r/okbuddycinephile 7h ago

A historically accurate adaptation of 'The Odyssey'

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u/_soosleloshem 6h ago

Elon please do this because it'll be so funny when it fails

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u/RockyMullet 6h ago

They could double feature it with Melania.

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u/_soosleloshem 6h ago

Maybe Melania herself could play Helen of Troy?

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u/man_fuck_these_subs 6h ago

fuck yes, I wanna see MAGA performing mental gymnastics to claim that Melania is hotter than Lupita lmao

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u/Financial-Quail5978 4h ago

Looks more like a greek goddess than the african actress

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u/man_fuck_these_subs 4h ago

ok brainlet. go goon to Melania and her botox then lmao

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u/Financial-Quail5978 4h ago

tf bruh I’m just being objective lmao

She’s atleast part Balkan as are Greeks.

The african actress looks literally nothing like a Greek.

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u/Financial-Leader3475 6h ago

No, a Greek woman should play Helen of Troy, not Lupita.

A Greek man should play Odysseus, not Matt Damon

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u/thebeastiestmeat 5h ago

Specifically, a woman from Sparta should play Helen of Troy, and man from Ithaca should play Odysseus

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u/Financial-Leader3475 5h ago

Yes, do keep dismissing the issue with WASPs stealing Greek stories

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u/thebeastiestmeat 5h ago

Yup i will thank you

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u/Raccoonsrlilbandits 5h ago

Helen of Troy is a made up person who was born via an egg after a made up person got fucked by a swan that was supposedly Zeus she could be a fucking giraffe for all I care

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u/Financial-Leader3475 5h ago

Yes, do keep dismissing the issue with WASPs stealing Greek stories

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u/Raccoonsrlilbandits 5h ago

Well don’t share your stories with the world next time

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u/Financial-Leader3475 5h ago

Ok Terry Crews as Anne Frank next

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u/Raccoonsrlilbandits 4h ago

Sounds good to me

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u/LayWhere 4h ago

They should also speak greek, not english.

And have lots of gay sex.

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u/FunEffective9398 6h ago

mel Gibson could totally nail that epic scope

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u/Financial-Leader3475 6h ago

Melania isn’t Greek.

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u/RockyMullet 5h ago

I'm talking about the award winning, critically acclaimed, Melania movie.

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u/Tifoso89 6h ago

Dunno, Mel Gibson is insane but he has made great movies. Obviously he'll need more than $100 million.

If it fails it's because they won't be able to attract top talent, since they might not want to be associated with Musk

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u/Immediate_Gain_9480 6h ago

You can say what you want. But the man knows story structure.

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u/feckarse-drinkgirls 6h ago edited 6h ago

Also Gibson can do historically acurate fiction when he wants to (Apocalypso Apocalypto)

When he's compensating for his second passport, not so much (Braveheart)

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u/Rainy_Wavey 6h ago

Ehhhh accurate not really, Apocalypto basically conflates way too many elements to be historically accurate, it gets the vibe but is no different from any other hollywood movie about the ancient past, the Mayans were not the top guys when Spain came and the movies does a lot of oversimplification about the societies at the time, and basically mix up Mayan, Inca and Aztec culture. Apocalypto is a good movie tho i'm not saying otherwise

It's basically if we made a movie about Greek people sailing on Viking Drakkars

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u/eggsalter 5h ago

At least it used indigenous actors and introduced some different ancient culture into Hollywood. As a Native I will always love the film for that. And The Odyssey would be a lot cooler with Mediterranean people.

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u/sisyphus_shrugged 6h ago

It's basically if we made a movie about Greek people sailing on Viking Drakkars

Soooo.... Nolan's Odyssey?

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u/Rainy_Wavey 5h ago

Do i really need tone indicators? i'm autistic myself but i don't speak fluent autism

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u/CrashpadChili 6h ago

😅 From the director of Braveheart comes two hours of existential dread and inexplicably excellent steel-pan solos. Prepare yourself for the end of the world… with a tropical beat.

Oh. You meant Apocalypto. Nevermind.

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u/Mindless_Log2009 6h ago

I heard that in Don LaFontaine's voice.

https://giphy.com/gifs/dKWgqOrzZzdE4

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u/KurtisMcFadzen 6h ago

Apocalypto isn’t acurate at all

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u/LizLemonOfTroy 5h ago

Braveheart and Apocalypto are why Gibson is doubly disqualified from helming a "historically accurate" adaptation of anything.

