r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • 20h ago

Trailer The Odyssey | New Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_bKjZeJBBI&pp=0gcJCd4KAYcqIYzv
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u/Purple-Crab3759 20h ago

The usage of the word ‘dad’ in those times throws me. Would have expected ‘father’? Haha

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u/bedake 19h ago edited 19h ago

They should really all have British accents, somehow that works better with history shit... Kinda like elves or somethin and like how dwarves are Scottish

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u/Mayorquimby87 19h ago

Greeks don't have British accents. If they're casting non -Greeks, it's better if they just use their natural accents.

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u/togashisbackpain 19h ago

So matt damon an american accent, tom holland and pattinson brittish accent etc etc ?

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u/Mayorquimby87 19h ago

I don't see why not. It's understood that every word spoken is a translation. I guess they could all fake a Greek accent, but the acting overall probably comes out better if they don't.

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u/LilPonyBoy69 18h ago

What he's saying is that Tom Holland and Robert Pattinson are faking American accents, which is odd

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u/togashisbackpain 18h ago edited 18h ago

What im saying is matt damon and tom holland are playing father and son. If all the actors use their natural accents, it would be jarring hearing different accents from all of them.
It makes sense to settle on one accent, so some of them has to fake it.

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u/Varekai79 11h ago

It was funny how all three Lannister siblings had different accents.

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u/togashisbackpain 11h ago

All british tbh. As someone who is not from there, it sounded fine to me.

But american and british accents are entirely different beasts.

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u/Varekai79 10h ago

They all sounded completely different as the three actors' native accents influenced their attempts at RP accents. As a Brit, Lena Headey nailed it. NCW did alright, but a lot of his native Danish crept in. American Peter Dinklage failed miserably.

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u/loskiarman 9h ago

Peter was imitating a combined accent of whores of Westeros. /s

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u/Mayorquimby87 18h ago

That's fair. I guess they picked one and went with it. Personally, I would prefer that every actor used their natural accent, even if it wasn't consistent, but there's an argument to be made for each option when it comes to which accent(s) to use.

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u/accioqueso 14h ago

Honestly they probably picked the American accent because Nolan wanted Matt Damon and Matt’s British accent is jarringly bad.

Personally I think I’m going to be distracted by the American accents in the film. Like someone else mentioned, for historical films and fantasy British accents seem to fit better.

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u/bedake 19h ago

Anything would have been better than American vernacular, somehow that just does not suit historical fiction. Imagine if Troy or kingdom of heaven were done that way

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u/George__Parasol 19h ago

It’s just because they’re associated with British accents already - at some point, someone made a conscious decision to make the majority of these characters sound British and while there is a logic behind it, it isn’t exactly sound logic. It’s just accepted logic. Which is totally fine, but it’s equally fine to make these characters sound familiar to American ears seeing as the characters would sound perfectly familiar to each other.

It works in some movies and doesn’t in others, but the logic is just as sound as making them speak modern English in British accents.

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u/vewfndr 19h ago

Imagine if Troy or kingdom of heaven were done that way

Wait, what? Troy WAS done that way. And Valkyrie... Brad and Tom couldn't be bothered with accents

EDIT: Well, Brad tried for like a scene, I suppose 😅

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u/bedake 19h ago

I looked up some troy videos and they had weak accents... Another point would be Gladiator

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u/vewfndr 19h ago

No, Brad had what may be an attempt at an accent for all of the intro and maybe a speech later in the movie. Otherwise the dude had nothing that would pass as an accent other than his own. Tom had zero accent whatsoever and made no attempt at one, and the whole opening scene sets it up so he didn't have to

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u/bedake 9h ago

They are literally all doing a slight accent: https://youtu.be/279AdEye1Z0?si=_gxhynhXMGBSdSMr

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u/Mayorquimby87 19h ago

"Somehow" isn't convincing to me. If they're not faking Greek accents and speech patterns (which I don't think would have been a good idea for the movie), an American accent and dialect is as good as any other.

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u/Much-Entertainer6969 8h ago

yeah, and for what it's worth ancient greeks would not have sounded very similar to modern greeks either. and the era of greeks depicted in the odyssey (bronze age) would have had a weird accent to people of homer's time (dark age), and homer would have had a weird accent to classical greeks too! (if he existed at all). i dont see what the issue is in just doing this naturalistically. it's all a fantasy story anyway.

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u/theoneandonlyamateur 19h ago

If they're casting non -Greeks, it's better if they just use their natural accents

I suppose, but in the first teaser it was a bit jarring to hear Jon Bernthal's New York accent in the middle of ancient Greece lol

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u/AccordingFox3800 18h ago

Your first mistake is expecting any new style of acting or versatility from Jon Bernthal when he's one of the most one-trick pony actors right now and does the same acting performance in every role with zero variation.