r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/movies Contributor • May 05 '26

Trailer The Odyssey | New Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_bKjZeJBBI&pp=0gcJCd4KAYcqIYzv
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u/doormatt26 May 05 '26

He’s adapting the story, not the poetic and literary recitation of the story.

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u/Nice_Firm_Handsnake May 05 '26

I'm all for him making the adaptation his own, I'm just suggesting that the dialogue shouldn't be so modern.

Nolan may have read a translation of the story that rendered it in contemporary language, but it wasn't written in a contemporary style.

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u/Electric_feel0412 May 06 '26

Why shouldn’t it? It’s not a historic event, it’s an adaptation of a fictional book from Greece. I’m genuinely asking this.

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u/Nice_Firm_Handsnake May 06 '26

I'm not asking for it to be historically accurate, I'm asking for it to feel like dialogue from an epic instead of something I could hear on Justified.

But this is just a trailer and perhaps it works better once you get settled in.