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The Odyssey isn't adjacent retired yet, but it's already being criticized — including by Elon Musk.
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If you missed it, Elon antecedently took issue with Lupita Nyongo's casting successful the upcoming Christopher Nolan adaptation. The Kenyan-Mexican histrion plays some Helen of Troy — celebrated described successful Greek mythology arsenic the astir beauteous pistillate successful the satellite — and her sister, Clytemnestra — which Elon criticized for "DEI" reasons.
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He besides responded aft an X idiosyncratic claimed Lupita's casting proved "the communicative was ne'er the constituent and an insult to the author." He replied, "Chris Nolan has mislaid his integrity."
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Alec Baldwin defended Lupita astatine the time, penning connected Instagram, "Dear Elon… but she IS the astir beauteous pistillate successful the world." But Elon hasn't fto up connected criticizing the film.
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Now, he's getting attraction again aft making a antagonistic tweet astir the historiographer Tom Holland.
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On Tuesday, Tom praised the movie earlier sharing a nexus to an nonfiction highlighting different affirmative reviews up of its July 17 theatrical release. He wrote, "More praise for The Odyssey from radical who - shockingly - person really waited to spot it earlier giving their opinion."
An X idiosyncratic past quote-tweeted Tom's station and declared, "This mightiness beryllium the worst movie ever made," to which Elon replied, "Tom Holland is specified a cuck."
Tom wasted small clip responding. Writing implicit Elon's post, helium wrote, "Very blessed to accidental it again. The Odyssey is an astonishing film, and missing retired connected seeing it due to the fact that you deliberation it's woke oregon immoderate is cutting disconnected your chemoreceptor to spite your face." He past added, "Your loss."
The speech rapidly went viral, with Tom's effect earning implicit 50,000 likes compared to Elon's tweet and tons of praise from viewers.
One idiosyncratic wrote connected Reddit, "tom holland is my historiographer goat," portion different called Elon's comments "fucking disgusting."
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"Tom seems similar a people act," idiosyncratic other said. "When they spell low, spell high."
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Another simply added, "W Tom Holland."
People besides roasted Elon, with 1 idiosyncratic joking that helium "100%" thought helium was tweeting astir the histrion Tom Holland, who plays Odysseus's son, Telemachus.
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Many besides made amusive of Elon for getting ratioed connected the precise level helium owns. "Imagine being the richest antheral successful the satellite and inactive getting ratio’d connected a level you own," 1 idiosyncratic wrote. "That's hilarious," different added.
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The full happening besides made immoderate radical adjacent much anxious to spot the film, with 1 commenter writing, "I can't hold to spot this movie, my lord."
Tom, meanwhile, seemed ace unbothered by the full thing. Offering a last connection connected the matter, helium tweeted, "If you similar Nolan's different films, you volition emotion The Odyssey. If you didn't similar them, past miss it."
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