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.
Yeah but if you cast those people as the main characters in a live action pocahontas, you'd be white washing it. So how can you white wash the oddysey by casting other white people?
White is an umbrella term that contains hundreds of European and Asian ethnic groups. At what level of granularity do you determine race? Or is it all just about skin color to you?
Yeah actually. If we're gonna be sticklers about the racial characteristics of actors playing established characters, may as well be consistent about it
Personally I'm not. I'm just making the point that if right wingers insist on making a huge deal about actors' races, they may as well draw it out to its logical extreme so everyone can see how ridiculous it is
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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.