Cut 2 of the most famous adventures for 6 minutes of fleeing the giants
Cut the Nobody scene entirely
De-hottied Circe and made her overly-emotional and reactive and falsely accuse the men of being rape threats. No nymphs or magic besides the soup.
Had the Trojan horse portrayed as a war crime so bad it ended society and was deeeefinitely the worst and most dishonorable thing done in the Trojan war (cut the rapes from the sacking of Troy while still trying to make it a symbol of lost society so they just stab a lot of women and wax esoteric??)
Slander Menelaus and Helen. :ā-] he did not drag her back as his slave queen theyāre literally one of like 2 endgame-still-ok Greek couples. (Speaking of weird changes in the family, they keep Agamemnon killing his daughter, but totally leave out what he did to Cassandra)
Odysseus actively doesnāt want to get home to Penelope and Telemachus
Mentor is just some guy 100% of the time instead of usually Athena.
Odysseus is neither a wife guy nor sufferer of hubris (that is not my beautiful king that is not my beautiful general)
The gods just arenāt there. They de-god Calypso and also sort of do the lotus eaters as just her (but not. Itās bad). Hermes? Gone. Poseidon? Poseidon who. Zeus? Helios? Nah. Athena? You think so but no, thatās just Odysseus and his PTSD talking to himself.
The gods arenāt there but one of the messages is to give yourself up to Godās control and to let go of trying to carve your own path? Which Odysseus does??? Confusing and off target. 0s across the board.
They cut all the humor. No naked Odysseus. Not a laugh was had.
Odysseus wonāt let Telemachus help him fight the suitors bc āyouād be exiledā and then runs away with Penelope at the end instead of the remotely normal ending to the book. Why? I donāt know
I canāt tell you what itās about bc even though it was 3 hours every scene felt like the sparks notes version, but my best guess is āitās ok if society collapses bc it will rise againā???
Shot like someone who didnāt go to film school made it. Scene 1 Nolan was cutting to people every time they spoke I was dying. No audio off-camera so cringe. Also insane camera movements like did we need a push in for the 0.5 second cut to a servant listening in? Was that 0.5 seconds not gripping enough? Really??? Dude what are you doing
Why was Tiresias moving like a worm in the sand
The hunting dog got more screen time and character arc than Calypso
Every woman was handled badly. Every single one. Actually Clytemnestra was fine she was there for like 15 seconds but they were ok. Otherwise though just badly handled every single time and in godsās bizarrest ways (what if Telemachus and Penelope fought over which one of them was good for the throne. What if Calypso wasnāt holding Odysseus hostage or sacrificing her eternal happiness by letting him go. What if Circe was a crazy emotional middle aged woman who sees all men as rapists and turns them into pigs for no reason but sheās neurotic)
seriously itās so weird to get back to Ithica without seeing Hermes, Athena, or Poseidon once ā but theyāre not plot relevant, right?
Odysseus is personally responsible for the fall of Greek civilization bc of the Trojan horse trick. He basically nuked civilization. (Yes all of it bc thatās the only civilization at this time. What do you mean no itās not thatās crazy I mean Iām p sure itās just Greece)
Cut the whole āonly my husband would know thatā thing with Penelope and the wedding bed
Stole the exact amount of one of Jorgeās songs you legally can
Didnāt let Odysseus go full feral in the finale
Not a Greek in sight in the main cast. Just lots of Americans and other Europeans. Really bad costume design too. And set design.
Literally start āthe Odysseyā with Odysseus home in Ithaca already. 98% is a flashback. First version of the Odyssey ever both thematically and literally not about going home
Anyway it was dogshit donāt go see it