Re: "The Odyssey"-Homer

> Jordy wrote:
> 
>> Will-Dockery wrote:
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>>> Jordy wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Will-Dockery wrote:
>>>> [snip]
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>>> 
>>> Thanks Will, looking foward to seeing the movie as well
>> 
>> 
>> Good morning Jordy, I just read this early review:
>> 
>> 
>>> Ubiquitous wrote:
>>> “The Odyssey” is predicted to be the biggest hit of the summer, but
>>> it’s already getting a lot of backlash for various reasons, especially
>>> when it comes to casting.
>>> 
>>> Chief among these complaints is the fact that Christopher Nolan cast
>>> Elliot Page, a woman masquerading as a man, in one of the roles, and
>>> that Lupita Nyong’o, a Kenyan-Mexican actress, will play Helen of Troy.
>>> 
>>> Nyong’o isn’t making anything easier on herself as she just criticized
>>> Homer for his treatment of women.
>>> 
>>> “I want you to imagine, really quick, that you’re sitting in a movie
>>> theater, and you’re sitting next to Homer,” interviewer Jake Hamilton
>>> said. “Let’s say he speaks English. Let’s say he understands what
>>> movies are, and you watch ‘The Odyssey.’ When it’s over, you can lean
>>> over and go, ‘Okay, cool. What do you think about how I did this?’ What
>>> is an aspect of your performance that you’d love to get his thoughts
>>> on?”
>>> 
>>> Other members of the cast being interviewed had benign answers, but
>>> Nyong’o dove into a rant that has earned some eye rolls.
>>> 
>>> Nyong’o replied, “I would be like, ‘So, Homer, how do you feel about
>>> the screen time given to these women considering how little you spent
>>> with them? Okay?'”
>>> 
>>> “And then do you lean forward and look at him like that?” Hamilton said
>>> while leaning forward and making a face.
>>> 
>>> “Yes. Like, ‘Hmm? Remember us?'” Nyong’o said.
>>> 
>>> https://youtu.be/t7i1d4GIOzE?si=_Mb5_9XNhr6JEGvu
>>> 
>>> Homer, however, did give a significant amount of attention to women in
>>> his writing.
>>> 
>>> “OK. So Helen’s beauty sparks a war. Athena is a strategic goddess
>>> guiding Odysseus. Penelope embodies clever loyalty. Circe turns men
>>> into pigs, which frankly is still the most realistic female character
>>> arc in literature. Calypso traps the hero on an island for seven years.
>>> Cassandra can literally see the future but nobody listens, making her
>>> the first woman in recorded history to experience a meeting,” one
>>> person wrote in a popular post on X.
>>> 
>>> “The Sirens weaponize music. Nausicaa saves Odysseus when he washes up
>>> naked and useless. Andromache gives one of the most devastating anti-
>>> war speeches in the Iliad. Hecuba is basically the emotional wreckage
>>> of empire in human form. Aphrodite starts half the problems in Western
>>> civilization by being hot and petty. Hera is running divine opposition
>>> research. Thetis gets Zeus involved because Achilles is having a
>>> workplace dispute.”
>>> 
>>> The commenter concludes, “But apart from Helen, Athena, Penelope,
>>> Circe, Calypso, Cassandra, the Sirens, Nausicaa, Andromache, Hecuba,
>>> Aphrodite, Hera, and Thetis… WHAT HAS HOMER EVER DONE TO GIVE FEMALE
>>> CHARACTERS ATTENTION?”
>>> 
>>> Nyong’o, who also appeared in “Black Panther” and “12 Years a Slave,”
>>> was cast in Nolan’s film to play a character famed for her beauty. This
>>> has led to backlash online, as fans point out that the actress looks
>>> nothing like Helen of Troy as described in Greek mythology. “The Iliad”
>>> describes her as “white-armed” or “pale-armed,” while in “Doctor
>>> Faustus,” her face is said to be so beautiful that it “launched a
>>> thousand ships.”
>>> 
>>> Some critics are speculating that Nolan may have chosen a “diverse”
>>> cast in homage to DEI standards " and potential Academy Award
>>> nominations.
>>> 
>>> The movie is already getting rave reviews from mainstream critics, but
>>> the reactions on social media are a lot more mixed. YouTube no longer
>>> shows the number of dislikes on videos, but some estimates that use a
>>> workaround to see YouTube dislikes show the film’s final trailer has
>>> over 500,000 thumbs-down reactions. It has 69,000 likes.
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Again, i'm looking forward to seeing the film.
> 
> 
> I am too



Definitely.

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