Sam Lowry said:

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Redbrickbear said:

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Sam Lowry said:

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Interesting point….

The ethnonarcissist demands the right to be "centered" and the right to not suffer the hatred and resentment that naturally attends being at the center. This is why ethnonarcissists cannot create anything new. They are always parasitic upon the status quo. https://t.co/m5KQAk4Qxm pic.twitter.com/7uXHHV73l3

— Second City Bureaucrat (@CityBureaucrat) May 25, 2026

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Does he mean the "status quo" in which white people are routinely centered and expect not to be resented for it?

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Well in the EU and USA white people are fact the majority

Are we supposed to accept the idea that Han should not be centered in China or ethnic Japanese centered in Japan?

If you moved to Nigeria would it be reasonable for you to be resentful that Black people are centered in a Black majority nation?

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Less than 0.1% of Nigerians are white. 42% of Americans are non-white. When they hit the magic 50% mark, will it be okay for non-whites to be centered? When they hit 51%, should whites begin to be marginalized? These are the absurd debates you get into when you obsess over skin color as the defining characteristic….

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Obsessing over skin color is exactly the reason "woke" liberalism is radical and toxic.

If white people become a minority tomorrow in America …will it then be ok to accurately depict the Odyssey & the Iliad with Greek (Europeans) actors or not?

And if Whites are the majority in America is it wrong or right to do so?

The Left is the party that is obsessed with this kind of thing and forces us all into this kind of strange debate.

Christopher Hitchens identifies the creation of identity politics as the moment the left lost. I wonder if he imagined the damage it would still be causing nearly sixty years later. pic.twitter.com/IBsbuqH7n4

— Josh Howie (@joshxhowie) May 25, 2026

she has a masters in drama from Yale and “had no idea what the odyssey was”. not just “hadn’t read it” had never heard of it at all apparently. what a damning indictment of Yale. https://t.co/EgBtcRb5fy

— blighter (@blightersort) May 25, 2026

Redbrickbear said:

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Sam Lowry said:

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Redbrickbear said:

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Sam Lowry said:

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Redbrickbear said:

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Interesting point….

The ethnonarcissist demands the right to be "centered" and the right to not suffer the hatred and resentment that naturally attends being at the center. This is why ethnonarcissists cannot create anything new. They are always parasitic upon the status quo. https://t.co/m5KQAk4Qxm pic.twitter.com/7uXHHV73l3

— Second City Bureaucrat (@CityBureaucrat) May 25, 2026

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Does he mean the "status quo" in which white people are routinely centered and expect not to be resented for it?

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Well in the EU and USA white people are fact the majority

Are we supposed to accept the idea that Han should not be centered in China or ethnic Japanese centered in Japan?

If you moved to Nigeria would it be reasonable for you to be resentful that Black people are centered in a Black majority nation?

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Less than 0.1% of Nigerians are white. 42% of Americans are non-white. When they hit the magic 50% mark, will it be okay for non-whites to be centered? When they hit 51%, should whites begin to be marginalized? These are the absurd debates you get into when you obsess over skin color as the defining characteristic….

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Obsessing over skin color is exactly the reason "woke" liberalism is radical and toxic.

If white people become a minority tomorrow in America …will it then be ok to accurately depict the Odyssey & the Iliad with Greek (Europeans) actors or not?

And if Whites are the majority in America is it wrong or right to do so?

The Left is the party that is obsessed with this kind of thing and forces us all into this kind of strange debate.

Christopher Hitchens identifies the creation of identity politics as the moment the left lost. I wonder if he imagined the damage it would still be causing nearly sixty years later. pic.twitter.com/IBsbuqH7n4

— Josh Howie (@joshxhowie) May 25, 2026

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Of course it's okay to cast white actors. It's nothing to get up in arms about one way or the other.

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https://greekreporter.com/2026/05/15/outrage-over-casting-of-lupita-nyongo-as-helen-of-troy-in-the-odyssey/

You will not only eat your DEI sandwich, but you will like it too!

It is unfortunate a black woman is chose for the role. I was really looking forward to this movie.

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Well since you're so incensed over this how come you aren't pissed that he's not showing how Helen came into the world? You do know Helen was born from a magical egg, after Zeus disguised himself as a swan and mated with Leda, the Queen of Sparta, and she laid an egg from which Helen was hatched, right? You sound incredibly dumb.

