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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It's clear the movie is designed as a humiliation ritual for Whites. I don't know if we really need anymore evidence of this. It should be beyond obvious to everyone now. Boycott the movie.
Also I’d encourage people to read the book. I recently bought it
What do you consider the best translation?
I haven't read The Odyssey yet but I was thinking The E.V. Rieu Translation (Revised by D.C.H. Rieu).
How is the George Chapman translation, Alexander Pope translation of the Iliad?
It was the Pope translation of the Iliad I struggled with.