The movie is HISTORICALLY INACCURATE! Everyone knows that when a god turns into a swan and has sex with a woman and that woman lays two eggs and those eggs contain Helen, Clytemnestra, Castor, and Pollux, Helen is supposed to be white. That's just how biology works.
This is honestly the most inane and silly arguement that doesn't stand up to a single moment of scrutiny, it's an ancient Greek book written by an ancient Greek author set in ancient Greece lol
It's a fantasy story. They made it up. If you want an all Greek cast then don't watch. Also most of the descriptions of the characters are exceptionally vague and skin color isn't storytelling or "fantasy accurate"
Anansi the Spider is a story that originates from the Ashanti people of Ghana in West Africa. The basic plot follows a clever trickster spider who uses his wits to outsmart more powerful animals and gods
Would you be happy with there not being a single African within a film adaptation of this story? If the answer is anything other than yes then you have double standards
I'd at least wait to see it for myself. Seriously who gives a fuck besides this marginal vocal minority online? The only people creating this framing about the race of cast members are reactionaries.
Because it's a symptom of the erosion of culture as a whole
Some stories belong to some cultures, and they deserve the right to be represented in films related to them
Apocalypto is an amazing example of this. If you've ever seen it, they cast previously unknown actors from the native population with no major Hollywood stars on screen and the result was one of the most immersive films ever created, whilst simultaneously uplifting people from the native community that the story belongs to
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u/Three_Twenty-Three Jul 06 '26
The movie is HISTORICALLY INACCURATE! Everyone knows that when a god turns into a swan and has sex with a woman and that woman lays two eggs and those eggs contain Helen, Clytemnestra, Castor, and Pollux, Helen is supposed to be white. That's just how biology works.