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by bazoom42 30 days ago
Is it also patronizing towards Americans to have Brad Pitt play Achilles?
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I don't get your argument. You can look at historical monuments or modern Greeks and Brad Pitt doesn't look to different from them.

Let me try to elaborate on my argument. Imagine you are in a park and there are three children playing, child A, B and C. Imagine child A has 10 toys, B has 7 and C 1.

Now if you forcefully took toys from A and B and gave them to C, then that's patronizing behavior as it means "you can't have your own toys, you need to steal them from someone else, you are not good enough".

A more respectful way of solving the dilemma for all involved parties is by just getting more toys for child C.

What historical monuments are you referring to?
I'm surprised anyone would ask. For example this https://www.worldhistory.org/image/6002/marble-bust-of-a-you...
Are you aware this is from the Roman era, more than a 1000 years after Achilles supposedly lived?

Also, this does not particularly look like Brad Pitt. If you are referring to the greyish color of the marble, be aware statues were painted in antiquity.