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oliculipolicula • last Thursday at 3:44 AM • 3 replies • view on HN

Hmm

Wheres the evidence that Homer work ed for the mythology of Dark Age Greece?

If you say its his popularity..

(I would cite the Cyclics as counter evidence)

For filmmaker: itd have to be someone whom you can imagine (unironically) reconstructing Adams or other actual American heroes

So..

Tom Hanks

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kstenerud • yesterday at 4:57 AM

I'd actually put one in for Clint Eastwood.

Although most popular knowledge about him revolves around his earlier acting career (Westerns, Dirty Harry), you'll notice a distinct change in many of his films once he started directing.

* Play Misty for Me

* Breezy

* Unforgiven

* A Perfect World

* The Bridges of Madison County

* Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

* Mystic River

* Million Dollar Baby

* Changeling

* Gran Torino

* American Sniper

* Sully

* The Mule

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throw0101a • yesterday at 2:17 AM

> Tom Hanks

Recency bias? Why not Jimmy Stewart? Gregory Peck? Humphrey Bogart? Paul Newman, Robert Redford?

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krapp • last Thursday at 3:58 AM

As far as I know, it's contested whether Homer even existed as an individual at all. "Homer" might be a collective title for various unknown authors.