making a work "relevant" for "modern audiences" is just the higher brow version of doing fanfic
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@sickburnbro Rendering a text into reasonably colloquial English is quite important though, if you focus too hard on accurately representing the source material you end up with something like the awful, stilted classics-esse that plagues modern translations of classical texts; you're much better off learning Greek and Latin than suffering through those overly-literal garbage translations
Effective translation, especially of literature, always involves rewriting the source text to some degree
Effective translation, especially of literature, always involves rewriting the source text to some degree
@scathach @sickburnbro Yeah, but we're not talking about that here. The "modern" translation Nolan is using for example fundamentally changes Helen's description of herself, from knowing she sinned badly to not.
@ThatWouldBeTelling @sickburnbro Oh I didn't know this was about the Odyssey movie, a bad translation is probably the least of the things wrong with that shitshow
@scathach @sickburnbro Not sure about that, the translation is the basis of the script in theory, although it of course says something that Nolan chose the most recent one that's ultra-woke, by a known ultra woke woman.
Most stuff I've seen is about picking a Negress as Helen, but she's not a major character in the story. Heck, in all the Odyssey retellings and condensations or outlines of the story, I never even remember her being in it.
Then again, maybe she'll be given a much bigger role? I suppose it would be bad form today if all the women on the ship were unimportant slaves (prizes of war), servants, etc. with no other roles, no names in the original (??) etc.
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@ThatWouldBeTelling @sickburnbro I was thinking mostly of how they seem to be casting people from every single ethnicity under the sun _except_ Greek people, for an adaptation of Greek literature
I think that's the point people are sticking on simply *because* it isn't a major character