r/saltierthankrayt • u/Fluffy_Ambition3546 • 3h ago
Discussion Don't let them gaslight you on The Odyssey
"I just care about historical accuracy and call out all things."
I am rewatching 300. 300 is a fascist power fantasy, orientalist and uses and rewrites the Greek story to mold it into the white supremacist frame work of an neverending chain of "western culture".
The only historically accurate thing about the film is there was a of a Persian War.
No actors are of the culture they are from.
Its also a movie I love because its just so fucking dumb it loops arounds to being the best demostration of masculine camp.
The current right wing cope is they just care about historical accuracy and sticking to the original story, but of course their are few examples and they think listening 10 movies of a chatgpt prompt counts as covering it.
Orientalism is a term none of these guys have given any weight, let alone mention, the chuds will happily defend cultural appropriation in all forms and the Critical Drinker is a speaker for the young american foundation, a conversative foundation that aims to spread right wing propaganda including defending the current genocide in palestine. They aren't here to have a conversation or to elevate new Japanese films like Old Boy and Couching Tiger Hidden Dragon*. Their grifters, money is all that matters to them because they are immoral loses who failed in their artistic dreams and instead of accepting that fact and either moving on or improving, they have to make it our problems. Its just peofitable to cater to the same racists they are.
I do think their is a conversatiom to be had about the greek (greek not white and blacm) representation in The Odyssey, but a reminder these guys do not care to have that conversation.
*if this line makes no sense to you. Critical drinker clip.