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[–] 94 points 2 months ago* (4 children)

It is like saying that you are going to remake Die Hard but make it more historically accurate.

That building isn't even in L.A.!

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    [–] 81 points 2 months ago (12 children)

    even at the time it was first told it was a fantasy story about a mythologized distant past. complaining that the Odyssey doesn't have costumes accurate to the time of Homer is like complaining that Lord of the Rings doesn't have Aragorn running around in a WW2-era English army uniform

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  • [–] 41 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    Yeah.... This isn't about costumes at all. It's about casting a woman of color as Helen of Troy.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    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!

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    [–] 77 points 2 months ago (7 children)

    He's been broken since that diver rescued those kids rather than wait for Elon to build a cave diving submarine, and Musk's grown-up rational response was to call him a paedophile.

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  • [–] 63 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    According to some that knew him, he's been broken long before that. Notably his first wife basically described exactly the man we are seeing long before that incident, but no one really took that in at the time. Even before they split up, saw a video about him taking delivery of one of his first rich person cars and on the video she already clearly thought this was some stupid bullshit.

    Before folks were able to curate his public image and moderate his "creative input". He was seen as a crucial brand to maintain and powerful folks were eager to maintain the "real life Tony Stark" concept. Those are the guardrails that have worn out.

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    [–] 71 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Let me guess, his main complaint is the skin tone of Helen of Troy?

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  • [–] 61 points 2 months ago (7 children)

    When Elon says "historically accurate", what he means is "no black people".

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  • [–] 33 points 2 months ago (11 children)

    Sometimes I want to try ketamine but then I see how Elon turned out.

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  • [–] 21 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Truly a curse worthy of any story

    On the othet hand he is literally the richest person ever to have lived.

    On the other hand he is so insecure and sad that not even the global billionaire pedophile ring wants him with.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago

    It's amazing how it is never enough for him. He gets declared richest man in the world. But no, that's not good enough, I'm his mind by all rights he really should be worth more than everyone else in the world put together. Technically he was saying this about SpaceX when he was whining after no longer being a trillionaire, but you know it was triggered by his personal "downgrade" back to "mere billionaire" rather than some grand view of SpaceX unrelated to his personal ego.

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    [–] 30 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    One of the most historically-accurate period movies I've ever seen is Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

    "'ow do you know he's a king?"

    "He hasn't got shit all over 'im!"

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  • [–] 25 points 2 months ago

    Appears Elon has a naked Greek men fucking kink ...

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  • [–] 24 points 2 months ago

    In just two years, the premiere will be held at a big party at my cool (not weird) house on mars. The guests will all be real robots that do cool (not weird) dances to thank me for throwing the wildest parties. The AI actors will all have my normal and very regular speaking cadence, comic timing and cool (not weird) body shape. Anyone who isn't a robot but wants to attend will have to get pregnant by me, and from that point forward we will only communicate through filed lawsuits.

    [Unprompted karate demonstration, done with hands straight down at sides and without lifting foot above height of opposite ankle]

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  • [–] 22 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    How does the CEO of so many corporations have time to fuck around with stuff like this.

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    [–] 22 points 2 months ago

    Thank GOD! AFTER that I HOPE Elon and Child Porn Producing GROK can make a HISTORICALLY Accurate MARVEL DOOMSDAY! I'm TIRED of seeing Wokeness RUIN History!

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  • [–] 21 points 2 months ago

    So he's gonna include achilleus in drag and getting fucked by patroclus, right?

    Right?

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  • [–] 20 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    100$ says it'll never happen. Muskfuck never delivers and even he's not dumb enough to release whatever monstrosity their shit-tier AI would produce

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago

    Are you saying he's a liar? He said it will happen, and he'll have a show with a hysterical crowd welcoming the release of The REAL TRUE Odyssey movie, and Tesla's Level 5 Full Self Driving, and he'll broadcast this show to the folks who just set foot on Mars!

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    [–] 20 points 2 months ago* (2 children)

    Aren't there a bazillion adaptions that only have white English actors already. And of course they didn't care when non-Mediterraneans whites were given roles to play people from the Mediterranean. Like where was the outrage when fucking Gerald Butler played Leonidas with a Scottish accent.

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    [–] 18 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I think this is code for “True to the art of the white race.”

    There’s literally terminally online people mad that the Odyssey just… isn’t that.

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    [–] 16 points 2 months ago

    It is not about "historical accuracy", it's about exclusion.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    So ever single person in that full length movie would be brown?

    Really doubt that Elmo.

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    [–] 12 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 child)

    There's a coherent, objective, and interesting interpretation of "historically accurate" that I would like to see, that being what the Greeks at the time that the poem was written imagined the poem to be describing.

    (But maybe there would be too much moral dissonance for that to be a fun movie.)

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    [–] 12 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    It's a dog whistle meaning they will make Odyssey white

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    [–] 12 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Before the end of the year we will also have full self driving cars, autonomous household robots, a mars base, ...

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    [–] 12 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I wonder if it will also do the bible with historically accurate Jesus. Probably not, that would shock the people that still buy his shit too much.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago (7 children)

    I mean, I could see "historically accurate" in this context simply meaning that it is more accurate to the oldest writings of the story.

    Like, historically accurate to the story. Not history itself.

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    [–] 9 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Aren't they the same people yelling to hire the best people for the job and not based on skin color?

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