Movies on Sidechat | Wow people are being really racist about the Lupita as Helen of Troy. Isn’t the odyssey you know a myth? And if your argument is “well she isn’t Greek” why aren’t you mad at any of the other cast members?

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Wow people are being really racist about the Lupita as Helen of Troy. Isn’t the odyssey you know a myth? And if your argument is “well she isn’t Greek” why aren’t you mad at any of the other cast members?

Anonymous 6d

MY MYTHOLOGICAL MOVIE ISNT GROUNDED ENOUGH like alright bro relax

Anonymous 5d

These are probably the same people that complained about Agamemnon’s armor so I’m gonna say the same thing I said to the people that bitched about “historical accuracy” in the live action How To Train Your Dragon: it’s a movie with fantastical creatures who cares that the humans are slightly inaccurate?

Anonymous 6d

Yeah like all the other characters are played by western and Northern European based folks that look like they’d belong in a Celtic, Germanic or Norse story, not a Mediterranean Greek. If it claimed to be historical like the Cleopatra series that would be different but it’s not.

Anonymous 6d

The same reason I’m not mad at the cast of Death of Stalin for being a bunch of Brits. A Western European can easily pass for being a Mediterranean European. Race-swapping characters is bad. Doesn’t matter if it’s a historical person or fictional, doesn’t matter if it’s white to black, black to white, etc. If you consciously choose to adapt a story, the bare minimum you should strive for is some semblance of faithfulness unless you’re consciously doing a spin on said story.

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Anonymous

#1 6d

I’m agreeing with you dawg

Anonymous

#3 6d

This is why something like The Wiz is okay; the characters are all black because it’s not supposed to be an adaptation of the book ‘the Wizard of Oz’, but rather a conscious play on the pre-existing story recontextualized to reflect the African-American experience in the 1970s. Here’s a better question; WHY is Helen of Sparta black? What conscious, narrative driven decision was made for that change? There probably isn’t one. It probably won’t even be addressed.

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