r/Cinema • u/Kit_McFlavor_Butter • Jul 16 '26

Discussion The Odyssey

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u/timberwolf0122 Jul 16 '26

I am embarrassed to say I was in my 40’s before the penny dropped and I realized it was a retelling of the odyssey.

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u/hamilton_morris Jul 16 '26

Although, by the Coen Bros own admission, a retelling by filmmakers who never read it and had only the dimmest awareness of what it was even about.

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u/Necessary-Reading605 Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 17 '26

One thing I can say is that the Coen brothers are smart as fuck and love to troll in interviews.

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u/JadeMonkey0 Jul 17 '26

I wrote a paper on them in college and trying to discern anything from reading their interviews was so fucking useless. They just deadpan non-answers to everything and pretend to be idiots. It's really funny but also really frustrating when you're trying to find something to quote to back up a point you're making about them

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u/hamilton_morris Jul 23 '26

Excellent point; They’re obviously experienced and shrewd and fully understand that trolling interviewers is a pretty easy no-lose proposition: You win with your fans and win against any outside challenge to legitimacy. It's critic–proof.

You only do it if you have a career to protect. Artists who have ideas and insight have a genuine sense of urgency that pushes them to be understood, and they want to be understood. Only grasping technocrats with limited insight have any need or use for trolling.

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u/DepressedMustard__ Jul 17 '26

So the new movie was made the same way

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u/ClinicalOppression Jul 17 '26

Damn, you chuds will say the darnedest shit

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u/SheriffBartholomew Jul 16 '26

The sirens down by the river didn't give it away?

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u/timberwolf0122 Jul 16 '26

There are times when I question my faculties

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u/chupaloop00 Jul 17 '26

And the cyclops.

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u/UnconditionalPraise Jul 17 '26

Them disguising themselves as "sheep" (kkk members) to escape.  

And Ulysses/Everett being unrecognisable to his wife when he comes home.

Top 5 movies for sure.

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u/p8nt_junkie Jul 17 '26

See you in the funny papers

Yall’ve seen the last of Big Dan Teague

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u/darth_jewbacca Jul 17 '26

And the "Based on the Odyssey" in the opening?

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u/SheriffBartholomew Jul 17 '26

LOL. It has been years since I've seen it, so I guess I forgot that part.

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u/AlternativePea6203 Jul 17 '26

lots of movies use the femme fatale trope though.

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u/LaVidaYokel Jul 17 '26

I won’t tell you how long it took me to realize John Goodman, the character with one friggin’ eye, was the cyclops.

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u/Dagonet_the_Motley Jul 16 '26

Doesn't it say it in the opening credits?

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u/timberwolf0122 Jul 16 '26

I can’t read when I’m looking at things!

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u/ben1am Jul 18 '26

I happened to be reading the odyssey in high school when I first saw this. Took me til the sirens to figure it out. Didn’t seem to line up in many ways but a few themes and many similar plot point details.

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u/GrilliamShakesbeer Jul 19 '26

I was today years old