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Article ‘The Odyssey’ Proves It: Audiences Want Movies Made the Hard Way | This year's breakouts like 'Project Hail Mary' and 'Obsession' were made by filmmakers who sweated. While CG-stuffed franchise disappointments such as 'Supergirl,' 'Moana,' and 'The Mandalorian and Grogu' looked lazy.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/odyssey-box-office-2026-practical-effects-1236652219/
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u/wagon_ear 4h ago

The Odyssey takes recycling old IP almost to its full conclusion. The only thing that could top it is if someone remade the epic of Gilgamesh. 

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u/Dontshootmepeas 4h ago

Kind of surprised no one has yet

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u/bentbabe 4h ago

There's still a bunch of it missing. Which is probably a factor.

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u/Dontshootmepeas 4h ago

That allows creative freedom though.

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u/cineglitch 4h ago

In before a bunch of people on Reddit complain about the historical accuracy of Enkidu.

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u/BigCommieMachine 4h ago

I am not kidding when I say that American “Christians” would probably take offense to it because it resembles the Bible too much.

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u/BFroog 4h ago

Also lots of gay.

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u/Herlt 4h ago

gilgamesh gone woke

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u/Wild_Harvest 4h ago

Gilgamesh: Do you dare presume to think I would consider the lives of those beneath me, MONGREL?!?

Gates of Babylon open and throw endless numbers of weapons

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u/TheTenguness 3h ago

"Onore, zasshu"

laughs arrogantly intensifies

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u/Meowjoker 2h ago

It was only a matter of time until someone mention the king of jobbers

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u/santosjb 1h ago

FGO Gilgamesh is the only version of Gilgamesh that I know of, not sure if that's a good or a bad thing...ZASSHU!

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u/TwistedBrother 3h ago

This would absolutely be the critique of Gilgamesh and Enkidu. Despite their very obvious bromance.

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u/Oklahom0 3h ago

With 7 loaves of bread next to him.

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u/XIIISkies 4h ago

Not gay if clay

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u/Raevyxn 4h ago

Not gay if it’s in a 3 way

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u/Rough_Bread8329 1h ago

If its a stone you have to bone.

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u/Gandolfthewhite182 4h ago

Can you imagine if these right wing lunatics ever really understood that the Ancient Greeks, inventors of the western civilization they hold so dearly as their culture, were biggest homosexuals in world history ?? I know people saw Troy, that’s not Achilles “cousin”, Achilles went nuts like he did because that was his lover.

Everyone made love to everyone back then and no one thought anything of it. And the most gay of all the city states in Greece was the Spartans. Those dudes loved man butt.

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u/xXKingLynxXx 3h ago

Its reductive to say that the Greeks were gay. While their were homosexual relationships, anyone known to be the submissive one, or the bottom in modern terms, was looked down on.

Many of their same sex relations were between grown men and young boys that they would mentor from the ages of 12 to 18.

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u/RigaudonAS 3h ago

“They weren’t gay, they just frequently had sex with males.”

They can be gay and pedophilic, unfortunately a lot of the world was (the latter) back then.

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u/cineglitch 3h ago

Have you read The Song of Achilles?

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u/darklightmatter 3h ago

Can we not equate modern sexuality to what Ancient Greeks did? They raped young boys and looked down on the men who would bottom.

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u/William_Dowling 3h ago

Pretty sure Freddie Mercury was the biggest homosexual in world history and he'd be offended by you suggesting otherwise

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u/BigCommieMachine 3h ago

Lot of “wrestling”

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u/czs5056 3h ago

THEY WERE GOOD FRIENDS! /s

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u/segobane 3h ago

It's not gay if it's clay.

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u/cogman10 4h ago

Who cares what they think, they get offended when women step out of the kitchen.

There's not been a blockbuster movie in the last 40 years where you can't find some fundi christian getting huffy over some "immoral" aspect.

These people are a shrinking minor demographic.

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u/kfpswf 3h ago

These people are a shrinking minor demographic.

They were a shrinking minor demographic when education was going strong, and people were growing in their intelligence every generation. We're seeing a reversal of this trend now, so don't hold your breath for the 'minor demographic' to sublimate completely. We might just see a complete 180 by humanity if things continue to go as they're going.

