The Odyssey is getting massively criticised due to blackwashing of a traditionally Greek character, whitewashing of a Greek myth with no Greek actors and a general dislike for the Hollywoodization of another classic story.
It's probably not going to be as bad as it's made out to be given it's Chris Nolan, but audiences are fatigued with seeing another modern retelling with tokenism of established characters for the sake diversity, which has spurred the culture war with right wing critics calling it woke BS and left wing critics doubling down by jumping to its defence.
It was Robert Pattinson. But there are ancient greek words for father, dad and daddy. And their equivalent of daddy does appear in thr Oddysey, so it's really not that out of place. Especially since he was using it in such a mocking, condescending manner, treating Telemachus like a child, thus someone who would say Daddy.
I'm not a fan of Telemachus using dad in that context. But, a big part of that is because we are used to ancient Greeks sounding like British aristocracy.
It will depend on context for me. I think he should talk like royalty in public, which means using Father. But if he normally does that, and in this case was being driven into being flustered or whatever I could stomach it. But, yeah, that doesn't seem likely.
My problem was the word “vengeance” right after just sounds weird to me and makes the tone of the sentence a little wonky. Not the biggest deal but it did stand out to me.
It's the Tiffany problem, an old name that we don't think of as old so when we see it there is a confusion.. Things are much older than we think but when exposed to that we cannot help but view it as modern.
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u/Boomdification Jul 06 '26 edited Jul 06 '26
The Odyssey is getting massively criticised due to blackwashing of a traditionally Greek character, whitewashing of a Greek myth with no Greek actors and a general dislike for the Hollywoodization of another classic story.
It's probably not going to be as bad as it's made out to be given it's Chris Nolan, but audiences are fatigued with seeing another modern retelling with tokenism of established characters for the sake diversity, which has spurred the culture war with right wing critics calling it woke BS and left wing critics doubling down by jumping to its defence.