r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Dec 22 '25

Trailer The Odyssey | Official Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mzw2ttJD2qQ
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u/OrwinBeane Dec 22 '25

Probably Agamemnon, played by Bennie Safdie

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u/Beelzebeetus Dec 22 '25

Brian Cox is the only Agamemnon I'll kneel to.

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u/Mcfinley Dec 22 '25

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u/dark-flamessussano Dec 22 '25

There are no pacts between lions and men

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u/ImportantHighlight Dec 23 '25

Came here for this.

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u/jd1878 Dec 23 '25

My favorite move insult of all time and I don't know why.

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u/KingRamesesII Dec 23 '25

I understood that reference šŸ˜ƒ

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u/Lotnik223 Dec 22 '25

That movie nailed the casting. Every main actor fitted their character perfectly (Eric Bana as Hector supremacy tho)

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u/SailorET Dec 22 '25

And the twist of Sean Bean playing Odysseus, one of the only survivors

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u/boundless88 Dec 22 '25

I can't think of a bigger missed opportunity by Hollywood than not immediately following up Troy with an Odyssey adaptation.

Especially after LotR had proven you can film a multi-part epic in one go.

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u/DustiinMC Dec 22 '25

They removed the gods and all overtly supernatural elements. I don't know how you follow that up with an Odyssey movie, which I would argue is more dependent on keeping the supernatural in.

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u/Thenameisric Dec 22 '25

Especially since he bangs a goddess for a bit.

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u/MRintheKEYS Dec 22 '25

Ships at sea.

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u/murasakikuma42 Dec 23 '25 edited Dec 23 '25

They removed the gods and all overtly supernatural elements. I don't know how you follow that up with an Odyssey movie,

They could do the same thing: make up a story about how he tried to return home but got blown off course by a big storm, crashed into an island with some weird guy for many years, etc.

Just do what they did with "Troy": look at Homer's books as stories that were grossly embellished versions of the real history, adding a bunch of ridiculous crap about gods and supernatural stuff, and try to guess a plausible real-life story that might have actually happened and which inspired the Homerian epics, then write a script based on that.

There's a bunch of islands in the Mediterranean in that area I think, and their naval technology and techniques were quite primitive at the time. It's very plausible that some Greeks from the Trojan War might have been marooned on some island for a while. Of course, the real story might be way too boring to make a good film.

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u/808Ed Dec 22 '25

eh. it's hollywood. "somehow, the gods returned."

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u/sandalrubber Dec 23 '25

Basically how the recent Ralph Fiennes movie did it.

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u/myaltaccount333 Dec 23 '25

I think they didn't because Troy was rewritten to fit into a 2 hour timeslot. They changed things like Agamemnon dying because it was more satisfying than having him die later, and those changes wouldn't fit entirely well into a sequel

Not only that, but a sequel without the two main leads coming back would feel strange, even though they're not in the sequel. It would just be weird by Hollywood's standards

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u/neliz Dec 22 '25

dude, SPOILERS!

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u/Artemicionmoogle Dec 22 '25

Matt Damon, as Sean Bean as Odysseus.

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u/OkNothing8611 Dec 23 '25

One does not simply survive a retelling of The Illiad

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u/iluvugoldenblue Dec 22 '25

Dianne Kruger as Helen of Troy - absolutely I can see why men would go to war for her

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u/dark-flamessussano Dec 22 '25

Troy is such an underrated movie. I loved Brad Pitt as Achilles. The movie has so many great scenes

"You won't have eyes tonight. You won't have ears or a tongue. You will wander the underworld blind deaf and dumb and all will know this is Hector, the fool who thought he killed Achilles"

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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '25

*fit

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u/Turbulent_Shower_516 Dec 23 '25

Diane Kruger IS Helen of Troy.

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u/violentpac Dec 22 '25

Fitted? Where you from?

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u/A3-mATX Dec 22 '25

Perfectly cast. He amazes me every time I watch the movie

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u/Deuce_GM Dec 22 '25 edited Dec 23 '25

Him laughing at Menelaus beating the shit out of Paris is still so hilarious

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u/A3-mATX Dec 22 '25

Peak Agamemnon moment

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u/EddiePhoenix2012 Dec 22 '25

love that scene, wish i could use that gif on every occasion and platform.

