It is an adaption of The Odyssey so you would expect it to be true to that particular setting. There is no indication that this is Christopher Nolans spin on The Odyssey and that he is loosely following the original but writing his own story, its just an adaptation. As an adaptation it has to be accurate to its original and thats what Ive been trying to say lmao.
Has he said it's going to be accurate to the original? The fact he's changed quite a lot of other things shows that probably wasn't his intention. Also, adaptions change things all the time, LOTR, Harry Potter, Marvel, The Boys, The Walking Dead. All different on screen Vs the source material. Some major changes, total different characters and plot points. Very few adaptions are accurate. Sure, some are but it's rare.
That Nolan guy never was and will be accurate. Sadly he will do what he wants..
But I'll take an example with Harry Potter latest issue with Snape.
Snape have been described as a tall white pale man with big nose etc etc etc, you can't change that character's attributes to whatever you want. If you will make anything related it must be a person having these exact attributes.
Now let's talk for Helen of Troy, Achilles etc etc.
If Nolan wants something different he should make all the cast black. I would accept that. But he will give us an Ancient Greek Black (which in history never had), a small skinny Achilles (which in books he was tall af), He gave Steel frickin armor in Bronze age... IN BRONZE AGE and many more incredible bad takes.
If he made a move exactly like the legendary Troy with Brad Pitt I would go with 1000% but now that's Raceslop as latest movies...
Greeks managed to stop a film production cause the actors were bad big time and I believe we can do that again.
If they want to make a movie it should be correct in all aspects adaptation or not.
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u/justmyaccount624 13d ago
It is an adaption of The Odyssey so you would expect it to be true to that particular setting. There is no indication that this is Christopher Nolans spin on The Odyssey and that he is loosely following the original but writing his own story, its just an adaptation. As an adaptation it has to be accurate to its original and thats what Ive been trying to say lmao.