• Jhex@lemmy.world
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      Even if that were the case, the Odyssey is a work of fiction; we don’t even know if Homer actually existed, if he was a single person or multiple story tellers blended together by lack of details…

      “Critics” pretending to know and be outraged about X not been exactly what they thought when they read the book cliff notes in their mom’s sock smelling basement are just noise

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      It’s so weird to be complaining about the accents. It’s a movie that takes place in ancient Greece, FFS; we have no idea what their accents would sound like if they were somehow capable of speaking modern English, since their entire culture pre-dates audio recording technology (and modern English, for that matter) by multiple millenia.

      Seriously, people are just weirdly conditioned to the classical world speaking with a British accent for some reason, I guess.

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        the people that complaint about accents probably would walk away if the movie was actually made in ancient greek with subtitles