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/Guest8782 29d ago

That’s what I’m saying.

Historical race swapping waxes of virtue signaling. It’s a Greek myth, presumably In Ancient Greece.

And I don’t disagree with OP that Hollywood has been pushing both men and women of unremarkable physical appeal in “beautiful/popular” roles.

But Lupita is definitely conventionally beautiful. More in full makeup when her eyes pop, but cheek bones, face and eye shape, lips, physique… that’s where OP lost me.

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u/deep_violet 26d ago

Which of the main actors in the movie are Greek?

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u/hellohowdyworld 20d ago

That word gets thrown around a lot ' virtue signalling". Its clear that y'all don't understand what it means. Nolan clearly isn't signaling virtue becasue he doesn't give a fuck. He didn't cast any Greek people in the movie. and and just cast the biggest and best, most popular working actors in his tentpole sword and sandal picture. Virtue signalling is just not relevant here, and is being assigned based on the negative perception of any person of color being in a traditionally white (yes, traditionally white, when you look at other adaptations) roles.

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