(11-18-2015, 07:06 AM)Mamushi Wrote:(11-18-2015, 06:46 AM)Oli! Wrote: There's also like a billion adaptations of the Odyssey so I have no idea which one you mean (though I also haven't seen any, so I guess it doesn't matter). I'd also argue that Greece and its culture doesn't have nearly as much of a problem with cultural supplanting as Egypt does.
The 1997 film with Armand Assante. It's very good and apparently the go-to film for substitute teacher days.
Also I went back and added onto my original post because I don't like to multi post when it's just tiny additions. The short of it is, you can change the cast and the film would still be awful. Become a producer and give us the historically-accurate film we deserve.
It doesn't even have to be historically accurate, I just want people that are billed to be from a place / culture to look like they are from that place and / or belong to that culture. I don't really care about the actual history, and I think the aesthetic actually looks great. It's just that the cast they chose does a disservice by perpetuating a widely believed and damaging inaccuracy about this culture.
Also, it's more than just the aesthetic and the names used; Set vs. Horus for the Throne of Everything is an actual Egyptian myth, complete with eye-gouging. This movie is comparable to a retelling of the Odyssey, in fact.
