1970s American movie stars like Nicholson, De Niro, and Eastwood.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IG-0z6bs_YU
(Erik Loomis, historian)
I want the glass house.
Carleton Coon's work goes into this sort of thing in quite some detail.Replies: @anon, @Twinkie
Yeah it’s an interesting thing. I mentioned the actor Tom Hughes in a previous thread because I was thinking about this – I think he’s a good example of that cross between the northern euro and the southern euro look which you get in Ireland / Wales / Borders for some reason.
In my experience people in those areas will make jokes about people who look like Hughes having Italian sailors for fathers because it’s the closest thing they can think of but I think it actually goes back a long way into the past.
That makes sense. Growing up US actors were generally more macho and Commonwealth more stiff-upper-lip and restrained so they might act more macho playing Americans.
In my experience people in those areas will make jokes about people who look like Hughes having Italian sailors for fathers because it's the closest thing they can think of but I think it actually goes back a long way into the past.Replies: @Steve Sailer
One theory is that the first main wave to settle England and Ireland after the last Ice Age had covered them in ice had taken refuge in the Iberian Peninsula.
I didn’t think this movie was about artificial intelligence at all. I think it just used artificial intelligence as a platform for the main theme, which is “Don’t Be a Lonely Nerd”. How would Corey Worthington have administered the Turing test I wonder…?
From the IT security standpoint, the zillionaire’s problems at the end (don’t want to give away too much) could have been greatly alleviated by simply having password authentication on his workstation, you know, like all the millions of cubicle dwellers in the first world are required to have. He wouldn’t even have to actually lock his workstation; just make “adjust compound security settings” something that requires an admin password. You’d think a tech zillionaire who is smart enough to program a passable Aliciavikanderbot would have a better handle on these things.
From the IT security standpoint, the zillionaire's problems at the end (don't want to give away too much) could have been greatly alleviated by simply having password authentication on his workstation, you know, like all the millions of cubicle dwellers in the first world are required to have. He wouldn't even have to actually lock his workstation; just make "adjust compound security settings" something that requires an admin password. You'd think a tech zillionaire who is smart enough to program a passable Aliciavikanderbot would have a better handle on these things.Replies: @Steve Sailer
Yeah, I expected the robot princess to have some insight into her creator’s mind that would help in guessing his password, but nah …
that’s what seems most likely to me as well.
Anthony Quinn was a drop-dead gorgeous young man.
As good as The Ox-bow Incident was (not the left-wing preachiness but the uniformly fine acting), I got quite distracted once he came onscreen.
Anthony Quinn was a drop-dead gorgeous young man.
It’s the writer of Dredd too, Alex Garland. God that movie kicks ass.
I liked it. The plot was a bit predictable but that added to the sense of impending doom like in a greek tragedy. The acting was top notch and it had gorgeous cinematography. Among the eye candy were norwegian mountains and an attractive girl of mix japanese-english descent.
Isaac was amazing as an obnoxious but fascinating tech billionaire that is both chummy and condescending in a very californian way. His character is the only one that I really cared about.
Speaking of mountains and amazing cinematography, did you see Force Majeure?
Warning: the following trailer is basically a summary of the movie, but it shouldn’t matter because it’s the imagery and the sounds rather than the minimal plot that is good about this movie. The initial premise was interesting, but the continuation was not as gripping.
One of the whitest guys in boxing today is a Mexican, Saul “Canelo” Alvarez. Here’s him versus James Kirkland last week:
http://www.viraldoza.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/26-Richard-Nixon.jpgReplies: @Anonymous, @jon
Wow, either that is an overly flattering picture of Nixon, or he really didn’t age well.
I never really understood what this meant until someone pointed it out with this guy:
(Erik Loomis, historian)
I remember Steve said he thought Oscar Isaac in “A Most Violent Year” looked like Michael Corleone.
The actress who plays Ava in Ex Machina is Swedish, her name is Alicia Vikander. She does not look like the typical Nordic Swede. She reminds me of Fox New’s Joanne Nosuchinsky who is half Italian and half Ukrainian.
Father a psychiatrist. Says here religion is Jewish. Looks quite like Natalie Portman in some photos.Replies: @Anonym, @Fredrik, @fish, @Anonymous
Conversely, once Nixon reached middle age, he remained in remarkably good health (and thereafter looked young for his age) until well into his twilight years.
I recall that someone once wrote that Richard Nixon sold his soul to the Devil to remain forever forty-seven years old.
Yes, a lot of young american men talk like – for want of a better word – fags. I shouldn’t have said “for whatever reason” – clearly, UK and australian actors are actually better at playing Americans of yore than most american actors are, and the casting directors are making a sound choice. Another possible reason is the propensity of american actors to be too muscular. They all seem to be gym-rats nowadays. Most american men didn’t used to look like that, up until the 90s sometime.
