
Samuele Fagnocchi
595 posts

Samuele Fagnocchi
@SFagnocchi
please don’t eat my cat


BREAKING: The Odyssey is FAKING ticket sales by buying up theaters/seats (Fraud) to make the movie look like a success (already $400 million in the hole) moviegoers are reporting having to take terrible seats (because full) but when they show up the theaters are mostly empty.


@Cambiacasacca Omero usa l'aggettivo λευκώλενος “dalle bianche braccia” (anche nell’Iliade), che indica pelle chiara e raffinata, simbolo di bellezza femminile. Ditelo a Nolan e Netflix 😉

A tutti i 'raffinati grecisti' che criticano #Nolan perché Elena era λευκώλενος, ossia dalle bianche braccia, mentre Lupita Nyong'o è nera, ricordo che il termine λευκώλενος indica lo status sociale, non il colore della pelle. #Odissea










I was “black” when I read The Odyssey in high school... ...but somehow I never imagined the characters as looking like me. Why? Because they were GREEK characters. I didn’t need Odysseus to look like me to appreciate his story. I didn’t need Helen of Troy to look like me to understand her importance. They were Greek characters from a specific culture, with a specific history. And this is what Hollywood keeps getting wrong. We don’t identify with characters because they look like us. We connect with them because we recognize something human in them - their struggles, their courage, their flaws, their values. Odysseus is a GREEK hero. Helen of Troy is a GREEK woman. Their identities are part of what makes their stories meaningful. Casting Colombians and Africans and Indians as Greek ISN'T "representation." It’s just insulting. Stop it.



A tutti i 'raffinati grecisti' che criticano #Nolan perché Elena era λευκώλενος, ossia dalle bianche braccia, mentre Lupita Nyong'o è nera, ricordo che il termine λευκώλενος indica lo status sociale, non il colore della pelle. #Odissea

























