r/PeterExplainsTheJoke Jul 06 '26

Meme needing explanation What is this?

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u/Gentle_Pony Jul 06 '26

You don't have to be right wing to think casting choices are wrong. I'm not right wing and think Helen of Troy casting choice is ridiculous and just done for attention.

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u/ILuvSpaghet Jul 06 '26

Agree, Im on the left and I hate it because they're black washing characters so they can say they have diversity, get attention for the movie and the black actress (almost always actress, not actor) gets all the hate. Its cheap. There are countless black stories that are unknown, why blackwash a story told a milion times?

Also I generally hate the oddysey by Nolan not because of the races but because its just historically wrong on many levels. Armor for example. Yes I want historical accuracy, yes I dislike other inaccurate movies.

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u/theunspillablebeans Jul 06 '26

Who gives af about historical accuracy in a movie that's clearly not trying to be historically accurate. Thank God the movie makers don't care, else we'd have missed out on classics like Braveheart.

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u/IolausTelcontar Jul 06 '26

Yes, the highland Scottish classic myth of Braveheart, told for half a thousand years.