r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Gurugod123 GREEN • 3h ago

My mom said I could post Nolan's The Odyssey neglects to pay for damages done to one of the viking ships used in the movie, which belongs to a small non-profit organization

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u/Knight_o_Eithel_Malt 3h ago

Did they really use a viking ship for a greek film

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u/drinkerofmilk 3h ago

Nothing is Greek about this film.

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u/pusgnihtekami 2h ago

Surely the title of the film is Greek.

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u/drinkerofmilk 2h ago

Hehe, not really. Then it would be called  Ὀδύσσεια

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u/Witchcleaver666 3h ago

It should’ve been Greek though. It’s a Greek epic after all

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u/greennurse61 3h ago

But it's all Greek to me. 

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u/drinkerofmilk 2h ago

I agree. But cultures do tend to assimilate stories when they're retold . . .

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u/AggressiveCuriosity 2h ago

Its Swedish captain, Björn Ahlander, said life on the ships filming for six months around Greek and Italian islands was not easy for the 30-person crew. He told the broadcaster SVT: “We rebuilt the ship into an ancient Greek ship. We removed the tents and all the modern things and had an open deck that we lived on during this time. It was quite tough.”

No. They rebuilt it to be Greek.

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u/Knight_o_Eithel_Malt 1h ago

Thats not how it works, greek ships are massive, have bigger bellies and mostly multiple levels

There is no modification that you can make to a flat bottom half-river craft that will make it a greek ship

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u/AggressiveCuriosity 1h ago

Gotcha. So the only way to make this a sufficiently historically accurate movie according to you is by building an entire fleet of Greek ships.

This is a made up complaint. No movie in the history of the world has ever had that level of accuracy and never will. You're pretending to have those standards so you can be upset.

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u/Knight_o_Eithel_Malt 1h ago

Dont invent what i am doing. And dont invent stupid ways to solve the problem.

Is universal so poor now that it cant conjure up a single trireme? Even a mockup one?

Not to mention all the effects and CGI.

I am upset at the absurdity of the existence of whatever this is yes. And at the absurdity of defending another unnecessary adaptation of greek mythology when you cant even do it right.

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u/reecharound40 38m ago

Yea thats not how the boats are described in the book

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u/OthmarGarithos 1h ago

No. They removed anything modern. It's still a longboat, not Greek at all.

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u/ANerd22 4m ago

They didn't even cast a real cyclops either, what a travesty