Have very little time for getting to the cinema so unlikely to see this for a year or two. Until then I'll assume Red Dwarf continues to have the best take on this.
No, "technically speaking" an occupied territory is a region placed under the control of a hostile foreign army. Western Sahara is occupied by Morocco.
Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation And before you ask, yeah, she does.
most of the negative commentary i've seen regarding this film seems to come from people who, obviously, never read The Odyssey
And i can see why an academic whose career is devoted to Homeric epics would think that. Harold Bloom never even saw Luhrman's Romeo + Juliet, and no one gave him shit for that
And she said that she’s glad that the movie was made because it gets people interested in the classics.
I thought it was a great film. 3 hours flew by. My only complaint was we didn't get to see cyclops dong.
Anne Hathaway plays Penelope, the wife of Odysseus, and was Catwoman in Dark Knight Rises. Tom Holland was Telemachus, the son of Odysseys, and has been live-action Spider-Man for the MCU (four solo films, Civil War, Infinity War and Endgame) Robert Pattison was Antonius, the main suitor of Penelope in Odysseus's absence, and was Batman in The Batman and will be in the forthcoming The Batman II. The movie also has a few other comic-book movie stars not mentioned in that tweet: Eliot Page stars as Sinon, a Greek soldier from Odysseus's homeland of Ithaca. He was Kitty Pryde in two of the original X-Men movies: X-Men: The Last Stand and Days of Future Past. Jon Berenthal stars as Menelaus, brother to King Agamemnon whose wife Helen was stolen to start the Trojan War. He is the Punisher in the MCU. Lupita N'Yongo stars as Helen of Troy and Clytemnestra. She plays Nakia in the Black Panther movies. Zendaya stars as Athena. She plays MJ in the Spider-Man movies. Charlize Theron stars as Calypso. She plays Clea in the last Dr. Strange. John Leguizamo stars as Eumaeus, a loyal servant of Odysseus. He played Clown in the Spawn movie.
Well. That was ... entertaining. I applaud your attention to detail. you really should apply to Google. The AI drives me insane.
Saw it Weds night at the Cinerama. It was packed. How long has it been out? To get two seats together we were basically in the back corner but the nice thing about a giant Cinerama screen and 70mm is that there really isn’t a bad seat in the house. Great movie. Great theater movie. Great 70mm movie. Anyone complaining about woke just wants to complain and shouldn’t be listened to ever again. @Bailey it does answer the question raised in your Red Dwarf clip and the answer ties into a greater theme of the movie. Without going into spoilers I wasn’t expecting the call outs to the upcoming (in that timeline) Late Bronze Age collapse. Was that in the original epic?
Not really. There's a tinge of, "Ah, back in my day, we were men who did great things and had great feasts!" But nothing at all implying that a good chunk of civilization was about to fall apart.
Yeah I’ve never read the whole thing and it’s been over twenty years since I studied it but did not remember that theme. I thought it was a good edition. Especially tying it into… the things that happened that Odysseus believes would cause it.
It's worth reading the whole thing because it is the progenitor of a whole lot of Western literature, and a shitload of stuff makes nods to it that you wouldn't otherwise pick up on. The Emily Wilson translation is excellent, and easily equal to that of Fagles', if not better.
Okay, at a computer so some longer thoughts that I'll put behind spoilers. Might not be the most eloquent and a bit disjointed but computer time isn't to be wasted on bullshit like typing but for ordering giant Battlemechs to destroy other giant Battlemechs. I'll go and edit later on my phone when I get around to it.
We call ours the one-eyed trouser snake, so to a cyclops is it the blind trouser snake? Without depth perception, how would he know if it's in?
To answer your questions: In short, not really. Aspects of it are there, but other things are wildly different. For example, I'll give you three guesses where Odysseus got the idea for the Trojan Horse. He didn't just pull it out of his ass. And it was hubris that caused Odysseus to suffer, lost at sea, for a decade. When he bragged to Polyphemus that it was he, Odysseus, and not "Nobody," that was impudence. As one translation of The Odyssey put it, "The gods reward bravery and courage, but punish pride."
I did. Liked it. My only complaint was that some of the dialog was hard to understand in some scenes.
Okay, I haven't seen The Odyssey yet, and if I do, it's definitely going to be on video based on how dude describes one scene. That would be when Odysseus and his crew find themselves in the Land of the Laestrygonians. (BTW, the English translation of their name is "skin reapers." Pretty cool, huh?) In the book, everybody in the crew realizes that they're in a fucked up place because the sun races across the sky in just a few hours. (Sort of the reverse of that water planet in Interstellar.) They see some giant trees near the shore, and they decide to climb them, in hopes of either finding fruit in the branches, or being able to see far inland and maybe spot some food there. The first thing they notice when they start to climb the trees is that the bark is very soft. After they've spent days (remember the sun's racing across the sky, but they've still been climbing the trees for hours) going up, they discover that they're not climbing trees at all, but clothing worn by giants. Which is why it's so soft. The giants are like, "Hey, free snacks!" and start munching on the men who are climbing on their clothing. At which point, the only folks who survive are ones who loosen their grip on the Laestrygonians' clothing just enough that they can slide down, without completely losing their grip until they get close to the ground. Their hands end up horribly rug burned because of this, which really sucks for the sailors. The scene dude describes as being in the movie is nothing like that. And I'm sorry, but if you're Christopher goddamned Nolan, you can find the money to shoot that scene the way Homer wrote it. It is entirely possible to do with just practical effects, no green screen needed, so he can't claim he's trying to be "true" to the art and avoiding using green screens and CGI. And if ever a fucked up scene cried out to be on the big screen, it's Odysseus' time in the Land of the Laestrygonians.
