Mitch Connor
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Mitch Connor
@EmptyCandyDish
My preferred adjectives are "handsome" and "clever" and I demand you refer to me as such when we interact. Anonymous on purpose.
Katılım Ağustos 2023
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@DefiantLs How the fuck do you date Marilyn Manson and expect him to be a normal, safe, well-adjusted boyfriend.
Start judging books by their covers, people.
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@peppersagooddog @MagneticNorse This is why men and women have different chess leagues
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@MagneticNorse It's honestly amazing how men are capable of this and so many women aren't.
If I get urgency voice, my husband freezes and assesses the situation fully before even having to ASK "what".
If you can't trust your spouse, who can you trust?
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@lporiginalg sharks use those routes for the same reason boats use those routes.
wtf even are currents?
this guy's an intellectual, lol
he smells his own farts and feels pride
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@chrisheatherly I haven’t paid to see the film, so I haven’t been traumatized in the least. I appreciate your concern, though.
Oh and “why are you complaining? It’s only a few tablespoons of piss in your beer. Just drink it anyway” is also pretty stupid
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@EmptyCandyDish I’m sorry 8 minutes of a 3 hr film traumatized you so.
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Many Internet critics balk at the “modernization” of The Odyssey, pointing to the stylized look, the non-period costumes, the American accents, and the diverse casting.
To be charitable to these people and extend some grace to their argument, they want an OCD-level of historical accuracy that seems excessive in my view for a story with cyclopses, sirens, and a witch who turns men into pigs. One critic I saw compared it to Apocolypto which starred an indigenous actor speaking ancient Mayan. If that’s what you want this just isn’t your movie. Sorry.
I think all these decisions by Nolan are intentional and not just some DEI box checking exercise. I think the accents are American and the look and costumes are what they are because Nolan is explicitly trying to get away from what I’ll call the Shakespearean trap of such period pieces.
He doesn’t want to do a remake of Troy with Brad Pitt. Because of all of that stuffy puffing about distances you from the meaning of the story. And I think what Nolan is trying to do is strip away that British theatricality and tell a much more essential and emotional story. You’ve read or seen a version of The Odyssey many times, but you will never *understand* it more than after having seen this. And it will stick with you.
The casting I think is part of that. He didn’t include a single Greek not because it was an oversight but because he’s not trying to tell that historically-rooted version. He’s telling Christopher Nolan’s version and in Christopher Nolan’s version Odysseus is played by Good Will Hunting, so why can’t Helen of Troy be black? And the fact that she is makes her unique and different from all the other women in the movie, except Zendaya/Athena which I also think is meant to draw a linkage between those characters. So Nolan isn’t using race here as merely inclusion but as a storytelling device. And the diversity of the casting speaks to the universality of the message that he’s trying to convey.

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@PaganGay66052 @venom1s No one said she's ugly, she's just not Greek.
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"The face that launched a thousand ships."
People are saying, "Don't blame Lupita Nyong'o. The casting decision wasn't hers."
But she chose to accept the role, right?
Imagine if a white actor decided to play Michael Jackson, Barack Obama, or T'Challa.
They're saying The Odyssey is fiction. So, Black Panther is a comic book.
Can a white person play Black Panther?
Helen is one of the most important characters in The Odyssey. Her beauty plays a huge role in the story. She was Greek.
Casting a Black actress ruins everything.
She's a good actress, and people may find her beautiful. But that's not what Helen of Troy was like.
Woke Hollywood is destroying thousand-year-old history.

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@DiscussingFilm Let me guess.
"Representation" will be VERY important to the filmmakers.
For this film.
Not for others, though. Race swap Greeks for Indians, Chinese, and Blacks and it's cool. No problem.
But THIS FILM. Authentic. Black. Representation.
"Diversity"
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@ZherkaOfficial She's not a man.
She's playing a man.
Instead of hiring an actual man with the physique of a soldier.
Not spending a penny on it.
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You’re convinced Ellen Page will ruin the movie for you, but she’s actually not that bad. She doesn’t play a major role, and the character she plays even makes sense within the story.
Tom Holland, on the other hand, is the one who completely ruins the movie. It’s genuinely surprising how miscast he feels here, because nothing in his previous performances suggested he would be this distracting and cringe.

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@disparutoo I don't care if some a-hole shames me.
Movie theaters aren't entitled to my money.
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@COTM_2 Lol you expecting the live action to zipline on a coconut tree with a banana leaf?
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@MemeOfSteel_ @DanielS54454462 Sinon in the film does exactly what Achilles does in the poem.
It's obvious to everybody that Page was cast as Achilles, and that the character's name was changed during reshoots.
It's insulting to everybody's intelligence to claim otherwise.
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@MemeOfSteel_ @Samsonh94 Nobody ever claimed that the film was ABOUT those characters. You're strawmanning.
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@Samsonh94 I respect your choice, but trust me, the movie isn't about those characters. It's a completely different experience.
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@GTA6Junky @REDROMINA NOT FOR FREE
DUMB PERSON
These people pay a subscription to be ad-free
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@REDROMINA They are socialists, they want to consume your content for free, and they dont want you to get paid for it.
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serious question for the people who are in support of this lawsuit:
How do you expect us creators to make a living and continue to make videos for you to watch?
Dexerto@Dexerto
A class-action lawsuit has been filed against YouTube over its "ad-free" subscription claims Plaintiffs argue YouTube Premium still shows ads because creators include sponsorship segments in their videos
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@Dr_applesauce @REDROMINA No, this is about people who PAY MONTHLY
NOT people who want something for free
Why are you dumb? Can’t understand basic things! Idiot.
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@REDROMINA Yall want free content? Creators gotta take sponsors and that means sponsored segments in their vids. You can skip it, get over it, or watch it since you’re getting the content FREE
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