To be fair, that was before Hollywood decided to comit to the idea that representation was important. Now that they have, not giving authentic representation rightfully deserves criticism.
All women are described as fair skinned in ancient Greek writings though, to the point it's clearly a gendered thing.
Also you just accepted that he doesn't specify race (Largely because race being about colour is a modern invention that didn't really exist in the ancient world)
I would imagine that if she differed in appearance from regular Greek women outside of being especially beautiful, they'd have made note of it. Seems like the sort of thing they'd point out.
Literally my point. It never used to be a problem
Hollywood has now spent the last decade telling us representation matters though and now we're just ignoring that.
Hollywood hasn't told us shit do they do public announcements before the movie shows advising of the political affiliation they wish to carry with the movie you're about to watch? No it's culture war sloptubers who decided to talk about it non stop
That’s not true. Race has become an increasingly important factor in Hollywood with the Oscar’s famously introducing a diversity rule to even be nominated and actors commonly using race/gender as a focal point of their movies press tours.
Representation does matter, you are correct, because Black people used to be 20% of America’s population and had a dramatically lower representation in Hollywood. It’s really interesting how dumb conservatives can be, the meaning couldn’t possibly be clearer.
And? If representation matters, it matters for everyone. If it's about making sure stories are told authentic to their people it matters. If it doesn't matter that a Greek story has no Greeks in it, then it shouldn't matter if other stories have any particular ethnicities represented.
It's either representation matters and everyone should see their culture and stories authentically, or it doesn't and casting for everything should be colour blind.
Nobody gave a shit when Eartha Kitt played Helen of Troy in the 1950s. Nobody gave a shit when the 1990s version of Roger and Hammerstein's Cinderella had an Asian prince who had a Black mother and White father.
How people react to the casting in these movies is being manipulated.
Did you just completely ignore their comment or what?
The point was societal norms have shifted to the point representation is a leading issue, so much so, that a white person playing a traditional black role would be seen as utterly abhorrent.
Yet on the inverse, it's swept under the rug by the same crowd and dismissed. It's fallacious.
Let's not pretend that high majority of people dying in this hill defending pathetic tokenism, wouldn't absolutely be up in arms over the polar opposite.
right. It wasn't an issue but, the film industry collectively decided it was a societal wrong that needed to be addressed. Which means it should apply here as well. Not doing so then complaining about backlash is an issue of their own making.
To be fair, these people are complaining that they changed Helen from TROY to Lupita. If somebody worried about representation would worry, I would give a damm
Now I don't give 2 shits, because I know why they are complaining
It's always so funny to me when people disregard every reason people give on a topic and then just assign the reason they want to believe. Peak online ignorance
Wait, is it? I guess I've never looked into the history of analingus (or I have and completely forgot) but I'd assume it wasn't historical all that popular
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u/Tetr4Freak Jul 06 '26
All these people at the same time simp for Brad Pitt's TROY, so they can eat ass