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re: Variety: Online onslaught against the diverse cast of “The Odyssey.”
Posted on 5/14/26 at 5:56 am to hawgfaninc
Posted on 5/14/26 at 5:56 am to hawgfaninc
How did Oppenheimer get past the quotas?
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Posted on 5/14/26 at 5:57 am to Ace Midnight
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I get that, but this isn't "art" decisions. This is politics, pure and simple.
(ETA: Plus we've seen everything they made before.)
Yeah but they are still humans like everyone else. Maybe they have become more radicalized in the past decade like everybody else. We wouldnt have had 5 different threads about casting choices for movies months before they released a decade ago either.
The more people focus on this shite the more the directors will. It's only natural
This post was edited on 5/14/26 at 6:02 am
Posted on 5/14/26 at 6:02 am to hawgfaninc
Pretty big red flag that Variety is circling the wagon months before release
Posted on 5/14/26 at 6:14 am to hawgfaninc
I cannot believe a media outlet completely tied to (and aligned with) the DEI/woke agenda of Hollywood and the Academy would post such an article.
Posted on 5/14/26 at 6:26 am to Proximo
quote:Ouch
Pretty hard to cope with the fact that she’s actually Helen after you went nuclear saying she wouldn’t be
Posted on 5/14/26 at 6:57 am to sgallo3
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The more people focus on this shite the more the directors will. It's only natural
All I can say is, they must be allergic to money now.
Posted on 5/14/26 at 7:09 am to hawgfaninc
This movie could be the best fricking movie of all time and I still wouldn’t watch this woke bullshite.
Posted on 5/14/26 at 7:27 am to grizzlylongcut
Had no interest in seeing this and now have even less. It is not going to do well.
Posted on 5/14/26 at 7:40 am to PuertoRicanBlaze
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Wonder if those quotas might apply to an all black cast?
Hamilton enters the chat...
Hamilton: My ears are burning! Did someone call me?
Posted on 5/14/26 at 7:48 am to ell_13
It’s about time we have some legit backlash against these quotas.
Et tu Nolan?
Et tu Nolan?
Posted on 5/14/26 at 7:48 am to sgallo3
quote:that’s because nobody would know the cast until the poster was released. And even then you’d have to see the poster at the theater or in an advertisement.
We wouldnt have had 5 different threads about casting choices for movies months before they released a decade ago either.
Posted on 5/14/26 at 7:55 am to hawgfaninc
Posted on 5/14/26 at 8:32 am to ell_13
quote:quota started applying in 2024
How did Oppenheimer get past the quotas?
Oppenheimer was 2023
2026 Oppenheimer:
The usual suspects would go to the mat for it too, and everyone that questioned it would be "anti-woke"
This post was edited on 5/14/26 at 8:36 am
Posted on 5/14/26 at 8:34 am to ell_13
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How did Oppenheimer get past the quotas?
At the time you could get away with behind the scenes people filling the quotas. He had a bunch of women in behind the scenes prominent roles.
The Academy from what I understand isn't letting them get away with that anymore.
Posted on 5/14/26 at 8:40 am to Fun Bunch
Posted on 5/14/26 at 8:45 am to hawgfaninc
I can only vision the gender fluid writer literally shaking the entire it wrote this.
Posted on 5/14/26 at 8:47 am to hawgfaninc
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Forget that Achilles and Helen of Troy are both fictional characters
Sure, they are. But Helen of Troy's appearance is clearly described in the story. There isn't much room for interpretation there.
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mythological fable replete with a giant Cyclops, six-headed Scylla
What if they gave the cyclops two eyes and the six-headed Scylla one head?
It's just dumb. Because we know generally what their physical traits are.
Posted on 5/14/26 at 8:50 am to hawgfaninc
These same people criticize the whitewashing of old Hollywood harshly, but doing the opposite now is no big deal. You can’t have it both ways.
Also, Helen of Troy might be a fictional character, but she may also have been based on a real person. For millenia the illiad was treated as historical truth, later the whole thing was treated as myth. The more recent discovery of the ruins of Troy have put the whole thing in a gray area. It seems like most historians agree that Troy existed and at one point in the distant past was completely destroyed. The fantastical elements are surely fiction, but the basic story may well have occurred.
I am of the opinion that actors should fit the character. So Genghis Khan shouldn’t be played by John Wayne and Helen of Troy shouldn’t be played by Lupita Nyong’o.
Also, Helen of Troy might be a fictional character, but she may also have been based on a real person. For millenia the illiad was treated as historical truth, later the whole thing was treated as myth. The more recent discovery of the ruins of Troy have put the whole thing in a gray area. It seems like most historians agree that Troy existed and at one point in the distant past was completely destroyed. The fantastical elements are surely fiction, but the basic story may well have occurred.
I am of the opinion that actors should fit the character. So Genghis Khan shouldn’t be played by John Wayne and Helen of Troy shouldn’t be played by Lupita Nyong’o.
This post was edited on 5/14/26 at 8:56 am
Posted on 5/14/26 at 9:11 am to Fun Bunch
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At the time you could get away with behind the scenes people filling the quotas. He had a bunch of women in behind the scenes prominent roles. The Academy from what I understand isn't letting them get away with that anymore.
There were no changes to the requirements since Oppenheimer won.
Posted on 5/14/26 at 9:15 am to Esquire
quote:Google AI for "Oscar's DEI quota"
There were no changes to the requirements since Oppenheimer won.
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Beginning with the 96th Academy Awards (2024), films must meet two of four Representation and Inclusion Standards to be eligible for Best Picture. These standards mandate diversity in on-screen cast, production crew, studio development, or creative leadership to encourage representation of underrepresented groups.
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