Well, in my view, it's not right-wing to care about historical accuracy and cultural sensitivity, and raising these concerns is not "throwing a tantrum." These performative and unnecessarily divisive approaches to "diversity" in Hollywood are also subtly racist - simultaneously implying that only by shameless race-swapping can people of color expect to be represented and suggesting that stories deriving from non-Western sources simply aren't worth producing.
As usual it's the liberals who are demonstrating their racist attitudes while shaking their fingers at the "bad people" who object to their passive-aggressive attempts at the culture war.
The argument is asinine on its face: The Greeks wouldn’t have recognized the ethnic divisions we use and if you want to be “historically accurate” and object to a black woman playing a Greek role, you should feel the same about all the roles played by people of Northern European descent, who were just as alien to the Ancient Greeks as black Africans. But they registered no such objection. Why? Because they are demanding this ancient story be told I compliance with very modern thinking, not “historical accuracy.”
The top tier gods are shown to live only in people’s perception in Nolan’s Odyssey. It is ambiguous if Calypso has any power and Circe seems only to be a witch. There is a strangeness to the story where it is a well known story about gods, where the gods aren’t real, but monsters are.
I don’t feel confident that Calypso was physically intimate with Odysseus.
If Athena was a hallucination and the greeks are the sea people. Are all the super natural beings hallucinations/false memories and in reality Odysseus men pillaged and raped their way across the sea?
Well, in my view, it's not right-wing to care about historical accuracy and cultural sensitivity, and raising these concerns is not "throwing a tantrum." These performative and unnecessarily divisive approaches to "diversity" in Hollywood are also subtly racist - simultaneously implying that only by shameless race-swapping can people of color expect to be represented and suggesting that stories deriving from non-Western sources simply aren't worth producing.
As usual it's the liberals who are demonstrating their racist attitudes while shaking their fingers at the "bad people" who object to their passive-aggressive attempts at the culture war.
I explore these themes in my recent article here: https://natparry.substack.com/p/odyssey-controversy-is-wokisms-latest
I wrote about color-blind casting a while back. https://historyboomer.substack.com/p/imagine-no-color?r=6u5gj&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
The argument is asinine on its face: The Greeks wouldn’t have recognized the ethnic divisions we use and if you want to be “historically accurate” and object to a black woman playing a Greek role, you should feel the same about all the roles played by people of Northern European descent, who were just as alien to the Ancient Greeks as black Africans. But they registered no such objection. Why? Because they are demanding this ancient story be told I compliance with very modern thinking, not “historical accuracy.”
The top tier gods are shown to live only in people’s perception in Nolan’s Odyssey. It is ambiguous if Calypso has any power and Circe seems only to be a witch. There is a strangeness to the story where it is a well known story about gods, where the gods aren’t real, but monsters are.
I don’t feel confident that Calypso was physically intimate with Odysseus.
If Athena was a hallucination and the greeks are the sea people. Are all the super natural beings hallucinations/false memories and in reality Odysseus men pillaged and raped their way across the sea?