I generally don’t like virtue signaling but I just watched Odyssey the casting was on point for the entire movie. Amazing performance all around and hated Elliot Page and Lupita Nyong’o did amazing jobs - these people are 100% just racists and bigots.
I’m a Greek mythology nerd too and this is by far my favorite Hollywood take in this niche!
So normally, you’d be against this because casting a black person in a historically white role is “virtue signaling”?
Have you ever considered that the casting director chooses who they think is best for the job?
You’re honestly telling on yourself when you call shit “virtue signaling.” You’re tacitly admitting that you could never believe that a person might be the best for the job because of their race or gender.
If it’s used regarding something not related to race, you’re admitting to everyone that you lack basic empathy, and therefore refuse to accept that others might have that empathy. “They must be virtue signaling, because nobody actually wants to help the homeless.”
This “everything is virtue signaling” bullshit is for the birds. It’s a thought terminating cliche that literally makes people racist and sociopathic
So normally, you’d be against this because casting a black person in a historically white role is “virtue signaling”?
No, just other kinds of virtue signaling. I think re-interperting is perfectly fine as long as the context isnt something punching down like black face. I misspoke I guess but there are virtue signaling that is more akin to obvious rage bait but odyssey is clearly not it.
Ah yes, the daughter who was born when her mother fucked a goose and hatched her from an egg. Famously, all goose-born demigods must be white. Everyone knows this.
From what I recall there’s no definitive site labeled “Hey historians and argumentative future nerds, this was ilion or Troy”. Priam ruled here, Hector and Achilles died yonder.”
Speculation I remember placing it near Carthage, then Istanbul.
I of all people should probably know, but I just don’t think it fucking matters, personally.
Edit: before I get that message, I am aware the illiad is a work of fiction, with a possible degree of basis in truth, or none at all being another possibility.
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Yeah…. This isn’t about costumes at all. It’s about casting a woman of color as Helen of Troy.
I generally don’t like virtue signaling but I just watched Odyssey the casting was on point for the entire movie. Amazing performance all around and hated Elliot Page and Lupita Nyong’o did amazing jobs - these people are 100% just racists and bigots.
I’m a Greek mythology nerd too and this is by far my favorite Hollywood take in this niche!
So normally, you’d be against this because casting a black person in a historically white role is “virtue signaling”?
Have you ever considered that the casting director chooses who they think is best for the job?
You’re honestly telling on yourself when you call shit “virtue signaling.” You’re tacitly admitting that you could never believe that a person might be the best for the job because of their race or gender.
If it’s used regarding something not related to race, you’re admitting to everyone that you lack basic empathy, and therefore refuse to accept that others might have that empathy. “They must be virtue signaling, because nobody actually wants to help the homeless.”
This “everything is virtue signaling” bullshit is for the birds. It’s a thought terminating cliche that literally makes people racist and sociopathic
Stop. Do better.
No, just other kinds of virtue signaling. I think re-interperting is perfectly fine as long as the context isnt something punching down like black face. I misspoke I guess but there are virtue signaling that is more akin to obvious rage bait but odyssey is clearly not it.
Ah yes, the daughter who was born when her mother fucked a goose and hatched her from an egg. Famously, all goose-born demigods must be white. Everyone knows this.
Why is everyone convinced Troy is a Greek state?
From what I recall there’s no definitive site labeled “Hey historians and argumentative future nerds, this was ilion or Troy”. Priam ruled here, Hector and Achilles died yonder.”
Speculation I remember placing it near Carthage, then Istanbul.
I of all people should probably know, but I just don’t think it fucking matters, personally.
Edit: before I get that message, I am aware the illiad is a work of fiction, with a possible degree of basis in truth, or none at all being another possibility.
Yeah it’s in Anatolia, the Trojans would probably look like modern Turks