Quinn didn’t just play italians, greeks, and mexicans; he played ukrainians, siberians, arabs, and eskimoes. The only actor to come close in the range of people he played was Omar Sharif, who played arabs, russians, germans, mongols, and americans. Although, it should be noted that even John Wayne once played a mongol.
https://gcaggiano.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/john-wayne-genghis-khan.jpg
But then again, Charlton Heston played Judah Ben-Hur. I wasn't there, but I am pretty sure the Jews of that period didn't look very Anglo-Scottish.
Hollywood is magic.Replies: @Oswald Spengler
Cliff Curtis is one of the few character actors these days who plays other races than his own (he’s at least significantly Maori).
Cliff Curtis tend to play Arabs and Hispanics. He has that pan-Brown look where he is believable as an Egyptian or an Ecuadorian. As a Moroccan or a Mexican.
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Observer/Pix/pictures/2012/8/29/1346259310681/Alicia-Vikander-011.jpgReplies: @Tacitus2016
http://articlebio.com/amanda-alicia-vikander
Father a psychiatrist. Says here religion is Jewish. Looks quite like Natalie Portman in some photos.
“Cliff Curtis is one of the few character actors these days who plays other races than his own (he’s at least significantly Maori).”
Cliff Curtis tend to play Arabs and Hispanics. He has that pan-Brown look where he is believable as an Egyptian or an Ecuadorian. As a Moroccan or a Mexican.
Father a psychiatrist. Says here religion is Jewish. Looks quite like Natalie Portman in some photos.Replies: @Anonym, @Fredrik, @fish, @Anonymous
Reminds me a lot of Natalie Portman too.
Is advocating for due process in capital cases left-wing preachiness nowadays?
Father a psychiatrist. Says here religion is Jewish. Looks quite like Natalie Portman in some photos.Replies: @Anonym, @Fredrik, @fish, @Anonymous
I don’t believe she’s Jewish. Googling doesn’t find any traces of that and her name betrays no Jewishness.
For whatever reason, movie directors and producers seem to think that convincing portrayals of WWII-era Americans are best pulled off by foreign actors.Replies: @Steve Sailer, @Brutusale
If you want a real man to act today, you have to go foreign.
Almost all modern movies reach a point where, in order to advance the plot, a character must do the stupidest thing possible. I stopped watching ‘Purge’ when the kid let someone into the house. But I stuck with ‘Prometheus’ when they took their helmets off, only to be rewarded with a character who, upon encountering a creature that looked like a cross between a snake and a remora, stuck his face down next to it. We’ve become so conditioned to extremely poor writing that for the most part we just let it pass.
And from someone whom has bastardized ‘Ex Machina,’ should we really be surprised at a little deus ex machina?
Canelo (“Cinnamon”) Alvarez is a top boxer in part because he is so light. When he was growing up in Mexico other kids in the neighborhood used to taunt him that his father wasn’t his real father, that his mother must have fooled around with a white man. He was obliged to get into fist fights to defend his mother’s honor, and honed his fighting skills in the process.
Is this testing whether I’m a replicant or a lesbian, Mr. Deckard?
Richard Nixon looked relatively (though not unusually) young for his age as he got older, but it would be a stretch to say that he enjoyed remarkably good health. He suffered a near-fatal case of phlebitis shortly after his resignation and was hospitalized for weeks. He did not seem particularly active thereafter. While 81 is not an early age at which to die, it’s unimpressive by the standards of other recent presidents: Ford and Reagan each lived over a decade longer, as have the still-living Bush I and Carter.
Depends on how you define “real men”:
http://www.towleroad.com/2011/09/from-an-interview-in-marie-claire-this-much-candour-makes-you-wonder-whether-hardy-ever-regrets-being-well-quite-frank-i.html
Father a psychiatrist. Says here religion is Jewish. Looks quite like Natalie Portman in some photos.Replies: @Anonym, @Fredrik, @fish, @Anonymous
Looks hotter as the android.
Yul Brynner played a wide range as well. He played Russians, an Arab, Egyptian, Thai, Japanese, and even a Southerner in The Sound and the Fury.
This is in response to diversity. It allows producers to get away with whiter casts with plausible deniability.
It’s not a set. It’s a hotel: http://www.juvet.com/en. From the website: “Juvet does not have an online booking system, but please send an e-mail and tell us when you would like to come, and we will answer within 24 hours. ”
Lionoftheblogosphere would say the lack on an online booking system makes Juvet an elite hotel.
We take it for granted, but that would have been stunning and insanely expensive not many years. Cheap VFX means we can get low budget, art-house sci-fi flicks. Which is fun.