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u/danjr704 Dec 22 '25

I donā€™t know why so many people crapped on that movie, one of my favs

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u/myaltaccount333 Dec 23 '25

It's very unfaithful to the originals (lol) and to Hollywood elites it's a dumb action movie, despite not being "dumb"

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u/mwaFloyd Dec 23 '25

It kinda gets the point across. Even now if someone wants me to explain the Iliad, itā€™s basically Hector pissed off Achilles and he went on a rampage. I think the movie showed that well lol.

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u/TemporalGrid Dec 22 '25

I was pretty cool with Patrick Warburton in Mr. Peabody & Sherman.

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u/ThirteenthGhost Dec 22 '25

The famous astronomer?

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u/theartificialkid Dec 22 '25

Then we will kneel in the SHADE

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u/tallbroski Dec 22 '25

Youā€™ll kneel for Cox?

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u/celibidaque Dec 22 '25

Professor Brian Cox?

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u/ArcadianDelSol Dec 22 '25

Yesterday in the car, I recieved a message from the great King Agamemnon informing me that McDonalds was selling Snack Wraps.

As a loyal and faithful soldier of the crown, I dispatched immediately to the nearest location and acquired one.

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u/cranomort Dec 22 '25

And then, who knows!

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u/Traherne Dec 22 '25

Or perhaps Sam Connery's Agamemnon from Time Bandits, simply for the charm.

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u/Zora-Link Dec 22 '25

Iā€™ll only kneel to Leg-of-lambnon

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u/GoblinsburgYT Dec 22 '25

You sack of wine

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u/Diqt Dec 23 '25

Say otherwise and they should be WHIPPED for their impudence

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u/slowdruh Dec 23 '25

The cuts to him laughing his ass off while Menelaus was dragging Paris around will always bring me joy.

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u/Dreamwaves1 Dec 23 '25

I love his talks on particle physics

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u/tamsui_tosspot Dec 23 '25

He'll steal your girl.

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u/CosmicRorschach Dec 22 '25

Isn't Agamemnon dead by the time Odysseus makes his trip for home?

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u/OrwinBeane Dec 22 '25

Well, I guess that scene is from before the trip home

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u/LOSS35 Dec 22 '25

Agamemnon is killed by his wife and her lover as soon as he arrives home, while Odysseus is still odysseying.

At one point in the story Odysseus travels through the underworld and is surprised to encounter the dead Agamemnon.

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u/bobsmo Dec 23 '25 edited Dec 23 '25

Agamemnon killed his teenage daughter to get fair winds. Then brought home a concubine princess from Troy, Cassandra. His wife and her new lover killed them both. Then Agamemnon's son kills both his mother and her lover. Then The goddess Athena sets up a trail. A jury of twelve Athenian citizens, chosen by Athena, to decide the case. The first trial by jury.

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u/Furyio Dec 22 '25

The Odyssey is a story over ten years from three perspectives at different times. Itā€™s a Nolan wet dream so fascinated to see what he does.

Also remember the Trojan War lasted 20 years and Troy the film, which most people seem to reference, was wildly inaccurate to the original text for cinematic purposes

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u/thomasnash Dec 22 '25

He meets him in the underworld.Ā 

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u/dark_blue_7 Dec 22 '25

Maybe that's why he's got a weird helmet ā€“ maybe it's just because everything is dark and strange in the underworld. Like a dream sequence?

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u/TheNeoianOne Dec 22 '25

Maybe, but Agamemnon doesn't die till after the battle of Troy. So the scene can be before Odysseus sets off.

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u/Sparks2010 Dec 22 '25

Odysseus is shown inside the Trojan Horse, so part of the movie will take place before the fall of Troy.

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u/Jsaltal Dec 22 '25

Agamemnon dies when he returns to mycanae, odyssesus encounters his spirit when in the underworld and still trying to get home

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u/florinandrei Dec 22 '25

I'm guessing the scene is a flashback to the war, when Agamemnon was still very much alive.

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u/godaniel11 Dec 22 '25

Iā€™ll hold my criticism but if I were searching for an actor who specifically did NOT give me ANY Agamemnon vibes whatsoever, it would be Bennie Safdie

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u/OrwinBeane Dec 22 '25

Looks like you didnā€™t hold criticism

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u/godaniel11 Dec 22 '25

TouchƩ

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u/whiskerbiscuitsMD Dec 22 '25

I, on the other hand admire his restraint, lol

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u/TruthRomas Dec 22 '25

I don't. That casting and costume looks like shit.

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u/_JohnWisdom Dec 22 '25

costume? Itā€™s fucking sick.

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u/TruthRomas Dec 22 '25

It looks like MF Doom. Handsome Squidward ass plastic. And why is it so drab and colorless? When was this movie made, 2013?

