hunter2012 said:
I'm as big a Nolan fan as any(I have a original script from Inception and I read the initial Interstellar script before Nolan edited it), and sadly I'll be waiting for the audience reviews on this one…
I have real issues with intentionally miscasting historical epics for the sake of DEI. It's done so to intentionally mislead the ethnic and racial makeup of past societies that are just not true. Gullible kids and adults will see the movie and accept it as historical fact. God knows people are stupid enough as is, do we really have to misrepresent classic literature to check some damn box on some damn DEI list in every freaking movie?
Do a reimagined version if you're going to intentionally change the casting of the characters for "modern audiences". O Brother Where Art Thou is one of the best Odyssey versions out there and even has a prominent black supporting character in Tommy, it makes sense because the setting is in Mississippi during the Depression where you would indeed find Black Americans there.
Do some reimagining like that, not this crap where every historical event appears to have a heterogeneous population for a DEI quota, because it's intentionally misrepresenting the original story. Hollywood has put too much suspension of disbelief requirements on audiences now, and they wonder why audiences have stopped going to the movies. Audiences want to escape the realities they have to deal with everyday from issues just like DEI, now they can't even escape that in modern movies.
As a teenager and young adult I went to the movies every month, sometime multiple times depending on the movies. Now I'm lucky if there's more than one movie a year that I want to go see. I love a good story, so it sucks seeing the state of modern storytelling.
Dude, come on.
This is a FANTASY epic. Featuring a cyclops, hypnotic sirens, a six-headed monster, cannibalistic giants, literal Greek gods, etc, etc. In no way, shape, or form is this story meant to be historically accurate.
Also, there is absolutely zero indication Nolan is casting black actors "for the sake of DEI." Tell me, if Nolan is so concerned with DEI, why is there only one minor black character in one scene in
Oppenheimer? Why would Nolan be so concerned with historical accuracy in one movie and not the other?
Oppenheimer is literally one of the whitest blockbusters of all time. Yet, in his follow-up movie, Nolan suddenly cares deeply about representation? Seriously?
Or... maybe there's another reason, one we'll discover when we actually see the movie for ourselves.
Do you ever stop to think that you're the one making a bigger deal out of it than you should be? That every time black people play characters who you think are supposed to be white, you don't have to react like society is falling apart? Maybe ask yourself why skin color is so important to you in a make-believe movie about make-believe monsters set in a make-believe world. I just it
very curious that you're not at all concerned with the historical accuracy of cyclopses, sirens, a six-headed monster, giants, and literal Greek gods, but when it comes to skin color it's suddenly some great historical sin that's going to cause "gullible kids and adults" to stumble through the streets in mass confusion. According to your logic, it's perfectly fine for them to potentially think monsters and gods were real. But god forbid they think a black person lived when/where one didn't. The horror!
Good Lord.