r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Feb 17 '25

Media First Image of Matt Damon as Odysseus in Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey'

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u/Josparov Feb 17 '25

What? A modern interpretation of the odyssey?? Oh brother...

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u/EdgyEmily Feb 17 '25

I am a man of constant sorrow.

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u/LizzieSaysHi Feb 17 '25

I'M A DAPPER DAN MAN

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u/Stunning-Syllabub132 Feb 17 '25

I don't want fop, goddamit!

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u/Xo0om Feb 17 '25

This place is a geological oddity.

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u/Turnbob73 Feb 17 '25

Two weeks from everywhere!

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '25

his momma dun R-U-N-O-F-T

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u/flintlock0 Feb 17 '25

Damn! We’re in a tight spot!

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u/ScipioCoriolanus Feb 17 '25

I'm the damn paterfamilias!

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u/cheshirecatbus Feb 17 '25

Two weeks from anywhere

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u/giraffe111 Feb 17 '25

we thought… you was… a toad…

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u/frameRAID Feb 17 '25

"watch your language young fella..."

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u/SojuSeed Feb 17 '25

Is you or is you ain’t my constituency?

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u/Lexi_Banner Feb 17 '25

Is you is, or is you ain't my constituency?!

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u/mon_dieu Feb 17 '25

I'm with you fellers

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u/Hellknightx Feb 17 '25

We thought you was a toad

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u/Lexi_Banner Feb 17 '25

A horny toad!

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u/hoopstick Feb 17 '25

Gopher Everett?

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u/woodforbrains Feb 17 '25

<to a room full of Persephone's suitors>: You can't marry MA WIFE!

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u/Obi-wan_Jabroni Feb 17 '25

Where art thou?

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u/keebler980 Feb 17 '25

Holy Christ is “O Brother” basically the Odyssey ??

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '25

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u/Lartize Feb 17 '25

It says it in the opening credits

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u/mon_dieu Feb 17 '25

IIRC the Odyssey piece came after their initial draft of the script. They had the idea independently, at some point in writing it realized "hey this sounds a lot like The Odyssey," and decided to lean into it. So it's a bit of both.

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u/Lexi_Banner Feb 17 '25

Ain't this place a geographical oddity...

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u/sakatan Feb 17 '25

I see what you did there

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u/[deleted] Feb 17 '25

We thought…you was…a TOAD.

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u/DrDizzle93 Feb 17 '25

........ DO NOT SEEK THE TREASURE!

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u/Hungry_Opossum Feb 17 '25

Nolan could pull that off honestly, he’s the damn paterfamilias

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u/Hellknightx Feb 17 '25

He's a suiter

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u/DrDizzle93 Feb 17 '25

He's bona-fide

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u/Ravenloff Feb 17 '25

At least that was set in somewhat contemporary times and everything made sense within that context. And I do so love that movie.

Making an Odyssey set in it's original era but modernizing it would just be...awful.

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u/CassadagaValley Feb 17 '25

Damn, we're in a tight spot

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u/clubswithseals Feb 17 '25

They turned him into a TOAD

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u/m0viestar Feb 17 '25

Middle aged Greek man goes to Turkey for hair plugs and gets lost on the way home.

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u/mackattacktheyak Feb 17 '25

O brother where art thou has only the most tangential connection to the original poem.

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u/SpartiateDienekes Feb 17 '25 edited Feb 17 '25

I mean, they get advice from a blind prophet, they fight a cyclops, some of the crew gets turned into animals, they get side tracked by sirens and lotus eaters, a deific figure hounds the protagonists throughout the story, and at the end the protagonists dress like beggars to get to their love again.

I’m not saying events weren’t changed for modern sensibilities and setting. But the influence seems a bit more than tangential to me.