The thing is though, she revealed herself ignorant of Morocco, Spain, Western Sahara, North Africa. Followed the troll bros, didn't research. And wrote badly, disorganized, poorly structured, look at ME for the LRB. One expected better, yes? Also, she got rich from the film. So ....

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A lot of this is from the right, angry that a director could dare to cast Lupita Nyong'o as Helen. But a lot of it is from nerds who want a "truthful" representation of Ancient Greece, totally unaware that their vision of the time period is entirely coloured by Renaissance fictions.

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The real power of the classics is that they speak to a human universal: this is why the poem has endured for some 3000 years. In some important ways, the setting - the Mycenean Bronze Age - is the least important thing about it. I see a lot of people whinging about accents and races and so on...

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You can't in the same breath suggest the film should've given space to the point of view of Odysseus' victims (of war and conquest and trickery), while also decrying the lack of sex scenes, when many of those sex scenes in the original were sufficeintly indistinguishable from rape.

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I finally watched the film. I think people in general have all sorts of bad opinions about the Odyssey, and I count this review among them. Wilson critiques the film for not being truer to the source material, and then critiques the film for not taking liberties. Pick a side!

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