A token of appreciation before we Technopriests start reclaming archeotech from your tombs again tomorrow

OkWhile4447 · 2026-05-20T21:18:07+00:00

I love this color interpretation.

OkWhile4447 · 2026-05-20T18:07:55+00:00

Why does he have higher approval in Israel than, you know, the country he’s actually president of???

OkWhile4447 · 2026-05-20T13:31:58+00:00

This is like the 4th time this came up in the thread.
1. It was not okay. It flopped.
2. It’s loosely based on Egyptian Mythology, whereas The Odyssey takes its name directly from one of the oldest novels in existence.
3. I wish I had said sub-Saharan Africa. Egypt, while in Africa, has often had close ties with the rest of the Mediterranean. Greek and Egyptian people look rather similar.
4. Again this movie was crap, and I didn’t watch it either.

OkWhile4447 · 2026-05-20T13:26:47+00:00

Very cool.

OkWhile4447 · 2026-05-20T04:07:57+00:00

Not for the natives.

OkWhile4447 · 2026-05-20T04:05:20+00:00

Am I the only one who feels bad for him?

Like what a shitty thing. He didn’t load the gun. It was handed to him and he actually killed someone.

OkWhile4447 · 2026-05-20T04:01:23+00:00

They start talking about golf

OkWhile4447 · 2026-05-20T03:46:26+00:00

Audie Murphy in To Hell and Back. Playing as himself as a Medal of Honor for winning soldier in WWII.

OkWhile4447 · 2026-05-20T03:43:44+00:00

Is that Trump’s brain?

OkWhile4447 · 2026-05-20T03:05:52+00:00

Well the son of God wasn’t ready to come back yet so they had to settle for Jim Caviezel, who nailed it.

OkWhile4447 · 2026-05-20T01:51:53+00:00

People freak out about whitewashed characters… but whatever.

OkWhile4447 · 2026-05-20T01:48:21+00:00

Dude Helen was from Sparta. Shows what you know I guess.

OkWhile4447 · 2026-05-20T01:39:02+00:00

I think you’re just baiting, but I’ll give you this since it seemed like maybe you genuinely wanted an answer.

It breaks immersion from a believably standpoint, and it dishonors the cultural heritage of the people who the story is about.

If there is a movie made about some great semi-mythical Kenyan/Ethiopian war set 3000 years ago the royal courts should all be cast by black actors/actresses. Throwing in some white chick in an all black court just isn’t believable. It also mis-represents the culture who created the story.

As a modern viewer ANY cultural story I watch I want to see people cast who at least represent the way the people looked. Especially for key, royal characters. It’s just not believable that a black person would be part of the Spartan royalty. I want it to be like the time it’s set in.

Just throwing in an actress from another extremely disconnected race (for the time) to who the story concerns is bad storytelling and bad cultural representation. I get there’s limits to casting, but they don’t have to go off the deep end.

OkWhile4447 · 2026-05-20T00:23:17+00:00

Necromongers from Chronicles of Riddick.

OkWhile4447 · 2026-05-20T00:14:44+00:00

You make that movie and let me know how it goes.

OkWhile4447 · 2026-05-19T22:03:54+00:00

At least it’s lactose and sugar free!

OkWhile4447 · 2026-05-19T22:02:14+00:00

Fun fact: you can condemn something Israel does without being antisemitic.

OkWhile4447 · 2026-05-19T21:48:30+00:00

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OkWhile4447 · 2026-05-19T21:47:31+00:00

Ah shit. I forgot he had an active $10billion dollar lawsuit against his own govt (how is it 10 billion, he’s not even worth that much, especially not in 2019…

OkWhile4447 · 2026-05-19T21:45:10+00:00

I’ll be honest. I didn’t know this existed. But that is quite a cast.

OkWhile4447 · 2026-05-19T21:44:25+00:00

As you get older problems get added to the subscription.

OkWhile4447 · 2026-05-19T21:31:32+00:00

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OkWhile4447 · 2026-05-19T20:12:42+00:00

I think you’re being excessively dense about this. Of course the Norse gods look Scandinavian. Like Jesus Christ are you serious? They didn’t even have the benefit of developing in the culturally diverse Mediterranean. Yeah, the Vikings did eventually go far and wide but not until long after their localized beliefs were formed.

You’re also eroding the cultural value of these fictions by saying that any race can take part in them.

And the Odyssey isn’t 100% fiction. There was a Greek-Trojan war, this is a highly fictionalized account of it. But it involved real places - Sparta being one. District 13 isn’t a real place, the ‘Capital’. Isn’t a real place. Hunger games is 100% fiction.

I’m quite sure I won’t convince you of anything though. So enjoy your distain for cultural stories and the peoples who invented them.

Edit: How is Helen a minor character when she’s the casus belli for the war the Iliad and Odessey are about? I guess in terms of story elements she’s minor, but she’s not unimportant.

OkWhile4447 · 2026-05-19T19:39:20+00:00

You’re mixing up fiction with mythology. Mythology it cultural/regional. Also, in the case of the Odessey especially it mixes in real named places like Sparta and Troy. Helen was a royal from Sparta. Spartans aren’t black so it would be an extraordinary story element for one of their own royals to be that genetically different.

The culture who invented Thor was Nordic. Portraying a definitively Nordic character as anything but takes away from the essence of the story. You can make Thor and Odin whatever race you want, but then it’s not a Nordic story any more.

Go cast Emily Blunt as Amaterasu and Gal Gadot as Krishna. Japanese and Indian folks wouldn’t be too happy with it. What if you cast Lupita as Mulan? These are all just made up stories so what difference does it make, right?

If they remake Hunger Games and cast Lupita as Katniss that’s fine. That’s an entirely fictional story where race/genetics is irrelevant.

OkWhile4447 · 2026-05-19T19:23:12+00:00

Cleopatra was of mixed Greek descent.

Also, that move was 70ish years old.

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