IMO, Liberalism is going to shoot itself in the foot by continuing to downplay the importance of a close-knit community for the well-being of humans, something Conservatism provides freely. We've dismantled so much of traditional community structures in the name of progress, instead of subverting them to foster inclusiveness and tolerance, that ultimately, liberalism itself is at the cusp of being rejected by the masses. Yes, the educated folks will likely uphold the principles of humanitarianism, gender/race equity, etc., till the end, but if these aren't assimilated by the masses, liberals might turn into the 'shrinking minor demographic' in the not too distant future.

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u/MetzgerBuns 1h ago edited 1h ago

Liberalism is going to shoot itself in the foot by continuing to downplay the importance of a close-knit community for the well-being of humans,

You're repeating a conservative lie. Liberals fucking love community, and community spaces, and all sorts of things like that. That's part of why liberalism is so common in cities and less common in areas that are structurally individualistic.

An incomplete list of community places and events that are liberal coded: Farmers markets, food co-ops, CSAs, coffee shops, bookstores, record shops, thrift shops, yoga studios, bike co-ops, film festivals, open mic nights, community theater, NPR, folk festivals, public libraries (and events at them), community gardens, non-traditional libraries (e.g. libraries for tools, or for parks passes, or little free libraries) , neighborhood associations, beach cleanups, pride parades, drag brunch, progressive synagogues, Unitarian Universalists, and and other more progressive religious groups, etc

The vast majority of your rant is just false bullshit spread by conservatives who want to pretend that their community (evangelical mega-churches, rodeos, gun shows, hobby lobby, NASCAR, AM radio, ATV clubs, etc) are the only valid community. Fuck all of that.

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u/Tubamajuba 32m ago

Thank you for eloquently responding to that bullshit, couldn't have said it better myself. It was unreal to see "close-knit community for the well-being of humans" and "Conservatism" in the same sentence haha

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u/strawbery_fields 3h ago

Totally agree with you. I’m as liberal as they come, but these goddamn leftists purity tests are getting out of control.

I had a good friend bitch me out for watching Euphoria because it’s extremely loosely based on an Israeli show.

I’m like all the super fucked things in that show and that’s your biggest problem?

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u/kfpswf 3h ago

but these goddamn leftists purity tests are getting out of control.

Something something tribal mentality. In that regard, liberals are no different than conservatives actually.

When you take any ideology too seriously over reality, you start gate-keeping the tiniest aspect of that ideology. Once your direct ideological opponents have been vanquished, you turn your attention towards your own and push for stringent definitions of what it means to be a liberal.

I had a good friend bitch me out for watching Euphoria because it’s extremely loosely based on an Israeli show.

Oh yeah... If we were to boycott anything tangentially related to Israel, life would become very difficult quickly.

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u/xteve 3h ago

I'd like to believe fundamentalist Christianity is a shrinking demographic. But a whole lot of somebody is voting for the GOP ergo MAGA and Trump. The alliance based on sexual restriction and opposition to reproductive freedom that underlies the "normal Christian" political voice seems pretty fundamentalist to me.

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u/weed_blazepot 2h ago

These people are a shrinking minor demographic.

There's at least 77 million of them in America voting for red hats, so not shrinking that much.

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u/cogman10 2h ago

While religious fundamentalists are all mostly MAGA, not all MAGA is religious fundamentalists.

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u/Dapper-AF 4h ago

Still crazy to me that Christians dont know that this is a rebranded story to fit the abrahamic narrative that got incorporated after the jews were conquered by Babylon.

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u/trialsofamadman 2h ago

The stuff before Deuteronomy, sure. None of the Bronze Age stuff in the bible has any archeological evidence, really.

On the other hand, the Old Testament/Tanakh was written by city dwellers in Jerusalem during the second temple period, firmly during the Iron age, and many of the events that take place then DO have historical evidence. We focus SO HARD on arguments about Genesis, Job, Exedous, Leviticus, and Numbers. The more historically interesting bits come later - Judges, Kings, Chronicles... You know, the stuff most people never really make it to when they start reading the bible. The boring middle bits, before getting to the New Testament.

Those early bits also were being written by priests who wanted to create a religious significance and background to the recently reunited Hebrew kingdoms, the easiest way was to re-work existing stories into a framework whereby all the patriarchs were related and the kingdoms were once all united, later split, and have been again re-united as one using common and well known mythological figures placed into lineages specifically to demonstrate this.

A critical reading of the first five books of the Old Testament makes it clear that the goals of the text were to set up a common mythos for several people groups to say they were related and united once, and to establish that they share a common history and traditions, tying in well known myths (like the flood).

