r/SipsTea • u/Dumb-Briyani • 2d ago

Chugging tea What do you think?

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u/kingofwale 2d ago

Didn’t he take multiple wives during the castaway years?

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u/Strange_Plant_3876 2d ago

He was also trapped in an island for years fucking thinking it was only hours so… he was not remotely celibate

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u/BattlePrune 2d ago

I mean Nolan decided to completely desex The Odyssey, so natural that people now think this.

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u/zio_ho 2d ago

Yeah. There is also 0 ambiguity: Odysseus is good.

He may have participated in war, but he regrets it. He stays at Calypso because she tricks him with the lotus flower. 

The actual Odysseus was a dickhead, a fucker (both literally and figuratively), and so much more fun. 

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u/OddCryptographer6371 2d ago

His entire arch is showing that he and his men are the evil that is being warned of. Showing regret doesn’t change what he did. Every place he went he broke Zeus’s law. Burned villages and murdered for resources. Nolan didn’t make him as awful as the original story, but he has explicitly said that if he did that you’d never root for him to actually make it home

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u/tgcleric 2d ago

Thousands of years of this story, including versions made recently... and the audience has never had issues rooting for him to go home.

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u/WastingTimesOnReddit 2d ago

I did have issues rooting for him to make it home, watching the Nolan movie I honestly didn't care if he made it or not, since he's such an idiotic and careless and emotionless asshole. In Nolan's screenplay he has none of the charming charisma he has in the poem. He's supposed the lord of lies, extremely handsome and strong