Da Ba De Da Ba Die~

Fellow writer whose got the blues he/she

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Project Hail Mary and Iron Lung are on my feed

As well as Bloody Mary

You want tragic gay men in space with slight body horror? Literally there is a book already for that.

It’s a duology. Read it in like freshman year and cried.

There is a happy ending/bittersweet one.

[angelwalking]

(source) its so funny how actual Greek and Homeric scholars are talking about this movie vs the fact that people on tumblr are acting like Nolan personally dug up Homer's actual bones and pissed on them

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I tend to agree that the complaints about it being unrealistic. It’s a film, it’s Hollywood, they’re going to make their own versions. To be fair, it was never advertised to be ‘historically accurate.’ I also won’t act like Nolan dishonored my entire heritage lol

It does not diminish, however, the arguments that Nolan casted a majority of English actors and not Greek actors for a tale so heavily rooted not only in literature, but Greek culture.

[wordsmithic]

source: @wordsmithic / wordsmithic on insta

I also made a post about the good elements of the movie on my instagram, which are significantly fewer than the bad ones. I wanted to be fair.

[alatismeni-theitsa]

Splendid post! No wonder it gained so much traction on instagram.

I watched the movie myself (ahoy mates) and I gave it much less grace. I have some things to add.

For example, something I didn't like was that the guy speaking Greek was (accidentally, I think) made to look like a Barbarian to the foreign audience, even though he was the only ethnic Greek in the scene! Most viewers still don't understand or want to accept (because of his skin color) that this is how Greeks look.

Something else that seemed strange to me was that Helen had a twin (which meant she was no longer the most beautiful woman in the land!?!?), and that Menelaos gave her a scar as punishment. Menelaos, who, in the ancient text, took her back without hurting her, and the gods rewarded him for his restraint! So now we are adding more abuse against ancient Greek women. So feminist!

The scene with Argos' death was so brief and unimpactful that I felt NOTHING!!! The execution of this scene was a crime!!! 😭

The audio... Guys... the audio!! It was extremely loud! I have a half-deaf friend and his ears were in PAIN during the showing in a local IMAX cinema!

But maybe the biggest crime of it all was that it was bland and boring. I am the type of person who doesn't mind a whole helicopter landing over Troy for the metamodern flavor of it, IF it is set up correctly. I think a random helicopter would have improved Nolan's snoozefest, actually.

Even if we disregard all the Greek erasure and inaccuracies, this was Nolan's worst film to this day.

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Greek/Sicilian here before anyone attacks me on that front

There is nothing wrong with the actors chosen, the only problem I have is that they have been used over and over and over again. Hollywood has no diversity. It’s getting tiring.

Helen is a black woman? Fine, that’s the least I’m concerned about. Greece isn’t full of just white people. A dark skinned Greek woman would’ve also fit the role.

I think the movie just suffers from overdramatizing. Let’s be honest, Homer wrote so many plots and characters it was hard to keep up. Nolan condensed and got rid of a few things to make it simpler. Which, fine, I can understand, but I do agree some crucial parts were taken away.

I will give praise where it is due, the cinematography was astounding. I can praise the scenes with all real boats and battle. I don’t mind personally much about the weather changes since it’s a mythological epic, there was Scylla and a Cyclops so I’m not going to complain about ‘realism’ much.

The actors did great, I had no problem with their performances. I will say, though, the overwhelming English actors in the cast peeved me since the museum of England still has not returned our rightful artifacts they had stolen from us. No, it’s not the actors fault, but to put so many in an epic so rooted into Greek culture and arts upsets me. I don’t mind people who like the movie, I’m not trying to boycott anything, I just felt it was weak on those fronts. Yet again, when has Hollywood ever gotten that right.

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Moonlight should’ve gotten the traction Heated Rivalry did. The reason it didn’t was because it was about two black men.

[virmink-united]

I have stolen the BEST Amir picture i have ever seen

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To piggy back off of my last post

I can see arguments for several of them but I’m forcing you to choose

If drifter asked, who would immediately/volunteer to be topped by them (most likely candidate)

Arthur

Eleanor

Lettie

Quincy

Amir

Aoi

Drifter can’t top for the life of them

Voting ended onJul 13

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Idk why I even did this poll bc there really is only one answer

Amir Fucking Beckett

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I’ve been bonding with the Hex so it’s time to see what older tennos think

Who is the freakiest (The Hex)

Arthur

Eleanor

Aoi

Amir

Quincy

Lettie

Bonus: Drifter

Voting ended onJul 12

[dellaroom]

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To piggy back off of my last post

I can see arguments for several of them but I’m forcing you to choose

If drifter asked, who would immediately/volunteer to be topped by them (most likely candidate)

Arthur

Eleanor

Lettie

Quincy

Amir

Aoi

Drifter can’t top for the life of them

Voting ended onJul 13

[boringkate]

Seeing game devs take a "the customer is always right" approach to feedback is so sad because like I get it from a PR perspective, but…

1) The customer is always wrong

2) Your customers are gamers, so they're twice as wrong

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I’ve been bonding with the Hex so it’s time to see what older tennos think

Who is the freakiest (The Hex)

Arthur

Eleanor

Aoi

Amir

Quincy

Lettie

Bonus: Drifter

Voting ended onJul 12

[lesbianwyllravengard]

I don't know much, but I do know this: I don't know much

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Said the crates man in BC

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Bunny Tenno

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in moonlight,

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A recreation of what I saw when I was passing my boss's desk

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A call for discussion because I’m curious and want to learn a bit more.

With the circulation of James Cameron’s ‘Avatar’ I’ve seen praise for the movies, but I haven’t seen much opinion from the native people who’s culture and tribes were said to be inspired and created the clans on Pandora.

The newest addition to the cast, Oona Chaplin, is an indigenous woman, but is casted as one of the main villains while the other main characters are played by non indigenous actors. I found that a bit strange.

Not to mention, the white savior trope of the first movie.

So here’s the question, if people wish to make tribal/indigenous like characters for their stories, what is the most respectful way to go about it? What could James Cameron have done differently? What other shows or media have either done well or disrespected native culture?

[jynersq]

NOT that anyone needs MY opinion on the frankenstein (2025) moment but…… something that invariably aggravates me about these “adaptations” of classic literature is that they so often end up being trojan horses for a very different story that, for whatever reason, appeals to the writer/director more.

[jynersq]

“here’s my adaptation of romeo and juliet but their families aren’t at war and nobody dies and they go on to have 2.5 beautiful children” that’s great but that’s also Not Romeo And Juliet Then. That’s A Different Story.