• andros_rex@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    Which there are valid complaints about costuming in that context, but that’s not really what the crowd whining about “historical accuracy” gives a shit about.

    Like, if it were SCA nerds nitpicking dyes and fabric types, or armor construction - sure, that’s lots of fun. As someone with an interest in textile history I do get annoyed by the fact that the last decade of filmmaking seems to have deprioritized making pretty costumes and everything looks so cheap nowadays.

    But that’s not what right wing chuds are complaining about. They don’t actually give two shits about historical accuracy (consider how popular 300 is with that crowd…) Odysseus could have a fucking lightsaber and they wouldn’t care as long as everyone was white.

    • UselessAsshole@lemmy.world
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      4 days ago

      Yeah, but there’d actually be more roughspun fabrics worn everyday than beautiful silks like they’d portray in a 60s era sword and sandal film.

      Fact is we can’t conceive what the gene pool even made a Greek look like that long ago anyways when this existed as song.