@DenverBritto @cdTilleyLondon So nothing to do with being connected to the literature. Which was the OPs point. Also Armand Assantes Performance isn’t it a difference. You take on lighting or the better performance is opinion only
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@cdTilleyLondon The scenes are quite similar but two key differences that stand out are the lighting and Armand Assante's charismatic performance.
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Really odd to choose this scene as an example, which is almost identical in Nolan’s version. I’m not sure what point is being made here. In fact, this version misses out Odysseus plucking the bow, which Nolan’s film uses as a motif in the music throughout the film.
Bruno Maçães@MacaesBruno
This is not very good but you sense there is still some connection to literary culture here through reading and through theatre. Whereas Noland is the Odyssey for the age of MMA fighting and social media. Just emptiness
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@Ryan_Gasoline Pretty funny you would make that connection lmao
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He was the Trump in the Odyssey in case you missed it. Every Hollywood movie has to have a Trump or an Elon as the villain, this is the rule
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@HarrierMagnus Yeah people forget that. I think everyone that is championing Troy on this app right now has seen the 3 scenes that have circulated online forever
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You know looking back this cast was actually insane. You had prime Eric Bana, prime Brad Pitt, Sean Bean playing Odysseus, Brian Cox as Agamemnon, PETER O'TOOLE AS PRIAM, a loaded cast, which makes how much the movie sucks that much more disappointing.
C.A. Shoultz@HarrierMagnus
The worst part of the Odyssey discourse is people trying to rehabilitate Troy (2004) to own the libs. This is nonsensical. Troy SUCKED. You may not have been, there but I was. It was a deeply unsatisfying movie, which is a shame because it actually had a pretty good cast.
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@David_Da_Boss Does this actually bother you? You weren’t there for any of this. You’re never actually seen any of this in person. The movie isn’t a historical retelling of anything. It’s visual appeal. If you want to jerk off to armor go look at a history book. Why watch a movie?
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The helmet is wrong, those types would not appear until the 5th century bc. The submission is wrong. Odisseus was also a king. The armour is wrong, the colour, the style… just a dollar-making machine. So sad of Nolan, he used to like art. Now he only likes money.
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@Orthodoxxy_com As opposed to your astounding IQ I presume?
That’s the intention of the post right? To platform yourself above others by pretending opinions on a film are some sort of intellectual marker?
This has to come from a place of isolation and need for purpose. Its really sad
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The success and acceptance of Nolan's Odysseus is a marker of the low intellectual sink our culture has fallen into.
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@Zacbunchanumbrs “A conservative director”
What the fuck are we doing. Seriously. What has social media done to people’s brains
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Yeah, anyone trying to rightsplain the Odyssey as some secretly right wing work or still trying to claim Nolan is a conservative director needs to stop.
Polymarket@Polymarket
NEW: Christopher Nolan says Homer’s original Odyssey ending was “so grim and so misogynistic” that it had to be altered for the film.
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@realdrunknpoet Show me the film adaption of the odyssey that kept the original ending. I’ll wait…
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So much for the whole "it's an adaptation" argument, huh?
Not even Nolan is making that argument, lol.
Polymarket@Polymarket
NEW: Christopher Nolan says Homer’s original Odyssey ending was “so grim and so misogynistic” that it had to be altered for the film.
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@HeatCulture88 @jingoisticpig The negative focus on a majority of the people on this app is astounding
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@SharpLines0 @jingoisticpig Ppl don’t like the movie but feel the need to talk about it for months on end lmao
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The cult-like manner of pretending Nolan can do no wrong is really strange.
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@Trust_Lion_ @ParkSlopeFlngsm It’s not questionable lol. It is mythological fiction. Where do we get this idea that if something is based on real people that the stories they tell are questionably real. It’s folk lore. Like ghost and ghouls.
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@ParkSlopeFlngsm It's historicity is questionable at parts but that part is conveyed as something the author had witnessed. Much of The Northman (saw it 3 times in theaters) is a documentary-esqe depiction of Viking rites. Flawed movie (studio interference) but captivating
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I still plan to watch this movie someday but good lord the choreography in this scene is terrible
It really starts with him catching a spear out of the air??
Nathaniel Graves@1Silverandcold
I know it's already been said, but if you like Vikings and care about European history, you NEED to watch The Northman from 2022. It only made 75.8 million at the box office with a budget of 70 million. It's a crime that it didn't do better.
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@corbinbleufaces It’s a bad movie and pretty boring for the most part. It does have some really cool scenes and Pitt and Bana in particular are great
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Yes, it's true. No locked in project yet, but talks are ongoing.
Odyssey the way it needs to be done.
