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[urbanphoenixfox 🇺🇸 🇬🇷 @urbanphoenixfox]

In-Game Photo Thread. Let's start off with some familiar photos and go from there. Can't wait to see what this thread brings to life.

[urbanphoenixfox 🇺🇸 🇬🇷 @urbanphoenixfox]

As a Greek, @elonmusk I would LOVE if Mel did the Odyssey and Illiad with the same love he did for his other movies. I'm sure others would agree.

[Grummz @Grummz]

Elon down for 100M to back a Mel Gibson Odyssey.

Let's goooooo!

[Dalton Welbern @daltonwelbern]

Charlie Kirk on Andrew Tate

[The American Tribune @TAmTrib]

For all the people whining that critiques of Nolan's Odyssey are just chuds trying to stay mad about ancient texts being modernized...

Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet (1996) took a foundational text of Western society and updated it for modern audiences.

The cast was diverse to reflect inner-city gang rivalries which were making headlines at the time, and it was set in the heart of these troubles in Verona Beach.

Handguns were called "knives" and long guns called "swords". Everything was set against a totally contemporary backdrop. You'd think everyone would be up in arms and furious, right?

Wrong, it was generally well received by critics and home audiences. It earned $132.8 million in profits.

All because it kept the original spoken script of Shakespeare's play spoken by present-day people, and stayed true to the source material. It was an interesting take on a classic that had swag and didn't subvert the original for weirdo antisocial political agendas.

All you have to do is not fundamentally hate the story you're trying to tell (or the culture it comes from) while making a concerted effort to make it shittier. Make actual art and people will be just fine with it. Who knew?

[urbanphoenixfox 🇺🇸 🇬🇷 @urbanphoenixfox]

Are you fucking kidding me? They have Greek in the movie and the Indian actor playing a Greek has a line like that? Nolan needs to retire and this movie needs to burn and never see the light of day.

[Theophylact | Θεοφύλακτος🇬🇷☦ @ippotisorthodox]

The bald man is actually speaking Greek, and the Indian replies to him with "no, we're Greeks" in English.

Words cannot describe how much I despise this movie.

[WorldClassBS @TheWorldClassBS]

This version of The Odyssey is still burned into my memory.

[Liza Libes @pensandpoison]

Every single complaint about Nolan's Odyssey can be traced back to this godawful translation that he used.

It somehow manages to create an entirely different Odysseus than the one that Homer wrote (because Emily Wilson hates masculinity), and completely derails Matt Damon's character in the film.

[Learn Latin @latinedisce]

The gaslighting is real

[리리 @Riri0114__]

이거 찍기 진짜 어렵구나

[Echoes of Hellas 🇬🇷 @HellenicEchoes]

Friendly reminder to boycott the Odyssey movie for the Greek people.

The worst part about it? They got 6,5 million € from us to disrespect our culture. Justice for Greece 🇬🇷

[Lianna @lianna_armenian]

🇬🇷☦️ Never forget the #Greek Genocide.

Tears still fall when we see this rare archival footage of the forced exile of the #Christian #Greeks from their own ancestral lands.

This is a historical/educational tweet about the Greek Genocide.

The Ottoman Empire, under the Young Turk government (Committee of Union and Progress) and later Kemalist forces, carried out a systematic campaign of persecution, mass murder, and expulsion against the native Greek population of Asia Minor, Pontus, and Eastern Thrace.

This formed part of a broader effort to eliminate Christian minorities and create an ethnically and religiously homogeneous Turkish state.

Over 350,000 Pontian Greeks are estimated to have been killed, with total Greek deaths across regions ranging from several hundred thousand to as many as 1 million, according to various scholarly estimates.

Persecutions began intensifying in 1914 with boycotts, arbitrary arrests, property seizures, and forced conscription of men into lethal labor battalions (Amele Taburları), where most perished from exhaustion, starvation, disease, and execution.

The physical destruction was accompanied by a systematic economic campaign. Under the pretext of laws dealing with "abandoned goods" (Emval-i Metruke), the state seized the homes, lands, businesses, and bank accounts of the deported and murdered Greeks. This mass expropriation stripped the Christian communities of centuries of wealth to build a new national economy.

Beyond physical and economic destruction, this campaign constituted a profound cultural genocide. The perpetrators aimed to erase all historical traces of the Greek presence. Ancient towns were systematically renamed, schools were shut down, and thousands of centuries-old monuments, churches, and monasteries were either destroyed, desecrated, or converted.

Women, children, and the elderly endured death marches designed to kill without pulling a trigger. Deportees were forced to walk for weeks across brutal terrain without food, water, or shelter. Anyone who collapsed from hunger or exposure was either shot on the spot or left to die by the roadsides. Thousands died from disease and attacks by irregular forces. Entire villages were burned.

These atrocities occurred alongside the Armenian Genocide and massacres of Assyrians, as part of the same late Ottoman campaign against Christian populations.

Contemporary evidence is extensive: reports from American consuls and ambassadors, Western missionaries, European diplomats, and relief organizations documented the events in real time.

The violence deliberately targeted Christian clergy. A prominent example is Metropolitan Chrysostomos of Smyrna, who refused to abandon his flock in 1922. He was arrested, tortured, and lynched by a mob - an act of martyrdom that symbolizes the tragedy.

In 2007, the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) officially recognized the Greek Genocide, affirming that the Ottoman campaign against Pontian and Anatolian Greeks constituted genocide, alongside those against Armenians and Assyrians.

This was the violent erasure of a civilization with roots stretching back three millennia.

Eternal memory to the blessed martyrs.

