Patel as Odysseus’ right-hand-man in battle Eurylochus, alongside Adepo’s soldier Elpenor and Korean American actor Will Yun Lee as Anchialus was, to me, an excellent reminder that white supremacist patriarchy cannot run without the aid and enthusiastic participation of men of color. Even the most noble and earnest soldier character that Nolan created for his adaptation, Sinon, played by Page, shows how marginalized people contribute even unknowingly to the imperialist project.Much like our U.S. military and Trump’s cabinet, these soldiers played by actors of all races and marginalized identities followed Odysseus into battle, under the call of Agamemnon, raping, murdering, pillaging, and destroying with hellfire, the kingdom—and the people—of Troy. The Odyssey recounts the soldiers’ downfall even more than Agamemnon’s and Odysseus’. Catch that message.despite the propaganda of white supremacy and American exceptionalism that we’ve been fed for centuries, Americans and its 800 military bases in more than 70 countries, are in fact the dreaded “people from the sea.”Ask Black America. Ask Palestine. Ask Hawaii, Iran, Puerto Rico. Ask Mexico. Ask Libya, Cuba and Guam. Ask Korea, Japan and Yemen. Ask the sailors in the Atlantic that America bombed like a game of Battleship. Ask the people of Venezuela and their kidnapped president Maduro. Ask the entire continents of Africa and South America. Ask the Indigenous people of Turtle Island upon whose land and graves stolen Black people were forced to build this illegitimate country to solidify white American hegemony in the first place. Ask the immigrants getting ripped away from their families or shot dead in the streets by American gestapo ICE. The white American Odyssey is meant to be a mirror, if one would only look.
>>223470416I've read the "great books" and they are garbagemanga depicts more humanity than dostoevsky
>>223470416Brown favela dweller is EXTREMELY concerned with white representation in movies
>"We're Greeks from Ithaca, saar", said the Indian to the only Greek in the movieVersion with audio:https://files.catbox.moe/seiu4j.webm
>>223470879Manga is 90% slop and 9% juvenile escapism
>>223471867homer, the illyad toomaybe plato's republic is an exception because it is cultivating a train of thought people love the great books because they are NPCs and literateurs tell them it is good, but they are just commenting on the stories as if they were some kind of video game lore builderThey're sniffing their own farts
>>223474097It's not, most likely you're getting filtered by your low iq if you think works that managed to survive the test of times are worse than your nip garbage stretched thin over 12 years of seasonal slop releases
>>223471845He looks med
>>223470879>I've read the "great books" and they are garbagetsmt
>>223474334If you think humanity is a good judge of depth (and in Homer's case, the patronage of nobility), I dont know what to tell youI am probably the most well read in this board, and it is obvious to me insight can only be received from the most unorthodox of authorsMillions of authors in history have their works fell by the wayside, NPCs like the literateurs or some "sophisticated" rich who treats literatures as appraised artworks, are not a good judge of anythingYou are NPC, the divine spark escapes you
>>223470879it was just slop of their time. there's a reason why marvel superheroes are quite literally all based on ancient heroes. the people yearn for the slop, irrespective of the time period they live in.
>>223475736Humanity might not be a good judge but time is.
>>223476541really? tell me the mechanisms behind it then? aren't you just spouting nonsense that you see online? Is this an original thought?explain why time is a good judgewho are the judges that preserves this across generations? How is this mechanism uniquely qualified to do so? How are great works different from poor works? Is it because the authors are infamous? Are unrecognized authors inherently inferior to recognized ones? What is the purpose of literature then?If one literature brings suffering to it's reader, and one brings enlightenment, should the reader only read the ones that bring enlightenment?
>>223471845Greeks and Indians coexisted in the greco-indian civilization of Bactria thoughever.