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u/SkylarPopo 6h ago

It would fail because audience would be like, I already saw a movie about the Odyssey a year ago. Why should I watch another?

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u/IBeatDeathStranding 5h ago

yall “Mel fans” keep saying shit like that but his last HIT was Apocolypto 20 fucking years ago lmao

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u/Tifoso89 4h ago

Hacksaw Ridge was amazing

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u/ImStoryForRambling 2h ago

Did he tho

Braveheart was great, but it was 30 years ago. Hacksaw Ridge is arguably the most overrated movie of the 21st century, it was brainletfiesta.

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u/gw74 6h ago

I don't even care if it fails. Good luck to them. Meanwhile Christopher Nolan:

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u/Complete_Crazy_4887 6h ago

Depends. Apocalypto Mel Gibson would be great for a more classical interpretation of the Odyssey.

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u/ScipioCoriolanus 6h ago

Are you saying that Mel Gibson is a bad director?

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u/SirArthurDime 6h ago

Or hear me out…. Instead of spending 100 mil on this movie that is likely to fail solely because you’re offended there’s a black person in it. Use that $100 mil to help people in need. Just a thought.

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u/Financial-Leader3475 6h ago

We’re offended White Americans and Brits are constantly pretending to be Greeks in Greek stories.

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u/SirArthurDime 5h ago

Well I hate to break it to you but a right wing dream version of the odyssey is most likely to feature a lot of white people. The right wing backlash here in America has had nothing to do with the white people in the movie.

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u/Financial-Leader3475 5h ago

It doesn’t matter to me what dumb Americans think about the movie. The majority of Americans have never heard of the Odyssey, but you expect me to be happy about them thinking Greeks look and sound like Anglosaxon protestants.

I want Greek/Mediterannean actors to play the characters.

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u/SirArthurDime 5h ago edited 5h ago

For one every American reads the odyssey. It’s been part of the American grade school curriculum for over a century.

Second what are you even on about and what does it have to do with my comment or this post? My comment is specifically about what a Mel Gibson and Elon musk version of the odyssey would be and why they specifically are complaining about Nolan’s version. Not what I want. If there was going to be a lore accurate version of the odyssey I agree, it should be done with Mediterranean actors. And the fact that these people complaining about a black person don’t say a word about all the white people just further demonstrates how ridiculous their point is. And I’m just telling you Elon musk is not complaining that the movie has white actors and don’t expect them to deliver you an odyssey movie without white people in it. If you don’t care about that then idk why you bothered replying to my comment because that was my point.

Third. You are currently being the most bigoted person in this comment section. So you’re no better than anyone.

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u/waves_away 6h ago

If Mel Gibson were given 200-250m, it wouldn’t fail. Of anyone to bet against, I wouldnt bet against Mel with a budget and an historical setting.

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u/IBeatDeathStranding 5h ago

apocolypto was 20 years ago and wasnt only his creation or input lmao

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u/waves_away 5h ago

lmao, what? Gibson directed it. Braveheart, The Passion, and Apocalypto is a pretty impressive resume of epic filmmaking.

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u/Cum_on_doorknob 5h ago

His only other movie he produced was great though, tbh

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u/MasterLurker000 4h ago

When has a Mel Gibson film ever fail? I bet that he's not gonna agree unless he knows he can make it work.

.. story is  probbly fake news though

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u/WittyCombination6 4h ago

Nah the movie would probably be decent. I don't like Mel Gibson as a person but he is a competent and talented film director. While I highly doubt his version of the Odyssey would be historically accurate. Gibson would definitely do a good enough job aestheticly to satisfy chuds. Like with his movie about ancient Mayan society a Apocalypto.

The only reason I think it could flop is because audience already watched Nolan version and don't want a rehash of the same thing.

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u/Financial-Quail5978 4h ago

Apocalypto was pretty good

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u/mightylordredbeard 4h ago

And funny when there’s gay shit, drag shit, and literal shit everywhere since all of those things were really fucking common and socially accepted back then by the Greeks.

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u/Warm-Professional494 2h ago

If they do it right it would be considered child porn. You know with all the men on boy sex.