Charles Martel
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Jordan Belfort in The Wolf of Wall Street was portrayed as a White Gentile, there was no mention in the movie that he is Jewish.
Stephen Glass in Shattered Glass was portrayed as a White Heterosexual Gentile from the mid-west. In reality he was Jewish and homosexual.
Frank Rosenthal is re-named and there was no mention of his being Jewish in the movie Casino.
Interesting how they change admirable historical people and characters in novels from white to black in movies and TV programs, but the bad guys are changed into whites.
Rarely has there ever been the bad guy portrayed as a Jew in a movie. In contrast, Irish people have been portrayed as gangsters in big-budget movies like The Departed, State of Grace, Miller's Crossing, A History of Violence, and Road to Perdition. In all those movies, there is plenty of mention of the criminals being Irish. There are many recent movies with Russians portrayed as criminals.
There were plenty of Jewish gangsters like Meyer Lansky, Bugsy Siegel, Arnold Rothstein and Mickey Cohen. There was a low-budget flick about Lansky some years ago, but it was a very sympathetic portrayal of a man who was in reality a cold-blooded criminal.
If they made a biotopic on one of those guys, would they portray him as a Gentile like Jordan Belfort is portrayed in The Wolf of Wall Street?
Stephen Glass in Shattered Glass was portrayed as a White Heterosexual Gentile from the mid-west. In reality he was Jewish and homosexual.
Frank Rosenthal is re-named and there was no mention of his being Jewish in the movie Casino.
Interesting how they change admirable historical people and characters in novels from white to black in movies and TV programs, but the bad guys are changed into whites.
Rarely has there ever been the bad guy portrayed as a Jew in a movie. In contrast, Irish people have been portrayed as gangsters in big-budget movies like The Departed, State of Grace, Miller's Crossing, A History of Violence, and Road to Perdition. In all those movies, there is plenty of mention of the criminals being Irish. There are many recent movies with Russians portrayed as criminals.
There were plenty of Jewish gangsters like Meyer Lansky, Bugsy Siegel, Arnold Rothstein and Mickey Cohen. There was a low-budget flick about Lansky some years ago, but it was a very sympathetic portrayal of a man who was in reality a cold-blooded criminal.
If they made a biotopic on one of those guys, would they portray him as a Gentile like Jordan Belfort is portrayed in The Wolf of Wall Street?