Post by foheadDynasty on Mar 30, 2017 4:55:45 GMT
I just saw Batman: The Dark Knight Rises. Now, before I share what I felt insulted by I need to give a little info. In the story there is a female villain, Talia Al Ghul, who is actually Ras Al Ghul's daughter. These two characters have a Middle Eastern name classification which is quite obvious because of the "Al". The point I'm driving at is that they are family members of Middle Eastern descent. The two also belong to The League of Shadows in leadership capacity. The League of Shadows is this super secretive terrorist organization bordering on mythical because its mandate is to destroy a civilization from the inside once it reaches of certain threshold of moral corruption.
To cut to the chase, this is what I felt insulted by. In scenes where Talia Al Ghul's terrorist identity is fully revealed she only got to wear only this Qin or Tang dynasty Hanfu. That was her only "terrorist" outfit. In any other scene she is a charismatic and intelligent hostess of charitable balls, philanthrophist and entrepreneur and the design of her fashion by the film's visualizers held true to that alter-identification. In the visual analysis of the terrorist part of her character, she was clothed only in "exotic" oriental fashion, and was therefore accounted in a way to be presented in the negative light of all that can be contrasted against the orthodox. The choice of Hanfu, therefore, has solely to do with the demonization of her character as a terrorist, with Middle Eastern background, but in a superfluously overt manner by showing that her fashion is alien and hard to come by even in her hometown of Afghanistan or thereabouts.
I would not have been insulted had Talia's visual been designed to include more clothing in her wardrobe appropriate for a person of Middle Eastern descent.
To cut to the chase, this is what I felt insulted by. In scenes where Talia Al Ghul's terrorist identity is fully revealed she only got to wear only this Qin or Tang dynasty Hanfu. That was her only "terrorist" outfit. In any other scene she is a charismatic and intelligent hostess of charitable balls, philanthrophist and entrepreneur and the design of her fashion by the film's visualizers held true to that alter-identification. In the visual analysis of the terrorist part of her character, she was clothed only in "exotic" oriental fashion, and was therefore accounted in a way to be presented in the negative light of all that can be contrasted against the orthodox. The choice of Hanfu, therefore, has solely to do with the demonization of her character as a terrorist, with Middle Eastern background, but in a superfluously overt manner by showing that her fashion is alien and hard to come by even in her hometown of Afghanistan or thereabouts.
I would not have been insulted had Talia's visual been designed to include more clothing in her wardrobe appropriate for a person of Middle Eastern descent.
