Zooty Coot

Writer, Artist, Filmmaker. Wordsmith of the #IronAge. Quaint and old-fashioned with pizazz.

[Megha @megha_lilly]

One man who combines justice and power can give hope to the whole world. That's the myth behind Braveheart, King Arthur, Odysseus, even Batman. But what can the rest of us do to support a hero? Homer says the answer is to at the very least believe in him.

[Zooty Coot @ZootyCoot]

@TheCinesthetic Goddard's Weekend (1967)

[Latter-day Truth @Latterdaytruth]

Happy Family Month!

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Let’s #FloodXwithTruth!

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

One of the big reasons for the current lack of patriotism and pride in our nation’s history is that about 40 years ago our most prominent storytellers in Hollywood just basically stopped telling stories about American history altogether, unless it has something to do with WW2, civil rights, or slavery. I mean they just released a movie about the meteorologist who did the weather report for D-Day. They’ll give WW2 weathermen their own movies before they tell a story from any other era of American history.

The Right has attempted to counteract this a little bit, but “conservative” attempts at American history films and TV shows are invariably hokey and kid friendly, the kind of thing you can watch with your grandmother and your 5 year old, and you’ll all be equally informed and bored by the experience.

We need R-rated adult-oriented American history stories. Daniel Boone should have his own series. It would be gritty and violent and not for children, but it would also be phenomenally entertaining and put an American legend back on the cultural map, so to speak. The fact that Daniel Boone hasn’t been depicted on screen at all since like the 60s is a travesty. Throw a dart at that guy’s Wikipedia page and you’ll land on something that could be its own feature length trilogy.

That’s just one example. How is there not a great R-rated movie or series about Antietam? Or Kit Carson? Or the Panama Canal? How does Theodore Roosevelt not have like 10 movies about different periods of his life?

You could go much farther back to pre-American history. A movie about Cortes’s conquest of Tenochtitlan would be tremendous and horrifying and fascinating, and it would introduce into the public consciousness one of the world’s most incredible stories that most Americans know next to nothing about. And on and on.

The possibilities are literally endless. All of these movies, if they’re executed to even a B+ level, could make hundreds of millions of dollars and transform the culture in a way that a million podcast monologues never could. If the Right actually wants to reclaim the culture, this is the place to start.

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@Sassafrass_84 O? No!

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@miles_commodore Hail the Conquering Hero
Sullivan's Travels
Duck Soup
Modern Times
The Great Dictator
Arsenic and Old Lace
The General
One Two Three
City Lights
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World

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@Noirchick1 5

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@RetroMoviesDB "As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again!"

[alyssa @alyssamariiee11]

Pride month is demonic. Pass it on.

[Gary Sinise @GarySinise]

Today is our nations Memorial Day. Enjoy your day and take a moment to remember the true meaning of this day. A day to pay our respects to all those who have given their lives in our country's defense. God bless these brave heroes and their families.

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@StanleyKubrick 60s kubrick!

[Gunther Eagleman™ @GuntherEagleman]

Never Forget.

[Tiffany Savage 🇺🇸 @patriot_savvy]

🇺🇸 To the ones who traded their tomorrow for ours,
This weekend we remember you. 🇺🇸

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@CatholicFQ @GKCdaily My favorite... The Ball and The Cross!

[Chatnoir @Mschatnoir]

Today's Odyssey thinking points:
1/ It's vital we preserve culture as written. Ancient literature wasn't disposable "myth & fantasy"—it was how civilizations encoded their values, history, beauty, and worldview for the next generation. Homer's Odyssey taught heroism, fate, hospitality, excellence, and the Greek soul. Changing core details to fit 2025 politics erases that transmission.

2/ Nolan's Odyssey is the latest example of the ongoing project to dismantle Western culture. When ancient texts describe honey-coloured hair (not random "blonde"—honey was sacred: food of gods, linked to divine queens, bees as royal symbol, echoed in the Bible as divine provision), those weren't throwaway lines. They carried layered meaning about nobility, divinity, and the world the Greeks saw. Swapping that for modern ideology isn't "updating"—it's rewriting.

3/ That's not harmless creativity. It's anti-Western cultural erasure, and yes—racist in effect. It treats European heritage as uniquely negotiable while demanding fidelity to other traditions. The same people who would riot over race-swapping an African epic stay silent (or cheer) when it's Achilles or Odysseus. This is dangerous: it severs the living link between past and future, breeds rootless generations, and poisons civilizational confidence.

4/ We need a healthier approach: read the text on its own terms first. Respect the author's intent, symbolism, and cultural reality. I'd make exactly the same argument for faithfully preserving African, Asian, or any other literature. Fidelity isn't "bigotry"—it's intellectual honesty. Myth was education. Let's treat it that way again.

What do you think?

This is me as Helen of Troy...I am sure i'd face massive opposition for my colouring and well..it being me...am as popular as a bee in a tent.

[Byl Holte @SirBylHolte]

For those of you saying Nolan HAD to cast non-Greek actors to appeal to a wide audience:

Godzilla Minus One is a critically acclaimed 2023 Japanese kaiju film written, directed, and featuring visual effects by Takashi Yamazaki.

It featured an entirely Japanese cast of relative unknowns, was made for just $15 million, and became a massive critical and commercial triumph.

The film grossed over $155 million worldwide, became one of the highest-grossing Japanese-language films in history, and shattered records for foreign live-action films in North America.

All from a director who was largely unknown to American audiences.

This proves that authenticity, integrity, and genuine respect for the source material can resonate powerfully with audiences.

Imagine what name-brand auteur Christopher Nolan could have achieved if he had approached "The Odyssey" with the same love and cultural fidelity that Yamazaki showed for "Godzilla."

He might have created something truly timeless.

But that would have required respecting the story over checking diversity boxes.

[Jon Del Arroz | Sci-Fi And Fantasy @jondelarroz]

Hollywood is race-swapping Betty Boop. Quinta Brunson will play a white Jazz Age animated character whose entire visual identity has been consistent for 96 years.

Matt Walsh called it out. Discussing Film blocked him and turned off replies.

This is the same pattern as Helen of Troy cast as Black in the new Odyssey film, The Little Mermaid, Snow White, and a dozen others. None of them outperform their budgets. All of them get the same press treatment: celebrate the casting, block the critics.

Discussing Film blocks ME too, by the way. 2.8 million followers, billing itself as a home for "healthy and liberating discussion," and they block anyone who doesn't shill.

The agenda is not subtle at this point. Who is this for?

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@MattWalshBlog In other news, Warner Bros is making a live action Tom and Jerry movie starring this ferret and this turtle...

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@mypalal In other news, Warner Bros is making a live action Tom and Jerry movie starring this ferret and this turtle...