Like Every single fucking time, and it's not only about Ancient Greeks

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• sj_zero ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago federation: confirmed

  Not to mention, not all of those myths turn out to be entirely mythic. We found the minoans and what is likely ancient troy by listening to the stories and looking where they told us to look.
• ryathal@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  People who think that something being fiction means there are no rules and anything goes are the most annoying people to discuss with.

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• Zephyr@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It’s historically accurate in a parallel reality.

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• NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The bronze age greek armour i’ve seen is pretty funny, if nothing else.

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  • nagaram@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It begs the serious question,

    “Would Nolan’s film actually been better if they looked like this?”

    I just saw the movie and I think they made a pretty good costume design choice.

    You should be more mad about the offensive use of sub bass in theaters.

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    • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Yeah, I think modern audiences associate ancient Greece too strongly with the Corinthian helmets. It’s like how using American accents instead of old British stage accents for the bronze age Greeks feels wrong to many even though we’re simply imposing a different anachronistic modern parlance onto them - and the bards who original told the story were already doing the same with their newer post-dark-ages form of the language.

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• AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I mean, even in historical fantasy, I’d still love to see things done correctly. It would ruin my emersion so much if you did a movie about something, say for example the French Revolution, and everyone just pulls out a bolt action Springfield to shoot the monarchs.

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  • RebekahWSD@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Are you sure? If that happened with no buildup I’d find it hilarious!

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    • BurntWits@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Reminds me of in Inglorious Basterds

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      when they burned the cinema and gunned hitler down,

      I actually laughed out loud at that.

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    • AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      After the shock and laughter, I’d be a little annoyed, funny as it sounds.

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• RamRabbit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It particularly amazes me in the Hollywood movies that cost hundreds of millions of dollars and they can’t bother to get basic facts or their own plot points straight.

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  • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I feel like the Cinema-Sins-ification of online film criticism has raised generations who cannot appreciate anything on a level beyond a checklist of “ackshually” gotchas. At least the crowd who just don’t want to see black actors had an emotional response.

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    • Auli@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      No problem with black actors. But why not new stories. I’m sure Africa has Ron’s of stories most people haven’t heard. No we get the same European stories and they race swap people for inclusion. It is the most low effort bullshit.

      And then the race doesn’t matter people are bullshit. If it doesn’t matter it doesn’t matter bit I haven’t seen another way. Never seen a white of black Mulan. Or a white or Asian Rosa Parks. And before she was real they changed the race of that Queen of England so being real isn’t a factor.

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    • FarceOfWill@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I would love a cinema sins channel thats all based on second+ level thematic inconsistencies.

      Literally dozens of us would watch.

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