I look forward to seeing what people make.Replies: @PapayaSF
From your lips to God’s ears, Chang. If only Hollywood made more good low- and mid-budget science fiction films, now that they have the ability to do quality effects on low budgets. Unfortunately, they seem to be addicted to big budgets and expensive stars.
Ex Machina is excellent, by the way.
There was a discussion over at Roosh’s about how gay and straight white guys in DC are increasingly indistinguishable from each other. I live in the DC area, it’s true, Millennial white guys are soft. Maybe it’s national.
Illegitimate wealth and power have produced effeminacy in men throughout history.
http://stureplan.se/sok/Alicia+Vikander
Scroll down for pics of Vikander as a teenager hanging out in Stockholm nightclubs. She’s obviously gotten a stylist.
Father a psychiatrist. Says here religion is Jewish. Looks quite like Natalie Portman in some photos.Replies: @Anonym, @Fredrik, @fish, @Anonymous
No other source that I could find confirms her background as Jewish. Her mother’s maiden name was Fahl, but neither that name nor Vikander are typical for Ashknazi Jews. It’s possible that she is partially of Jewish ancestry, but the evidence is very thin.
Interesting…The ice didn’t go nearly that far south though. The ice shelves reached about halfway through the Netherlands, so you would expect the people around Calais to be the first there. If there were any people still living there, that is.
Carleton Coon's work goes into this sort of thing in quite some detail.Replies: @anon, @Twinkie
Don’t forget that the Paleo hunter-gatherers of Northern Europe were blue-eyed, dark-skinned and -haired people, genetically distant from the Middle Eastern farmers who migrated to the Mediterranean.
I don’t care for Knightley at all, but I liked Carey Mulligan in “An Education,” “Never Let Me Go,” and “Shame.”
Vikander… Wow, what a beauty. Captures that “intelligent, aristocratic” Germanic-Nordic look perfectly. She’s a brunette on top of that. I could not take my eyes off her in “A Royal Affair.” I thought she overshadowed Mads Mikkelsen in that film, and that’s saying something (I have been a big fan of Mikkelsen since seeing “Prag,” “Adam’s Apple,” and “After the Wedding”).
Alicia Vikander is not Nordic at all from a phenotype standpoint. Everybody on this racial anthropology discussion board Anthroscape describe her phenotype as Mediterranean looking and they all agree she does not look like the typical average Swede.
http://s1.zetaboards.com/anthroscape/topic/4849450/1/Replies: @Twinkie
Who got in trouble recently by saying “scratch an actors and you will find an actress”?
I saw this when it came out in the UK in January. Quite good, the crowd really appreciated a decent sci-fi movie that was not a blockbuster or a comic book sequel.
Here's his page at jewornotjew: http://www.jewornotjew.com/profile.jsp?ID=1855
they rate him as barely a jewReplies: @Alfa158
The real King John was a blond, blue-eyed Nordic type as you would expect a Norman to be. It’s interesting that a dark guy is always cast to play him. I guess even in our PC world the entertainment industry can’t always get away from the stereotype of the darker villain.
“Vikander… Wow, what a beauty. Captures that “intelligent, aristocratic” Germanic-Nordic look perfectly.”
Alicia Vikander is not Nordic at all from a phenotype standpoint. Everybody on this racial anthropology discussion board Anthroscape describe her phenotype as Mediterranean looking and they all agree she does not look like the typical average Swede.
http://s1.zetaboards.com/anthroscape/topic/4849450/1/
I've been to Sweden and Germany numerous times (I have a school chum from Sweden whom I visited several times, and I worked in Germany for a stretch). Not all Nordics and Germans look like Elin Nordegren or the "Swedish Bikini Team." That's a lazy stereotype. Even in Sweden a large fraction of the people are brunettes (at least half, possibly more), not blondes. Vikander is pretty so she'll stick out anywhere, but otherwise she can blend in easily in Sweden and Germany.
People sometimes get fixated on certain stereotypes and have trouble with reality. For another example, look no further than the Icelandic singer Bjork whom many assume is part Asian or Inuit when she is simply Icelandic with some Celtic genes. The puffy cheeks and slanted eye look that some folks associate only with East Asians are cold weather adaptations and are also found in northern Europe, albeit in smaller numbers.Replies: @Jefferson
Think about the far north of Canada, Alaska or Russia and think how much farther south from the glacier people would have to live for the land to support a population of any size. I’ve seen the Ice Age population maps Steve Sailer refers to and it shows three clusters of people on the Iberian peninsula, in what’s mordern day Macedonia and Serbia and then on the northeast shore of the Black Sea.
Chechens, Africans, Middle Easterners… take your pick.
Great thriller! Really thought they should have run with the angle that Caleb was the machine though. Would have taken it all to an even higher level.
It’s not.
