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In the original texts, Achilles is highlighted for his speed more than anything. And as for looks, he was so feminine-looking that he was able to hide out amongst a group of women for years and even they thought he was another woman. And Homer described the spirits as being weak and frail.
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...is this description of Achilles in some other source? The incident you described is at Scyros, I'm pretty sure that is from something else. I was talking about that with someone a while back but I haven't read Posthomerica. I'm rereading the Iliad right now and that doesn't track. Maybe it comes up in a translation of the Odyssey somewhere but he's already dead by that point.
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Is Elliot Page even playing Achilles? Tiresias also shows up in the Odyssey and would be a pretty obvious casting choice for Page. For those not familiar with the mythology, Tiresias was transformed into a woman for seven years so casting a trans man to play him would fit.
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It's got to be a demi-god/god thing to cross dress at least once in one's own polytheistic mythos. Achilles, and Thor have both done this but for somewhat different reasons- that's not even getting into Loki's shenanigans in shape-shifting in the Norse mythos.
This ain't a art house film. This is another Nolan blockbuster. It's not even like he's picked an obscure character/story to run with. One casting for a bit part anit going to throw me. I got Troy so I am good for an full Achilles movie.
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Has page as Achilles even been confirmed, or is it still just internet rumor?
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its ok to admit that even great directors can make bad casting choices sometimes. this is one of those cases. its his movie. he can do what he wants. but in the category of good news, the next books im listening to will be the iliad and the odyssey. haha. see? your midwestern hard headedness can do good things occasionally.
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Lol Achilles sometimes dressed in women’s clothing and is described as ‘androgynous’. I mean … he had a male lover ffs : Patroclus. That’s what the ancient Greeks did - it was normal for an adult male to choose a younger, youthful protégé and indulge in homosexual ‘activity’. That’s where the term “Greek Love” , meaning homosexual love, comes from. Lol These chuds need to choose their “male icons” with knowledge of what they actually were like, whether fictional, mythological or real.
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Nolan has a good track record with sci-fi and surrealism, but he doesn’t seem to have the right instincts when it comes to historical epics (yes, the Odyssey is mythological but it is very much a Mediterranean Bronze Age text). I’m not sure I’ll enjoy this one, I’m very much a history snob and I wanted Eggers to do this movie, not Nolan. Eggers has an impeccable track record of faithfully depicting the thought processes and beliefs of people from ages past, not only the historical surroundings. I’m afraid Nolan is too much enamored with the idea of filmmaking, rather than the actual storytelling. This will probably be his Megalopolis.
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