Posted on 05/25/2026 6:53:09 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe
Hollywood director Christopher Nolan is being ripped by a Greek-interest publication for not having any Greek actors in his adaptation of The Odyssey.
Nolan’s film is based on the 2,800-year-old epic poem told by Homer, which follows the fantastic journey of the heroic king of Ithaca, Odysseus. It is one of the oldest known works of literature in history and was composed by a Greek man — in Greek, for his fellow Greeks. Yet Nolan’s film, toasted by Hollywood access media for its “diversity,” doesn’t have any Greeks in it at all. And the Greek City Times — an Australia-based news site “dedicated to promoting Hellenism and serving the global Greek diaspora” — is calling out the hypocrisy of that creative decision.
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The paper asks the obvious question: “once a production visibly embraces the language and optics of modern diversity politics, it becomes entirely legitimate to ask a simple question: if representation matters so deeply, why does a story rooted in one of the foundational works of Greek civilization seemingly exclude Greeks altogether?”
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“Hollywood has repeatedly condemned the historical practice of dominant industries borrowing from minority cultures while excluding the people themselves,” the paper notes. “And yet that is arguably exactly what is happening here.”
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Nasty freepers. What happened to this forum?
I stand corrected.
Point out wher my OP said anything tied to Musk. You can't. It was about true cultural appropriation by hypocrites who decide to soil a Greek classic.
But you skipped right over that and dismissed it with a blanket statement about Musk. So who is being the nasty one on this thread?
“Maybe it starts with Freepers putting words into the mouths of other Freepers.”
No. That is not where it started.
Jennifer Aniston would make better Helen of Troy.
She is Greek.
Agree!
How did he end up with a Greek name playing for Greece?
His Nigerian parents gave their children all Greek first names.
He was born in Greece.
Nolan can make him Helen!
“Hollywood director Christopher Nolan is being ripped by a Greek-interest publication for not having any Greek actors in his adaptation of The Odyssey.” Guess Chris doesn’t like Greek people.
Nolan's Odyssey Recast with Greek Actors
Note to Greece (and Italy)...
We've only been to the cinema once in the last decade. It was to see a Japanese film with subtitles. We loved it.
Make your own film of Homer's work. If it's well made, the world is your oyster.
But he did love the Greek and Italian tax credits, which are even more generous than the UK’s.
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