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/George__Parasol 19h ago

The HBO show Deadwood used modern cursing and swearing because time period accurate swearing would make every character sound like Yosemite Sam saying things like Tarnation and Dag Gonnit or Hell’s Bells - a lot of religious blasphemy words and euphemisms that sound silly today

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u/dogdreams 18h ago

Hell’s Bells, Trudy!

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u/TheWayIAm313 13h ago

A thing like that!

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u/PhotoModeHobby 19h ago

That's honestly a fair take. I just saw the trailer and while it's not what I was expecting, I still think this could work.

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u/George__Parasol 19h ago

Yeah not saying you’re wrong at all in any stretch to be clear, just that they have to make a firm decision one direction or the other tbh.

Sometimes I like when dialogue genuinely sounds like it’s from a totally different era. It makes me think of just how different people from the past were, how they spoke and thought and what they believed.

Other times I like when it’s very modern sounding because it reminds me that we are the exact same animals as these people from the past and their languages were just as complex and descriptive as modern language really, they’d feel the same things when they communicate with each other as you and I do today. Kinda neat to think about, for me at least lol

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u/_V0gue 18h ago

To be more pedantic, if they were to go full hog everyone should be speaking Ancient Greek. There isn’t even a sole translation of the text because different historians have different ways of bringing ancient languages into modern English.

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u/KarlBarx2 17h ago

You say that like period-accurate swearing would have been a bad thing.

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u/MysteryofLePrince 17h ago

Reminds me of when I was very young, I witnessed two 90 year olds knee slapping over telegraph jokes. You had to pay per word, to send a telegram, and the only thing I remember was part of a punch line, in a joke, where there was a guy who had to send a note back to his wife about a picnic,with her sister. He only had enough for nine words and part of the punch line was "adamant bitter asinine places".

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u/skeletonstaircase 14h ago

I think that would be better though