@aldo_mma@lukecaverns A Robert Eggers Odyssey would have everyone in historically correct Bronze Age armor and costumes, and the dialogue would be in Mycenaean (not Classical) Greek. On the debit side, he'd probably show the cyclop's junk.
@aaron_madden17@mattyglesias He tried reconstructed period accents, but felt they would be too alienating for the audience. He said the actors sounded like pirates.
@wil_da_beast630 The murder rate of southern Appalachian whites is now higher than the national white average, but apparently it was catastrophically high into the early 20th Century. I'm not too familiar with why it declined.
@AMXFPositivity Higher sex drive than white gentile women? How does the joke go? Q: how do you paralyze a Jewish woman from the waist down? A: put a ring on her finger
@wil_da_beast630 I recall reading that southern lawmen in the 19th and early 20th Centuries often found themselves acting as a sort of diplomat standing between the jailed accused and the mob.
@E68Montain@tilothethird@RazorFist And actual Medieval people would have appreciated the esthetics and color pallete of "The Adventures of Robin Hood" more than they would any recent movie
@Gmeebus@EmbryMlh@53gaDr3amca5t The Peleliu and Okinawa episodes of that show found the appropriate tone of a hallucinatory horror film rather than a war movie.
@JamesThomasMN@AuronMacintyre I read a late 19th Century traveler's account of his visit to Haiti, and he noted that the inhabitants tended to mutter to themselves as they walked along.