O fuckwit, why art thou?

I have no idea if Christopher Nolan’s film of the Odyssey is any good or not (obviously, cos no one’s seen the thing yet) but it’s already pissing off the right people:

Elon Musk is facing backlash after he went on another online crusade against Christopher Nolan’s highly anticipated forthcoming film The Odyssey.
Nolan confirmed in a recent interview that Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o will play dual roles as both Helen of Troy and her sister Clytemnestra in his adaptation of Homer’s epic, slated for a July release.
The casting news sparked swarms of racially charged and misogynistic posts directed at the 12 Years a Slave star, with many people pointing out that Helen of Troy was renowned in Greek mythology as the most beautiful woman in the world.
Right-wing commentator Matt Walsh claimed in an unfounded X post that “not one person on the planet actually thinks that Lupita Nyong’o is ‘the most beautiful woman in the world,’” and added, “Christopher Nolan knows that he would be called racist if he gave ‘the most beautiful woman’ role to a white woman. Nolan is technically talented but a coward. Too afraid to do anything that even slightly challenges the spirit of the age.”
Musk, 54, responded to the post by simply saying: “True.”

I do find it a little odd that this article (and, to be sure, others on the theme) picks up on Edolf reposting Malsh Walsh being a racist rather than Malsh himself, but I suppose more people know who Edolf is… they’re also not happy about Elliot Page being in the film, apparently as the ghost of Achilles, because there’s no transgender people in classical mythology so there shouldn’t be any in films about classical myths either… But, obviously the point is that the story of the Odyssey IS a myth, and they’re getting worked up about people who never existed in the first place. Odysseus moves through a literal world of gods and monsters; the Cyclopes, Scylla and Charybdis, the Sirens, the Laestrygonians, Circe transforming his crew into pigs, Calypso, Zeus, Aeolus, Athena, all of that is apparently fine for these shitheads… and instead for them the most unbelievable thing about this film is that a white character—who, again, never existed—could be played by a black woman. I can’t help but feel that if Nolan had cast a brown-eyed white brunette, Malsh and Tim Polio and Edolf and all these other cunts would have no problem with her not matching the traditional description of Helen either…

EDIT Friday afternoon: