Christopher Nolan didn't want orchestra music in the score for The Odyssey because orchestra music didn't exist in ancient Greece. Yet he casts brown people and almost no ethnic greeks. How can you justify not using an orchestra for a score because of historical accuracy but cast it for the modern day? I know it's two days and two Odyssey posts, I'll stop I promise.
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They didn't have trannies and certainly wouldn't consider a mid negress to be the most beautiful woman alive.
They didn't have ghetto rappers either...
He said that he purposely chose a rapper because it's analogous to oral storytelling
Except as Matt Walsh pointed out, Back Dat Ass Up wasn't sing by your grandma to you- we listen to the original recording it's not passed down thru the generations.
What is passed down anymore?
Stories- not as elaborate as Iliad but family stories, etc.
White guilt