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How ‘The Odyssey’ Was Lost In Translation
Christopher Nolan’s new adaptation of the Odyssey, which opened in theaters worldwide on July 17, sparked controversy during its production for filming in Western Sahara, an independent territory that has been under occupation by Morocco for more than fifty years. As critics like Eoghan Gilmartin have rightly noted, Hollywood’s presence in Western Sahara would have been unthinkable before 2020, when Donald Trump forced U.S. recognition of Moroccan sovereignty over the territory.
Ryse: Son of Rome sollte eigentlich das Assassin's Creed für die Xbox werden
Was sind einige der grafisch schönsten Spiele aller Zeiten? Viele Beispiele, die mir in den Sinn kommen, stammen nicht aus dieser Generation, sondern eher aus den frühen 2010er Jahren: Metal Gear Solid 5, The Witcher 3 und Batman: Arkham Knight sahen bei ihrer Veröffentlichung alle atemberaubend aus – und tun das auch heute noch.
How Bruce Springsteen turned one of America's darkest crimes into a haunting classic
Between January 21 and 29, 1958, a 19-year-old garbageman from Lincoln, Nebraska, called Charles Starkweather went on a killing spree with his 14-year-old girlfriend, Caril Ann Fugate. Described as a "swaggering good-for-nothing in blue jeans and a black motorcycle jacket" known to yell "go to hell" at strangers, Starkweather killed 11 people-including Fugate's mother, stepfather, and half-sister-before he was caught and sent to the electric chair.
How Bruce Springsteen Turned One of America's Darkest Crimes Into a Haunting Classic Original
Between January 21 and 29, 1958, a 19-year-old garbageman from Lincoln, Nebraska, called Charles Starkweather went on a killing spree with his 14-year-old girlfriend, Caril Ann Fugate. Described as a "swaggering good-for-nothing in blue jeans and a black motorcycle jacket" known to yell "go to hell" at strangers, Starkweather killed 11 people—including Fugate’s mother, stepfather, and half-sister—before he was caught and sent to the electric chair.
Why The World Still Can’t Agree About Alcohol Original
Last month, my home country of the Netherlands published new health guidelines advising people to not just limit their alcohol intake, but to avoid it entirely. There is no such thing as drinking responsibly or in moderation, one researcher said: “Each glass is harmful, for yourself and others.” To be clear, I am neither a doctor nor a scientist. I will not downplay alcohol’s negative health consequences.
Why The World Still Can’t Agree About Alcohol
Last month, my home country of the Netherlands published new health guidelines advising people to not just limit their alcohol intake, but to avoid it entirely. There is no such thing as drinking responsibly or in moderation, one researcher said: "Each glass is harmful, for yourself and others." To be clear, I am neither a doctor nor a scientist. I will not downplay alcohol's negative health consequences.
The creepy historical job that required you to eat someone else's sins
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The Creepy Historical Job That Required You to Eat Someone Else's Sins
Though often associated with Christianity, sin-eating was never endorsed by church officials. A 18th-century engraving of a funeral wake in the United Kingdom, the era and region where the bizarre practice of sin-eating flourished. | DEA/G. DAGLI ORTI/Getty Images In the fifth and final season of FX’s hit TV show Fargo, we are introduced to a character called Ole Munch. While the overall story is set in modern-day Minnesota, Munch’s seems to date back centuries.
What developers can learn from this generation of game criticism
The landscape of online gaming journalism has changed dramatically over the past decade. Between esteemed publications being shut down or absorbed into content mill portfolios, it's tempting to conclude that serious, in-depth game criticism is going extinct. In written form, at least at scale, it largely is. On YouTube, though, things look different.
Why Do Judges and Barristers Wear Wigs in Britain?
Wigs are a staple of courtroom iconography, right up there with gavels and the blindfolded face of Lady Justice. This is especially true of the U.K., where they are still worn by many judges and barristers to this day. But where did this practice originally come from? Though it is difficult to imagine one without the other, wigs were historically not always part of English judicial system.
