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posted by [identity profile] bigbluebackpack.livejournal.com at 03:25am on 12/05/2007
Indeed. I was most displeased that The Last King of Scotland's main character (at least in the trailer) was not Idi Amin nor anyone else from Uganda or anywhere else in Africa but a goddamned Scot. Who may or may not have existed (not that I have checked) and who was having sex with a hot local (black African) woman.
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posted by [identity profile] xorphus.livejournal.com at 09:52am on 12/05/2007
Mmm, that's a bit unfair; the character is based on a number of real white advisors to Amin (particularly Bob Astles), and two of the big points of the movie are to show the consequences of people like Garrigan treating Africa like an amusement park, and how the world at large won't believe what Amin is doing until they hear it from a white man.

This "contemporary white audience" shit, though: absurd.
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