Watching Nolan’s Odyssey is bad for me because it’s been making me think about the most disparate things for days and, I mean, it was unavoidable.
Among all my lame thoughts, Frontier has popped out here and there more than twice, OF COURSE, and I’ve also found myself thinking it could have been so, so, so interesting to see Wind and Water lines opposing to each other also visually and conceptually. For example, they could have been explicitedly inspired from the different interpretations Syrens’ figure got through centuries. On a side you’d have Water resembling the Syrens we all are used to, their medieval, folkloristic form; on the other you’d have Wind being inspired from their Greek and original representation, so the one imagining them as bird women.
It’s funny to point out all the conceptual connections Ranamon and Fairymon have got; how they both are tied to Italy and Greece, with Ancientmermaimon being told to live in a temple exactly looking like the Parthenon and Calamaramon having some attacks in italian just like Fairymon, (Nero Corso). So it would have been so amazing to merge the two main sources of their lines by throwing in the Syrens. Actually, in the Odyssey it is explained they believed these creatures lived in a very specific spot in Calabria, so yeah, Italy.
And I’ll tell you more: one of them, Parthenope, became the symbol of Naples because her suicide, -which happened due to Odysseus resisting to her and her sister’s chant-, gave birth to the first nucleus of the city, a little island called Parthenope. And yet, Parthenope started being portayed like this and this is what she still is to our folklore nowadays: a fish woman…But there also are statues and also literature pieces portraying her in her original form.
Wishful thinking, I guess ahahshhs. I wouldn’t mind eventually giving a shot to a redraw.
La scena delle Sirene mi ha ossessionato col film e la capisco,. Ci penso sempre e ho i brividi. Che cazzo di angoscia
