Just a wild guess, but I'm thinking JDB could give two f&$ks about how Jesus is portrayed.Where's the outrage?
@jdb Nope wasn’t living under a rock. I saw the original cast in NYC and then have seen it 5 or 6 times since. There may have been a few mentions, but very little, amidst the overwhelming reviews, awards and Pulitzer, the criticism got very little traction.
@jdb Nope wasn’t living under a rock. I saw the original cast in NYC and then have seen it 5 or 6 times since. There may have been a few mentions, but very little, amidst the overwhelming reviews, awards and Pulitzer, the criticism got very little traction.
Ironically, it was a woke Harvard prof who wrote a scathing review. Is Hamilton still playing in various cities? I think they did a Disney (or ABC) live event at some point.
@jdb If you're going to limit yourself to just historical fiction, I can see the point. It would have been weird watching Morgan Freeman as William Wallace. But the Odyssey is myth. It's not historical anything. You can play with it all you want. Much of what Nolan showed actually came from the Aeneid, which didn't reflect at all how the Greeks viewed the Trojan War, but rather how the Romans did. So it's already skewed away from the original narrative context, anyway. So now, in the 21th century, it will reflect how modern audiences view the Trojan War. I'm not offended by historical inaccuracy in this case, because there is no history to be inaccurate about. We're down to Joseph Campbell levels of universal mythology at this point. Odysseus is the hero with a thousand faces, just like Helen is the hot milf with a thousand faces. And some of those faces will be black. Big deal.
If you let Ru Paul or Andy Cohen (@bar-down) play Magua, I'm gonna lose it.
First time I watched Dunkirk I was nonplussed.So you must have seen it. What are these DEI injections and did you leave the theater in disgust?I LOVE Greek mythology
I presume you particularly love fictional Greek mythology with Hollywood DEI injections.
I'm going to see it tomorrow. Reviews from the critics and the audience are super high.
These look just like how Ancient Greeks have always been depicted. Spitting image.
I am not going to see it until it comes out to streaming.
I'm mixed on Nolan. I liked Memento a lot. Same with Inception and The Prestige. Those are Top 25 caliber movies for me. Was not a big Dark Knight or Dunkirk fan, but I'm more of a character-building movie vs. cinematic masterpiece (sans Dances with Wolves) and I dislike superheroes (Deadpool being the exception)
Second time, I thought it was one of the best movies of the last 25 years.
Did you pop a gummy the first or second time?
Did you care when the Cohen brothers made O Brother, where art thou?I thought it was a good movie and enjoyed it. To enjoy it, it does require you not to get hung up on the accuracy of how fictional characters are portrayed though.
The purpose of historical context matters in historical movies. I wouldn't want to watch Zulu with the Asians fighting Latinos. I wouldn't want to watch a movie about the Revolutionary War with Shermans and Mark VIs battling it out.
Never got into it and gave up a few times. What is the context?
Eli Wallach (member of the Tribe) is one of the best Mexicans on film as Tuco.
You couldn't get away with that these days, could you? Or since it's not blackface, nobody cares? If Helen was given makeup and made to look white, would there be outrage?
5 minutes of breaking the immersion and transporting you forward to 2026 gender politics can severely scar an otherwise great movie.
So many actors to cast, Nolan picks the one that the viewer won’t buy as a male and will cause debate.
A directorial failure, when your focus is on anything other than making the best film possible.
