[ SECRET POST #3843 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3843 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Silmarillion]


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[So You Think You Can Dance, Vanessa Hudgens]


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[Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom]


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[Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn]


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[Fargo, season 3]


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[Dark Matter]


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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I'm going to stick up my nose and be the nerdy historian here, and say it is impossible to make a "faithful" adaptation of a Germanic/Northern European myth because we have little to no contemporary literature of that time. What was written about those myths, was written by Christian or Muslim outsiders with the heavy bias of "those crazy pagans!" and they'd just make shit up. When the people themselves developed a literate culture, it was post-Christianization and hundreds of years after these people would've even believed this stuff. So some myths, due to archaeological evidence, we have a vague conceptualization of that would have been "accurate" but the details are always liable to a high rate of variance.

I mean, hell, even classical mythology, which came from a literate culture, varied enormously from farmer to village to upper-class philosopher-king. Germanic/Celtic myth undoubtedly also could be hugely different from one town to the neighboring town five miles south. Hell, in some areas there is compelling evidence that Thor was considered the "king god", not Odin.

So when modern adaptations change shit and do their own thing, honestly I think it's more or less in the spirit of pagan mythology. (Same goes for Arthurian myth)

Though on the note of wanting to see more mythology movies, accurate or otherwise, that take flavor from cultures beyond Egypt and Graeco-Roman society, I say yes x 100000.

Also nothing is more annoying than a Troy adaptation that cuts out the gods and magic. Pfffffft.

[(Anonymous)]

there's also evidence that Tyr was considered more of a "king god" than Odin's wandering old ass but ymmv depending on your area as you said

which makes me laugh at neo-Nazi dudebros as much as than the fact that just about every god is gay and biracial

[(Anonymous)]

even classical mythology, which came from a literate culture, varied enormously from farmer to village to upper-class philosopher-king
This. Like, I get people being upset at the Greek Underworld being portrayed as Christian Hell, but otherwise...?

[(Anonymous)]

People don't get that when we say classical mythology, we're talking about a thousands-year period between multiple countries and cultures that regularly shared and adapted myths and borrowed gods and ideas from neighbors, and only a relatively tiny group of people wrote stuff down and that's where we get what we know today. There was no centralized church to keep everything "canon" and make sure everyone was believing exactly the same thing.

[philstar22]

This is true, though I think you can stretch an adaption to far and then it is just ridiculous (Clash of the Titan remake I don't think in any way could be called an adaption of any version of the myths).