#how do you rewrite El Dorado when its main plot is 2 white colonizers tricking Native people into worshiping them

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There's a lot of bigoted, very specifically racist movies where white people are like "lets remake/rewrite x movie!" Like i don't know how to tell you that if you tried to do that, the rewritten version would be completely different & unrecognizable because it's central plot/themes/etc rely on racism at their core

#'lets make a cake without eggs or liquid or flour or sugar and without baking it!' like ok. thats not a cake anymore #how do you rewrite El Dorado when its main plot is 2 white colonizers tricking Native people into worshiping them #so that they can steal gold from them (& all this is baded on a white supremacist myth) #how do you rewrite Twilight when Smeyer inherently thinks Native Americans are brown because they are evil #& puts that in her book with every Native American stereotype imaginable #while putting the White Cullens on a pedestal because they are White