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https://greekreporter.com/2026/05/15/outrage-over-casting-of-lupita-nyongo-as-helen-of-troy-in-the-odyssey/

You will not only eat your DEI sandwich, but you will like it too!

It is unfortunate a black woman is chose for the role. I was really looking forward to this movie.

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Well since you're so incensed over this how come you aren't pissed that he's not showing how Helen came into the world? You do know Helen was born from a magical egg, after Zeus disguised himself as a swan and mated with Leda, the Queen of Sparta, and she laid an egg from which Helen was hatched, right? You sound incredibly dumb.

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Eggy negro.

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If races were switched, the animals at BLM would be burning down towns.

Your progressive bs doesnt work here.

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Got it, you didn't know how Helen of Troy came about in the myth did you, moron.

Can I ask a question? Do you guys realize this ain't a real *****?

Redbrickbear said:

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Mitch Blood Green said:

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Can I ask a question? Do you guys realize this ain't a real *****?

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Well actually the Trojan war was a real event…

Now the mythos around that war and the people who fought it is obviously story telling.

But what is the point again of casting non-Greek looking actors in a Greek story?

At best its a strange choice that hurts the story telling itself…"world creation" and all that jazz…since the whole point is to get the audience to buy in and lose themselves in the epic & story.

Not constantly having to question the casting decisions

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Getting the audience to lose themselves is part of the point, not necessarily all of it. At worst the casting is a strange choice and a politically motivated distraction. At best it could help the story work on more than one level.

Redbrickbear said:

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Mitch Blood Green said:

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Can I ask a question? Do you guys realize this ain't a real *****?

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Well actually the Trojan war was a real event…

Now the mythos around that war and the people who fought it is obviously story telling.

But what is the point again of casting non-Greek looking actors in a Greek story?

At best its a strange choice that hurts the story telling itself…"world creation" and all that jazz…since the whole point is to get the audience to buy in and lose themselves in the epic & story.

Not constantly having to question the casting decisions

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I don't understand the uproar before the movie is released. Hollywood has been casting characters (especially fictional ones) across multiple races for years. (Red from Shawshank comes to mind).

Taylor in Cleopatra is another one. This is druggie Elon Musk driven.

Jesus also comes to mind. He's mostly likely not white and no way has has six pack abs.

Mitch Blood Green said:

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Redbrickbear said:

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Mitch Blood Green said:

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Can I ask a question? Do you guys realize this ain't a real *****?

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Well actually the Trojan war was a real event…

Now the mythos around that war and the people who fought it is obviously story telling.

But what is the point again of casting non-Greek looking actors in a Greek story?

At best its a strange choice that hurts the story telling itself…"world creation" and all that jazz…since the whole point is to get the audience to buy in and lose themselves in the epic & story.

Not constantly having to question the casting decisions

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Jesus also comes to mind. He's mostly likely not white and no way has has six pack abs.

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Oh no you didn't.

Sam Lowry said:

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Mitch Blood Green said:

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Redbrickbear said:

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Mitch Blood Green said:

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Can I ask a question? Do you guys realize this ain't a real *****?

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Well actually the Trojan war was a real event…

Now the mythos around that war and the people who fought it is obviously story telling.

But what is the point again of casting non-Greek looking actors in a Greek story?

At best its a strange choice that hurts the story telling itself…"world creation" and all that jazz…since the whole point is to get the audience to buy in and lose themselves in the epic & story.

Not constantly having to question the casting decisions

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Jesus also comes to mind. He's mostly likely not white and no way has has six pack abs.

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Oh no you didn't.

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You telling me Jesus had time to do 300 crunches a day and feed the poor?

Mitch Blood Green said:

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Sam Lowry said:

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Mitch Blood Green said:

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Redbrickbear said:

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Mitch Blood Green said:

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Can I ask a question? Do you guys realize this ain't a real *****?

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Well actually the Trojan war was a real event…

Now the mythos around that war and the people who fought it is obviously story telling.

But what is the point again of casting non-Greek looking actors in a Greek story?

At best its a strange choice that hurts the story telling itself…"world creation" and all that jazz…since the whole point is to get the audience to buy in and lose themselves in the epic & story.

Not constantly having to question the casting decisions

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Jesus also comes to mind. He's mostly likely not white and no way has has six pack abs.

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Oh no you didn't.

