I cant believe that Nolan and Lupita are trying to cancel Homer now. I mean, if you read works from a different century then you have to be aware of the context. Obviously the world has changed drastically for women and the feminist movement has gained a lot of traction with important wins in many countries but we cant expect Homer to be some sort of feminist icon. It feels like Lupita didnt even bother to do some basic research on Ancient Greece or read the odyssey, If we view the odyssey through a black and white lens then we kind of lose the whole plot. Its such a lazy thing to do as an actor.
That's the problem with the modern "commercialization" and "politicization" of feminism. it stopped being feminist at its core and it's now a battle of wits of "who do we consider to be sexist so we can cancel them" and "I say I'm a feminist therefore I'm a good person".
I'm not cancelling feminism in its entirety; for one thing, women sacrificed themselves so that we have the right to vote, the right to inheritance and education, even the right to wear trousers and bikinis. As Helen Mirren said, if you take a woman from today and bring her to a world 40 years back, she won't want to stay in that world.
But let's call a spade a spade.
Of course Homer isn't the feminist icon; nor do we demand or expect him to be. However, claiming that he gave women "too little screen time" (???) is ridiculous. Consider this - we don't know half the names of Odysseus' men or the "brave Archean soldiers", but we do know and encounter women like Helen, Andromache, Kassandra, Penelope, Calypso, Circe, Hecuba, even the 'insignificant' ones like Chrysseis and Brysseis. Each of these women has her own personality, backstory (i.e. Cassandra, Helen, Penelope), and we don't differentiate between likeable or non-likeable. Even Andromache, who's on the enemies' side, is a sympathetic figure. She's a young mother and a devoted wife, she dreads to see the Troy she so loves be wasted to war and all these brave soldiers gone, and when she mourns for Hector you can feel her breaking inside (then we also see her son being killed and her being taken as a slave). We see Helen's PTSD, Circe's anger, Cassandra's anguish over what's to come and not being heard, Penelope's certainty that her husband will come back and her efforts to protect and defend her and her family's honour.
Andromache, Helen, Penelope and Hecuba represent four different negative sides to war. Families being killed, women suffering, women waiting (and raising children alone), and Hecuba symbolizes the fallen grandeur of Troy itself.
And this is why feminist retellings fail; they take this rainbow of women and turn the whole thing into a boring black vs white, in which the "patriarchy" is to be blamed for everything. In the end, what you end up with is female characters that differ to one another in name only.
Thing is, you can be a feminist and not cancel Homer for being 'sexist'. You just need to not apply the modern ideas of "feminism" unto Homer.
As for your claim they're trying to 'cancel' him. Very grand of them to try and cash on a movie based on his works and then cancel him and try to change him.
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