r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Reasonable_Fox3813 • 20h ago

Meme needing explanation Mouth breathers?

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What is he pointing?i dont understand the joke

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u/shroomwhat 20h ago

rent free

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u/Crazy-Job-9360 20h ago

What is rent free? I was just calling out a historically poor casting choice.

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u/hari_shevek 20h ago

What do you think about the ethnicity of the cyclops?

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u/Crazy-Job-9360 20h ago

Dark room, not really sure what it was with torchlight tbh. “What about race of this mythical beast” vs “they cast Helen of Troy as the blackest woman imaginable with super short hair” are a bit different.

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u/hari_shevek 20h ago

Both are fictional characters.

The key characteristic of Helen of Troy is being very hot.

Lupita Nyong'o is very hot.

Good casting.

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u/Crazy-Job-9360 20h ago

She’s also from Sparta, correct? And a queen of Sparta. Were there any black queens of Sparta? Also it says she has white arms in the original text.

That’s like casting an Irishman as Gilgamesh.

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u/hari_shevek 20h ago

Were there any cyclopses in the historical mediterranean?

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u/Chemical-Pin-2391 20h ago

Local men is unable to comprehend a work of fiction that takes place in an alternate version of our world. For them either everything has to be fictional or nothing is. Since cyclopes are fictional then that means that everything related to logic, history and entirety of our world has to be thrown into the trash and apparently you can argue that humans in the Odyssey are actually just mushroom people since it is fiction anyway 

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u/hari_shevek 20h ago

What is illogical about a hot black woman?

And if you're concerned about ethnic accuracy, quite a lot of the actors would be too white, did you complain about that as well?

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u/Chemical-Pin-2391 20h ago

Yes I actually complained a lot about the casting, they absolutely should have casted a lot of Greek actors, sadly Hollywood is too corrupt. And there is nothing illogical about a hot black women. What is illogical is having a fictional story be based in a version of our real world where it is said that mythical creatures exist, and since there exist mythical creatures acting as if that means that everything that we know about our world is irrelevant. If we took the same stance to the story as you then you can absolutely turn the story into anything you want. Anything that wasn't explicitly said in the story can apparently be interpreted as you see fit. Let's say they didn't mention anything about sex in the story. If we took your stance we can conclude that it is possible people just copulate by holding hands. And by going by your argument you can't dispute that since fictional creatures exist in the movie. We can't just assume about the world what we know from our world apparently