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You telling me Jesus had time to do 300 crunches a day and feed the poor?

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All that stuff about the poor was made up by the left-wing Catholics. Rome was the greatest country in the USA at the time.

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she has a masters in drama from Yale and “had no idea what the odyssey was”. not just “hadn’t read it” had never heard of it at all apparently. what a damning indictment of Yale. https://t.co/EgBtcRb5fy

— blighter (@blightersort) May 25, 2026

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There is a reason it's called Didn't Earn It.

Mitch Blood Green said:

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Redbrickbear said:

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Mitch Blood Green said:

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Can I ask a question? Do you guys realize this ain't a real *****?

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Well actually the Trojan war was a real event…

Now the mythos around that war and the people who fought it is obviously story telling.

But what is the point again of casting non-Greek looking actors in a Greek story?

At best its a strange choice that hurts the story telling itself…"world creation" and all that jazz…since the whole point is to get the audience to buy in and lose themselves in the epic & story.

Not constantly having to question the casting decisions

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I don't understand the uproar before the movie is released. Hollywood has been casting characters (especially fictional ones) across multiple races for years. (Red from Shawshank comes to mind).

Taylor in Cleopatra is another one. This is druggie Elon Musk driven.

Jesus also comes to mind. He's mostly likely not white and no way has has six pack abs.

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You sort of keep ignoring what folks have posting and just keep doing the cut and paste job ... but I will entertain your silliness with a serious response:
- I think you need to understand the difference between casting fictional characters and non-fictional characters
- Before five years ago, Hollywood attempted to make actors resemble what their historical counterparts would have looked like - Taylor looked more like Cleopatra than Will Smith's bald wife; that's why it is called acting and there is costuming; but no one is going to believe Helen of Troy was blek or this chick has a "face that launched a thousand ships"
- The Jesus example is an immature distraction; cultures across the world depict Jesus in a way that resonates with the local people so as to provide comfort and peace; no one thinks Jesus literally was an American, but it is ironic the amount of butthurt LWNJ Christians spend on "white Jesus"

I could ask you another simple question you likely would avoid: would you be upset personally and do you think there would be outrage if Sydney Sweeney was cast as Rosa Parks in a biopic? Do you think you and Hamas Harry would defend the casting or condemn it?

At the end of the day, the eye-rolling is just the stupid Didn't Earn It virtue signaling in a world were black people make up 12% of the population but we have to pretend bleks were in Victorian England, bleks were in the War of the Roses, bleks were Norse fighters ... no one is making a movie about Africans selling Africans into slavery starring Ryan Gosling as a slave sold to the British by Will Smith.

Harrison Bergeron said:

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Mitch Blood Green said:

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Redbrickbear said:

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Mitch Blood Green said:

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Can I ask a question? Do you guys realize this ain't a real *****?

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Well actually the Trojan war was a real event…

Now the mythos around that war and the people who fought it is obviously story telling.

But what is the point again of casting non-Greek looking actors in a Greek story?

At best its a strange choice that hurts the story telling itself…"world creation" and all that jazz…since the whole point is to get the audience to buy in and lose themselves in the epic & story.

Not constantly having to question the casting decisions

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I don't understand the uproar before the movie is released. Hollywood has been casting characters (especially fictional ones) across multiple races for years. (Red from Shawshank comes to mind).

Taylor in Cleopatra is another one. This is druggie Elon Musk driven.

Jesus also comes to mind. He's mostly likely not white and no way has has six pack abs.

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You sort of keep ignoring what folks have posting and just keep doing the cut and paste job ... but I will entertain your silliness with a serious response:
- I think you need to understand the difference between casting fictional characters and non-fictional characters
- Before five years ago, Hollywood attempted to make actors resemble what their historical counterparts would have looked like - Taylor looked more like Cleopatra than Will Smith's bald wife; that's why it is called acting and there is costuming; but no one is going to believe Helen of Troy was blek or this chick has a "face that launched a thousand ships"
- The Jesus example is an immature distraction; cultures across the world depict Jesus in a way that resonates with the local people so as to provide comfort and peace; no one thinks Jesus literally was an American, but it is ironic the amount of butthurt LWNJ Christians spend on "white Jesus"

I could ask you another simple question you likely would avoid: would you be upset personally and do you think there would be outrage if Sydney Sweeney was cast as Rosa Parks in a biopic? Do you think you and Hamas Harry would defend the casting or condemn it?