Why Do Judges and Barristers Wear Wigs in Britain?
Wigs are a staple of courtroom iconography, right up there with gavels and the blindfolded face of Lady Justice. This is especially true of the U.K., where they are still worn by many judges and barristers to this day. But where did this practice originally come from? Though it is difficult to imagine one without the other, wigs were historically not always part of English judicial system.
How Long Would It Really Take to Sail Odysseus' Route Today?
Ever since Homer wrote the Odyssey, people have been trying to see if they can transpose Odysseus’ journey from Troy to Ithaca onto a real-world map. Considering the poem was written thousands of years ago and contains numerous supernatural elements, this is easier said than done. However, it’s not impossible.
Was Odysseus in 'The Odyssey' based on a real person?
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Was Odysseus in 'The Odyssey' Based on a Real Person?
Christopher Nolan is bringing Homer’s epic poem, The Odyssey, to modern audiences. Thanks to state-of-the-art CGI, Odysseus’ escapades have never looked more realistic. But this appearance of realism also begs the question: did this famous hero from antiquity, who outsmarted sorcerers and monsters, actually exist? It’s a difficult question to answer.
Was Odysseus in 'The Odyssey' Based on a Real Person?
15 hours ago The Odyssey is not, strictly speaking, a children’s book. I thought my son might enjoy it anyway. In Book 12 of Homer’s Odyssey, a band of war-weary sailors is navigating home when a narrow strait appears on the horizon. The ship, captained by their king, Odysseus, is blocked on one side by a high …
Was the Trojan Horse Real? What Historians Actually Think
In Greek mythology, when Paris, a prince of Troy, abducted—or, as some sources say, eloped with—Helen, Queen of Sparta, an alliance of Greek city-states sailed across the Aegean to lay siege to the great eastern city. As this siege dragged on with no end in sight, a Greek soldier of high cunning, Odysseus, devised a plan: they would build a giant wooden horse, present this horse to the Trojans as a peace offering, hidden inside so as to take the city from within.
Comment l’IA va sonner le glas de l’art humain
Heureusement, les annales de l’histoire de l’art brossent un tableau différent, plus optimiste. Avec du recul, la pression que l’IA exerce sur les artistes humains s’inscrit en réalité dans un processus évolutif qui précède de loin sa propre invention. À travers l’histoire, l’innovation technologique a permis, en développant notre capacité à créer, de prioriser la manière dont est réalisée une œuvre et les raisons de sa création plutôt que son aspect.
엑스박스 진영의 어쌔신 크리드를 꿈꿨던 라이즈: 선 오브 로마
역대 최고의 그래픽을 자랑하는 게임은 무엇일까? 필자의 머릿속을 스치는 수많은 명작들은 놀랍게도 현세대가 아닌 2010년대 초반에 등장한 작품들이다. 메탈 기어 솔리드 V, 더 위쳐 3, 배트맨: 아캄 나이트는 출시 당시 압도적인 비주얼로 세상을 놀라게 했고, 그 감동은 지금까지도 유효하다. 이 화려한 목록에 기꺼이 추가하고 싶은 이름이 또 하나 있다. 바로 독일의 개발사 크라이텍이 야심 차게 선보였으나 끝내 비운의 엑스박스 원 런칭 타이틀로 남은 '라이즈: 선 오브 로마'이다. 죽은 가족의 복수를 위해 검을 든 로마 백부장의 서사를 다룬 이 게임은, 웬만한 실사 영화를 가볍게 뛰어넘을 만큼 숨 막히도록 화려하고 압도적인 시네마틱 연출을 자랑한다. 안타깝게도 플레이 타임은 6시간 남짓으로 상당히 짧은 편이었다. 당시 개발에 참여했던 직원들의 증언에 따르면, 런칭 일정에 맞추기 위해 애초 기획했던 콘텐츠의 무려 3분의 2를 덜어내야만 했다.
