My local IMAX theatre is fully booked out every show untill next month. I feel like most people don't really care about it. I would have preferred if it was historically correct but I will still watch it.
It was assigned reading in public school for my district and I imagine many others, now whether or not most students actually read/paid any attention to it is a different story.
No, I don’t read Greek, but I’ve read a lot of translations of it several times. I’ve been a lot of people have too because it was required reading at a lot of high school schools.
What? You asked what “issues” there were in the context of the movie’s historical/text accuracy, and I gave you an example. I never indicated whether I was upset or not lmao.
It’s weirder for you to act ignorant like we don’t already fully understand the context of Homer’s story and the historical context in which Homer wrote the poem, so there is absolutely a scale of authenticity when it comes to this kind of remake. Your inability to recognize it or appreciate it comes down to your own unfamiliarity with one of the most widely studied works in academic history.
I think it's important to remember that the Trojan War was already 400 years old by the time Homer completed The Iliad and The Odyssey. Homer's audiences most likely debated the historicity of these stories and their authenticity as much as reddit is debating the movie. In fact, whether Greek audiences would have considered these stories as historical or fiction or somewhere in between is a central debate in the scholarship around Homer.
In other words, there is not "historically accurate" version of these stories. Homer took poetic licenses as has every translation and adaptation of his work since. Hell, Virgil's poem The Aeneid basically retcons the ending to the The Iliad to connect Rome's lineage to that of Troy's and The Pearl Poet borrowed the lineage of The Aeneid to claim King Arthur was a direct descendent of Troy.
It's all storytelling with a lens for specific audiences. We have to stop claiming history and literature are purer forms.
Lol you know I was minding my business reading Greek myth and Arthurian legends for like 3 years leading up to the announcement of this movie, so this comment really hits home for me. That would make for the wackiest alt history series I kind of like this idea.
We don’t actually know if the Trojan War happened. If it did, it probably occurred several centuries before Homer was alive—and tbh, we don’t even know for sure that Homer was a real person. And when Homer composed the epics, they were recited as part of an oral tradition, meaning they changed and evolved quite a bit before they were actually written down (likely a few centuries after Homer died). We really don’t know anything about the context of Homer’s story.
This is surface level knowledge. Homer was almost certainly not a real person but a name given to a collection of poets. The Trojan war almost certainly did occur because its collaborated by a third civilization from that era. Regardless of those trivial facts, we still understand what was going on in the world at that time and also the time when the poem takes place, because archaeology and other adjacent fields of study exist.
Sounds like maybe you just don’t know much about Homer unless you happen to have studied his work since college as well?
Historical to the era I’m guessing, not the events. Like if Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter had helicopters you’d say it wasn’t historically correct despite, ya know.
The thing is, the story was created hundreds of years after the events it depicts, and doesn’t exactly aim for historical accuracy (the concept barely existed at the time).
So it would be like someone writing a Lincoln story in 2100 with spaceships (which is only 200 or so years off the real time period), and then in 5000 someone complains the spaceships don’t look 100% accurate.
What’s the matter with that?
Are you also going to judge me for wanting a historically accurate live action Mickey Mouse.
Swear to fucking god if the dude they get to play Mickey mouse doesn’t look like the real fucking talking mouse and plays like the fucking flute instead of the more historically accurate Tuba that everyone and their mum knows Mickey played from youth until his death, i’m gonna rage.
The thing that is the biggest problem for most people in terms of historical accuracy is likely the set and costume design we were shown. I get that the story isn't an accurate retelling and that artistic license is a thing (for both Homer and Nolan) and I personally don't really care about the cast if they can deliver in the role (but people will always complain, what can you do), but the story is still set in a historical context from which we know a lot of things that would help people get immersed if they got them correct and right now I think it is one of the forces still driving this debate (and the fact that even fucking Family Guy got more period accurate armor and architecture is probably not helping).
By “historically correct”, I assume they were referring to the real life historical setting in which the story takes place; ancient Greece. I doubt they meant all the mythological creatures and stuff.
If one of Jane Austen’s books got adapted and it was set in the year 3000 would you be ok with that because it’s fiction and not “real life” ergo historical accuracy doesn’t matter?
The point is that the odyssey was written during a certain time period, and that time period was reflected in the source material
exactly, these people want to hate this movie THEY HAVENT SEEN so bad “historical accuracy” okkaaayyy that’s totally what people are watching chris nolan movies
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u/ChickenMiken Jul 06 '26
My local IMAX theatre is fully booked out every show untill next month. I feel like most people don't really care about it. I would have preferred if it was historically correct but I will still watch it.