At the end of the day, the eye-rolling is just the stupid Didn't Earn It virtue signaling in a world were black people make up 12% of the population but we have to pretend bleks were in Victorian England, bleks were in the War of the Roses, bleks were Norse fighters ... no one is making a movie about Africans selling Africans into slavery starring Ryan Gosling as a slave sold to the British by Will Smith.

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https://www.historyextra.com/period/victorian/black-victorians-britons-famous-who/

There were blacks Vikings as the Vikings were travelers and enlsavers. They gathered people and things along their path.

Not all things are for all people. This might not be for you. It's doing nothing for me. I'll watch Shawshank again. I'll get mad at Red for you.

So I saw Mandalorian and Groku movie this weekend and they had like a 5 minute preview of the odyssey before the show. In the preview they featured Matt Damon (a lot) and Tom Holland. Not once did I see the Helen of Troy or the Achilles character. Maybe they have sensed the backlash or maybe those characters are playing a very minor role. I don't know. Lots of CGI and action....it looks good. Lots of stars in it.

It looks like film made for the big screen. I'm favoring actually seeing it at the theater. It may a good movie with a dash of wokeness. I can deal with that.

BearFan33 said:

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So I saw Mandalorian and Groku movie this weekend

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I'm sorry.

Sam Lowry said:

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BearFan33 said:

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So I saw Mandalorian and Groku movie this weekend

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I'm sorry.

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Meh. It wasn't bad to me. Definitely made for a younger audience, but OK.

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So I saw Mandalorian and Groku movie this weekend and they had like a 5 minute preview of the odyssey before the show. In the preview they featured Matt Damon (a lot) and Tom Holland. Not once did I see the Helen of Troy or the Achilles character. Maybe they have sensed the backlash or maybe those characters are playing a very minor role. I don't know. Lots of CGI and action....it looks good. Lots of stars in it.

It looks like film made for the big screen. I'm favoring actually seeing it at the theater. It may a good movie with a dash of wokeness. I can deal with that.

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Here's my Star Wats experience. I'm 60. Dallas to LA business class about three years ago. NEVEr saw StarWars.

We're delayed so I turn on the first movie. (Number 3 I guess it is) and I watch it while on the ground delayed. We finally take off.

I start the second one. (4 I think) we go out about 1 1/2 hours. They announce we have engine problems. We're going back to Dallas. I watched it. Land in Dallas. We take off finally. I watch the last one. My belief? It was Independence Day. Not seen anything since.

This looks like it's gonna be a great movie year.

Oldbear83 said:

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Sam Lowry said:

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Redbrickbear said:

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Mitch Blood Green said:

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Can I ask a question? Do you guys realize this ain't a real *****?

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Well actually the Trojan war was a real event…

Now the mythos around that war and the people who fought it is obviously story telling.

But what is the point again of casting non-Greek looking actors in a Greek story?

At best its a strange choice that hurts the story telling itself…"world creation" and all that jazz…since the whole point is to get the audience to buy in and lose themselves in the epic & story.

Not constantly having to question the casting decisions

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Getting the audience to lose themselves is part of the point, not necessarily all of it. At worst the casting is a strange choice and a politically motivated distraction. At best it could help the story work on more than one level.

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Nope. The thing about Homer's works is not just some generic message, but includes a real history and culture in which this is set.

This trend of altering history or abandoning it completely has been used to sell false historical claims before, and taking away the foundation of the legend. Shewt, even fiction needs its base. Look what happened to the Star Wars movies when core lore was altered by directors who wanted to replace it with their own imagination.

Nothing wrong with writing your own story, but use your own foundation and lore. Destroying the past so you can replace it with your story is always wrong on several levels.

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That's really the key point - the Didn't Earn It cannot and liberal Hollywood does not think they're worth the time to generate original content for these groups, so they just drop them in to old stories to check the box and hop in the limo to the cocktail party and talk about how they're "anti-racist." It's just so cynical.

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This looks like it's gonna be a great movie year.

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2026 and 2027 have some pontential great ones coming

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Mitch Blood Green said:

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This looks like it's gonna be a great movie year.

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2026 and 2027 have some pontential great ones coming

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Have you seen Michael? Fantastic!

Mitch Blood Green said:

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4th and Inches said:

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Mitch Blood Green said:

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This looks like it's gonna be a great movie year.

