News Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey

[The Grinch Doctor]

At long last, we finally have an official trailer for Christopher Nolan's highly-anticipated adaptation of The Odyssey!

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As a massive Nolan fan, I'm obviously biased on this point but I'm very excited about this film and this trailer looks fantastic. I'm a huge Greek mythology buff and I'm thrilled to see Nolan tackling one of its greatest adventures.

...and that's before getting to the incredible cast Nolan has amassed for the film.

 

[theenglish]

I've been looking forward to this for over a year now. Looks like the movie will contain some backstory from The Iliad and Aenid as well. Who would have thought non-religious literary works two thousand years old would become bestsellers in the 21st century.

 

[The Grinch Doctor]

I caught the  Iliad references but what was the  Aenid reference?

 

[FPAlpha]

I've been looking forward to this for over a year now. Looks like the movie will contain some backstory from The Iliad and Aenid as well. Who would have thought non-religious literary works two thousand years old would become bestsellers in the 21st century.

Because those stories are epic as fuck and have influenced western culture deeply. When one starts reading greek mythology it feels like someone hitting you over the head with terms and names that we use today for events or locations and all have their roots in that mythology and you never really thought about the origins of these words or their roots.

And if there's one director who's still able to film epic sagas it's Nolan. I'm very curious about that movie, since i love Nolan for his original stories and apart from the few historic movies like Dunkirk and Oppenheimer he always was extremely creatives when he wrote the story from scratch. Let's what he does with such a massive and influential story like the Odyssey.

 

[Jedi Marso]

Looks good and I'll go; my only gripe so far is the viking longships, more than a thousand years before their time.

This should have been more the look: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trireme

 

[theenglish]

I caught the  Iliad references but what was the  Aenid reference?

Wasn't the Trojan Horse in the trailer?

 

[The Grinch Doctor]

Wasn't the Trojan Horse in the trailer?

Oh, quite right. I keep forgetting how it wasn't actually mentioned in Iliad.

 

[The First Joel]

Pumped for this. Been waiting a while now for the trailer.

 

[theenglish]

Oh, quite right. I keep forgetting how it wasn't actually mentioned in Iliad.

Yeah--I remember reading the Iliad for the first time in my 30s and wondering what the hell happened to the Horse? Then I looked it up and discovered it was actually in Virgil's poem so had to add the Aenid to my reading list. Nobody told me there were multiple parts to the story. EDIT for Christopher: Yes, I know that last statement isn't technically true--I was joking.

 

[JD]

Oh, I didn't know that about the Trojan Horse, I always assumed that was in the Iliad.
I didn't know we were getting a trailer for this with Avatar: Ash & Fire until I recognized the spine on the back of Odysseus's armor. I'm a huge fan of both Christopher Nolan and Greek mythology, so I'd been looking forward to this before, but now the trailer has me really excited.

 

[King Bob!]

That looked dull.

 

[theenglish]

Looks good and I'll go; my only gripe so far is the viking longships, more than a thousand years before their time.

This should have been more the look: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trireme

That ticks me off now that I know about it. I'd expect more from Nolan.

 

[Christmas Canon Spock]

I've been looking forward to this for over a year now. Looks like the movie will contain some backstory from The Iliad and Aenid as well. Who would have thought non-religious literary works two thousand years old would become bestsellers in the 21st century.

Shakespeare also stands up too.

 

[theenglish]

Shakespeare also stands up too.

That's only 400 years old though. And it is written in modern English. You could go back and meet Shakespeare and talk with him once you got used to whatever accent he had.

 

[Samurai8472]

I can't wait to see how Nolan handle old school style creatures in the style of Ray HarryHausen.

Why do I feel like his ending will have Homer walking up to his wife's home with no dialogue and the music reaching a climax?

 

[Christmas Canon Spock]

That's only 400 years old though. And it is written in modern English. You could go back and meet Shakespeare and talk with him once you got used to whatever accent he had.

I mean, humans haven't changed that much. We've translated a Cuneiform tablet that was a complaint about a copper merchant who shorted a customer.

Homer has always stood the rest of time.

 

[theenglish]

I mean, humans haven't changed that much. We've translated a Cuneiform tablet that was a complaint about a copper merchant who shorted a customer.

Homer has always stood the rest of time.

I agree with all that. Shakespeare plays are just as relevant today, sometimes with a little updating that I'm sure the Bard would not have objected to since all but two of his own plays were contemporary updates of older stories. Not much has changed in many ways. Comedies often still end in marriages and tragedies/dramas often end in death.

 

[Set Harth]

Why do I feel like his ending will have Homer walking up to his wife's home with no dialogue and the music reaching a climax?

Don't you mean Odysseus?

 

[theenglish]

Don't you mean Odysseus?

I thought he was thinking of something meta.

In The Odyssey there is quite a bit that happens after Odysseus finally makes it home.

 

[Sketcher]

I just think it's weird Nolan would pick a story where the wife lives.