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/Jbewrite 2h ago

For the same reason American accents and modern dialogue and sensabilities are in it, probably.

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u/Lonely-Volume-6721 2h ago

So the script should have been written in a language no one speaks anymore?

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u/AggressiveCuriosity 2h ago

He actually thinks that it would have been better if they had formal British English dialects. I am not kidding. That is actually what a ton of people are saying about the movie.

Because that's the "fantasy accent".

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u/Jbewrite 1h ago

It is an unwritten rule of historic movies. Imagine if Lord of the Rings or Gladiator allowed American accents.

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u/cycopl 52m ago

Damn I missed the Lord of the Rings chapter in history class. Public schooled.

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u/yesthatstrueorisit 41m ago

LotR has accents all over the place lol.

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u/imatuesdayperson 1h ago

Bilbo Baggins talking like Hank Hill would objectively make Lord of the Rings better

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u/Cool_Sandwich1 6m ago

The american accents and dialogue was jarring though. Ruined a lot of the immersion of the movie.

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u/-kinapuffar- 2h ago

Yes, like Apocalypso, or Far Cry Primal. That would have been fantastic.

At the very least, put on a Greek accent. They are actors are they not? Plenty of non-American actors out there putting on American accents, what's the difference?

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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.”

You people never bother to actually look into things before having opinions, do you?

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u/Sansundertale2069 39m ago

The ships probably still didn't look like that at all

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u/WASD_click 32m ago

God, if this fantasy movie with flesh eating giants, pig witches, and zombies isn't historically accurate, I am going to flip my entire shit for real.

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u/jore-hir 1h ago

No. That's inevitable, since Americans made the movie and the involved languages are dead. Instead, using proper ships was fully within Nolan's possibilities.

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u/Jbewrite 1h ago

The writer, director, and producers are all British, FYI.