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The Odyssey is every bit as woke and gay as we were fearing.

First of all, it's based on a revisionist translation of Homer's text, by a radical feminist who used the tale to critique masculinity, "the patriarchy," and to center female voices.

You know, like the 3,000 year old war and adventure tale The Odyssey was always meant to be.

Jon Root @JonnyRoot_

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Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey movie was doomed from the start...

It's rumored that the screenplay is based on a woke, feminist retelling of the story by Emily Wilson*

1. The language is dumbed down (modernized)
2. It downplays masculinity & male hierarchy.
3. It shames violence/war
4. Odysseus is emasculated & less of an inspirational hero. He's more "complicated" (vulnerable, arrogant, manipulative)
5. Woman are made more prominent & impactful at the expense of male characters.

This retelling infuses modern, liberal ideology into the story, turning the epic into political propaganda.

This movie will no doubt have elements of identity politics throughout.

*Nolan has mentioned Wilson's version in interviews.

This is why Odysseus' son says "My dad is coming home," too. She translates ancient Greek for (say it with me) The Modern Audience.

Nolan is not using the standard cinematic music for epics, the orchestral score, saying that the orchestra did not exist in ancient Greece and so the movie shouldn't have an orchestral score.

DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm

May 12

Christopher Nolan instructed Ludwig Göransson not to use an orchestra for 'THE ODYSSEY' score.

"It's not like the orchestra existed back then. It was a challenge and also an opening to try to make something unique."

So, you may think: Oh he's using period-accurate music for the film.* He just wants to make the most period-accurate epic of ancient mythic Greece ever made.

But then... Why this?

He plays "a bard." You know, those famous African bards of ancient Greece.

Did they have rap in ancient mythic Greece?

Two of his beancounting casting choices -- complying with the Academy's demand for precise levels of overrepresentation of actors from Marginalized Groups in any movie in order to be eligible for an Oscar -- are now confirmed.

Variety:

The all-star cast is rounded out by Tom Holland as Telemachus, Robert Pattinson as Antinous, Lupita Nyong'o as Helen of Troy, Zendaya as Athena, Charlize Theron as Calypso, Jon Bernthal as Menelaus, and Benny Safdie as Agamemnon.

Note that Nolan is selling his race-swap-crazy feminist take on The Odyssey as hyper-accurate.

Anyone who's been following Nolan's career knows the British filmmaker is painstaking when it comes to accuracy. On "Interstellar," he hired a team of scientists to get the physics to be as accurate as possible. He took a similar approach to "The Odyssey."

"For 'Interstellar,' you're looking at, 'What is the best speculation of the future?' When you're looking at the ancient past, it's actually the same thing," Nolan said. "'What is the best speculation and how can I use that to create a world?'"

He added, "Hopefully they'll enjoy the film, even if they don't agree with everything. We had a lot of scientists complain about 'Interstellar.' But you just don't want people to think that you took it on frivolously."

I care less about the race-swap of Athena. She's a "goddess" and I guess can take whatever form she likes. I don't see much wisdom in Zendaya's blank eyes, though.

But Lupito Nyong'o as Helen of Troy?

Helen of Troy was born in... Sparta.

Does Lupito Nyong'o have that classic Spartan look?

Is this the most accurate speculation about what the ancient Greek world looked like?

So he ostentatiously avoids orchestral score for the sake of "accuracy" and "realism and immersion," and then relocates Sparta to sub-Saharan Africa?

Why?

And of course it's now essentially confirmed that Achilles, greatest warrior in Greek legend, the ideal of hypermasculinity, will be played by Ellen "Elliot" Page because of course, this is a realistic and immersive retelling of the Odyssey which gets all the details right.

The claim he'll make is that she (and she is a she, even if she did lop off her tits) is playing the shade of Achilles, bedraggled and enfeebled in Hell, but... come on, Hell does not change your sex in any myth or religiion. Give me a break, this is casting to fulfill the Academy's race/gay/trans beancounting.

Industry-shill captured paper Variety is shocked and horrified that Elon Musk said two accurate things about the casting in this woke piece of shit:

Which one of those statements by Musk is a lie, Variety? Do you certify, with all of your "journalistic" authority, that Lupito Nyong'o is an accurate depiction of a Spartan woman so beautiful that she launched a thousand ships to re-take her, or that Ellen "Elliot" Page is a good representation of idealized Greek Heroic masculinity?

Or that Nolan is doing this to comport with Academy racial and sexual bean-counting?

FUUUUUUUCK this guy and FUUUUUUUCK this movie.

I'll watch Troy again. Sean Bean is my Odysseus.

* The first time I heard "well they didn't have orchestral music back then either" was from the writer/director of A Knight's Tale, explaining why it's no big deal that his 14th-century jousting movie contained music by David Bowie and Queen. It's no more anachronistic, he argued, that a medieval-set film should feature "Low Rider" and "We Will Rock You" than it would to feature an orchestral score.

I mean... okay whatever that was a good movie and those music inclusions were fun so I'll let it stand.

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 04:33 PM

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