Several weeks ago, AI-generated clips of gender-confused actress Ellen Page went viral on social media.
One 30-second video depicted Page — who now calls herself Elliot — as the mythical fighter Achilles in the 2004 film Troy, starring Brad Pitt.
During the scene, the diminutive Page was killed by a spear thrown by her opponent, Boagrius.
In the original movie, Pitt dodges the throw and slays his oversized enemy with a singles thrust of his sword.
Page was rumored to be playing Achilles’ ghost in the upcoming Ridley Scott film The Odyssey, which stars Matt Damon as Odysseus. Scott previously directed such classics as Gladiator and 1492: Conquest of Paradise, which actually cast Christopher Columbus in a favorable light.
Recent reports suggest Page is going to play Elpenor, a member of Odysseus’ ship crew, a far less significant role.
Whoever Page ends up depicting, Nolan’s movie is yet another instance of Hollywood purposefully remaking a Western classic in order to mock and ultimately debase European culture.
Casting for The Odyssey
Instead of hiring a Greek woman to play Helen of Troy, Scott tapped African actress Lupita Nyong’o, who was born in Mexico and raised in Kenya.
The decision drew immediate criticism from X CEO Elon Musk and conservative influencer Matt Walsh, who said Nolan “knows that he would be called racist if he gave ‘the most beautiful woman’ role to a white woman.” To which Musk replied, “absolutely true.”
It is worth noting that Nyong’o previously admitted that she had “no idea what The Odyssey was. I was like, ‘Oh, snap, I don’t know the first thing about this.'”
This is the equivalent of casting Taylor Swift as Ruby Bridges and her telling Al Sharpton that she has “never really heard of Ruby but I look forward to playing her.”
Gen Z starlet Zendaya — also of African descent — will play Athena, the goddess of wisdom, while King Menelaus, who is described by Homer as having auburn or red hair, will be portrayed as a bald man by Jewish actor Jon Bernthal.
An open letter that appeared in the Greek City Times accused Nolan of discrimination in his casting choices.
“Given Hollywood’s … rules and insistence for minority representation, authenticity and diversity, where are the Greeks, or the Greek Americans in this Greek story?” the author asked.
Social media users pushed back as well. They pointed out that diversity seems to be a one-way street in Hollywood these days.
Not the first time cultural whitewashing has occurred
When Amazon purchased the rights to produce Lord of The Rings: The Rings of Power in 2022, it cast an obese black woman as a dwarf and included other characters that never existed in J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth universe.
This happened despite the fact that Tolkien expressly stated that he drew from Northern European and Anglo-Saxon tradition in order to revive mythology for his British countrymen.
The Dispatch
After the Page videos went viral last month, a social media user had the clever idea of creating a fictional film poster for the original Lord of The Rings movies as if they were produced today. Michael B. Jordan was cast as Aragorn, Denzel Washington as Gandalf, and the aforementioned Nyong’o as Galadriel. It is not hard to imagine that this is precisely what those films would have looked like if they were not released in the early 2000s, when DEI wasn’t in full swing.
Scores of other films have gone through Hollywood’s ideological car wash as well.
The upcoming Harry Potter reboot will feature black British actor Papa Essiedu as Severus Snape. In 2021, Jewish director Joel Coen made a movie based on Shakespeare’s famous 17th century play Macbeth. Instead of casting a Scottish actor for the role, he hired Denzel Washington to play the part.
But not all hope is lost. At the Venice Film Festival in 2023, Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen and director Nikolaj Arcel refused to bow before a hostile journalist who noticed that their film The Promised Land lacked “diversity.”
“First of all, the film takes place in Denmark in the 1750s,” Arcel explained. “It wasn’t a thought in our mind … it’s just historical, it’s how it was in the 1750s.”
Who is behind all this?
It has been said that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. This is not what Hollywood is doing.
Aljean Harmetz was the Hollywood reporter for The New York Times from 1979 until 1990. Born Aljean Meltsir Levin, she grew up in Los Angeles and was active in the movie industry her entire life.
A recent clip of Aljean has been circulating on social media. In it, she admits that Hollywood inserted characters into historical situations that they did not exist in. The goal being the propagandizing of the American people.
What if the roles were reversed?
Nyong’o was one of many black actors to star in the 2018 film Black Panther.
After its release, Nyong’o said in an interview that it helped even out what she called the unfair representation of Africa in movies.
“Often times the African continent, when it’s portrayed in cinema, it’s very general.” Although Black Panther is about “a fictitious nation, it is … derived from real African cultures,” she stated.
Can it not be said that The Odyssey, Macbeth, The Lord of the Rings, and many other stories Hollywood has been turning into movies lately are “derived from real European cultures” and that European culture is purposefully being misrepresented in them? The double standard is glaringly obvious.
Imagine the outrage from Nyong’o and her Black Panther co-stars if Ryan Gosling or Mark Wahlberg were cast in the main role of a remake of that film. Jesse Jackson would be turning over in his grave.
John McEntee was an assistant to President Trump during his first term in office. Perhaps more than anyone else at the time, McEntee understood the lies of the diversity police — not only in Hollywood but in politics as well.
For years, he released short, quick-hitting videos exposing the hypocrisy. In one of them, he asked: “If Africa should be for Africans, and Asia should be for Asians, should Europe be for Europeans?”
Those who run Hollywood understand this. But they don’t want Europe to be for Europeans. They want to continue the unsustainable mixing and matching of cultures both there and in the US while tearing down the great masterpieces that Western Civilization produced. Only the spirit of antichrist could be behind such sinister efforts.
