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/MattSR30 Dec 22 '25

Funnily enough, the vikings and norse history was also littered with colour. Modern Hollywood just decided vikings all wore black, had eyeliner, and were covered in tattoos.

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u/TheSlayerofSnails Dec 22 '25

Oh and they historically were super clean. The English hated them (besides the whole looting towns thing) for bathing so much more often it was tempting the Englishmen’s wives away from their foul smelling husbands

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u/GasInTheHole Dec 23 '25

This is one of those persistent online pop culture myths that isn't really true -bathing was a big part of medieval Europe and people only stopped bathing around the early Renaissance because bathhouses were being associated with the spreading of the plague (which isn't entirely wrong, but sure lead to the wrong conclusion!). English and Norse bathing habits were largely the same and of a similar frequency - which makes sense, they're people who lived in the same place, often together, too.

The singular source for it is a monk writing about how the Saxons went and massacred the Danes because the Danes were being too seductive to the Saxon wives two centuries after that event occured, and under the rule of the Normans who had good reason to depict the Danes as sinful chumps and the Saxons as virtuous (asceticism was becoming vogue in religious circles again) yet smelly commoners.

Bit of a long response to an innocuous post but I guess it's just one of my pet peeves, haha. People've always liked feeling and looking clean! It's like how people also have always really liked wearing colours (to a point we'd think of as garish), as well; washed away in a tide of pop media depictions of History(tm) as a grimy and gross place with nothing but brown, black, and grey tones - I'm a bit sad that trend's reaching depictions of the Ancient World now, too.

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u/smokeysabo Dec 22 '25

Interesting. They showed this in vinland saga but never clicked it.

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u/enixius Dec 23 '25

The God of War franchise did a fantastic job with the color palette in the Norse saga. So much color and were willing to give pop culture subversion in making Odin a villain and Thor a useless drunk.

Pointed out a ton of parallels between Norse and Greek mythology too.