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u/MonsterRider80 3h ago

It goes further back. There are stark similarities between ancient Egyptian religion and modern he Abrahamic religions. Which is not surprising since Jews were in Egypt for a long time before going back.

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u/Canesjags4life 4h ago

Haha. American evangelicals don't read as much Genesis as you think.

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u/Sad-Artichoke-2174 3h ago

I love Phil Collins

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u/Lactancia 3h ago

I'm a Peter Gabriel guy myself.

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u/punksmostlydead 4h ago

If they had any inkling how much of their dogma was stolen wholesale. Old Constantine knew what he was doing.

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u/TrickySuggestion3004 4h ago

Like what?

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u/BardicSense 4h ago

You've heard of "The Bible" right? 

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u/TrickySuggestion3004 4h ago

Yeah I’m asking what parts of the Bible. Also Constantine did not write any part of the bible

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u/locust098 3h ago

Would they take offense to passion of the christ 2: Electric boogaloo?

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u/BigCommieMachine 3h ago

Depends on how much Jesus hates immigrants…

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u/chumer_ranion 4h ago

Let them. They're off by like 2000 years lol. 

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u/CCLF 4h ago

I'm loving the image of rage and hysterics about "woke garbage" when Gilgamesh "civilizes" the wild hairy beast man through sodomy, and then they embark on happy, gay new voyages.

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u/Xagzan 3h ago

I mean, not for nothing but you realize Shamhat is the one who "civilizes" Enkidu through sex.

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u/CCLF 3h ago

Thanks for the clarification. I haven't read Gilgamesh since high school so the details are a bit hazy.

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u/ShahinGalandar 2h ago

always those damn facts meddling with the yaoi fanfic!

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u/LessInThought 3h ago

On the flip side let's get outraged at Hollywood sanitizing Greek mythology. All these adaptations and none show even 1% of the depravity Zeus gets up to.

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u/Acceptable_Cut_7545 3h ago

Okay but seeing a massive Humbaba in all his glory would be SO cool.

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u/cineglitch 3h ago

It would be a heck of a fun movie!

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u/c0horst 2h ago

Everything I know about Gilgamesh, Enkidu, and Humbaba I've learned through the one episode of American Dad where Santa Clause uses child slave labor to dig up his corpse so he can gain his power.

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u/Additional-Local8721 3h ago

If we're complaining about historical accuracy, I'd like to point out not every article of clothing back then was drab. Vibrant colors were often worn by everyone including peasants. Oh, and sunny days existed as well.

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u/Hythy 3h ago

Yeah, I think the Odyssey is probably a fantastic film (not seen it yet), but my god am I tired of hollywood depicting the past as being so devoid of colour.

Of course with Nolan that's part of his style (I think he takes offence at the audience ever seeing a colour he can't), but it would've been nice if it wasn't so drab in (in a colour sense).

I also think they look like they came off the set of "Vikings" -so it's a shame they didn't make it feel at least a little Greek. There's nothing wrong with audiences expecting a film to evoke the idea that it's set where/when it's set (especially when I understand Nolan goes through great pains in the dialogue to situate the story in a very specific time/place with references to the Sea Peoples).

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u/OtakuAttacku 3h ago

Fate Strange/Fake: I have no such weakness

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u/TwinTiger 2h ago

If Enkidu isnt a green chicken, we riot! 😤

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u/SadhuSalvaje 1h ago

In before a bunch of goofballs start comparing G and Enkidu to Han Solo and Chewbacca

Crap, I probably just gave Disney a very dumb idea…

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u/obliviousofobvious 1h ago

How dare you not cast an actor of Sumerian descent!

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u/Starbucks__Lovers 4h ago

We fell for that with game of thrones 

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u/Earthpig_Johnson 4h ago

Time to start harassing the writer of the Epic of Gilgamesh until they finish it.

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u/krombough 4h ago

He's been too busy trying to return some dogshit copper.

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u/Mr_Piddles 4h ago

I’m just going to get my pitchforks ready for when they don’t make it gay enough.

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u/Animajation 4h ago

Ohh I love a good séance

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u/Earthpig_Johnson 4h ago

Find me the nearest medium that speaks Babylonian!

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u/bentbabe 4h ago

I hate to say this. But the cracks of Game of Thrones started pretty much after the first season. It wasn't so much creative freedom as "how can we wrap this up?" in my opinion.

