Can you guess how many of the characters in the recent live-action version of Disney's Moana film were acted by actual native Polynesian people?
All of them. Every single one of them.
Can you guess how many of the characters in the recent The Odyssey film, by Christopher Nolan, were acted by actual native Greek people?
Not one of them. None.
On the contrary, there are several actors in the main cast that are absolutely not period-accurate nor faithful to the source material (and that's completely on purpose.)
On top of that, the creators of the live-action Moana film went to excruciating length to represent Polynesian culture, traditions and aesthetics as accurately and faithfully as possible.
In contrast, Christopher Nolan didn't give a flying fuck about being period-accurate... or accurate at all, regardless of the time period, to ancient Greece, as almost everything in the movie is not just completely anachronistic but outright fictitious, not corresponding to real ancient Greece at all.
The excuse "The Odyssey is just a work of fiction, fantasy" does not fly because so is Moana. Both are works of fiction and myth. In fact, in some ways The Odyssey, even though mostly a work of fiction and myth, is actually more based on history than Moana is.
It's quite clear that Hollywood only cares about accuracy, representation and respect for the culture that's being represented, when it's non-white people involved.
If they didn't have double standards, they wouldn't have standards at all.
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