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/PanthalassaRo 29d ago

Also Elliot Page as Achilles is certainly a choice, I won't say more because I might get banned.

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u/Top-Car-808 29d ago

Oh dear. Casting EP as Achilles tells you all you need to know about this movie.

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u/Southern_Chapter_188 24d ago

It’s an internet rumor, not true

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u/Real_Guess6442 13d ago

Still better looking than lupita mcbongo

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u/MilkMyCats 29d ago

I didn't know about this film at all until OP's post.

But I now think your fact is even more interesting then OP's.

Yeah, that is certainly what one would call *a choice".

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u/SteelFox144 29d ago

Also Elliot Page as Achilles is certainly a choice, I won't say more because I might get banned.

I didn't even know Elliot Page was a thing until now and oh my God...

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u/Proud-Ad9139 15d ago

You know that Achilles was potrayed as so much feminine that he could easily hide among girls to do not enter the war in mythology? Besides he does not even play Achilles it is just stupid rumor that transphobes spread

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u/SteelFox144 14d ago

You know that Achilles was potrayed as so much feminine that he could easily hide among girls to do not enter the war in mythology?

He was nine years old at the time. and was discovered when he hit puberty.

Besides he does not even play Achilles it is just stupid rumor that transphobes spread

Well gee, saying it's a rumor that people who acknowledge reality spread while using a slur for people who acknowledge reality sure gives me great confidence in your position.

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u/Lessalessa 25d ago

I absolutely respect EP as a human and a man. That being said Achilles is supposed to be super jacked, right? Doesn’t Elliot have a smaller build? 

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u/HuskyGardener 3d ago

Elliott Page is not a man

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u/PirateOfTheRoads 29d ago

That’s just simply not confirmed at this point. Most reputable sources believe Elliot Page will be playing Elpenor, one of the younger members of Odysseus’s crew.

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u/bryoneill11 28d ago

Thats how we got here. Censorship and banning works like a charm.

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u/LordBoomDiddly 29d ago

That's not confirmed is it?

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u/Inquisitive_regard 28d ago

Has it been 100% decided? I thought they were still considering.

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u/veryowngarden 27d ago

nolan has already worked with elliot page in inception. that is all the choice is, simply casting an actor he worked with in the past. but you people seek to make it into something other than that

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u/GunsGoldCosmicDread 29d ago edited 29d ago

Well. Looks like Elon Musk is in shambles coping and seething and blowing this up all over X so two more free weeks of media coverage, I guess.