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 even better when you read about the person who did the translation that the film is based on, Emily Wilson.
First woman to translate. Says that is of secondary importance. The most troubling issue is that every other translation of classical Greek and Roman literature was done exclusively by men.
Says that other translations are wrong. That Cyclops is a man, not a monster. That the Greeks had no word for "whores." That institutionalized misogyny downplayed women, minorities, and underrepresented.
It's the classic everyone else is wrong, let me tell you the correct version.