Which I think is also why GRRM is unable to finish. Because he is torn between "just get it over with" and "I can't fuck this up."

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u/LupinThe8th 4h ago

I'll give it seasons 1-4 as pretty damn great, but you could see the cliff approaching as they ran out of book to adapt.

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u/Intelligent_Oil7816 4h ago

Nah. Seasons 1-3 are very good adaptations of the first 3 books. Not perfect, but very enjoyable. Then we get to seasons 4 and 5 and - like the books they are adapting - they begin to become hot messes.

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u/CodeComprehensive734 4h ago

Season 4 was also an adaption of book 3 but it also starts to get muddier and less direct book to season translations.

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u/Canesjags4life 4h ago

It didn't help that A feast of Crows and Dance of Dragons happen simultaneously in time.

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u/Tesco5799 3h ago

Agreed and I would add that from a book perspective Dance of Dragons furthers the story and it kind of feels like we are starting to move towards a conclusion of the story but we are far from it.

The show just ran out of material and tried to go from end of book 6 directly to an ending and it was half baked. If GRRM ever finishes the story it's going to be at least 2 more books.

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u/SirJack3 4h ago

Creative freedom? So an AI can fill out the blanks! ~ a producer, somewhere

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u/Prudent-Marsupial-42 4h ago

We can add Poochie into it seamlessly

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u/Zachariot88 4h ago

(Poochie died on his way back to Mesopotamia)

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u/Synicull 4h ago

Don't give them ideas

wE aRe InNoVaTiVe BeCaUsE AI WrOtE iT. NeXt GeNeRaTiOn ReTeLlInG oF a ClAsSiCaL tAlE

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u/saphiki 4h ago

didn't stop game of thrones

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u/awpdownmid 3h ago

It did though, that show's legacy died and along with it millions of revenue.

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u/Out-For-A-Walk-Bitch 1h ago

Still angry.

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u/Xatsman 4h ago

It in a way did.

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u/Anus_Targaryen 3h ago

I wish it did

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u/AWildEnglishman 4h ago

Get Benioff and Weiss to fill in the blanks. Worked for Game of Thrones.

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u/CurryMustard 3h ago

Not really

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u/William_Dowling 3h ago

Just fill the gaps from that other great work of historical fiction, the bible

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u/thePedrix 3h ago

Claude, please fill in the blanks in Gilgamesh's tale. Make it profitable.

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u/kingofphilly 3h ago

Didn’t stop HBO from ruining Game of Thrones

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u/SnooBooks1243 4h ago

Fate/Stay series leads me to believe Japan has tried to fully control the Gilgamesh market.

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u/dennisasu 2h ago

He's also a summon in a few Final Fantasy games

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u/SnooBooks1243 2h ago

Ah yes, of course.

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u/Baldassre 1h ago

Are we ignoring Civ?

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u/cmnrdt 4h ago

I mean, Gilgamesh doesn't so much have a narrative as much as it's a series of fanciful exploits that are all attributed to the same person. It would be hard to adapt into a ~2 hour movie without taking a lot of liberties with the source material, and by that point it's an entirely different kind of story.

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u/krunamey 4h ago

Feels like it could work if they gave it pacing similar to something like The Green Knight

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u/TheWatersOfMars 3h ago

It's actually a surprisingly similar vibe. Gilgamesh's journey to find immortality after the death of his best friend is melancholy and heartwrenching. I'm sure there's a great modern Hollywood script in there somewhere.

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u/Nachooolo 2h ago

The problem here is that the journey is the last third of the story, and it wouldn't be as impactful (emotional, even) without the two first thirds.

Gilgamesh meeting and befriending Enkidu, and their adventures together are as important to the story as the journey.

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u/TheWatersOfMars 2h ago

It's not unlike The Odyssey, though, in that Odysseus's famous adventures are really just the middle third of the poem. But Gilgamesh is much, much shorter and has far fewer iconic moments to draw on.

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u/matdragon 3h ago

and yet Fate/stay night managed to characterize him to hell and back, is some of it true or not or historically accurate? of course not, it's an epic as old as time, it's up to creators to try to interpret and tell the story to the current generation.

Did Ishtar actually have beef with gilgamesh? Hell if i know, hell i wouldn't have even known who ishtar was without the fate series

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u/TheVich 4h ago

How about a miniseries?

