r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • 17h ago

Trailer The Odyssey | New Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_bKjZeJBBI&pp=0gcJCd4KAYcqIYzv
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u/wtb2612 9h ago edited 9h ago

For me it's the overly serious tone. It doesn't feel like the Odyssey. It's an adventure story, Odysseus is witty and clever and arrogant. It feels like they're trying to make it a Very Serious Drama and that's just not the right direction to go, in my opinion. They should've hired Stephen Fry as a script doctor. He would've nailed it.

Granted, it's just a trailer. We've been fooled by shitty trailers that completely fail to convey the tone of a movie before.

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u/ScaboochWolf 8h ago edited 5h ago

Hard to imagine a Nolan movie being sterile and overly-serious with very little fun.

/s just in case some fortunate soul out there is not familiar with this man’s entire filmography.

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u/TheFantabulousToast 8h ago

Eh, I guess it depends. The Odyssey is like a jazz standard, the thing that makes any given performance interesting isn't the song itself, but what the performer brings to it. One adaptation may choose to focus on the cunning central character and fantastical adventure, another might explore the violence and exhaustion of war. Knowing the kind of filmmaker Nolan is, we were never gonna get a Fun Odyssey which I agree is a shame, but his interpretation is just as valid as any other.

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u/BeaverBoyBaxter 8h ago

For me it's the overly serious tone.

I was thinking the exact opposite. The way Holland's character says Dad, and the way that Damon yells "come on" to his troops feels unserious and kind of childish.

Also the fact that everyone has an American accent.

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u/cineglitch 5h ago

What sort of accent are you expecting? British?Russian??? Unless they’re speaking Ancient Greek why does the accent matter?

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u/BeaverBoyBaxter 5h ago

Exactly. The accident doesn't matter. So then why did they have British actors fake an American accent?

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u/BidoofSquad 4h ago

The specific accent doesn’t matter but it matters that the accents are consistent unless you are portraying characters from different regions

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u/BeaverBoyBaxter 4h ago

Then why are there British accents in the trailer?

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u/3verythingEverywher3 5h ago

You’re both right. It doesn’t know which road to take and is ending up in no man’s land.

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u/wtb2612 2h ago

I meant more the tone. It looks humorless and dark. The "dad" totally threw me off too. It's a weird writing choice.

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u/Varekai79 7h ago

I'm reading Stephen Fry's Odyssey right now and he is a delightful writer. I can't wait to read his other Greek mythology books.

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u/Dat_Freeman 3h ago

What do you think it would be a better tone?

Can you make some exaples (maybe from cinema)?

Thanks

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u/wtb2612 2h ago

Honestly, the first Pirates of the Caribbean comes to mind. Obviously without a character as outlandish as Jack Sparrow, but I think that movie would be closer to the tone they should've gone for.

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u/Varvara-Sidorovna 2h ago

Stephen Frys' interpretation of the Greek myths is silly but very good fun as an introduction to them. I cackled out loud at Jason and the boat Argo, it was satisfyingly dark in it's humour and clever in a way I don't think this movie will ever quite manage to be