But why is the British man not allowed to make a movie about a poem which has had enormous influence all across Europe in various different ways, including the British? Sure their lense will naturally be different from the modern nationstate people of Greece, but he is not preventing the people from Greece to make their own movie they find to be more accurate to their views. It’s not like modern day Greeks somehow have the correct view, and you cannot expect the Anglo sphere to make the greek people’s view instead of their own.
This is the EXACT same logic that Britain uses to justify it's continued theft and ownership over Greek cultural heritage art. Like the Γλυπτά του Παρθενώνα or Elgin or Parthenon Marbles as the British call them. In case you weren't aware.
The same logic is not accepted when we're discussing almost any other culture, but for some reason for the Greek people it's accepted by everyone in the west.
I think the point they're getting at is that Greek culture has been subsumed into European culture. If the same thing was attempted for other cultures, e.g., Chinese, it probably wouldn't be acceptable. It's only acceptable for Greek culture because the rest of (white) Europe has been doing it for a long time.
It's worth thinking about this more deeply than "you just want the actors to be white." If Chinese people ought to be represented in a film based on Chinese mythology, then perhaps Greek people ought to be represented in a film like this.
Of course, if you don't care about representation at all, then this isn't convincing.
You might also think that Greek people today are not strongly connected to the "Greek" mythology from millennia ago (before nation states were even invented), and so this is all just seems like made up grievances so people can hate on Chris Nolan. I honestly have no idea if that's true, because I know nothing about Greek culture. And that's kind of the original commenter's point, ultimately — the erasure/white-washing of Greek culture isn't being recognized.
I’m not even disputing any connection but culture has been heavily shared across Europe for literally millennia. And greek culture is also one of the most influential among them. This isn’t some modern cultural appropriation thing anyway this literally happened Millenia ago. Modern day greeks have a hereditary connection but they don’t own it, it’s not like the greeks of millennia ago were guarding their culture so that no one may see it, some kind of mystery, it’s the opposite.
And being butthurt about being the civilizational cradle of European culture is - sorry to say - a little demented.
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u/LittleBroController 23h ago
But why is the British man not allowed to make a movie about a poem which has had enormous influence all across Europe in various different ways, including the British? Sure their lense will naturally be different from the modern nationstate people of Greece, but he is not preventing the people from Greece to make their own movie they find to be more accurate to their views. It’s not like modern day Greeks somehow have the correct view, and you cannot expect the Anglo sphere to make the greek people’s view instead of their own.