Ryse: Son of Rome Had Plans To Be Xbox’s Assassin’s Creed
What are some of the best-looking games of all time? Many examples that come to my mind are not from this generation, but rather the early 2010s: Metal Gear Solid 5, The Witcher 3, and Batman: Arkham Knight all looked stunning upon release, and still do today. To this list I would also add Ryse: Son of Rome, German developer Crytek’s ill-fated Xbox One launch title in which you play as a Roman centurion seeking to avenge his dead family.
El arte perdido: así fue como el CGI asesinó al talento que dibujaba a mano en Disney
"Lo he estado haciendo todo al revés", dice el animador Aaron Blaise entre risas.
The Hidden Grief of American Musicals
The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. Unstaged Grief: Musicals and Mourning in Midcentury America is part of JSTOR’s Path to Open initiative, which helps nonprofit university presses meet the challenges of open access publishing. Books in the program become open access three years after publication. JSTOR Daily is making the introduction and first chapter available for free now to drive awareness of the program.
A New Dante Movie Gets Lost In Hell
In the Hand of Dante is all over the place. The narrative advertised by its title, of medieval Italian poet Dante Alighieri’s struggle to write his epic poem, The Divine Comedy, competes for screen time with a neo-noir story in which a fictional version of Nick Tosches, the late author of the book on which this film is based, is recruited by a crime boss to authenticate the poem’s long-lost original manuscript. Oscar Isaac plays both Dante and Tosches.
Gen Z Goes to Hollywood
Welcome to FP Free Week. To celebrate America’s 250th birthday, our entire site is completely unlocked this week only. Enjoy the article. Three of the most talked about films at the moment—Obsession, Backrooms, and The Amazing Digital Circus: The Last Act—couldn’t be more different at first glance. Obsession is about a guy who unintentionally bewitches the girl he’s secretly in love with, making her love him back at the cost of turning her into a completely different person.
Why your brain gets hung up on troubling thoughts — and what to do about it
5 hours ago You'll regret putting these items through airport security. Trust us. I fly monthly and always anticipate walking through security and emerging on the other side, victorious. For me, successfully completing the airport screening process is the moment my trip truly begins. If I do everything …
Dutch No-Nonsense Neoliberalism Is, Indeed, Nonsense
“It’s about how Dutch politicians on both sides of the political spectrum implemented neoliberal reforms and austerity measures between the 1980s and now,” I tell a friend who asks what book I’m reading. Although he’s college educated and works for a real estate firm in Amsterdam’s financial district, the look on his face tells me he doesn’t quite know what I’m talking about.
How AI Will Make Art Worse Original
Many live in quiet fear that AI will someday be, if not the death of art itself, then at least of the human artist’s livelihood. Between Hollywood screenwriters taking to the streets to protect their jobs from large language models and robot artists like Ai-Da fetching millions at auction, the future of art can seem rather grim. Fortunately, the annals of art history paint a different, brighter picture.
4 of the Most Famous Father-Son Rivalries in History Original
Storytelling throughout the ages is full of bitter and often deadly father-son rivalries. Think of Zeus rebelling against Chronos in Greek myth, or Pavel Smerdyakov killing Fyodor Karamazov and framing his half-brother Dmitri in Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel The Brothers Karamazov. Think also of Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader in Star Wars or Tyrion and Tywin Lannister in Game of Thrones.
잊혀진 예술: CG는 어떻게 디즈니의 수제 애니메이션을 끝장냈는가
"저는 완전히 거꾸로 해왔던 셈이죠." 애니메이터 에런 블레이즈가 껄껄 웃으며 말했다. 단순한 농담만은 아니다. 실제로 어느 정도는 사실이기 때문이다. 그는 디즈니에서 경력을 시작해 알라딘과 라이온 킹 같은 고전 명작들의 작업에 참여했고, 디즈니가 컴퓨터 그래픽(CG) 애니메이션으로 전면 전환하기 전 제작한 마지막 수제 애니메이션 중 하나인 2003년작 '브라더 베어'의 감독을 맡았다. 화면과 소프트웨어보다 연필과 종이를 더 사랑했던 블레이즈는 얼마 지나지 않아 디즈니를 떠났고, 동물 드로잉 전문 강사로 활동하기 시작했다. 유튜브에서 100만 명 이상의 구독자를 모은 그는 결국 곰을 주제로 한 또 다른 영화를 만들기로 결심했다. 그는 자택 작업실에서 모든 과정을 오로지 혼자 힘으로 완성할 계획이었으며, 과거 디즈니에서 했던 바로 그 방식대로 기계의 힘을 빌리지 않고 작업에 착수했다.
