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[Days like these...]

(Achaeans at the gates of Troy by Giuseppe Rava)

Maybe Nolan thinks it would be box office poison to go for a proper Bronze Age vision. With LotR-level attention to detail and care though it would be watched for 100 years.

He needs to grow a pair. I would definitely watch a proper Bronze Age version of The Odyssey. As it stands I'm undecided. The casting has put me off.

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

The source of information

 

[Chuck Berry]

It's time we all came around and admit that this guy hasn't put out a decent flick since Dark Knight.

 

[Doom85]

It's time we all came around and admit that this guy hasn't put out a decent flick since Dark Knight.

Admit? They can write “Christopher Nolan fucking rules” on my gravestone decades from now, and my spirit would only be slightly upset due to the quote not actually being about me, even if the quote itself is 100% accurate in my opinion.

 

[BlackTron]

Cast is weird but I trust Nolan.
I don't love all of his movies but I've yet to see one I disliked.

Also please put at least a cover or something of one of the best metal song in the credits:

Or give them funding to rerecord it with a real orchestra so the orchestral parts don't sound like Ps1 era midi lol

I almost posted the album art without noticing your post, along with: Cool now try mentally cropping Matt Damon into this image.

But yeah, I loved those guys and went to a few of their shows. I still have this CD.

Romeo helped with MIDI melodies on guitar because there were too many tracks for 1 keyboard guy to perform live (no prerecord). The bombastic opening had many opportunities guitar was otherwise absent for him to take over and smooth it all together between punches. The dude's brain is incalculable to me.

 

[jason10mm]

Like it or not, here is the design aesthetic the suits THINK we want...

So you will get your silly fantasy armor AND YOU WILL LIKE IT!!!!

 

[SJRB]

If there ever was a director who could get away with doing accurate designs, it’s Nolan.

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

If there ever was a director who could get away with doing accurate designs, it’s Nolan.

Or let Robert Eggers do his own Adaptation of The Odyssey. Now that would be fantastic and he would make sure everything is historically accurate

 

[Days like these...]

Or let Robert Eggers do his own Adaptation of The Odyssey. Now that would be fantastic and he would make sure everything is historically accurate

And he wouldn't cast former Disney kid Ms. Coleman or Matt Damon. Win-Win!

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

And he wouldn't cast former Disney kid Ms. Coleman or Matt Damon. Win-Win!

And he can do action. The action sequences in The Northman are fantastic

 

[DeepEnigma]

Or let Robert Eggers do his own Adaptation of The Odyssey. Now that would be fantastic and he would make sure everything is historically accurate

I'd be down for his tone/style with this epic.

 

[Chuck Berry]

I'd be down for his tone/style with this epic.

Now I want Eggers to direct instead of Nolan

Thanks guys

 

[DeepEnigma]

Now I want Eggers to direct instead of Nolan

Thanks guys

At least there'd be no Tom Holland and Zendaya, Hollywood's conjoined.

 

[Chuck Berry]

At least there'd be no Tom Holland and Zendaya, Hollywood's conjoined.

Keep my boy Pattinson in though!

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

Keep my boy Pattinson in though!

I never saw any of the Twilight films but from the movies I saw that he was in, all of his roles were super memorable

 

[Days like these...]

At least there'd be no Tom Holland and Zendaya, Hollywood's conjoined.

Leave them alone they're in a relationship

 

[Chuck Berry]

I never saw any of the Twilight films but from the movies I saw that he was in, all of his roles were super memorable

The Batman was the first film I ever saw him in and then I was hooked. Most recently saw him in Eggers' The Lighthouse and gaddamn

 

[SJRB]

Nolan is a hack confirmed

 

[Fbh]

Nolan is a hack confirmed

But Odysseus doesn't die at the end.

 

[jason10mm]

But Odysseus doesn't die at the end.

But get what you mean. Maybe zendaya as Athena can surprise backstab him for the end credits

 

[EviLore]

Like it or not, here is the design aesthetic the suits THINK we want...

So you will get your silly fantasy armor AND YOU WILL LIKE IT!!!!

At least in 300’s case, it’s mostly faithful to Frank Miller’s mythological retelling of the story -- where the heroes were all naked in the graphic novel rather than realistically armored -- which I assume was a callback to the heroic nude artistic representations from antiquity.

 

[P:axMagellanic]

Yes, that’s my understanding as well. You can see the same thing in action in Ancient Greek art, like this red Attic cup showing Odysseus with a Corinthian era helmet:

So the story does get reinterpreted through the ages, both in the process of being codified through Homer and after as well. But we can roughly place its origins and we have archaeological evidence for the events of the Iliad et al. And even without that and only going by Homer’s descriptions, it’s quite clear that our heroes had gleaming golden bronze armor. The elaborate bronze armor sets are very striking in The Iliad especially, with the armies fighting over possession of them after a legendary warrior falls in battle.

Demigods like Achilles makes a lot more sense historically when we discover items like the dendra panalopoly. Palace elites clad in bronze plate riding chariots versus the common footsoldier with a stone mace, flint arrows and perhaps a copper axe or spearhead if he was lucky.

 

[jason10mm]

Demigods like Achilles makes a lot more sense historically when we discover items like the dendra panalopoly. Palace elites clad in bronze plate riding chariots versus the common footsoldier with a stone mace, flint arrows and perhaps a copper axe or spearhead if he was lucky.

Same thing with meteoric iron being used to make 'mythic' weapons in an era of bronze.

I've tried to find someone making bronze era knives just to see how well they fare compared to steel but it's surprisingly hard other than decorative "ritualistic" copper knife like things or whatnot.

 

[P:axMagellanic]

Same thing with meteoric iron being used to make 'mythic' weapons in an era of bronze.

I've tried to find someone making bronze era knives just to see how well they fare compared to steel but it's surprisingly hard other than decorative "ritualistic" copper knife like things or whatnot.

Aye, the copper and bronze ages are pure magic to me. Ingenious people discovering material properties through trial and error.

A lot of modern bronze replicas don't seem to be work hardened at all, just cast and polished. It's a lost art I suppose, those who can do it will charge a premium, and rightfully so.

I don't think I've ever seen arsenical bronze either rather than tin bronze.

 

[Oberstein]

I'm still pissed off about the lack of an Odysseus movie starring Sean Bean. It was the perfect moment after Troy.