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2026 and 2027 have some pontential great ones coming

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Have you seen Michael? Fantastic!

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You didn't mind that he was played by a black guy?

Harrison Bergeron said:

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Mitch Blood Green said:

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Harrison Bergeron said:

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Mitch Blood Green said:

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Redbrickbear said:

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Mitch Blood Green said:

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eople whoCan I ask a question? Do you guys realize this ain't a real *****?

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Well actually the Trojan war was a real event…

Now the mythos around that war and the people who fought it is obviously story telling.

But what is the point again of casting non-Greek looking actors in a Greek story?

At best its a strange choice that hurts the story telling itself…"world creation" and all that jazz…since the whole point is to get the audience to buy in and lose themselves in the epic & story.

Not constantly having to question the casting decisions

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I don't understand the uproar before the movie is released. Hollywood has been casting characters (especially fictional ones) across multiple races for years. (Red from Shawshank comes to mind).

Taylor in Cleopatra is another one. This is druggie Elon Musk driven.

Jesus also comes to mind. He's mostly likely not white and no way has has six pack abs.

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You sort of keep ignoring what folks have posting and just keep doing the cut and paste job ... but I will entertain your silliness with a serious response:
- I think you need to understand the difference between casting fictional characters and non-fictional characters
- Before five years ago, Hollywood attempted to make actors resemble what their historical counterparts would have looked like - Taylor looked more like Cleopatra than Will Smith's bald wife; that's why it is called acting and there is costuming; but no one is going to believe Helen of Troy was blek or this chick has a "face that launched a thousand ships"
- The Jesus example is an immature distraction; cultures across the world depict Jesus in a way that resonates with the local people so as to provide comfort and peace; no one thinks Jesus literally was an American, but it is ironic the amount of butthurt LWNJ Christians spend on "white Jesus"

I could ask you another simple question you likely would avoid: would you be upset personally and do you think there would be outrage if Sydney Sweeney was cast as Rosa Parks in a biopic? Do you think you and Hamas Harry would defend the casting or condemn it?

At the end of the day, the eye-rolling is just the stupid Didn't Earn It virtue signaling in a world were black people make up 12% of the population but we have to pretend bleks were in Victorian England, bleks were in the War of the Roses, bleks were Norse fighters ... no one is making a movie about Africans selling Africans into slavery starring Ryan Gosling as a slave sold to the British by Will Smith.

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https://www.historyextra.com/period/victorian/black-victorians-britons-famous-who/

There were blacks Vikings as the Vikings were travelers and enlsavers. They gathered people and things along their path.

Not all things are for all people. This might not be for you. It's doing nothing for me. I'll watch Shawshank again. I'll get mad at Red for you.

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As usual you avoid the direct questions for the straw man, but not surprising. You're having a circle jerk with the same idiot that claims there was a genocide in Gaza but cannot explain why the population has increased since 10/7.

Would you support Sydney Sweeney playing Rosa Parks? Do you think there would be any outrage? Do you think there would be outrage if Ryan Gossling played an African slave sold to a British captain played by Will Smith?

I love the logic that since there are Albino black people then all Nigerians should be portrayed as white. LOL.

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You're asking the wrong question. The question "Would I go see Sydney Sweeney play Rosa Parks? The right answer is I'd not go see Sydney Sweeny play Sydney Sweeny. The purpose of casting is to draw me into the theatre.

If Sydney Sweeney playing Rosa Parks drew people into the theatre, it would happen.

But again, you're mad about people who never existed.

Mitch Blood Green said:

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Redbrickbear said:

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Mitch Blood Green said:

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Can I ask a question? Do you guys realize this ain't a real *****?

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Well actually the Trojan war was a real event…

Now the mythos around that war and the people who fought it is obviously story telling.

But what is the point again of casting non-Greek looking actors in a Greek story?

At best its a strange choice that hurts the story telling itself…"world creation" and all that jazz…since the whole point is to get the audience to buy in and lose themselves in the epic & story.

Not constantly having to question the casting decisions

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Taylor in Cleopatra is another one. This is druggie Elon Musk driven.

Jesus also comes to mind. He's mostly likely not white and .

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You know that Cleopatra was ethnically Greek right?