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u/Mediocre_Scott 4h ago

It’s weird as hell too don’t forget that

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u/Jonthrei 4h ago

Nothing weird about a goddess fucking civilization into a wild man

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u/Exodan 1h ago

Not even a goddess - just a well-respected, human temple prostitute who was damn good at her job (they banged the wilderness out of him for 2 weeks straight).

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u/WhaleMetal 2h ago

We live upon the waste of Tiamat.

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u/Radixeo 3h ago

What do you mean it doesn’t have narrative? It follows Gilgamesh’s character arc from a tyrant, to finding a best friend in Enkidu, to the loss Gilgamesh feels when Enkidu is killed by the gods, to his search for the herb of immortality. It concludes with the snake eating the herb and Gilgamesh accepting it.

It has conflict, character growth, a beginning and an end. I think you could make a great movie out of that.

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u/BrianWonderful 3h ago

Modern Hollywood would hear that and say "Wow! A franchise with a whole set of sequels already planned out!"

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u/Oy_of_Mid-world 4h ago

Remember what they did to Beowulf? Just kidding. I didn't watch it, either.

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u/Jonthrei 4h ago

The 13th Warrior was actually a pretty solid adaptation of Beowulf, tbh.

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u/Panzer_Man 2h ago

That movie was awesome

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u/iwilldeletethisacct2 1h ago

That scene where they're all chatting around the campfire and the language shifts from whatever language to English so the audience can understand to show Ahmed learning the language lives rent free in my head. "I LISTENED!"

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u/Aiseadai 4h ago

I actually liked that movie, especially the first half. It was some pretty effective horror.

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u/ContinuingAnyway 3h ago

It was good

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u/Spiritual_Corner_977 4h ago

They aren’t ready for boy love on the big screen

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u/CosmicDesperado 4h ago

Brokeback Mountain 2: Gilgamesh XXX

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u/Mr_Piddles 4h ago edited 4h ago

I can already imagine all the right wing chuds whining about how “woke Hollywood is turning Gilgamesh and Enkidu gay!”

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u/GooseQuothMan 4h ago

"why is he not a blonde white guy like in the Fate anime"

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u/KamachoThunderbus 4h ago

Guillermo del Toro could so something interesting with it I bet

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u/Foehammer58 3h ago

The best retelling of the story was by Captain Jean-Luc Picard.

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u/Similar_Two_542 4h ago

Noah flopped pretty hard. Gilgamesh would do even worse.

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u/HynkelVerdoux 4h ago

Noah was a financial success. Per Wikipedia:

The film grossed $101 million in North America and $258 million in other countries, making a worldwide gross of $359 million. The film was declared "an unmitigated hit ... by almost every measure."

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u/anuncommontruth 4h ago edited 3h ago

I think people equate Noah with failure because it was incredibly controversial and then steeply fell out of the public eye.

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u/Everestkid 2h ago

Thing is, The Odyssey and the Epic of Gilgamesh are long poems with many plot points.

The story of Noah as written in the Bible lasts like five pages. Ten, tops. They had to invent a whole lot of plot points to drag it out into a two-hour movie.

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u/BulLock_954 4h ago

Nolan read your comment and will now be making the Epic of Gilgamesh next in a cave, with a box of scraps

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u/LiterallyJoeStalin 4h ago

with a box of scraps

Don’t be rude, identify him by his name, Matt Damon. 

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u/Synicull 4h ago

I volunteer to be a box of scraps if I too get to look that good and have that much money at his age

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u/literated 3h ago

Hell, I'd settle for looking that good and having that much money at my current age.

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u/Ratorasniki 3h ago

The studio is currently backing several dump trucks of cash up to his home trying to get him to do the iliad as a prequel.

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u/feartheoldblood90 4h ago

We need to re-enter the era when Hollywood was pumping out big epics with insane amounts of actors and extras on huge sets that they would, like, flood with biblical amounts of water or light on fire or redirect a meteor from space to hit, all while 50 synchronized swimmers danced in a pool the size of Manhattan

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u/droidtron 4h ago

20 good men died, but we got the shot.

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u/BattledroidE 3h ago

The boom mic was in frame, let's do it again.

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u/Nachooolo 2h ago

Is it truly cinema if two kids don't die in a horrible helicopter accident?

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u/TenaciousJP 4h ago

You must mean Sir Twenty of House Goodmen, pivotal in Season 5 of Game of Thrones

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u/ltra1n 3h ago

Pissed me off that whatever happened there happened off screen and was completely unexplained. Season 5 was where we knew the series was in freefall.

