Greek actors fancasting videos circulating YES I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS. Can we do that with the other movies too, because if I see one more time some rando WASP/north american/european going "oh cast like this is terrible Lupita Nyong'o ? Zendaya? a?nd whatshisname afrobrit who played Achilles?! How dare they disrespect greek myths like that" & then follow that up with "they should have casted people like german diane kruger & brad pitt and damon is actually fine casting" i will bust an artery. And beyond the disgusted eyeroll at claiming a mediocre german woman is suitable for Helen the Beatiful, i want to point out how stupid it is to cast someone that greeks would see on the street saying hello & immediately assume "oh a tourist, probably German or english, she probably wants to ask directions" , beyond offensiveness ,it break suspension of disbelief too much
Yeah I know what you're saying. Most of them care about Lupita and Zendaya not being cast and spoil "western white" beauty. It's really tragic because you're trying to make a point and there is an Elon Musk worshipper popping up saying "YEAH THAT'S WHAT I THINK TOO". No, it's really not.
Once again I am at low spirits regarding the state of... human intelligence. Allow me to rant here too. This video gets overwhelming, almost exclusively basically, positive reviews and comments, which is great to see. Yet, even amongst the positive comments, I see stuff that I have trouble believing people actually think and type.
For example, appreciative males saying about Klelia "Oh yeah, that Helen I would launch a 1000 ships for". First of all, no you wouldn't, no matter her beauty. Besides her being a great beauty, there is also this minor detail that Helen was a queen in Greece and also other Greek kings who once pursued her were bound by an oath to help her husband get her back if she was abducted. Her abduction was an offense to Greek royalty and by extension to the Greek people, and if the other Greek kings did not honour their oath to Menelaus, this would also cause internal turmoil in Greece, which is actually why the war happened. Nobody would ever launch a thousand ships only for the beauty of a single person and I hate that they make this hypocrisy a competition between Klelia and Lupita, as in, that Klelia is supposedly a thousand-ship-launcher and Lupita is not.
There are a lot of people writing "Wow I did not know Greeks are such beautiful people" and I understand it is meant as a compliment but... isn't it something weird as hell to say? Like what, did you invest a lot of time in your life thinking that Greeks are ugly and now your mindset has been reshaped?! Greeks are like exactly every other nation: there are beautiful, average and plainer people. Actors often fall in the first two categories. In this video about 2/3 of them are beautiful and 1/3 are average. What do you mean that "you didn't know Greeks are such beautiful people". Don't Greeks have models, pretty actors... why is this a surprise??? I mean, you might think I am exaggerating, but I have never seen a couple of stars from any nation and thought "wow I didn't know x nation was beautiful"! Are people okay?????????
Then there are of course the anal-ysts of Greek phenotypes. In the comment section, you can find within a distance of 2-3 comments, a comment saying that there should not be any blonde (native Greek) in the fancasting because Greeks can never be naturally blonde and another comment saying that of course this fancasting is also inaccurate because modern Greeks have been bastardized by the Turks and ancient Greeks were a lot more blonde! It's un-fucking-believable.
Then there are the ones who can't find something to say about the looks of the actors so they ask with mockery in their phrasing: "Okay but can they act pffff haha"? And I am like ???????? Why? Have you seen them act and decided they have no skill? Where is this mockery coming from? Or you think Nolan auditioned a hundred Greeks and realised they were all talentless and so he had to use the actors he uses every time because he had no other choice? And they ask it like: "BUT ARE they talented actors??????". What if they are and what if they're not, dude???? How does this make a difference??? This is a fancasting video with Greeks in Greek roles in a Hollywood movie! As if such a thing would ever happen in reality for you to be doubtful of their acting skill! But why are you doubtful of their acting skill in the first place, if you don't know them!?! There are also some who say "I don't know these actors but they look great!". So, pray tell, are you well aware of the domestic actors of 193 countries and only the Greek actors escaped you apparently because they are THAT godawful in acting? Honestly, is there anything functioning inside the brains of these people? (And in case anyone is wondering, half of the actors in the video are very very good, the other half are average. I would not call any of these a bad actor. Most of these can do great things at the hands of a good director.)
Obligatory comments about "It doesn't matter, ancient and modern Greeks are different people" in short distance with comments saying "Oh I didn't know modern Greeks look similar to ancient Greeks!". I should grow a dozen hands to facepalm appropriately for these comments.
But I leave the best for last. Unfortunately there was just one comment writing this but in any case it deserves its own category. Someone wrote very seriously that the whole fancasting is inaccurate and there should not be Greeks imagined in ancient Greek roles because as "we all know" the Achaeans were western Europeans and in fact from somewhere in west Spain. This one was a masterpiece. I am not mad at this person. This was iconic.
So, yeah, sorry for my rant getting so long. But I was just thinking, man, we're the 13th most visited country in the world. We're not the country of nowhere that no one has ever seen or stepped a foot in. We are a nation... with normal people in it... beautiful...average... actors doing their job... We are located in South Europe. Our ancestors were located in the exact same region. In. South. Europe. We exist. WHY IS THIS SO HARD TO UNDERSTAND
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