🇺🇸 Elon is going after Christopher Nolan's Odyssey casting.
Lupita Nyong'o as Helen of Troy set him off.
Rumors that Elliot Page is playing Achilles haven't helped either.
But the anger should be directed at the right target.
Nolan didn't write the rules.
Hollywood's DEI quotas, baked into how films qualify for major awards, came from elsewhere.
Filmmakers either play by those rules or watch their projects lose Oscar eligibility before the cameras even roll.
Hollywood broke storytelling.
Nolan's just navigating the wreckage.
The system that punishes faithful adaptations is the actual villain, and it lives way above any one director.
@variety
To be eligible to win Best Picture at the Oscars…
1. At least 1 Non-White/Non-Straight lead or Significant Role.
2. At least 30% minor roles Non-White/Non-Straight people.
3. At least 2 Departments headed by Non-White/Non-Straight people.
This is why Nolan did it.
Coward.
Elon Musk is bashing Christopher Nolan for #TheOdyssey casting, alleging the director cast Lupita Nyong’o as Helen of Troy because he “wants the awards.”
In additional X posts, Musk re-tweeted posts that mocked Elliot Page’s masculinity and claimed that Nolan was stomping all over Homer’s grave because of his casting choices.
https://t.co/WuLywXcmLi
The disrespect towards the Greek culture reaches the level of hatred. Christopher Nolan didn’t respect how Homer and my ancestors described the goddess Athena and Helen. He will go down in history as a weak man who mocked the Greeks and bowed to an agenda that is slowly dying.