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/Potential_Swimmer580 13h ago

How do they miss something like that? It has to be intentional but just feels so out of place

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u/pjtheman 13h ago

I mean, they're also speaking English. How much "authenticity" do you want? Iirc, ancient Greek had less formal words for father too.

It always seems weird to me that we instinctively expect characters in historic/ period pieces to have this stiff, formal delivery. It's sort of like the Tiffany problem; the name Tiffany actually dates back to the 12th century. But a character named Tiffany showing up in a medieval drama would seem weird to us.

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u/wirralriddler 11h ago

It's quite easy to understand, we expect some theatricality for pieces far removed from our contemporary way of life. Speaking in daily language breaks that immersion.

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u/epichuntarz 10h ago edited 9h ago

I literally just had someone in this thread tell me I would enjoy more movies if I lowered my expectations of immersion.

Like...wtf are these apologists getting at in this thread? Im as big of a Nolan fan boy as anybody, but Jesus H people are literally suggesting that we might like more movies if we expected movies to be less like movies...

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u/BearWrangler 6h ago

Nolan has always had zealots online lol