That’s funny, bc too many racist ppl ruin my immersion in life
They ruin my fantasy that most people aren’t hateful and cruel.
I know, right?! I’m used to when people see Nazis they get shot. They tell me now it’s unrealistic expectations from playing all those WWII games where you shoot them.
What about all the Gauls/Celts they cast as Greeks? Complete immersion break. :P
Don’t they know the ancient Greeks didn’t have film technology! How can I watch this?
This smells like another “I’m a gay black man” moment.
How so?
Referencing this, I’m suggesting the original tweet is astroturfed and not, in fact, a black man complaining about seeing black people in cinema.
Ah I see what you mean. Good point!
I didn’t even notice the original user. I just assume default on Twitter is a white Nazi.
Well it may be a white Nazi pretending to be a black man or a bot account.
It is widely known that black people did not exist back in ancient greece, duh
Don’t tell that to checks notes… Americans
my immersion was ruined when Nolan couldn’t even cast someone slightly interesting for Odysseus and turned a fun and exciting tale into an overly serious greyscale film that will probably be a 4ish hour snooze fest
Have you seen the movie already? Genuine question.
nah i’m just a hater
He means the immersion of his nazi fantasy land. The one where he is superior and only good white people exist. No jews, no other ethnic group other than Germanic, Nordic, Slavic or - dare I say - Saxon, Anglo even. Anything that breaks this delusion sends him off into a spiral of rage.
Then he posts about it online.
I haven’t watched the movie, but I would imagine Africans is pretty common around Greece?
There’s no sight of Michael Caine in the credits. This breaks immersion for me: I can’t believe it’s a real Nolan movie without Michael Caine. Every Nolan movie needs to have him or Cillian Murphy at the very least, ideally both.
What language were the actors speaking in?
My immersion of Ghost of Tsushima was ruined when I saw female lords being treated as equals to male lords.
I thought, “were they really equals back in Feudal Japan? This ruins my immersion.”
Then our brave, rugged, honorable lead Samurai who we respect, jumps on to his knees and prostrates himself at every opportunity in front of his uncle/lord, saying unironically how unworthy he is to exist in the presence of such a divine being…
…and I was like, “oh yeah. In those moments where he is actually true to his period, I lose all respect for him.”
Fair play game, fair play.
Someone certainly didn’t do all that well at their history lessons. If Memnon led an ARMY from Aethiopia to the siege of Troy there might’ve just been …say, a few people of different fucking complexions mucking about in the immediate aftermath of said siege.
Not to mention all the trade going on for centuries in those parts.
…and also, yeah, a Cyclops is just fine because it happens to be the right color, right?
But this is otherwise a complete dealbreaker, is it? What the fuck? (I mean, I know it’s just a racist piece of shit spewing idiocy, but still, what the everliving fuck?)
Black people were invented by Woke Hollywood in the year 2019 AD in order to ruin movies.
How insane to you need to be to think the ancient Greeks didn’t know about Africa? literally all of art history comes down the the Egyptians and Greeks teaching, learning, and reteaching each other art skills over the course of centuries.
Homer’s Iliad literally has an Aethiopian (Sudanese) army in it. It is also a plot point early in the Odyssey that Athena manages to get Zeus to let Odysseus actually go on the fucking odyssey because Poseidon is away in Aethiopia and therefore can’t object
I don’t know what characters the black people being complained about are. Are they characters from modern Sudan, Ethiopia etc or are they meant to be regular Ancient Greek characters?
There were absolutely black Greeks who were not just recent jmmigrants because humans move around constantly and no area has ever been 100% anything. Sure, overwhelmingly something, but never 100%.
I don’t think what’s being talked about is there having ever been a black person in Ancient Greece but if that black person is meant to be just a regular Greek dude or something.
They might be portraying an Ethiopian person who came to Ancient Greece for whatever reason. And that wouldn’t be super extraordinary.
You do know greeks don’t look pale white, right? 90% of the Celtic looking actors are too white to be accurate Ancient Greeks too by your “everyone looked same back then” logic.
And their nose structure completely different too! Immersion ruined.
I’m not sure who was talking about pale white. The whole thing was about a black guy being in the movie. I don’t even know who they’re portraying
I am saying an Irish looking person would also be equally immersion breaking as just a regular Greek dude by your logic.
I’m not the one who made the Twitter post but yeah could be?
I don’t know, my point was more just that there are absolutely plenty of black people in Homer’s works
If the person is portraying one of those I don’t really get the complaint
Do they even know what continent happens to be located on the Southern side of the Mediterranean?