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u/imnotreallyapenguin 4h ago

Im still waiting on the film adaptation of Gates of Fire..

Come on hollywood... swords and sandals epics are cool again!

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u/Z0MBIECL0WN 3h ago

Im still waiting on the film adaptation of Gates of Fire

Sorry. Best we can do is a dramatized version of Bill Gates makings Microsoft.

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u/KILLER5196 12m ago

Up next, a biopic for an artist that was relevant 30-40 years ago

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u/MontyAtWork 3h ago

I've been watching movies from the 70s-90s and that's something I've noticed happened WAY more: multiple crowd shots and scenes with people moving through crowds.

Those places felt real and inhabited.

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u/TheOnlyBongo 2h ago

Lawrence of Arabia from 1962. When P.T. Lawrence has to cross the Sinai Desert from Aqaba to Cairo to deliver the news of taking Aqaba by land through the Nefud Desert, boldly claiming "Moses did it." When he reaches Cairo he is swarmed by British Officers who tell him to get out of his Arab clothing and get his Arab friend out of the officer's bar. Everyone falls silent when he claims to have taken Aqaba by land of his own authority and he calmly makes his way out of the room as people part away for him, like Moses and the Red Sea.

Much later in the movie when he reaches Damascus and tries to establish an Arab Council rub by the Arabs with no foreign intervention, it is pure pandemonium as multiple tribes do not wish to cooperate and there is much infighting. Lawrence tries to leave the meeting to attend to urgent matters but is swarmed by a bunch of people needing signatures for different areas of government. He fights against the crows but is unable to make his way through, having lost his control of the situation and unable to part the people like before.

Lawrence of Arabia has some of the best cinematography of any movie in my opinion. The shots are gorgeous and many are deliberately done where the frame tells the story.

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u/cherinator 3h ago

We still have Indian cinema for that at least, and it is glorious.

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u/comrade_batman 3h ago

After The Odyssey I’d love to see someone (like Villeneuve) make an epic adaption of Virgil’s The Aeneid, connects to both Troy and Rome’s founding myths.

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u/kiwigate 2h ago

Spectacle aside, those films had good writing. Then Hollywood blacklisted all the good writers because they 'made capitalism look bad' or whatever fascist bullshit era we apparently still live in.

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u/feartheoldblood90 2h ago

Very true

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u/exolyrical 3h ago

With hardware prices these days it might still be cheaper than CGI.

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u/HiddenCity 4h ago

until someone writes a story specifically inspired by a cave painting.

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u/CriticalEngineering 4h ago

Werner Herzog has done it.

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u/KrytenKoro 4h ago

Ice Age

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u/Individual_Rip_54 4h ago

Nolan had to do some work to update the morality of the odyssey. Updating the morality of Gilgamesh would be as hard as making it.

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u/droidtron 4h ago

Rape king finds maybe rape only half the time, and loves his beast man.

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u/obeytheturtles 3h ago

He rapes. But he saves more than he rapes.

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u/Banjo-Oz 2h ago

That's Deathstalker.

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u/zatalak 4h ago

Don't lose yourself in what you love?

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u/Ion_bound 4h ago

Eh, the actual moral of Gilgamesh is 'The King's decision to rape the women of his country was, in fact, awful and the gods punished him for it. He was a terrible ruler and through the events of this tale, he redeemed himself and became a better and wise one'.

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u/AnAncientBog 2h ago

'The King's decision to rape the women of his country was, in fact, awful and the gods punished him for it. He was a terrible ruler and through the events of this tale, he redeemed himself and became a better and wise one...

...by enslaving men instead.

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u/ApsleyHouse 1h ago

A certain self-styled king keeps getting rewarded for raping women in his country and there's no divine intervention so far. We aren't that far off.

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u/sexytokeburgerz 4h ago

The odyssey is no one’s IP.

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u/CommonLand414 4h ago

I would love to see this! It was in Gilgamesh that my Judeo-Christian upbringing first cracked. There in plain view was the flood story, but no Noah, just another fable. Wham! That hit me good. Knocked me off the main road as I read more and more ancient mythology to realize they were all full of shit, making up origin stories.

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u/SpaceOdysseus23 4h ago

I'd kill for a high quality Twelve Labours of Heracles movie

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u/XT-421 4h ago

It'd be a smash hit if Patrick Stewart helps narrate.

