The Odyssey

Hollywood hates their audience more than they love money.

Homer’s Odyssey is in large part about women, and about female virtue. And, of course, female wickedness and immorality.

Penelope, Queen of Ithaca, is the archetype of the virtuous wife, Helen, Queen of Sparta, and Clytemnestra, wife and murderer of Agamemnon, King of Kings, are archetypes of wicked wives.

The Goddess Athena assists Penelope and Odysseus’s son

Calypso and Circe are the wicked seductresses.

This extensive representation of women is, of course, profoundly anti feminist, presenting the uncompromising position that women should be chaste and faithful, and that the mistress should not seek to replace the wife.

Odysseus represents the classic heroic virtues of prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance, which of course Hollywood cannot stand.

Penelope represents the female virtue of chastity and fidelity, which of course Hollywood cannot stand either.

The villains, male and female, represent the corresponding vices and sins.

Thus, predictably and inevitably, Hollywood’s 2026 Odyssey is an attack upon, and inversion of, Homer’s Odyssey.

Which brings me to the armor. It looks like plastic, because it is plastic. Nolan pedantically explains he is depicting eighth century before common era armor, rather than twelfth century before common era armor. (Perhaps he fears he would burst into flames if he said “before Christ”.) No he is not depicting eighth century before Christ armor. It is poorly made and poorly fitted plastic that does not particularly resemble eighth century armor either, and the audience can see that it is poorly made and poorly fitted plastic.

Armor in those days was expensive elite equipment, worn by a few heroes among the armed forces, and being expensive was worn by men who were very very good at killing other men, and being expensive, and being an indicator of extraordinary accomplishment as a warrior, was high status, looked high status, and thus was normally polished to a high shine in battle.

So the elites on the battlefield were literal knights in shining armor. They wore armor like a King wears his crown. Nolan did not like that.

Nolan built actual ancient ships. Why not authentic looking armor? I conjecture this is just hatred of Europe, Europeans, and European history and culture showing through. He gives Greek warriors ugly armor because he thinks Europe’s warrior tradition of manly heroism is oppression and injustice, exemplified by white male rapists seizing the Subaharan warrior woman, race swapped Helen of Troy. He gave them crappy armor for the same reason as the Orcs in the Lord of the Rings movies have shabby armor. Because the film makers do not identify with the oppressive toxicly masculine imperialist colonialist white racist oppressors, they do not care what they wear.

Helen of Troy is race swapped to represent the victims of colonialist and imperialist oppression. The armor looks fake, for the same reason as Helen is black.

This pisses off the audience, because they can sense the movie is intended to demonize them as oppressing coloreds, women, and gays.

As the Lord of the Rings movies depicted the Orcs as less than human, this movie depicts you, me, and Odysseus, as less than human. The Greek soldiers oppressing Helen of Troy represent you and me oppressing Africa and Africans, enslaving blacks,and oppressing women and gays.

In fact, of course, until the European set foot in Africa, the Africans lived in mud huts and ate each other, and when colonialism fell back, they resumed eating each other in substantial parts of Africa. The slaves that black Africans sold to America would have been eaten if they had not been sold, and were better off as slaves in America than free men in Africa.

When viewers complain of a movie that implicitly insults and denigrates them, Holywood reacts by calling them chuds, racists, ignorant, incels, explicitly saying the insults and denigration that the movie implicitly says.

For some time, Hollywood has been losing money by attacking its audience. It will continue to attack its audience and continue to lose money because it hates its audience more than it loves money. We are seeing Hollywood’s physical entertainment assets being sold off for scrap value, while they drive their intellectual property assets, such as Star Trek, Star Wars, Superman, and all that, into the dirt. Hollywood’s self destructive hatred is causing it to commit suicide as it impotently attempts murder.