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To: Cronos
It'll be offered up to the schools, passed of as the "authentic" version - complete with lesson plans - to bolsters its numbers.

I have no plans to watch a "woke," and/or "re-imagined" version of a Western Classic - and instead I plan to use the time to re-read The Odyssey, either Robert Fitzgerald or Robert Fagles' translation.

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I'll take Homer's description of "Helen of Troy" as fair-haired and light-eyed.

19 posted on 07/19/2026 7:32:14 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (You Say You WaHnt a Revolution?)
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To: Bon of Babble

This is the kind of s$%t that makes billionaires out of s$#theads who then use their dollars to tear down the U.S. from the comfort of their Lear jets, yachts, and $100 million houses. Go ahead and tithe them your twenty bucks for a ticket. It’s your new church. Go worship.


35 posted on 07/19/2026 7:42:17 AM PDT by 4Runner ("I gotta join a union to get paid for loafin'?" " Sure ya do!" --Abbott & Costello)
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To: Bon of Babble

Helen of Troy was supposed to be the most beautiful woman in the world….in this movie,,,,,NOT EVEN CLOSE!


39 posted on 07/19/2026 7:46:15 AM PDT by volare737 ( Diversity is something to be overcome, not celebrated. )
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To: Bon of Babble

Helen of Troy, New York.


42 posted on 07/19/2026 7:48:13 AM PDT by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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To: Bon of Babble

Same for me.


57 posted on 07/19/2026 7:56:33 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: Bon of Babble
Is that REALLY who plays Helen of Troy? I’m sure they could’ve gotten someone better looking, she looks like a Somali refugee.

I’m disappointed. Even with the 3 hour time I would go see it. It is NOT going to be a Lawrence of Arabia or Ten Commandments.

67 posted on 07/19/2026 8:07:59 AM PDT by telescope115 (Ad Astra, Ad Deum…)
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To: Bon of Babble

Eartha Kitt played her on stage in 1950


77 posted on 07/19/2026 8:20:11 AM PDT by Poison Pill
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To: Bon of Babble

Helen of De-TROY-t


101 posted on 07/19/2026 8:39:44 AM PDT by meyer (It is finished)
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To: Bon of Babble

She is not even a pretty black woman. She looks like a 15 year old boy. Gross. BUT we all know if a producer and director want to get Oscar’s they have to play the woke BS game.


134 posted on 07/19/2026 9:38:24 AM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: Bon of Babble

I’ve been to Greece. You can pluck an absolutely gorgeous woman just about anywhere on those isles. This thing is not Greek or attractive in the slightest. Nolan may have well just cast Whoopie Goldberg. Progs love ugliness.


154 posted on 07/19/2026 10:56:09 AM PDT by Organic Panic
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