“Elon Musk has again weighed in on Christopher Nolan’s upcoming big-budget adaptation of The Odyssey, this time agreeing with a racist comment made by a far-right journalist who criticized the casting of Oscar-winning actor Lupita Nyong’o as Helen of Troy.” — The Hollywood Reporter
Hollywood is once again deliberately undermining Western civilization, this time by desecrating one of the foundational texts of our proud literary canon. Christopher Nolan’s pitiful adaptation of theOdyssey is just the latest in a litany of re-imaginings of beloved works by Tinseltown screenwriters and film directors. The movie is rife with historical inaccuracies, and there’s no greater proof than Matt Damon playing Odysseus. Damon was born and raised outside Boston and isn’t the least bit Greek.
Christopher Nolan had a simple job—faithfully adapt Homer’s epic poem from the written dactylic hexameter into the visual medium of film. That should have started with geographically accurate casting—Greek actors playing Achaeans, Turkish actors playing Trojans, and Cyclops actors from remote Mediterranean islands playing Cyclopes.
Instead, for the leading role of his Greek epic, Nolan chose a man born four thousand miles away in Cambridge, Massachusetts. A man who is best known for lines like “I’m gonna have to science the shit out of this” and “How do you like them apples?” It is disappointing that Nolan cast a townie from an ocean away when he could have easily cast a Greek household name like Yorgos Karamihos. Or, at the very least, Zach Galifianakis.
Furthermore, it is appalling that the actors could not be bothered to recite the story in the original ancient Greek and are instead conversing throughout the entire film in what appears to be modern English. What is so difficult about saying “ἄνδρα μοι ἔννεπε, μοῦσα, πολύτροπον, ὃς μάλα πολλὰ” as Homer would’ve intended?
It is clear that Hollywood has no interest in historical representation and is instead focused on pushing a single agenda—putting as many white people from the Greater Boston area in television shows and movies as humanly possible.
Think about how many well-known white guys from the Boston area there are in Hollywood: Matt Damon, the Afflecks, the Wahlbergs, John Krasinski, Chris Evans, B. J. Novak, Conan O’Brien, Bill Burr, Louis C. K., and Adam Sandler (southern New Hampshire is basically Massachusetts).
Consider, too, how many movies are set in Boston: Good Will Hunting, The Departed, The Town, Mystic River, Spotlight, Boondock Saints, Fever Pitch, The Social Network, Manchester by the Sea, Hocus Pocus, and Ted. There is no way the twenty-fifth-largest city in America would have that many movies set in it unless Hollywood was up to something.
Clearly, this is a sinister attempt at revisionist history. Clearly, the entire entertainment industry wants us to believe that our greatest heroes, whether it’s Odysseus or Captain America, are Bay Staters who don’t pronounce the letter “r.”
There is only one logical explanation for why Hollywood would go to such lengths to over-represent these Massholes:
It’s rhotic-replacement.
The powers that be (the Illuminati, the Boston Brahmin, whatever you want to call them) are trying to dilute America’s proud “hard r” culture until rhotacism is a thing of the past. If they have their way, we will all be “pahking the cah at Mahket Basket to buy lobstah.” It’s no coincidence that half of Hollywood’s writers went to “Hahvahd.”
We must protect our culture from these “r-less” New Englanders and their quest for rhotic supremacy. The next time Hollywood adapts a classic Greek text, we must demand they do it the right way. There’s nothing historically accurate about, say, Amy Poehler playing Calypso, or Sarah Silverman playing Circe. Those roles should go to an actual sea nymph and an actual witch-goddess, respectively. Anything short of that is a slap in the face to the entire Western world.
I am pleased, however, that Nolan cast Lupita Nyong’o as Helen of Troy. We all know the ancient Greeks would never have launched a thousand ships for some blonde chick who wouldn’t last a week in the punishing Grecian sun.
