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.!
I’d watch a historically accurate Die Hard.
Protagonist dies in second shoot out
It’s pretty hard to watch
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
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!
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.
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.
I call the rescue diver incident his public Mask Off moment. Everything before that could be considered harmless shitposts or trolling other rich people.
That’s when I realized something was seriously wrong with him, and he wasn’t just an autistic, eccentric genius.
Yeah, he's always been this person. Pretty much everyone who's ever worked with him has always described him as a contrarian twat. I think his public image started to shift soon after firing his longtime secretary/mommy Mary Beth Brown, who used to control all his public engagement.
Let me guess, his main complaint is the skin tone of Helen of Troy?
... and that a trans person exists.
You could shoot a film set in early sub-saharan Africa, and fuckers like this would still complain that it's not "historically accurate" if there's even a single black person in the cast.
When Elon says "historically accurate", what he means is "no black people".
Ohh, I'm sure there will still be black people. They will just be in the very specific roles of servants / slaves / cannon fodder.
Wouldn't slaves in Greece just be other Greeks and stuff.
I think Elon would also unLGBTQ the Greek Gods.
Sometimes I want to try ketamine but then I see how Elon turned out.
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.
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.
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!"
Appears Elon has a naked Greek men fucking kink ...
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]
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!
How does the CEO of so many corporations have time to fuck around with stuff like this.
Cause CEOs don’t really do anything. All the work gets delegated to other people.
So he's gonna include achilleus in drag and getting fucked by patroclus, right?
Right?
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
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!
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.
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.
It is not about "historical accuracy", it's about exclusion.
So ever single person in that full length movie would be brown?
Really doubt that Elmo.
Before the end of the year we will also have full self driving cars, autonomous household robots, a mars base, ...
It's a dog whistle meaning they will make Odyssey white
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.)
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.
they won't buy it, a historically accurate Jesus is not white
Aren't they the same people yelling to hire the best people for the job and not based on skin color?
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.
Even the mythology of The Iliad and the Odyssey doesn't match up because at the time it is meant to be set, Aphrodite wasn't worshipped, yet she basically sparked off the Trojan War in the myth.
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