Owen Gregorian@OwenGregorian
Elon Musk Offers to Fund $100 Million Mel Gibson Versionof ‘The Odyssey’ to Defy Christopher Nolan’s Woke Adaptation | Ben Kew, The Gateway Pundit Elon Musk has indicated he would be willing to finance a Mel Gibson adaptation of The Odyssey after responding to a viral proposal on X. X user John Carter suggested Musk provide Gibson with a $100 million budget to produce a historically accurate adaptation of Homer’s ancient Greek epic. “I want Elon Musk to give Mel Gibson $100 million to film an Odyssey adaptation with painstakingly historically accurate ships, armour, weapons, and casting, with all dialogue taken straight from the original poem and delivered in Homeric Greek,” Carter wrote. Musk replied: “I’m down.” The exchange quickly gained traction on the platform, with Musk’s response receiving more than 80,000 likes and millions of views. Gibson has directed several acclaimed historical films, including Braveheart, Apocalypto and Hacksaw Ridge. The discussion comes as interest in Homer’s epic has grown following the release of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, which has renewed public attention on the ancient Greek poem. While the film has been positively reviewed, it has sparked controversy with many of its casting decisions. For example, Kenyan-Mexican actress Lupita Nyong’o was cast as traditionally white characters Helen of Troy and her sister, Clytemnestra, in the film. Meanwhile, transgender actor Elliot Page has a notable role as Sinon, a Greek soldier and the son of a servant of Antinou. However, this character does not appear in the original poem and was actually borrowed from Virgil’s Aeneid and other myths. It remains unclear whether Musk’s response was a serious commitment or simply an expression of support, and no project has been announced. Gibson is currently working on The Resurrection of the Christ, the long-awaited sequel to his 2004 blockbuster The Passion of the Christ. thegatewaypundit.com/2026/07/elon-m…
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@sociologyWV It’s funny how many literature adaptions change significant portions of the story and are critically acclaimed and no one has an issue until the race of the cast goes against their wishes. Such a weird time in the world
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I'm not even sure what a faithful adaptation of Moby Dick would look like. It's a weird book, and serious challenge to adapt.
I grew up with the John Huston movie (written by Bradbury). Liked that well enough, but I saw it before reading the book.
I loathed the 90s TV adaptation. Good cast, of course-- Picard and the effing Toecutter are in it! [makes sign of the V8] -- but just fell flat with me.
Daniel Mendelsohn@DAMendelsohnNYC
An analogue for Nolan’s @odysseymovie: A $100 million big-screen adaptation of “Moby-Dick” in which Ahab is a jovial, hail-fellow-well-met type, adored by his crew, suddenly tormented by moral reservations about the whaling industry. Sure, it’s an “adaptation”: who cd complain?
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@jcwrightdad It’s kinda sad how it seems the only thing people care about with movies is their financial success. Just so strange. The same thing just happened with Obsession. Like just enjoy the film why are we tracking box office numbers lmfao
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Ignoring that this is DEFINITELY going to happen, this new approach to discrediting film is WILD to me. Since when did we all become corporate financial advisors? When have we ever as fans judged movies like this?
JFC no one does. No one cares.
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He-Man is better than the Odyssey.
Simply because at the end, I was glad to see Adam had won.
I didn’t care that Odysseus had won as He sailed off on His boat trip.
You can get everything technically right, but if the audience isn’t cheering and/or happy with your hero at the end, something went of course in your story telling.
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@buzz_ftw88 Probably the most relevant piece of media about Greece to come out in the last 60 years minimum if not a lot longer than that. Not sure how that’s a bad thing
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The odyssey by Christopher Nolan is basically one big fuck you to Europe and its people.
𝕵𝖆𝖉𝖊 ☧ ✠🇺🇸🎆@JadeAtrophis
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The Odyssey:
Matt Damon was phenomenal..
As far as the woke stuff, obviously it’s there, but fill those ears with wax boyz. This movie is a 10 outta 10.
If you can’t enjoy art like that I don’t know what to tell you..
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@LukeFHan @RussellCLehman He’s programmed to say that ignore him
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I'm getting close to finishing the Odessy (Robert Fagles translation).
Gotta say Nolan's changes to make it less "mysoginistic" probably improved the story.
The scene where Circe goes from trying to turn Odysseus into a pig to sleeping with him is pretty nonsensical.
Likewise characters will sometimes randomly burt out facts about women (like how they will take all their dead husbands things when they remarry). Removing those lines makes it less "misogynistic", true. And also improves the final product because if you included all the random dialogue tangents in this story it would be a 7-hour movie at least.
Also I have no idea what the "feminized Odysseus" complaints are about now that I've read it. That dude is bawling his eyes out every other scene.
Reading it myself has made me more impressed with Nolan's adaptation.
Matt Walsh@MattWalshBlog
For a week conservative Nolan apologists have claimed that his adaptation was secretly based and “Christianized.” Now here is Nolan himself saying he changed the story to make it less “misogynistic.” Hate to say I told you so. I will now be accepting retractions and apologies.
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@0oWatches @SharpLines0 @MattMoco1 @Chillin_Killin_ Lmao thanks king. Actually cracking up as these gems of mine
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@Stephen_Agnew @justin_hart @MacklinBerts What you also don’t understand is that some works of literature are better adapted as they are to the stage. A lot of the things in the odyssey like him bragging to Cyclops about sacking Troy would come off cheesy in film. Changes were made to better supplement the medium
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@Stephen_Agnew @justin_hart @MacklinBerts His journey is still cursed by Poseidon due to his pride and hubris. Just because the way it’s done is changed doesn’t mean it’s not in the same vein. He knows shooting the cyclops’s with the arrow is a bad idea but he wants to get even with him so he shoots him.
Pure ego
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Posts like this openly praising the Odyssey film just show that people didn’t actually read the book.
What a crock.
Justin Hart@justin_hart
Re: Nolan’s The Odyssey There were so many layers to it. You identify with Odysseus, you cheer for him, you pity him, you’re shocked by his decisions, you’re embarrassed for him, you cheer him again. Heroism, hedonism, godliness, defiance, humility, family, devotion, integrity, depression… and then the whole thing turns like a mirror for self-reflection of those same things in your own life and then broader to the world today. It’s everything a great film should be.
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