Thank you for posting this video, @Mel Hopkins,
it was spellbounding! I was so caught up into it.
Lupita is so lovely. The women were so so so beautiful!
One of the women, the Agoutie woman warrior, had eyes like the late Mandela, in fact, the photos, seems to show this trait, and this strikes me and leads me to believe that some of these people are from the east world. The leopard idols and the skulls, and the headhunting expeditions, seems to match other ancient warrior civilizations, such as the ancient Maya too and in the Old Mediterranean Baal cults.
Yes all that we can do is speculate as to why Lupita pulled out of it unless she says something. However, for her to go to Benin and produce this amazing film and then pull out, does seem like she may have pulled out for something about the truth.
LOL! You're so rightt! However, that's me. I loved the film Black Panther, so much so, I bought the dvd.
But I did not like some of the women warrior scenes nor did I like some of the fight scenes of the males either.
I still don't have any opinions one way or the other about the Women King movie.
I agree with the summaries given though, in the documentary and what you said, in that the Aguojie warrior women were both victims and warriors.
I think that many of them were forced into it and as Lupita said, too, I think I probably would have been dragged into it because I am not a submissive person, and so, I would have been sought out and forced into it, I believe.
Yes, @richardmurray maybe. You may be right because I don't have a problem with viola or the film, I just wondering now, what the hype is about.