Lost Art: How CG Killed Hand-Drawn Animation at Disney
“I’ve been doing it all backwards,” animator Aaron Blaise says, chuckling. It’s a joke, but also kind of true: He began his career at Disney, working on classics like Aladdin and The Lion King before serving as the director of 2003’s Brother Bear – one of the last hand-drawn films the company ever produced before switching over to computer-generated animation.
A Brief History of Political Trolling
In 2013, the U.S. comedian Sam Hyde conned his way into the speakers’ lineup of a TEDx event at Drexel University by posing as a documentary filmmaker who had shadowed female humanitarian aid workers in Mogadishu, Somalia. Appearing on stage in a red track suit and what appeared to be the breastplate of a Roman centurion Halloween costume, he proceeded not to give a presentation but to deliver a rant.
God of War Laufey Feels Too Similar to Kratos’ Norse Saga
This is an IGN opinion piece from writer Tim Brinkhof, who has been playing God of War for two decades. He thinks the 2018 reboot is majestic. Ragnarok, not so much. Responses to Santa Monica Studio’s first look at God of War Laufey have been – to put it lightly – mixed. And I, too, have mixed feelings about Laufey, although none of them concern the fact we’ll be playing as Faye rather than Kratos.
Did Caligula Really Put a Horse in Charge of Rome?
Few Roman Emperors are as infamous as Caligula. The third ruler of the empire after Augustus and Tiberius, Caligula’s short reign was marked by megalomania that at times bordered on outright insanity. Among other things, the young emperor is said to have crossed the Bay of Baie on a bridge made of 2,000 merchant ships. He also declared war on the god Poseidon and ordered his soldiers to gather seashells to mark their victory.
Did Caligula Really Put a Horse in Charge of Rome?
Few Roman Emperors are as infamous as Caligula. The third ruler of the empire after Augustus and Tiberius, Caligula's short reign was marked by megalomania that at times bordered on outright insanity. Among other things, the young emperor is said to have crossed the Bay of Baie on a bridge made of 2,000 merchant ships. He also declared war on the god Poseidon and ordered his soldiers to gather seashells to mark their victory.
The time Europe was terrified of tomatoes
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The Time Europe Was Terrified of Tomatoes
Nowadays, tomatoes are associated with nice, delicious things like summer, pastas, and the country of Italy. But back during the early 1600s, when they first arrived in Europe from the Americas, they had a very different reputation. For nearly two centuries, most people in the Old World stayed clear of this New World food. Not because they didn’t like its taste, but because they thought it was poisonous.
The Time Europe Was Terrified of Tomatoes
Nowadays, tomatoes are associated with nice, delicious things like summer, pastas, and the country of Italy. But back during the early 1600s, when they first arrived in Europe from the Americas, they had a very different reputation. For nearly two centuries, most people in the Old World stayed clear of this New World food. Not because they didn't like its taste, but because they thought it was poisonous.
What does "6-7" mean? We'll tell you so you don't have to ask
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How Best to Look at Russian History
Many history books about Russia and the Soviet Union published in recent years are microhistories: scholarship that looks at the past as through a microscope, prioritizing the minutiae of everyday life over wars, government changes, economic cycles, and other large-scale events. One recent example is Yuri Slezkine’s The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution (2017), about the private lives of Bolshevik elites who shared an apartment building.