[Cleopatra was primarily of Macedonian Greek descent, tracing her lineage to Ptolemy I Soter, one of Alexander the Great's generals who founded the Ptolemaic dynasty in 323 BCE. While her cultural identity was firmly Hellenistic (Greek), her family tree also included some Persian and Sogdian ancestors, with little to no native Egyptian blood]

It's a much more minor stretch for a generic NW European to play Cleopatra who was ethnically Greek (S. European)

PS

And Jesus was Mediterranean-Levantine…so unless you don't think people from the Mediterranean basin are white then…yea he would be described as such

I mean I assume you have met Jewish people and Lebanese people on the street and don't refer to them as African or Asian right?

Mitch Blood Green said:

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Harrison Bergeron said:

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Mitch Blood Green said:

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Harrison Bergeron said:

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Mitch Blood Green said:

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Redbrickbear said:

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Mitch Blood Green said:

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eople whoCan I ask a question? Do you guys realize this ain't a real *****?

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Well actually the Trojan war was a real event…

Now the mythos around that war and the people who fought it is obviously story telling.

But what is the point again of casting non-Greek looking actors in a Greek story?

At best its a strange choice that hurts the story telling itself…"world creation" and all that jazz…since the whole point is to get the audience to buy in and lose themselves in the epic & story.

Not constantly having to question the casting decisions

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I don't understand the uproar before the movie is released. Hollywood has been casting characters (especially fictional ones) across multiple races for years. (Red from Shawshank comes to mind).

Taylor in Cleopatra is another one. This is druggie Elon Musk driven.

Jesus also comes to mind. He's mostly likely not white and no way has has six pack abs.

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You sort of keep ignoring what folks have posting and just keep doing the cut and paste job ... but I will entertain your silliness with a serious response:
- I think you need to understand the difference between casting fictional characters and non-fictional characters
- Before five years ago, Hollywood attempted to make actors resemble what their historical counterparts would have looked like - Taylor looked more like Cleopatra than Will Smith's bald wife; that's why it is called acting and there is costuming; but no one is going to believe Helen of Troy was blek or this chick has a "face that launched a thousand ships"
- The Jesus example is an immature distraction; cultures across the world depict Jesus in a way that resonates with the local people so as to provide comfort and peace; no one thinks Jesus literally was an American, but it is ironic the amount of butthurt LWNJ Christians spend on "white Jesus"

I could ask you another simple question you likely would avoid: would you be upset personally and do you think there would be outrage if Sydney Sweeney was cast as Rosa Parks in a biopic? Do you think you and Hamas Harry would defend the casting or condemn it?

At the end of the day, the eye-rolling is just the stupid Didn't Earn It virtue signaling in a world were black people make up 12% of the population but we have to pretend bleks were in Victorian England, bleks were in the War of the Roses, bleks were Norse fighters ... no one is making a movie about Africans selling Africans into slavery starring Ryan Gosling as a slave sold to the British by Will Smith.

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https://www.historyextra.com/period/victorian/black-victorians-britons-famous-who/

There were blacks Vikings as the Vikings were travelers and enlsavers. They gathered people and things along their path.

Not all things are for all people. This might not be for you. It's doing nothing for me. I'll watch Shawshank again. I'll get mad at Red for you.

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As usual you avoid the direct questions for the straw man, but not surprising. You're having a circle jerk with the same idiot that claims there was a genocide in Gaza but cannot explain why the population has increased since 10/7.

Would you support Sydney Sweeney playing Rosa Parks? Do you think there would be any outrage? Do you think there would be outrage if Ryan Gossling played an African slave sold to a British captain played by Will Smith?

I love the logic that since there are Albino black people then all Nigerians should be portrayed as white. LOL.

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If Sydney Sweeney playing Rosa Parks drew people into the theatre, it would happen.

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The fact that she was not cast as Helen of Troy is a good example of your statement being wrong

Oldbear83 said:

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Sam Lowry said:

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Redbrickbear said:

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Mitch Blood Green said:

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Can I ask a question? Do you guys realize this ain't a real *****?

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Well actually the Trojan war was a real event…

Now the mythos around that war and the people who fought it is obviously story telling.

But what is the point again of casting non-Greek looking actors in a Greek story?

At best its a strange choice that hurts the story telling itself…"world creation" and all that jazz…since the whole point is to get the audience to buy in and lose themselves in the epic & story.

Not constantly having to question the casting decisions

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Getting the audience to lose themselves is part of the point, not necessarily all of it. At worst the casting is a strange choice and a politically motivated distraction. At best it could help the story work on more than one level.

