[dfwgator]

One is how somebody as smart as Christopher Nolan got entangled with woke nonsense in the first place.

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“To get along, you go along.”

[SeekAndFind]

Actual scholars of classical Greece, pharaonic Egypt, and archaeology were merciless toward Black Athena. Martin Bernal’s problem was that his specialty was Chinese history, and he had no background in Greece, Egypt, Africa, or any other relevant topic. The result was shoddy scholarship, wild leaps of logic, and wild-eyed speculation on the YouTube video level. Bernal did not need to wait for the internet to be exposed to cranky ideas. He carried around his own internet in his head.

So Black Athena was forgotten is short order. Until now.

The book has risen from the grave thanks to the argument concerning Christopher Nolan’s casting Lupita Nyong'o as Helen of Troy, the most beautiful woman of the ancient world. Forget the fact that Helen was Greek, that Homer describes her as fair-skinned (well, he was blind, so what did he know?) Black Athena says that the ancient Greeks were actually black. Kind of. Or could have been, which is same thing.

[tennmountainman]

Black Helen of Detroit.

[joshua c]

oscar fever

[Steven Tyler]

should’ve Big Mike as Achilles....

[Billthedrill]

I asked this question on a liberal board and didn’t get an answer: How is this not crude cultural appropriation? I mean, is it OK when “we” do it?

[hanamizu]

Christopher Nolan got entangled with woke nonsense in the first place.

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Don’t the new qualifications for Oscar Best Picture require major roles being filled by minorities and the alphabet people? Didn’t Musk bring this up?

[ClearCase_guy]

I figure there is a 1% chance that Nolan is smart enough to have these thoughts:

“I can kill two birds with one stone. If I make piece of crap movie that checks all the Oscar boxes, the Academy will finally give me an Oscar, for the worst movie I have ever made. That will show everyone how stupid the Academy is. It will serve them right. And in addition, this stupid woke stuff seems to be dying, which is great. But if I make a really crappy movie which is just dripping with Woke stuff, it will really put the final nail in that coffin. It’s worth it. And the movie will probably make money, so the studio won’t really be mad at me. I’ll be performing a service.”

[Rummyfan]

The studio is pulling out all the stops - I saw promos for 60 Minutes devoting a segment to Nolan and his new flick. That’s got to be worth many millions of free advertising. But I predict a disaster. Zendaya as Athena? Lupita Can’t-spell-her-surname as Helen?! GMAFB.

[BFW]

Oh ‘we was kings and sh*&’ again?

loser writing and loser BS..

wakonda fors ever......

what ev...

It’s life Jim, it’s just still living in mud huts...

[Rummyfan]

Also read that Nolan required that Odysseus’ ship actually be sea-worthy and as period authentic as possible. Then he has other warriors clad like they’re from Star Wars. And the dialogue is all colloquial American English.

[MeanWestTexan]

The Wakanda lady doesn’t even merit a single milihelen* of hotness.

* A milihelen is the unit of physical beauty necessary to launch a single ship. Helen of Troy merited a full helen, or 1,000 milihelens.

[Salman]

Overthinking it. They are just f*cking with us for the LULz.

And they are rich enough to do it this way.

[Jim from C-Town]

Momento was incomprehensible. so there’s that.

[SomeCallMeTim]

This is an “own goal” of the worst kind. I’ve been looking forward to this movie for 2 years. Now? You couldn’t pay me to go see it.

[DeplorablePaul]

“put a chick in it and make her gay and lame”

Hollywood has followed this formula for the last few years and suffered massive box office flops. The black Helen will be blamed. However I wouldn’t go see because Matt Damon is playing Odysseus.

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

Compare this to the 1959 movie, "Black Orpheus", where a French Director reimagines Greek Myth of Orpheus and Euridice with black actors set in the Favellas of Rio De Janiero during Carnival! It recieved a lot of criticism for reinforcing racial stereotypes, but it also won awards.

Black Orpheus

If he had the chance would Christopher Nolan do a remake with Brian Gosling and Sidney Sweeney? (Would the real star be the favellas and Christ on Sugarloaf??0