Another YouTube phenomenon crashed theaters this weekend
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The Last Battle of World War II Took Place on a Small Island You Probably Never Heard Of
North of the Netherlands lies the Wadden Sea, a protected natural area where low tide exposes sandbanks that connect the Dutch mainland to five islands. The smallest of these islands - Schiermonnikoog - houses but a single village with fewer than 1,000 inhabitants. But in a way, this small island has left a big mark on history: during the Second World War, it was the last place in Europe to be freed from Nazi occupation. The Nazis first arrived on Schiermonnikoog on May 15, 1940.
The Last Battle of World War II Took Place on a Small Island You Probably Never Heard Of
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The Last Battle of World War II Took Place on a Small Island You Probably Never Heard Of
North of the Netherlands lies the Wadden Sea, a protected natural area where low tide exposes sandbanks that connect the Dutch mainland to five islands. The smallest of these islands – Schiermonnikoog – houses but a single village with fewer than 1,000 inhabitants. But in a way, this small island has left a big mark on history: during the Second World War, it was the last place in Europe to be freed from Nazi occupation.
3 Historical Figures People Really Thought Were Vampires
Throughout history, powerful and eccentric individuals have been suspected or persecuted for vampirism. Here are some of them. Mouth with vampire fangs with striped background | Polinmrrr / Shutterstock Nowadays, courtesy of Bram Stoker’s novel Draculaand early film adaptations like Nosferatu, we generally think of vampires as pale-skinned people with sharp teeth, dark robes, and sometimes, pointy ears.
Another YouTube Phenomenon Is Crashing Theaters This Weekend
The Amazing Digital Circus: The Last Act is an indie animated film — and it already beat He-Man, Scary Movie, and Backrooms at the box office on Thursday. If you spend a lot of time on YouTube, you may have come across The Amazing Digital Circus, the viral animated series whose 2023 debut episode took the internet by storm and amassed more than 430 million views, the kind of numbers normally reserved for the likes of Mr.Beast, Cocomelon, or Charlie Bit My Finger.
The US town that's been burning underground for decades
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The U.S. Town That’s Been Burning Underground for Decades
At a glance, Centralia, Pennsylvania looks like an ordinary American ghost town: asphalt roads split open, graffiti on nearly every square inch of surface, and abandoned homes and public buildings suspended in time. Stick around, however, and you may notice tufts of smoke or on rainy days, steam, rising from below the ground. That’s because Centralia is on fire. Or, more specifically, the system of coal mines underneath Centralia are on fire.
The Strange Story of the Village That Supposedly Vanished Without Any Explanation
In November 1930, a fur trapper named Joe LaBelle stopped by Lake Anjikuni in the Northwest Territories of Canada. There was a small Inuit village next to this lake, one he had visited before, and where he knew he would be welcome. Expecting to be greeted as warmly the cold weather permitted, the trapper instead found this village completely deserted.
The Strange Story of the Village That Supposedly Vanished Without Any Explanation
In November 1930, a fur trapper named Joe LaBelle stopped by Lake Anjikuni in the Northwest Territories of Canada. There was a small Inuit village next to this lake, one he had visited before, and where he knew he would be welcome. Expecting to be greeted as warmly the cold weather permitted, the trapper instead found this village completely deserted.
The Strange Story of the Village That Supposedly Vanished Without Any Explanation
Why attending university closer to home could be a game changer for Inuit Months before graduating from university Inuujaq Leslie Fredlund almost gave up. "Did I make a mistake? Like, what am I doing here?" Fredlund said in …
Assassin's Creed emprende un camino interesante, pero no es el que yo escogería
Por mucho que me guste Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag, no puedo evitar pensar que el remake Resynced, anunciado recientemente, es una señal de que la franquicia está luchando por mantenerse a flote, incapaz para siempre de estar a la altura de la calidad y la relevancia cultural de sus primeros títulos. Black Flag fue, posiblemente, el último gran éxito de la franquicia: el último que cautivó a casi todo el mundo, el último que aún se percibió como un auténtico acontecimiento.
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