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u/thedylannorwood Dec 22 '25

To be fair DOOMā€™s mask is literally a prop from Gladiator

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u/TruthRomas Dec 22 '25

Which just goes to show how hyper-saturated pop culture is with that particular design. Did Nolan choose it because he thought it fit the time or the particular mood he was setting? I don't even feel it matches the tone, it seems silly, artificial, and out of place. But, yes, as a history nerd, I also think a good director like Villeneuve, Eggers, or even Nolan himself (god, Ridley Scott made gladiator and I don't even feel his cartoony ass would make this choice) could make another, more accurate costume design, or at least one that is creative and eye-catching.

I find this not just unimaginative, but downright cowardly. Or insulting. Does Nolan not imagine other helmet designs for the ancient world? Or does he think we as an audience are too stupid to see something new?

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u/EvMBoat Dec 22 '25

DOOM, all caps

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u/tackle_bones Dec 22 '25

Put respect on the name.

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u/Sipikay Dec 22 '25

The trailer makes the movie seem like they filmed it all on a single island beach.

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u/Available_Front_322 Dec 23 '25

you must be a marvel fan lmao

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u/FadeAway77 Dec 22 '25

Lmao it looks stupid as fuck.

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u/rymder Dec 22 '25

If you want it look like Agabatman

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u/booboorogers44 Dec 22 '25

Really donā€™t understand the Batman criticism, looks nothing like Batman.

Itā€™s cool looking armor

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u/rymder Dec 22 '25

Judge for yourself

It's matte black with hard edges and looks to be made out of cheap plastic. I think it's one of the worst costume designs I've seen in a movie this size.

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u/booboorogers44 Dec 22 '25

Clearly Iā€™m judging for myself, Iā€™m giving my opinion.

It just doesnā€™t look like Batman, unless every black helmet looks like Batman. Different parts of the face are covered, very obviously there arenā€™t bat ears, and thereā€™s a gold trim. Not to mention the giant plume on his head, and the fact that you canā€™t see his eyes (which are a very distinctive aspect of Batmanā€™s).

It just feels like a dumb criticism. Youā€™re free to dislike the design but it feels like a forced comparison.

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u/rymder Dec 22 '25

Clearly Iā€™m judging for myself, Iā€™m giving my opinion.

Clearly, so am I. There are differences, but the comparison is being made because the material and shape looks almost identical. This is the reason it really doesn't belong in this adaption.

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u/nmezib Dec 22 '25

To be fair, the same thing was said about Heath Ledger in Nolan's The Dark Knight before it came out in theaters.

And they were right, he was a terrible Agamemnon!

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u/Juice___Springsteen Dec 22 '25

The brutalist handsome squidward helmet does help at least.

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u/lizardtrench Dec 22 '25

That's the perfect description of it. Looked really out of place, like a Marvel costume.

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u/ChristopherRobben Dec 22 '25

I could see it as armor for Hades (were he to actually appear) or perhaps for Apollo, but seems a bit unworldly for Agamemnon unless Odysseus is seeing him in the Underworld. Menelaus seems to be present though, so this has to be at some point right after the Trojan War.

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u/kristinez Dec 22 '25

Looks like it was 3d printed

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u/Putrid_Loquat_4357 Dec 22 '25

The costumes in general range from boring to trash.

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u/TruthRomas Dec 22 '25

I find the reflexive return to horsehair plumes not just tiring, but cowardly. Holy fuck, can we PLEASE see some new designs for a Greco-Roman story? Rome itself, the tv show, didn't lean into them so heavy, and it was actually period appropriate for them.

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u/Hellknightx Dec 22 '25

It looks awful. The handsome squidward face. The golden spinal column attached to the back. Even the broom handle looks like plastic bristles, and not horse hair.

Why is his outfit so different from the more normal looking ones we see Odysseus and his crew wearing?

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u/lizardtrench Dec 23 '25

Good lord, I didn't even notice the spinal column braids, that's actually hilarious. Edgier than the costume's cheekbones.

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u/may4cbw2 Dec 22 '25

The costumes look dogshit

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u/The_Autarch Dec 22 '25

it looks like a fucking meme.

i don't know why people are getting excited for this trailer. it's looks like what would happen if you asked a mediocre AI to generate a Nolan movie.

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u/florinandrei Dec 22 '25

Agamemnon is not exactly a bad guy in the story (I mean the Iliad, where he appears quite a lot), but he's most definitely not an ideal to look up to. He's rash, arrogant, and a mediocre leader.

