#otta benga

[zanephillips]

MARCUS WESLEY as Otta Benga The Fall (2006)

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Googly googly googly, begone

[myrfing]

the fall also deals with race kind of interestingly. roy is a racist dude, he’s a white christian actor in the 1910s, he tends to see other people through tropes and especially racial tropes, and the story he tells is rife with them. alexandria does too, but in the innocent way where you know she got her ideas from storybooks and doesn’t have a lifetime of her own built-upon prejudices; when roy makes the character of “the indian”, using derogatory terms to refer to native women, she instead imagines an actual indian dude. when he names the ex-slave character Otta Benga, when he tells her of his heroic slave revolt, she has no context behind the name and history and imagines him as a dignified noble warrior dressed in wonderful traditional garb in the wake of his rebellion. when he writes in a “beautiful woman from afar” to be the love interest, she imagines the prettiest woman she knows, nurse evelyn, who is white, but she dresses her in “oriental” garb she’s obviously only seen through white american depictions of “exotic” eastern cultures. And all these people are based off of people she sees around the hospital, who are nothing like their racial tropes, who live their own lives and have sensible jobs for their time and setting….and in the end she learns the concept of “the stuntman”, learns to look carefully at the people playing the characters in the film for who they are in reality, that this is a story, and loves the story because of the actual people who weave them and not just for the effect of their illusory nature in themselves. ANYWAY it’s neat. it’s not to say the film doesnt fall into its own racism just by nature of being somewhat careless and ultimately a movie based on a white protagonist perspective that doesn’t really get challenged and even has a weird meta-glorification of racist tropes, but as a 2006 work it doesnt turn its eyes from or try to cover up the racism in the era it’s based in but rather makes people’s perceptions of race integeral to what it’s saying about myths and fantasy

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The Fall (2006)

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Yesterdays INKTOBAH

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[ID: Four sketches of the characters costumes in The Fall.

First is the Black Bandit with his black ninja suit with the gold embroidery on the front and a blue cloak. He has black gloves and a black hat and a red eye covering.

Second, Sister Evelen with her long red dress with yellow flowers embroidered on it and a yellow cape. She's wearing a flower head accessory and a fan is covering her face.

Otta Benga, shirtless with a red wrap around with silver braclets and anklets. He's holding a bow and his beaded head covering has horns on top.

Charles Darwin has a big red sweater with black and white markings on it that looks like a butterfly. He also has a small black cap. End ID]

Eiko Ishioka’s costume sketches for The Fall (2006) dir. Tarsem Singh

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Marcus Wesley in The Fall (2006)

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The Fall - Otta Benga composer: Krishna Levy Tarsem Singh - The Fall (2006)

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"Eventually she realized there was only one way out."

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The Fall dir. Tarsem Singh

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The Fall (2006)

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 Otta Benga's Head-dress from The Fall (x)

It is made from leather with resin horns and the beads are Iron pyrites (fool's gold). The design is by Eiko Ishioka.

[allofstunning]

Marcus Wesley as Otta Benga in THE FALL 2006

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[nilbogz]

WIPS! Wasn't satisfied with my mystic so I'm re-doing him. Nicer pictures soon to come!

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