World-renowned director Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” is a big-budget epic adaptation of Homer’s ancient Greek poem that follows Odysseus’ perilous journey home after the Trojan War. Set to release this July, the film sparked scandal the moment marketing began.
Not only is Helen of Troy, who is described as a fair-skinned Greek woman in the original text, played by Kenyan-Mexican actress Lupita Nyong’o, but Elliot (formerly Ellen) Paige, a biological woman who started identifying as a man in 2020, plays a male character in the film. Although her specific role is unknown, one viral theory claims that she will play the mighty Achilles — the greatest warrior in all of Greek mythology.
BlazeTV host Auron MacIntyre was surprised and disappointed when he learned about the direction Nolan’s “Odyssey” would take.
Nolan is “a man whose work has often been described as conservative or even reactionary,” he tells libertarian author and political activist James Keena.
As one of the greatest film directors of the modern age, Nolan, MacIntyre argues, “would have had the authority to tell a studio no” if it was pushing woke ideologies, like race and gender swapping.
“Why is it so hard for even some of the most stalwart directors like Christopher Nolan to avoid this trap?” he asks Keena.
“This is an ongoing assault on Western civilization and the norms of Western civilization. When you look at the story of ‘The Odyssey,’ it’s part of Greek literature. That is one of the foundational things in Western thought,” Keena replies.
He explains that Homer’s central hero, Odysseus, is the kind of character that progressive thinkers detest. He’s “a very strong, type A male personality” who’s on a mission to return to his “nuclear family” and “re-establish law and order” in his kingdom of Ithaca, where suitors have invaded in his absence to steal what’s rightfully his.
“You can see why it sort of conflicts with what the ethos is now as to what a family should be, what a male should be like,” says Keena.
MacIntyre agrees, highlighting how Odysseus is a prime example of the patriarch archetype — the husband, father, and king who endures extreme hardship in order to return home and restore order to his household and kingdom.
“You want to, if you’re a radical leftist, undermine those things that kind of hold together the American or the Western identity,” he says.
But there’s an even deeper (and darker) reality at play in Nolan’s woke “Odyssey,” says Keena.
“When you look at the collectivist group of philosophies Marxism, socialism, communism, they can’t tolerate Western civilization or the concept of America,” he says.
Their unifying objective, he explains, is to “attack it, destroy it, replace it” by infiltrating every institution.
“And so what we’re seeing on all levels, not just about movies or literature, but education, music, anything that you can pick out in society right now, is essentially a collectivist assault on Western civilization because it has to be destroyed in order to make room for the socialist revolution,” says Keena.
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