To be quite frank I think that every single person who thinks it matters more that they had fun than the fact that Nolan cast Helen of Sparta as a Black woman only to add a completely original scene where she is “punished” with abuse and mutilation, that the Odyssey production company dumped plastic props into the ocean, that they also refused to compensate the group in Norway who made the authentic trireme replica after they damaged it, and the fact that Zendaya wore fucking looted earrings stolen from Iran and permanently damaged just to be used on the red carpet, shouldn’t speak about how people are “annoying” for thinking that a story that completely warps and misunderstands an epic from a culture that has been appropriated by racist white people for hundreds of years is badly written. And that they should shut the fuck up
Edit: I’d like to add that the Christianizing of the Ancient Greek understanding of what gods are is rooted in white supremacy. It is this idea that there is only one way to view divinity and that way is the way of the religion that has bulldozed and annihilated any other way of believing by murdering and colonizing Black and brown and indigenous people. It’s fucking exhausting seeing people defend it over and over with “it’s his interpretation!”. People, his interpretation is rooted in white supremacy.
Edit 2: It’s also frustrating to see people misunderstand Helen of Sparta, since that’s her real title; she wasn’t politicized and she wasn’t treated like the prize in the war. She was fucking kidnapped. I understand that that makes you uncomfortable but she was stolen from her home and that’s a really important aspect of the story, actually. Making Menelaus mutilate and abuse her for being kidnapped is not only one of the most egregious misunderstandings of his character I have ever seen, but really weird when you consider that change was made in an adaptation where Helen is Black. You watched a scene in a movie directed and written by white people where a white man mutilated and humiliated a Black woman and somehow, some way, the fact that you had fun is more important.