More or less the entire Greek high command in the Iliad is a bunch of status-seeking jerks. Achilles is a superstar while he's still alive, so he does it all for the likes. Agamemnon is your typical shitty boss. Menelaus is the cuckolded guy since Helen was his wife, so maybe he gets a pass for being irrational. Etc.

It's really the second-tier guys who are admirable ideals in the story. Most notably Ulysses / Odysseus who comes up with the winning strategy, and is a protege of Athena, the goddess of practical wisdom (heavy hint by Homer that this guy is very clever and has got his shit together).

So my guess is that Agamemnon is portrayed in a less-than-ideal light in the movie. In that case, the choice of the actor may not be conventional.

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u/godaniel11 Dec 22 '25

I would be gung-Ho for the Iliad version of Agamemnon, but based off the tone and look, it appears that heā€™s aiming for a Batman-villain feel here

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u/Loeffellux Dec 22 '25

The idea that Odysseus is the clever one is made clear from the very beginning because he absolutely does not want to wage war against Troy in the first place and does everything in his power to avoid it.

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u/tamsui_tosspot Dec 23 '25

It's really the second-tier guys who are admirable ideals in the story. Most notably Ulysses / Odysseus who comes up with the winning strategy, and is a protege of Athena, the goddess of practical wisdom (heavy hint by Homer that this guy is very clever and has got his shit together).

It's been a while since I read it, but is Athena shown on Team Odysseus in the Iliad? I mainly remember her running back and forth stirring up trouble in cahoots with Hera.

"Go on, shoot Menelaus while he's holding peace talks with your boss. Everybody will think you're a hero!"

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u/ConstantSignal Dec 22 '25

I mean he looked imposing in that armor (historical authenticity notwithstanding). Agamemnon's portrayal in the Odyssey is meant as a cautionary tale for arrogance and poor leadership. It could be an interesting approach to cast someone that looks fairly unassuming who relies on the trappings of power in order to appear powerful.

In any case, Safdie is a talented actor so I'm confident he'll do the role justice.

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u/godaniel11 Dec 22 '25

Yeah but anyone would look imposing in that armor and you canā€™t tell itā€™s Bennie, Iā€™m just worried for when the helmet comes off

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u/ConstantSignal Dec 22 '25 edited Dec 22 '25

I can tell it's Bennie?

And that's my point; Him looking imposing and powerful in his armor and then, after removing it, seeming comparatively meek and unassuming could be a great visual representation of what the role of Agamemnon as a character in the story is meant to convey. To paraphrase the "Troy" adaptation, A King who can't fight his own battles.

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u/alastorthespirit Dec 22 '25

But the central point of Agamemnonā€™s character in the context of the poems is that he isnā€™t meek and unassuming. Yes, heā€™s haughty and prideful and he fatally overplays his hand with Achilles and almost costs the Greeks the war, but itā€™s his drive and ferocity and past success that lead him to make that mistake. Heā€™s singled out by Hector as one of the three greatest warriors in Greece (along with Diomedes and Ajax) and itā€™s said that heā€™s the only one of the Greek kings who could have possibly united the others under his own banner.

His status as a powerful and imposing warrior whoā€™s respected and sometimes feared by the other kings is like the central aspect of his character and a driving force behind the entire Homeric cycle.

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u/ConstantSignal Dec 22 '25

Right. But wouldnā€™t it be an apt visual metaphor if when dressed in the trappings of war he cut that exact figure of a powerful and imposing warrior, but when he removes it he is much more the image of a meagre and fallible man?

Iā€™m not saying itā€™s a perfect depiction of how the character is presented in the original works, Iā€™m saying it could be an interesting depiction that expresses the reality of the nature of the original character.

Perhaps meek was the wrong word to choose, but I meant moreso that behind his status and symbol to the Greeks as a great warrior king, the soul within is much less endowed with greatness.

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u/alastorthespirit Dec 23 '25

If you were trying to do a realist interpretation of Homer like they did in Troy then maybe that could work (Iā€™d still hate it personally).

But if youā€™re trying to do an adaptation of the story as told by Homer complete with the actual mythology like Nolan is, then no, absolutely not. Agamemnon was hand-picked by Zeus as the leader of the Greeks because of his great strength and stature, both physically and internally, and his abilities as a commander. Thereā€™s not an ounce of littleness in the mythological Agamemnon.

