re: "The Odyssey" Discussion Thread: News, Reviews, Box Office, etc. $639 Mil WW Total

Spoilers:

Oracle: some black rapper instead of a GoT maester type.

The actual Greek elder recounting Greek history: some Latin dude in makeup that hates whiteys.

Suitor in grand hall that confronts Telemachus: sub-saharan african. Um what?

Cyclops cave: Dedicated camera time on the death of a Greek, I mean sub-saharan african.

Siren song: an asian. Wtf?


I'm not even going to bring up Helen of Detroit or Elliot Paige.

This movie is a sad commentary on the influence of woke in the culture war. Sad.

He didn't see it but you bet your arse he's sure as shite pissed off because of what he heard some dude on the internet told him what to feel

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Biggest opening of Nolan’s career

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Nolan’s in the "too big to fail" camp

Travis Scott had about 3 lines and less than 30 seconds of screen time as a bard for a sea faring people directly across the Mediterranean Sea from Africa.


Your life has to be extremely angry to let that bother you

Two minutes too long. The point is above you

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To be fair all the people that post here were equally outraged that they didnt cast an old Tibetan man as the ancient one as they were about the Helen casting....


Oh wait, there wasnt a single thread

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The point is above you

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You’re not making the point you think you’re making. Hell you didn’t even understand the characters you’re hating on.

Aside from Travis Scott being in it for about 30 seconds, he wasn’t a maester type character. He was a bard, not some talented person in all types of fields and had zero back and forth dialogue.

And by the way, the grand maester in House of the Dragon is black and has a pretty important role. You might want to skip that one.

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“We had a really robust debate,” says Joel P. Christensen, editor of “The Oxford Critical Guide to Homer’s Odyssey.” Christensen was accompanied by retired Homer scholars (often referred to as Homerists), editors, professors, historians and various public intellectuals. “And my wife is a dentist,” he adds, “so she was the red herring in the crowd.”

The conversation ranged from Nolan’s decision to make Polyphemus (the Cyclops that Matt Damon’s Odysseus stabs in the eye) nonverbal to the film’s depiction of language itself. Each intellectual was fervently dedicated to a different academic discipline, yet Homer’s “The Odyssey” is one of the few works that transcends any single field of literature or history.

“I was surprised by how many academics liked it,” Christensen says. “I had to be restrained a few times by my wife. Everybody knows that I’m the worst audience for the film.” After a long pause, he continues, “I’ve been saying to myself: ‘This is not Homer’s “Odyssey.” This is Nolan’s “Odyssey.” And it needs to be judged on different terms.’”

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You don't understand. Why does he have 3 lines and 30 seconds of screen time? In a Greek mythology/literary epic? Why? You know the answer.

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Because Christopher nolan decided to?



Why does a Russian play an Egyptian pharaoh in one of the most beloved films of all time?