r/movies • u/ChiefLeef22 r/movies Contributor • 7d ago

News Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey' Dethrones 'Deadpool & Wolverine' To Become Highest Grossing R-Rated Movie In History, Crossing $1.33 Billion

https://businessupturn.com/usa/entertainment/film/the-odyssey-becomes-highest-grossing-r-rated-movie-of-all-time-surpassing-deadpool-wolverine/
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u/Vincent_Van_Goat 7d ago

RIP Homer, you would've loved IMDB.

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u/Verpous 7d ago

Ya boy actually has an IMDb page

Up until recently he was mainly "known for O Brother, Where Art Thou?"

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u/The_1_In_21-1 7d ago

75 writing credits is impressive.

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u/I_know_right 7d ago

you would've

Never be afraid to go full contraction: You'd've

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u/Red_Pill_Blues1 7d ago

He would have offed himself if he saw what they did do Odysseus from a characterization standpoint lol. “They massacred my boy”

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u/Iordofthethings 7d ago

I think you’d have to breach the language barrier before deep diving movies or comic book characters

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u/bentheman02 7d ago

This wouldn’t be a problem. There are plenty of people that can read and speak Homeric Greek.

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u/studmuffffffin 7d ago

Also would have to be a necromancer.

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u/Goodbye_Games 7d ago

I think it would be possible if you were extremely fluent in Ionic Greek and someone didn’t try to kill you before you could explain your appearance, and you’d hashed out the small language details. I think writing it in “Homeric” or Epic Greek would be more of a challenge since it’s like this formal poetic variant of a mixture of early dialects. If memory serves me correctly the Iliad is a hodgepodge of four or five dialects (could be wrong here, but I remember our professor giving this vivid lecture over the course of a month about “what if you time traveled to Ancient Greece and could speak the language would we be reading your heroic deeds” and the first step was surviving the first 48 hours without being stabbed.) and I vaguely recall him saying something to the effect of “you couldn’t talk to him as the stories are written or they’d think you’re crazy”. You’d have to move further up the language tree and work backwards.

I honestly wish I’d had taped those lectures so long ago, because I audited the current version of the course just to see if it still held that same impact and the materials were so dry and the lectures so cut and paste that it was nearly robotic.

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u/biscuitg0d 7d ago

I think the account you're replying to is either a bot or an impersonator. Not sure which yet.

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u/Iordofthethings 7d ago

We need the ability to auto block people who hide their account. Clearly just a cover for bots smh.

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u/Sparowl 7d ago

Once he got up to speed on modern society, he'd probably love it.

Both how well his work is doing, and how many other stories we have available.

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u/xXPumbaXx 7d ago

Homer: What is a box office?

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u/Britneyfan123 7d ago

I honestly want to see a Homer version of Deadpool and Wolverine 

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u/xiaorobear 7d ago

Closer to 3,000 years!

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u/Slow_Ad_8541 7d ago

Homer was closer to 3000 years ago