They will never learn. Woke does not sell. The Odyssey movie.

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Nolan bent the knee after Oppenheimer got so much praise while being almost exclusively white.

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You mean there wasn't a cadre of sassy black women doing nuclear physics in some back office?

Ummmm hmmm!

* snap snap*!

They want to rewrite history to their version.

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They want to rewrite history to their version.

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How could you tell?

Emily Wilson - author of the translation Nolan based his work on...

He could have done a brown people epic like Gilgamesh. He choose a Greek one though.

ugga,

Ill divert the thread for a moment but I would love to see a movie on an early mountain man like John Colter. The guy goes with Lewis and Clark on the voyage of discovery, makes it back to the Missouri and as they head down they start to see civilization and he says "Im good, pay me Im headin back to that place where we were hearing those booms in the distance (which he discovered to be ole faithful). Tells tales about the land belching and hot baths in the middle of the winter and they thought it was another of his tall tales, like the time he outran, naked a whole party of indian warriors (which was also true).

Course now his story about how the valley was so long he used to yell before he went to bed, and pretty as you please his echo would return 5 hours later and wake him for the day, that was a bit of a stretch.

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It's Christopher Nolan It will sell This thread is stupid

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Can always count on PowerBottom to have at least one idiotic contrarian opinion per day ...

The culture is shifting away from the psyops, fig.

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He could have done a brown people epic like Gilgamesh. He choose a Greek one though

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Slightly on the brown side, but still Caucasian. Call them swarthy.

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ugga,

Ill divert the thread for a moment but I would love to see a movie on an early mountain man like John Colter. The guy goes with Lewis and Clark on the voyage of discovery, makes it back to the Missouri and as they head down they start to see civilization and he says "Im good, pay me Im headin back to that place where we were hearing those booms in the distance (which he discovered to be ole faithful). Tells tales about the land belching and hot baths in the middle of the winter and they thought it was another of his tall tales, like the time he outran, naked a whole party of indian warriors (which was also true).

Course now his story about how the valley was so long he used to yell before he went to bed, and pretty as you please his echo would return 5 hours later and wake him for the day, that was a bit of a stretch.

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The fact is that a lot of these stories have to be partly taken on trust, as there was undoubtedly some truth-stretching involved in many of these stories, but it pisses me off when they completely invent some facet that never existed before. Funny story about that move - that move cam out when my son was 2 and my wife and i hadn't been on a date for over a year, so we hired a sitter and went to see The Revenant (my pick, not hers). They directed us into one of the splits within the fourplex and we had our pick of seats, only 3 other people in the theater. So the ads start, and go on.. and on... and on... then there's one (apparent) ad that is going on for at least 5 minutes, and it hits us that this is actually a movie, though not the one we ordered. At that point we had missed the first 20 minutes of the move we actually came for, so it was a few more years before I experienced the disappointment of actually seeing it.

Colter was a serious badass. It practically defies the imagination how fearless explorers and mountain men were back in the day - we can hardly imagine. I'll bet you've read this or one like it:

Mountain Man: John Colter, the Lewis & Clark Expedition, and the Call of the American West


Returning now to the topic with something I lifted from mauser (thanks, mauser) on the meme thread:



I chortled.