🇺🇸 A 2,800-year-old poem just became a culture war, and the movie isn't even out yet.
Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey hits theaters July 17, but the trailer already picked the fight.
It's sitting at around 600,000 dislikes, one of the most disliked in Hollywood history, right behind the Snow White remake.
The complaints:
-Lupita Nyong'o playing Helen of Troy, a character the poem calls fair-skinned.
-Elliot Page as a Greek warrior.
-Not a single Greek or Mediterranean actor in the cast.
-And characters saying "dad" and "let's go" where you'd expect something that sounds like Homer.
Nolan says the modern dialogue was on purpose, going for words with "emotional, not intellectual meaning." He even admitted it "might bite me on the ass."
Then Nyong'o went on the promo tour and said if she met Homer, she'd grill him over how little attention he gave the women in the story.
To skeptics, that confirmed the fear: a movie less interested in telling the story than in correcting it.
And that's the real split. Studios treat these old myths as clay to remold.
A big chunk of the audience sees the same moves as rewriting a founding story to fit today's politics, and they're voting no before tickets even go on sale.
The Odyssey has survived 28 centuries of retelling. Then the woke agenda showed up and decided its real problem was a lack of diversity training.
Source: Variety, Britannica, Fox News / Writer: Julie
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