Trailer The Odyssey full trailer

[Morrus]

I mean, I didn't get the accent thing. You want Greek accents?

You probably want to reread what I said. Because it wasn’t that.

 

[Morrus]

This is fun. Troy to Ithaca is a couple days’ travel by sea.

 

[Dioltach]

I wonder whether Homer had a sponsorship deal with the tourist boards of those places. "For just a handful of drachmae, I'll add an adventure in the Balearics. You know, long passages describing the scenery, the friendliness of the locals, all the reasons why you'd never want to leave..."

 

[Morrus]

He goes Turkey - Greece - Malta - Tunisia - Sicily - Algeria - Majorca - Spain - Sardinia - Italy/Sicily again - all the way back over near Majorica again - back to Sardinia again - back through Italy/Sicily yet again - Greece.

Odysseus was a bad navigator!

 

[Ryujin]

 

[el-remmen]

Maybe i'll check out the book. I didnt think much of the film at all.

As someone who was "meh" on the film, I really liked the book, which is a historical look at the event - not a novelized one.

 

[payn]

As someone who was "meh" on the film, I really liked the book, which is a historical look at the event - not a novelized one.

Exactly what I'm looking for! More details of what happened then a dramatization of what happened.

 

[el-remmen]

The accents don't bother me, but the language does. Hearing Telemachus say "Dad" is weirdly jarring, though not necessarily a dealbreaker. It being a Christopher Nolan film on the other hand makes me a lot less likely to see it (or to be more accurate, to start it on streaming in a few years and then turn it off and not go back to it).

 

[Umbran]

I think the criticism isn’t actors using their own accents. I think there should be a lot more actors allowed to use their own accents. It’s British actors putting on American accents to play Greeks.

Maybe someone has already mentioned this, but there might be a reason for it: a competing issue - "Why does everyone in fantasy sound vaguely British?"

It’s a conscious choice to sound American, because that’s not their natural accent.

It would be just as much a choice to allow them to use their normal speaking voices, or to have the entire cast learn to do a (probably not great) Greek accent. They are all choices.

 

[Umbran]

This looks exciting. I don't mind anything that's not 100 or even 90% historically accurate this isn't a documentary.

Heck, the original text isn't about historical events that all took place in the same period. It is an assembled and reworked bunch of mythology and legends whose original tellings were spread across centuries of time.

It is much like King Arthur being a mixture of Celtic mythology, some pseudo-history around the retreat of Rome from the British Isles, both Saxon and Norman movement into the same isles, some weird notions of knights in plate armor, and some good old 18th century Romanticism on top. There is not one "historical" frame that fits them all.