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Nope. The thing about Homer's works is not just some generic message, but includes a real history and culture in which this is set.

This trend of altering history or abandoning it completely has been used to sell false historical claims before, and taking away the foundation of the legend. Shewt, even fiction needs its base. Look what happened to the Star Wars movies when core lore was altered by directors who wanted to replace it with their own imagination.

Nothing wrong with writing your own story, but use your own foundation and lore. Destroying the past so you can replace it with your story is always wrong on several levels.

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Yep….and real Greeks are understandable upset

Greek City Times published an open letter to Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey this week. It reads in part:

"We did not vanish. Greek people did not disappear after the age of myth. Greek culture was not frozen in classical marble. We are still here. For more than 3,000 continuous… pic.twitter.com/RFf4fddImQ

— Fandom Pulse (@fandompulse) May 27, 2026

The middle guy up top, the lower right and the bottom picture are close to the same guy..

Redbrickbear said:

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Mitch Blood Green said:

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Harrison Bergeron said:

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Mitch Blood Green said:

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Harrison Bergeron said:

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Mitch Blood Green said:

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Redbrickbear said:

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Mitch Blood Green said:

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eople whoCan I ask a question? Do you guys realize this ain't a real *****?

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Well actually the Trojan war was a real event…

Now the mythos around that war and the people who fought it is obviously story telling.

But what is the point again of casting non-Greek looking actors in a Greek story?

At best its a strange choice that hurts the story telling itself…"world creation" and all that jazz…since the whole point is to get the audience to buy in and lose themselves in the epic & story.

Not constantly having to question the casting decisions

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I don't understand the uproar before the movie is released. Hollywood has been casting characters (especially fictional ones) across multiple races for years. (Red from Shawshank comes to mind).

Taylor in Cleopatra is another one. This is druggie Elon Musk driven.

Jesus also comes to mind. He's mostly likely not white and no way has has six pack abs.

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You sort of keep ignoring what folks have posting and just keep doing the cut and paste job ... but I will entertain your silliness with a serious response:
- I think you need to understand the difference between casting fictional characters and non-fictional characters
- Before five years ago, Hollywood attempted to make actors resemble what their historical counterparts would have looked like - Taylor looked more like Cleopatra than Will Smith's bald wife; that's why it is called acting and there is costuming; but no one is going to believe Helen of Troy was blek or this chick has a "face that launched a thousand ships"
- The Jesus example is an immature distraction; cultures across the world depict Jesus in a way that resonates with the local people so as to provide comfort and peace; no one thinks Jesus literally was an American, but it is ironic the amount of butthurt LWNJ Christians spend on "white Jesus"

I could ask you another simple question you likely would avoid: would you be upset personally and do you think there would be outrage if Sydney Sweeney was cast as Rosa Parks in a biopic? Do you think you and Hamas Harry would defend the casting or condemn it?

At the end of the day, the eye-rolling is just the stupid Didn't Earn It virtue signaling in a world were black people make up 12% of the population but we have to pretend bleks were in Victorian England, bleks were in the War of the Roses, bleks were Norse fighters ... no one is making a movie about Africans selling Africans into slavery starring Ryan Gosling as a slave sold to the British by Will Smith.

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https://www.historyextra.com/period/victorian/black-victorians-britons-famous-who/

There were blacks Vikings as the Vikings were travelers and enlsavers. They gathered people and things along their path.

Not all things are for all people. This might not be for you. It's doing nothing for me. I'll watch Shawshank again. I'll get mad at Red for you.

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As usual you avoid the direct questions for the straw man, but not surprising. You're having a circle jerk with the same idiot that claims there was a genocide in Gaza but cannot explain why the population has increased since 10/7.

Would you support Sydney Sweeney playing Rosa Parks? Do you think there would be any outrage? Do you think there would be outrage if Ryan Gossling played an African slave sold to a British captain played by Will Smith?

I love the logic that since there are Albino black people then all Nigerians should be portrayed as white. LOL.

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If Sydney Sweeney playing Rosa Parks drew people into the theatre, it would happen.

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The fact that she was not cast as Helen of Troy is a good example of your statement being wrong

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Patrick Stewart played Othello in an otherwise all-black cast. Who's to say whether Sydney Sweeney would make a good Rosa Parks?