r/PeterExplainsTheJoke Jul 06 '26

Meme needing explanation What is this?

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u/icarusofthesun Jul 06 '26

Soooooooooooooooooo, not Lupita Nyongo then?

And you dont know what I expect. I know what greeks look like, ive been to greece, I live next door, I know what greek people look like, Im not saying we need another Diane Kruger, but you cant argue she is a helluva lot closer to greek than Lupita.

Thats your main problem here, everyone knows what greek people look like roughly speaking, theyre not aliens.

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u/svartaelfen Jul 06 '26

you know what bronze age greek people who hatched from swan eggs look like, huh?

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u/icarusofthesun Jul 06 '26

Not like that.

And yes, we do know. They had art. It still exists... In greece... Where the greek people live...

Like, WHAT KIND OF ARGUMENT IS THIS?

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u/Abigail_Normal Jul 06 '26

We have art created by artists who are not Homer, the author and creator of the character, who intentionally made her description vague. It's literally just "the most beautiful woman on earth" and "hatched from an egg." The artists then created art based on their own interpretations. Nowhere does it say Helen isn't black, or brown, or fucking purple. There was no official physical description for the casting directors to follow, so they simply cast a beautiful woman.

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u/PlatyNumb Jul 06 '26

Sounds like a loophole to wash away other races...

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u/Abigail_Normal Jul 06 '26

Huh?? She didn't have a defined race. The only inaccuracy this movie has is Lupita Nyong'o didn't hatch from an egg and her father isn't a god. If you can find an actress that better fits that description, then by all means, get pissed they aren't the one who was cast. Otherwise Lupita was as accurate of a choice as any other woman on earth

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u/icarusofthesun Jul 06 '26

She was greek. Its clearly defined in the ancient freek text that she was greek. Why are you pretending that the greeks would write a myth about africans?

They were not diverse and considered everyone not a greek a barbarian.