"i don't know.. that's scary.." has become such a core part of my vocabulary that I forget people will not immediately understand that I'm making a reference when i say that
I think trying to make a movie out of The Odyssey (not the story of Odysseus, but The Odyssey as in the poem) is a bit of a doomed endeavour as the structure of The Odyssey simply does not jive with the structure of the Hollywood movie
I think you COULD make a good movie out of the odyssey but would need to engage w the fact that it's a work which veers back and forth between fantasy and realism; that it's a story told out of chronogical order; and also that it is a Trickster Hero story first and foremost. It is perhaps best done as a comedy but with the occasional shocking swerve into graphic violence.
The Odyssey should be a musical but âïžonly some of the time. When Odysseus is narrating? Musical. Penelope and Telemachus on Ithaca? đ ââïž
Odysseus can break the fourth wall during the parts where he's narrating.
Movie opens with Odysseus inside Charybdis, whirling around and around clinging to a tiny raft and screaming. *Freeze frame* yeah, that's me. You're probably wondering how I got here.
#but more to the point of the original post: i wish moviegoing audiences were more skeptical of the ability of Hollywood#to adapt any and everything#like. i still think about how jeff smith's bone has floated around in development hell over several different iterations for DECADES#and like. HONESTLY? good. it doesnt need to be anything other than a comic.
this is a bit tangential but. yeah. it is straight up hollywood propaganda i think. everything must eventually become a hollywood movie. books must become hollywood movies. comics must become hollywood movies. successful movies from other countries must become hollywood movies. & ur mainstream hollywood movie is a pretty narrow category of what a movie can be.
currently feeling more than a little unhinged about the secret sharer as a mirror episode to the witchfinder, so let's talk about it in great and unnecessary detail after the cut!!
(also nuance pervert disclaimer up top bc my last few posts about how obsessed i am with the pendragon sibs' shared tragedy being that they never fully escape the claw marks uther left on them ended up wildly misinterpreted: i'm neither wholly arthur critical or uncritical. i like messy complicated sometimes terrible characters with messy complicated flaws and that's my worst best boy arthur pendragon y'know)
starting with the most obvious: external forces who have their own motivations sweeping in to stoke a fire of doubt about gaius' loyalties specifically by invoking his ""former"" ties to sorcery, and uther and arthur both dismissing the possibility. neither can entertain the idea that gaius would betray them and refuse to believe so without any proof - nor do either escape that seed being planted.
that seed is quicker to grow in uther, especially once presented with "evidence," because he's a rash and paranoid man, and arthur's reaction being to let gaius flee without pursuing him highlights important differences between them - yet, because sorcery is at the heart of the accusal, both are convinced of wrongdoing without questioning it any further. despite the fact that it's a person who, prior to that moment, they trusted with their literal lives (as their friend, servant, and physician).
and ofc condemning someone they care about is going to bring up emotions! but the pendragon men Don't Do emotions like that, so they fall back on the things they understand: logic and the law. gaius did wrong and broke the law, and therefore gaius must suffer the consequences. being a king means making hard choices and sacrifices. feeling anything about this is pointless and itâs definitely not a defense mechanism at all shut up
ugh then this whole parallel. arthur is so much like uther in this sense that it's actually painful. he blows up and let's his temper and suspicions (especially the ingrained ones he has about magic) get the better of him time and time again - with the important difference between them being that arthur almost always more readily admits his mistakes and tries to (<- load bearing phrase alert) learn from his actions. but as i love to shout constantly into the void, part of his tragedy is that he does so too slowly and too late for it to make a difference for him in the end.
this scene speaks to that so beautifully, especially the different ways gaius handles them both: the man who was once and sort of still is his friend (but who was always his king) that he watched descend into tyrannical madness until gaius got caught the line of fire, and his king who was and sort of still is the boy he's cared for since he was a babe while harboring the secret hope that he'd be better than his father. gaius knows arthur is trying, but there's also part of him i believe that suspects arthur is running out of time to make the changes that need to be made.
hence this final heartbreaking mirrored moment:
the one gaius knows it's too late for because he stood by while and/or actively aided him in becoming a monster vs the symbol of gaius' hope that there can be a future where the damage he helped cause is undone :( :(
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here's two articles about how JK Rowling just posted on X an upskirt photo of Freda Wallace, a transgender woman, after deadnaming her and misgendering her repeatedly online.
The wealthy author escalated a social media spat that resulted in posting a photo from a 2023 event at the Institute of Economic Affairs in
Rowling posted the picture taken from below because the trans woman, she said, was "refusing to debate me."
So in summation; Rowling demanded access to a womanâs time and when she couldnât get it she retaliated by posting an upskirt image of her and called her fat, and some of her fans even went âI think I can see her genitalsâ.
She literally went âdebate me! Debate me!â Over and over like the grifter she is and when she couldnât get what she wanted and when ânoâ wasnât enough she resorted to retaliatory sex-pestery, posting an image of somebodyâs body with intention to shame and embarrass and spawn more waspish tittering from her internet followers.
Rowling is trash and this is disgraceful behavior, in case anyone has forgotten.
She had also claimed Freda "deserved" this sexual harassment because of what she was wearing... You know... The same excuse used over and over to try and justify rape.
J K Rowling committed a sex crime against a trans woman (specifically, violating the Sexual Offences Act 2003)
(1) A person (A) commits an offence ifâ
(a) A intentionally shares a photograph or film which shows, or appears to show, another person (B) in an intimate state,
(b) B does not consent to the sharing of the photograph or film, and
(c) A does not reasonably believe that B consents.
(2) A person (A) commits an offence ifâ
(a) A intentionally shares a photograph or film which shows, or appears to show, another person (B) in an intimate state,
(b) A does so with the intention of causing B alarm, distress or humiliation, and
(c) B does not consent to the sharing of the photograph or film.
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