Illegitimate wealth and power have produced effeminacy in men throughout history.
I found it impossible to suspend disbelief; that is not in northern Norway.
Alicia Vikander is not Nordic at all from a phenotype standpoint. Everybody on this racial anthropology discussion board Anthroscape describe her phenotype as Mediterranean looking and they all agree she does not look like the typical average Swede.
http://s1.zetaboards.com/anthroscape/topic/4849450/1/Replies: @Twinkie
Did you even read the link you posted? Not “all agree she does not look like the typical average Swede.” One commenter wrote “She could easily pass as default Swedish.”
I’ve been to Sweden and Germany numerous times (I have a school chum from Sweden whom I visited several times, and I worked in Germany for a stretch). Not all Nordics and Germans look like Elin Nordegren or the “Swedish Bikini Team.” That’s a lazy stereotype. Even in Sweden a large fraction of the people are brunettes (at least half, possibly more), not blondes. Vikander is pretty so she’ll stick out anywhere, but otherwise she can blend in easily in Sweden and Germany.
People sometimes get fixated on certain stereotypes and have trouble with reality. For another example, look no further than the Icelandic singer Bjork whom many assume is part Asian or Inuit when she is simply Icelandic with some Celtic genes. The puffy cheeks and slanted eye look that some folks associate only with East Asians are cold weather adaptations and are also found in northern Europe, albeit in smaller numbers.
Ever heard of John Geer? Of course not. He was white. The mainstream media, except for some local coverage, was completely missing in that police shooting.
John Wayne as Genghis Khan was just priceless. Hey, he wore an eye makeup, so it’s all good. It didn’t quite rise to the level of Mickey Rooney as a Japanese though.
But then again, Charlton Heston played Judah Ben-Hur. I wasn’t there, but I am pretty sure the Jews of that period didn’t look very Anglo-Scottish.
Hollywood is magic.
"Hollywood is magic."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7i_9rrNqyQE
I've been to Sweden and Germany numerous times (I have a school chum from Sweden whom I visited several times, and I worked in Germany for a stretch). Not all Nordics and Germans look like Elin Nordegren or the "Swedish Bikini Team." That's a lazy stereotype. Even in Sweden a large fraction of the people are brunettes (at least half, possibly more), not blondes. Vikander is pretty so she'll stick out anywhere, but otherwise she can blend in easily in Sweden and Germany.
People sometimes get fixated on certain stereotypes and have trouble with reality. For another example, look no further than the Icelandic singer Bjork whom many assume is part Asian or Inuit when she is simply Icelandic with some Celtic genes. The puffy cheeks and slanted eye look that some folks associate only with East Asians are cold weather adaptations and are also found in northern Europe, albeit in smaller numbers.Replies: @Jefferson
“Vikander is pretty so she’ll stick out anywhere, but otherwise she can blend in easily in Sweden and Germany.”
She looks about as typically Swedish as Canelo Alvarez looks typically Mexican. Not many Swedes would be classified as having a Mediterranean looking phenotype on racial anthropology boards. Just like not many Mexicans are gingers.
What makes Alicia Vikander even less a typical Swede is that she has brown eyes when the vast majority of Swedes whether they are blonde or brunette have blue eyes.
Yes sorry. Probably an unreliable bio. Also says she has grey eyes and she appears to have dark eyes.
Movie sounded interesting to me so I googled the director and see he’s the grandson of the great biologist Peter Medawar (I’m sure Steve is all over that already).
I always remember Medawar’s name being attached to an endorsing remark used on the blurb for John R Baker’s ‘Race’ book (which Steve amusingly tried way too hard to be negative about in his Amazon review, & only 4 stars??).
I always remember Medawar's name being attached to an endorsing remark used on the blurb for John R Baker's 'Race' book (which Steve amusingly tried way too hard to be negative about in his Amazon review, & only 4 stars??).Replies: @Steve Sailer
“see he’s the grandson of the great biologist Peter Medawar (I’m sure Steve is all over that already).”
I did not know that. I think Mrs. Thatcher told me she took a class from Medawar.
Yes, I had quite forgotten Brynner. He even played a german officer once, in “Triple Cross”.
I recommend it but then again my mind is easily swayed by the highly attractive nudity.
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But then again, Charlton Heston played Judah Ben-Hur. I wasn't there, but I am pretty sure the Jews of that period didn't look very Anglo-Scottish.
Hollywood is magic.Replies: @Oswald Spengler
“But then again, Charlton Heston played Judah Ben-Hur. I wasn’t there, but I am pretty sure the Jews of that period didn’t look very Anglo-Scottish.”
“Hollywood is magic.”
Entertaining film. Not a classic by any means, but an engaging film. I also like message, which was a pretty scathing indictment of beta males and SJW influenced thinking.