#otta benga

[zanephillips]

MARCUS WESLEY as Otta Benga The Fall (2006)

#marcus wesley #the fall #the fall 2006 #otta benga #men #menedit #filmedit #filmgifs #mancandykings #mensource #guys #gifs #mine #* #usermichi #cinemapix #userfilm #cinematv #dailyflicks #fyeahmovies

[pedroam-bang]

The Fall (2006)

#2006 #gif #film #movie #The Fall #Tarsem Singh #Jeetu Verma #Indian #Marcus Wesley #Otta Benga #Lee Pace #Roy Walker #Red Bandit #Robin Smith #Luigi #Leo Bill #Darwin #Catinca Untaru #Alexandria #Justine Waddell #Nurse Evelyn #Sister Evelyn #Eiko Ishioka

[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

#the fall

[shaymcvay]

Yesterdays INKTOBAH

#the fall #the fall movie #fall #Inktober #inktober2017 #artists on tumblr #fanart #monkey #darwin #otta benga

[miss-lantern]

Marcus Wesley in The Fall (2006)

#marcus wesley #the fall #otta benga #helmet

[alightinthelantern]

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

#The Fall #Otta Benga #Tarsem Singh #Krishna Levy #soundtrack #music #films

[voyevoda-thejoy]

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

#The Fall #Roy Walker #Red Bandit #Lee Pace #Otta Benga #Marcus Wesley #Luigi #Robin Smith #Indian #Jeetu Verma #Mystic #Charles Darwin #Leo Bill #Wallace #my gifs

[pedroam-bang]

The Fall (2006)

#2006 #film #movie #The Fall #Tarsem Singh #Jeetu Verma #Indian #Lee Pace #Roy Walker #Red Bandit #Leo Bill #Darwin #Marcus Wesley #Otta Benga #Robin Smith #Luigi #Catinca Untaru #Alexandria #Justine Waddell #Nurse Evelyn #Sister Evelyn #Eiko Ishioka

[pjetromaximoff]

 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.

#the fall #otta benga #fashion #jewellery #thefalledit #*

[allofstunning]

Marcus Wesley as Otta Benga in THE FALL 2006

#marcus wesley #otta benga #the fall #fantasy movie #fantasy movies

[wingge]

#the fall #bandit #otta benga #the indian #Luigi #Charles Darwin #jpg #RGB

[nilbogz]

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

#lee pace #the fall #the indian #otta benga #tarsem #drawing #art #framed #sketch

[pedroam-bang]

The Fall (2006)

#2006 #film #movie #The Fall #Tarsem Singh #Marcus Wesley #Otta Benga #Lee Pace #Roy Walker #Catinca Untaru #Alexandria #Justine Waddell #Nurse Evelyn #Sister Evelyn #Eiko Ishioka