May the blessed Christian martyrs rest in peace.

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

This is a statue of the only man in Troy who saw the trap. He tried to warn everyone, and this is what the gods did to him because of it...

His name was Laocoön, a Trojan priest. When the Greek army vanished and left a giant wooden horse outside the city gates, all of Troy celebrated. Only Laocoön refused to believe it. He warned his people the horse was a trick and, to prove it was hollow, hurled his spear into its side.

In Virgil's telling, he spoke a line that has outlasted almost everything else about Troy: "I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts."

He was right. The horse was packed with soldiers, and Troy was hours from destruction.

This sculpture shows what he got for it. Two enormous sea serpents rise out of the sea and coil around him and his young sons, dragging all three down together. The father's whole body is knotted in the struggle, every muscle straining, his face locked in a scream. The gods wanted Troy to fall, and Laocoön was in the way.

The Trojans watched him die in agony and drew exactly the wrong conclusion: they decided the gods were punishing him for attacking a holy gift. So they pulled the horse inside their own walls, and that night, Troy burned...

The statue is called Laocoön and His Sons. It is the work of three Greek sculptors from the island of Rhodes, Agesander, Athenodoros, and Polydorus, and dates to the Hellenistic period, making it well over two thousand years old.

Buried for more than a thousand years, it was dug out of a Roman vineyard in 1506, and Michelangelo rushed across Rome to see it the day it was found.

It has been called the single greatest depiction of human suffering in the history of art, but it endures because of what it is really about: the man who sees the truth, says it out loud, and is destroyed for being right while the crowd watches...

It is one of the oldest patterns there is, and it has never stopped repeating.

There is nothing new under the sun.

[Homer Pavlos @HomerPavlos]

The Odyssey begins by showing an African rapper with rasta in the role of a Greek poet. We Greeks are forced to watch our Greek history and culture being disgraced and mocked across the entire world. What is Nolan's real role in doing something like this instead of casting a Greek person speaking Greek? What's the purpose of casting someone with rasta in the Greek world?

I'll tell you. Nolan and Hollywood are the real racists and enemies of the West. They hate us Greeks. The simplest confirmation comes from the fact that when a film is about African history, they don't cast white people, only Africans. When it's about Chinese or Japanese history, they cast only Asians, and they even speak only in their own language. But now that the time has come for a film based on Greek history with Greeks, not a single Greek is cast, they don't speak even a bit of Greek, and they don't even respect Homer. So, for films about European cultures, Africans, Asians, and anything else must be cast, but when it comes to African culture, whites are not allowed to play those roles.

This is the real racism of Hollywood.

Hollywood is a cancer that rots your souls and enslaves your minds and spirits. They hate you and they want to destroy you. Never forget the real enemies of the West and of your race. Those who are in universities, the academics, teaching your children how to hate their ancestors instead of honoring them. Don't do them the favor. Love the Greco-Roman world and fight those who hate you.

Never forget the traitors who took everything as a joke and contributed to the plan to destroy Western civilization.

[Geeks + Gamers @GeeksGamersCom]

Variety Faces Backlash Over Apparent Double Standard on Cultural Representation in ‘Moana’ and ‘The Odyssey’

"If mythology is enough to dismiss concerns about Greek representation in The Odyssey, why isn't mythology enough to dismiss concerns about Polynesian representation in Moana?"

[Homer Pavlos @HomerPavlos]

Lupita has probably around 10 minutes of screen time playing both Helen and Clytemnestra. She is neither particularly beautiful nor a particularly strong actress. Her role is entirely provocative, designed purely to fulfill Hollywood’s diversity quotas.

[urbanphoenixfox 🇺🇸 🇬🇷 @urbanphoenixfox]

As an American Greek, even I'm offended by this new movie. Go see Troy or Armand Assante's Odyssey not this.

[Nerdrotic @Nerdrotics]

We just finished discussing The Odyssey with everyone's pal @TheCriticalDri2 and others on @PiersUncensored.
Coming soon to a YouTube near you.

[Kevin MacLean (Fortress of Lugh) @FortressLugh]

Greeks both learn about their ancient history and myths and deeply care about them as a foundational part of their identity.

Every Greek studies the Odyssey in the first year of middle school. It is part of the national curriculum. They study the Iliad in the second year.

They also study the ancient Greek language in highschool.

The average Greek is educated in and cares about their history and identity.

[urbanphoenixfox 🇺🇸 🇬🇷 @urbanphoenixfox]

Because they only care for their woke points. And everyone is tired of it.

[Fandom Pulse @fandompulse]

Moana hired a full team of Polynesian consultants to police everything from tattoos to how the heroine addresses her elders. The Odyssey cast zero Greek or Mediterranean actors in a story that belongs to Greece.

One culture got a "Cultural Trust". The other got mocked for asking.

Why is Hollywood like this?

[urbanphoenixfox 🇺🇸 🇬🇷 @urbanphoenixfox]

If they can't respect my culture, why should I respect anyone else's they try to push?

I'm an American Greek & I find this disgusting. Stop trampling my culture for inclusivity. You didn't say this about the Polynesian myths & Moana, why go after my cultural myths like this?

[Nerdrotic @Nerdrotics]

@Variety This you?

[🌷🦋 Love Music 🎶 & Dance 💃🏻🕺🏻 @Tiana_Celine_23]

Almost 40 years ago and they still have beautiful chemistry. For 3 minutes the world stops and we revisit the 1970s in this video. Bless them both.

[The Critical Drinker @TheCriticalDri2]

Tragic news. A great actor and a genuinely good man. RIP Sam Neill.