Anonymous #1 8w

It wasn’t a book, it was an epic written to be performed on stage over multiple acts

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Anonymous #1 8w

Have you read the book? It’s not even meant to be read it reads like a stage production. Oh you probably got the shitty translations that changes the format of it completely against “honoring the artists intended medium”

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Anonymous #2 8w

Not true by the way. The Odyssey and Iliad are poems meant to be sung aloud by bards at feasts (like Travis Scott in the movie). They were developed orally over centuries before being written down, as the Greeks had lost their writing system and didnt have one until the archaic period.

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Anonymous #3 8w

It does not read like a stage production. Its a poem. Maybe go read it.

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Anonymous #5 8w

I thought it had many, many issues, none of which were the casting or historical accuracy. 6/10

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Anonymous #6 8w

That’s completely fine!!

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Anonymous #4 8w

I have. I read it in high school, then reread it when they announced the movie. It reads like both. Because it was poems that were performed. I’m agreeing with you babes why are you such a snob?

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Anonymous #3 8w

Its wasn’t performed tho. At no point were actors performing it. Perhaps a bard gave a dramatic oration, but at no point were multiple actors saying lines or anything of that nature.

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Anonymous #6 8w

Yeah. Either it was just rly bland OR Nolan (or someone else) thinks more movies will be made on classics, so they purposely made a decently accurate but boring first take so that the masses are introduced to the story, but future movie makers can take more liberties.

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Anonymous #7 8w

The masses were already aware of the story. It’s probably the most well known story in the history of the world second only to the bible. I think this was just a standalone attempt at trying to make an epic and it fell flat

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Anonymous #6 8w

Yeah I agree that most people would know the stories… I’m just grasping at ideas for how in the world such a nothing-burger movie was made at the expense of so much money, time, and hype. - the dialogue was cliche and inconsistent in which era it represented - the were motifs repetitive, shallow, and borderline cringey like the bow pluck sound - somebody messed up the logic in some scenes (Circe tells the men to go back from pigs into their human disguises; yet Odysseus kills a deer that then..

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Anonymous #7 8w

turned into a man when dead (implying a change from disguise to true self). So which is it? The animals are the true selves or the men? Btw, Circe doesn’t say the “back to your disguises” thing in the original. - and finally, there were only maaaybe 3 moments that communicated something real beyond the battles and basics.

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Anonymous #4 8w

I didn’t say it was acted out, I said performed which yes, in this case means sung/chanted by a lone performer, often with someone else keeping the beat with a staff for them. I took 2 semesters(at my cc) on homers Iliad and odyssey respectively. That’s why I said epic and not play

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Anonymous #4 8w

A performance means many things, including singing, not just acting

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