• norimee@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    if they hired a translator who just went “🤷 ah well, money is money”

    Probably a Latini…

    Anyways, this reminds me when the series Homeland filmed at a location that was supposed to be a syrian refugee camp and hired arab speaking graffiti artists to “add authenticity” and they wrote things like “Homeland is racist” and “BlackLivesMatter” and shit like it instead of the requested “Pro -Assad” messages… https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/oct/15/homeland-is-racist-artists-subversive-graffiti-tv-show

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      2 months ago

      “However, as Homeland always strives to be subversive in its own right and a stimulus for conversation, we can’t help but admire this act of artistic sabotage.”

      Dude can’t even admit the fact that they purposefully portray Muslim countries like that. What a shit bag.