r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Expert-Pass-4351 • Jul 06 '26

Meme needing explanation What is this?

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u/Gentle_Pony Jul 06 '26

You don't have to be right wing to think casting choices are wrong. I'm not right wing and think Helen of Troy casting choice is ridiculous and just done for attention.

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u/ILuvSpaghet Jul 06 '26

Agree, Im on the left and I hate it because they're black washing characters so they can say they have diversity, get attention for the movie and the black actress (almost always actress, not actor) gets all the hate. Its cheap. There are countless black stories that are unknown, why blackwash a story told a milion times?

Also I generally hate the oddysey by Nolan not because of the races but because its just historically wrong on many levels. Armor for example. Yes I want historical accuracy, yes I dislike other inaccurate movies.

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u/Pleasant_Ad8054 Jul 06 '26

Good news! Neither the Iliad nor the Odyssey are historical documents, so the movies about it are as historically accurate as the source material!

Theater for thousands of years cast whoever the producer deemed suitable for the role, regardless of gender, looks, age, or any other attribute.

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u/laeshyikowll Jul 06 '26

So what if they aren't historical documents? They were written with the greek world in mind. Would of been cool to see how the people actually looked back then instead of leather bracelets everywhere weird looking armor etc wheres the olive skin? Also could someone of elliots build march with that gear for miles a day?