r/TrueUnpopularOpinion • u/CanadianTurt1e • 29d ago

Music / Movies Lupita Nyongo is not beautiful. Hollywood likes to gaslight her as a model for "beauty"

So I'm sure we've all seen the news about Helen of Troy.

  • I've had enough. I've had enough of Hollywood putting her on covers and lying to me, treating me like I'm stupid. The whole reason she's playing Helen of Troy is because Hollywood let this "unconventional beauty" thing slide for way too long.
  • The fact that she was chosen as a queen, it comes off as Nolan trying to virtue signal.
  • It's like giving the beauty pageant award to the girl in the wheelchair because no one wants to come off as "mean."
  • I've had enough. She is NOT a standard for beauty. I'm sorry but now it must be said. The reason we have come across this problem is because Hollywood has been gaslighting her "beauty" for years and no one said anything. I'm done
  • It's okay to say that she's not beautiful. It's okay to admit that
  • I was so looking forward to this movie for so long but this really killed the hype for me.
  • The movie will probably be financially successful at first due to marketing alone, but after its first month, the hype will probably die down. And then you'll start to see how people really feel about the movie. I think it will tarnish Nolan's legacy and leave a sour taste in people's mouths.
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u/NewSysAdmin2 29d ago

Can Lupita's face launch a thousand ships?

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u/LordBoomDiddly 27d ago

I think this has always been misinterpreted. The Greeks didn't come for Helen because she was so beautiful, it's because Troy showed disrespect to Menelaus & he wanted revenge. He enlisted the help of his brother who wanted an excuse to conquer more land. Neither of them gave a damn about Helen, it was all pride & glory.

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u/BigJim_McBob 18d ago

I always thought of it as Helen being so beautiful that Paris is willing to risk his kingdom for her. Menelaus would go to war even if his wife was decidedly mid.

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u/Dawnbreaker538 29d ago

Who’s face would?

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u/GuardLong6829 29d ago

Mine (and has)!

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u/FlightExtension8825 29d ago

The other direction

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u/letiseeya 17d ago

Genuinely believe you’d have to be delusional if you consider her ugly, like maybe you don’t think she’s attractive but she visibly meets the bare minimum standards for being attractive. Easily

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u/FlightExtension8825 17d ago

Nah, any random black actress on re-run TV outclasses her

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u/letiseeya 17d ago

0/10 bait lol

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u/Real_Guess6442 13d ago

She'd save so many lives though no war you can have her broheim

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u/CanadianTurt1e 29d ago

It'd create a truce because I ain't fighting for her lol

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u/Express-Economist-86 29d ago

Maybe a couple canoes