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u/dable1 4h ago

"recycling old IP" is a wild way to describe making a movie of The Odyssey

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u/HeathEarnshaw 2h ago

Agreed. Super bad faith response.

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u/mikenasty 4h ago

Beowulf would like a word

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u/enjoythepain 3h ago

Hope they use the Binderman translation

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u/wagon_ear 3h ago

HE'S A HACK

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u/xantec15 2h ago

They could do the historical epic of Darmok and Jalad instead.

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u/swat1611 4h ago

It's not really as popular.

Stories like the Odyssey have a lot of popularity because of their significance in literature in general.

Having an adaptation for that would be incredible though, it is the story that quite possibly started the trend of writing epics in other cultures.

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u/KrytenKoro 4h ago

I mean, Fate Stay

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u/Barbaaz 4h ago

I think the epic 'Os Lusíadas' would actually be a banger on the big screen, but there doesn't seem to be any interest into doing that.

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u/leihto_potato 4h ago

Probably get the Aeneid next

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u/Mixer-3007 4h ago

I just want "Lord of Light" or "Creatures of Light and Darkness" adaptation by Denis Villeneuve.

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u/PerplexGG 4h ago

The odyssey has been getting recycled since its release

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u/drgath 4h ago

Honest question, what IP is related? Tips on movies to watch of history to read up on before seeing The Odyssey? I kinda remember a little of Troy (2004), and bits and pieces from Clash of the Titans (1981). Never read the story in high school, at least that I remember.

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u/nicodana 4h ago

Would love to see a weirdo reboot of some Canterbury Tales

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u/131sean131 4h ago

Someone got mad at me for talking about spoilers and I was like "the books been out for a while" 

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u/BuckeyeBentley 4h ago

I want an adaptation of the A True Story by Lucian of Samosata, the first sci-fi story ever with aliens and travel to outer space.

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u/TheAndrewBrown 4h ago

I want some more high budget adaptations of stuff like 1001 Nights. That mythology is so cool and we never see anything from it but kids stories. Like Gilgamesh, it’d need a lot of work to make an actual story but it’s not like adaptations are ever true to the original stories anyway.

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u/tspruill 4h ago

I think there is some nuance to this though. It’s ok to make a movie from a story that for the most part hasn’t been brought to the big screen. I don’t need a live action of an animated movie that came out 10 years ago

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u/DogBarf00 4h ago

High school spoiled this movie for me. Not sure why people that are excited about it.

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u/Khelthuzaad 4h ago

Please dont give them ideas

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u/im_alliterate 4h ago

Terrence Malick is of Assyrian descent. He seems best suited to make the Epic of Gilgamesh movie!!

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u/safarifriendliness 4h ago

Except my main exposure to the Odyssey has been the endless parody versions before this so at times it really felt like a story I’d never heard before. Like The Simpsons made the idea of tricking a giant military power with a big wooden horse seem so ridiculous. Christopher Nolan made it feel like a real war tactic

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u/RayneShikama 4h ago

Dude I would LOVE a good Gilgamesh and Humbaba movie!

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u/dejaWoot 4h ago

You missed the post-credits sequence where Gilgamesh shows up to welcome Odysseus to the Protovengers Initiative?

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u/Robey-Wan_Kenobi 4h ago

Absolutely right. Coen Brothers did it 25 years ago.

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u/OK_Soda 4h ago

I think the Aeneid would top it. It's basically just a lazy franchise reboot of the Odyssey.

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u/Tight-Escape3373 3h ago

Epic of Gilgamesh? I think you may be on to something.

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u/TheHurtfulEight88888 3h ago

After that someone is going to do a full cinematic universe based on the cave paintings at Lascaux.

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u/MonkeyDMeatt 3h ago

Thats such a missed opportunity

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u/the7egend 3h ago

I’ll take Dante’s Inferno too.

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u/AtomicDig219303 3h ago

Tbh I would gladly watch an adaptation of the Epic of Gilgamesh

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u/Xagzan 3h ago

Remade?

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u/wirebug201 3h ago

What? Why not Sargon???? He’s so forgotten!!

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u/FelixOfSomewhere 3h ago

the epic of Gilgamesh is weird enough you would need someone like Robert Eggers to take it on. Thinking specifically of enkidu being "civilized" by having sex with Shamhat, I feel like you would need some weirdness of interpretation to take that seriously on some level.

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