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Shaka Zulu - the Movie

I am not sure where to put this thread, maybe this is the best place. The idea behind it is to discuss the necessity of being 'accurate' in movies. In the Shaka Zulu movie the women were depicted topless because this is the way it was then (an now?), but is it necessary to have the women topless in the movie? Where does it begin or stop? For instance, if there was a movie about a woman that like to go topless in the streets of New York, would it be necessary to show the woman walking around naked to maintain accracy? What is your view? Along with this view you may have to consider what is art and what is not? Nowadays people like to use 'porn' and say 'art'. A painting depicting a rape (cannot remember the name, but it is famous) some centuries ago is considered 'art'. If it were a movie, would it still be art?

Movie - Zulu Shaka

I saw the Movie Shaka Zulu like 3 times...I just loved it!!! and I never got bored of watching it over and over. I think is a masterpiece and as I really fan of movies, I can say that I felt so close to understand how the people at the time of Shaka were (both sides, the white guys and the african ones).
No! I don't see anything wrong with the women topless on the movie. First of all because it was NOT intended in any way to be 'erotic' or 'sexual' in any way but to portrait how some people in Africa lived. Is intended for the purpose of showing their cultural background...that's reality, they cannot make them cover themselves when you know there were NOT living like that! why to show a lie?. (There are south american indians in the Amazons who still living like that too and in some parts of Africa too, it doesn't make them less than anybody and if a television show makes a documental about those groups, you want them to wear something to cover themselves just for the purpose of being on TV? : )
Just let me remind you also that in the Movie Shaka Zulu, they used a lot of extras and lots of them were real African people.
I don't think was wrong what they show on the movie, I may have oppose of course if they were showing free nakedness with the purpose of sexual content but the fact that there were just showing the real way how the people were at the time, I don't see anything wrong with it.