Now that more people have seen it here, these are the common complaints that I keep seeing pop up around the internet that weren't an issue for me. Thoughts? - Pacing. I was shocked at how fast it moved. Wasn't bored, wasn't tired, didn't have to get up and use the restroom and I went in super tired from work and almost cancelled. Surprised to see people saying it dragged? - Dialogue too low / drowned out - not an issue at ALL in my theater which admittedly is a newish and extremely nice one. It was LOUD, but the dialogue was never drowned out and I feel like this is either an individual theater mixing / sound problem, or people assuming it'd be an issue as it has been with Nolan in the past. - Acting - Modern dialogue and wooden acting... Didn't find the first distracting or find the latter to exist?
The acting is great but the characters are textually one dimensional from the poem and with a few exceptions not super fleshed out. pacing wise … it simultaneously feels long and rushed. Realistically he could/should have done both the Iliad and then the odyssey instead of a chapter of the odyssey basically being all of the climax of the Iliad. But I get him not wanting to be locked down for the decade that would take presumably to make
I did not have any problem with the modern dialogue and anyone who cares that much about authenticity in that regard is a huge nerd in my opinion. I did think that the movie was loud but as previously stated, did not give a fuck. There was one time toward the end where I felt the movie's runtime, but it wasn't in a "God, let me leave" kind of way, it was more a "Okay, we should be at the endgame now, let's fucking go!" My mom didn't feel the runtime at all; my take was that it earned it. It earned the right to be that long.
The whole "original dialogue" thing is weird because pretty much any version of The Odyssey you read is pretty modern. My students are always confused why The Odyssey is much easier to understand than Shakespeare even though it is much older.
Also, wasn't the story passed down orally? So whenever it was written down wouldn't have been in the actual language of the time anyway? Correct me if I'm wrong, genuinely asking.
No, the Greek that was used by Homer was not colloquial. Some compare it to when we now read the King James Bible for example. Not hard to understand, but far from how we talk.
It is confusing if you don't know the history of the stuff. We read The Odyssey and Beowulf but they are modern versions so are much easier to read than when we do Macbeth and they have no idea what is going on.
I don't know if this answered what I was asking. I'm asking if whenever the Odyssey was written down if it was written in how it would have been told back when it was spoken or if it was written how it would have been told when it was written.
Ah, I see, sorry, I misread that. I don’t know, but I would guess a bit of both based on how the these things usually go.
Gas stations with those video screens are so annoying. The silence and peace of filling up your tank should be sacred.
The point I'm driving at is being mad the film uses "modern language" is silly if we don't know what the "original language" was to begin with.
This is great news, not least because it is going to royally annoy all the anti-woke crowd who were wanting it to fail.