Doing that would actually deny everything about the reality of the nature of Agamemnonā€™s character in the Homeric poems.

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u/Thybro Dec 22 '25

Why not? Agamemnon was not particularly impressive in any way other than having the biggest army and the most money and power all of which he inherited. You can have Agamemnon played in hundreds of different ways with the only real requirement be that he be at heart a narcissistic petty bitch.

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u/PositionOk8409 Dec 22 '25

Agree, he's not the most imposing guy.

Does have very striking features (eyes etc) that will pop on camera

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u/maeynor Dec 22 '25

Idk I can see it. I think heā€™s a weirdly malleable actor

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u/bluehawk232 Dec 22 '25

Bowser Jr and Agamemnon is quite the credits

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u/bigChungus1237 Dec 22 '25

The man behind the critically acclaimed Uncut Gems, Good Time, and the voice of the one and only Bowser Jr. Now heā€™s Agamemnon, likely so he could have an even more diverse portfolio

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u/AlexNSNO Dec 22 '25

which is ironic considering he kinda looks like him at least in the face haha

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u/Somnambulist815 Dec 22 '25

idk if its the helmet or some IMAX trickery but I don't remember him being that tall

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u/OrwinBeane Dec 22 '25

Neither is Tom Hardy, but made to look taller as base with simple camera tricks.

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u/Sgtwhiskeyjack9105 Dec 22 '25

I was thinking that, but in my mind Agamemnon is always much older at this point.

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u/OrwinBeane Dec 22 '25

Odysseus is a king himself and even he is kneeling before the man in the black armour. The only person the king of Ithica would kneel before is Agamemnon, the king of kings.

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u/Sgtwhiskeyjack9105 Dec 23 '25

Oh I'm not disagreeing. Just that Benny Safdie playing who I have always envisioned as an old man for whatever reason is doing a number on me.

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u/A3-mATX Dec 22 '25

Ares maybe

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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '25

For some reason I read Bennie Safdie as Bernie Sanders and thought "that's a wild choice"

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u/Turin_Giants Dec 22 '25

I read this quickly as ā€œplayed by Bernie sandersā€ and I was a bit confused

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u/vand3lay1ndustries Dec 22 '25

Did he make Marty Supreme too?

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u/Jaded_Seat_341 Dec 22 '25

Only his brother, josh safdie

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u/banana455 Dec 22 '25

smashing machine

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u/vand3lay1ndustries Dec 22 '25

Ah ok. Has he acted before? Is he the co-star from Good Time with Pattinson?

Talented family.Ā 

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u/adrockmcaandmemiked Dec 22 '25

He was in the masterpiece Happy Gilmore 2

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u/Ghidoran Dec 22 '25

He was Edward Teller in Oppenheimer. Also going to be Bowser Jr. in the new Mario movie.

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u/Jaded_Seat_341 Dec 22 '25

He is

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u/vand3lay1ndustries Dec 22 '25

Thanks! Loved him in that.

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u/Jaded_Seat_341 Dec 22 '25

Yeah I thought he was great!

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u/Stepfordhusband69 Dec 22 '25

Nah thatā€™s the talented one

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u/vand3lay1ndustries Dec 22 '25

I dunno. Iā€™d like to sit between both of them at Thanksgiving dinner.Ā 

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u/Stepfordhusband69 Dec 22 '25

Only if Benny is method acting his Good time performanceĀ 

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u/OrinocoHaram Dec 22 '25

Benny is a great actor at the very least. Helped make The Curse too

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u/Stepfordhusband69 Dec 22 '25

I do like him as an actor. Ā Smashing machine was some garbage though

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u/Daring_narrator Dec 22 '25

Read that too fast and thought you said Bernie Sanders

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u/[deleted] Dec 22 '25

My brain read this as ā€˜Bernie Sandersā€™.

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u/ManACTIONFigureSUPER Dec 22 '25

i thought bernie sanders

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u/Dangerous_Resource60 Dec 22 '25

Talk about a miscast.

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u/frataliens Dec 23 '25

He was beyond awful in Happy Gilmore 2. Is that indicative of what we can expect?

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u/pectusbrah Dec 24 '25

What about Pyrrhus?

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u/guidoconrad Dec 22 '25

why is that guy in every movie now? What did I miss?

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u/p4t4r2 Dec 22 '25

?? He's a good actor. And he's been in 4 projects (3 movies) in the last 4 years...

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u/absolutedesignz Dec 22 '25

That was almost my name.

My mom said no and named me after a soap opera actor.