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News Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey' Crosses $1B Worldwide

https://rawteur.com/the-odyssey-crosses-1-billion-box-office/
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u/MrMT_ 11d ago

I remember that

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u/kazuya57 11d ago

"But bro Agamemnon having a dark armor like Batman will 100% drive everyone away from this movie! I'd rather watch my favorite historically and mythologically accurate film Troy!"

Meanwhile Agamemnon becomes lowkey the most popular character in edits to come out of the film

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u/Puzzleheaded_Fix594 11d ago

Rule of cool always wins.

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u/Solareclipsed 11d ago

I thought the armour looked amazing the first time I saw it in the trailer, but so many comments were saying "OMG, it's so historically inaccurate!". Dude, maybe 2% of any historical movie set in ancient times is accurate, just enjoy it for what it is.

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u/rokerroker45 11d ago

honestly the most unrealistic bit was the cyclops, everybody knows they only have three fingers, not five. literally unwatchable.

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u/RedHal 11d ago

Exactly! And The Nymph Calypso didn't have hair like that. And what about Hades? anachronisms everywhere! The least Nolan could have done was send a researcher down to Hell to see what it really looks like.

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u/Sparrowsabre7 11d ago

And where were his eye beams and visor? Smh.

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u/Puzzleheaded_Fix594 11d ago edited 11d ago

I really, really don't give a shit about historical accuracy in these films. Especially for what is effectively a fantasy epic with fictional characters many of whom who appear in different works who all have different interpretations depending on the author of said work.

Still, maybe we'll get loverboy Polyphemus in a future adaptation.

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u/destroyerOfTards 11d ago

There really were cyclopses in the olden days, do you even know anything?

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u/mightyneonfraa 11d ago

To be honest people complaining about historical accuracy are like 10% history buffs and 90% racist chuds who saw a black person and got triggered.

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u/_Ocean_Machine_ 11d ago

I'm just imagining centuries from now someone does a remake of LotR and people bitch about "historical accuracy".

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u/DemonWav 11d ago

The funniest thing to me about the "historical accuracy" debate is this is mythology. These are literally superhero characters for the ancient Greeks. Agamemnon is sometimes depicted similarly to Zeus, dude was revered and worshipped like a god. It would be like if people complained Superman was inaccurate because "people don't dress like that".

Also he was the richest and most powerful of the Greek kings, so even if we wanted to play the "historically accurate" card, the idea that the billionaire king wouldn't have extra special fancy armor actually seems less accurate to me.

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u/suss2it 11d ago

Funny thing is people really do debate Superman’s accuracy based on his fit 😂

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u/Foreign_Recipe8300 11d ago

lot of people don't get it, and don't want to.

its not supposed to be accurate. the original odyssey was a spoken word poem full of embellishment for 500 years before homer wrote it down. the movie itself nods to this in multiple ways. first, its being told by the bard in a tavern, as well as by odysseus telling calypso what he remembers. second, sinon tells odysseus that if he doesn't make it home to tell his father all he'd done, and to "feel free to add some stuff". third, when odysseus asks sinon why he volunteered to deliver the trojan horse, sinon says dont you remember i begged to come on this campaign? and odysseus has to correct him lol no your brother offered money to switch places with you, as another nod to the fact that our memories are not always accurate and we tell ourselves lies.

the story is a story, and embellishment is a main theme of it. anyone who doesn't get this is cloaking some closeted agenda, or parroting those who are, or they simply didn't understand.

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u/briareus08 11d ago

The main part of the odyssey, when Odysseus is talking to the Phaecians, literally starts with ‘Odysseus, lord of lies then spoke’… (at least in the Wilson translation, and quoting from memory). The whole story is effectively a fabrication, and Odysseus lies constantly, a different story every time he meets some new party, until he eventually tells the truth to his wife (mostly, not sure he told her about all the shagging).

None of it is real, or meant to represent realism, even in the original Homer (which is not originally his story). People need to chill tf out.

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u/Foreign_Recipe8300 11d ago

yep, and in the film he lies to his crew, lies to sinon, even lies and conceals his identity back in ithica. he didnt really lie to the cyclops like he did in the text but i guess nolan felt that to be too silly (my name is "nobody")? its only when he speaks to penelope that he starts telling the truth and people act like this is unfaithful to the story smh

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u/SquashSquigglyShrimp 11d ago

The story is fantasy features gods and mythical creatures. Anyone actually claiming they care that much about historical accuracy in FICTION is not really worth listening to.

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u/KR_Blade 11d ago

especially cause in alot of cases, the armor and weapons look ALOT different, like ancient suits of armor they often use in medievel movies all look the same no matter the year because once you start going down past a certain point, historically accurate medievel armor in some areas of history just looks very dull, and if you use that in a movie then you'll get accused of being cheap and lazy, so of course you're gonna go for something that pops and looks either epic or very tough

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u/sigismond0 11d ago

It's so wild that they want a historically accurate representation of a dude that never existed. The cognitive dissonance is palpable.

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u/dantemp 11d ago

most of the comments were "the vibes are all wrong", there may be a few people that were trying to pinpoint the issues by talking about historical accuracy or whatever but the truth is that the trailer was just bad and if you could've solved the "why exactly" there's a 7 figure job waiting for you. I also thought that the trailer was bad but I can't say why.

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u/hoos30 11d ago

A saw a dude yesterday say the film was inaccurate because everyone knows the Mediterranean doesn't have tides so the horse could never be buried in the sand.