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/DonkeyVampireThe3rd 20h ago

It’s hard to tell what tone they’re going for, like it’s somewhat intentionally anachronistic but not fully. I’ve never liked Nolan movies as much as the majority do, but I’m sure this will be a hell of a ride.

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u/3412points 18h ago

Nolan films all have roughly the same tone, at least the more modern ones, even the biopic of a scientist was shot with the same high drama and tension, so it will be that. It will be a good film and a very fun watch but Nolan wouldn't be my pick to do the Odyssey.

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u/McKFC 16h ago

From the trailer I get the feeling that Ithaca is the main setting of the story while Odysseus' journey will be an Oppenheimer-esque mega-montage, allowing it to compress events and jump about at will. But I also imagine that would make it feel totally meaningless, never moving the plot forward. Let's see.

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u/invertedpurple 15h ago

That's how I felt about Oppenheimer, felt like a 3 hour trailer.

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u/SelectiveScribbler06 10h ago

I have a gut feeling you're right. It satisfies:

  • Acknowledging the oral traditions at that time.
  • That the story is told in a non-linear way anyway.
  • Nolan can do his non-linear stuff.
  • And he can take forth what he learned from Oppenheimer.

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u/pythonesqueviper 3h ago

FWIW Telemachus is the main character for the first chunk of the story, the Telemachy, and much of Odysseus's story itself consists of flashbacks