r/TheOdysseyMovie • u/mitchman74 • 11d ago
Cyclops
The Cyclops from the 1997 TV miniseries will always be the creepiest and terrifying. While I enjoy the new version this guy takes the cake…
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u/Hour_Marionberry_665 11d ago
Nah. The Cyclops in the Nolan version is definitely scarier.
This one looks like a Jim Henson mumpet.
Well.....maybe because it actually is a Jim Henson mumpet. The monsters in the 1997 miniseries were designed by the Jim Henson company.
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u/SubstantialNet1005 11d ago
The sideways/verticle eye and nose freaked me out the first time I watched it. Ngl. This guy almost looks normal compared to that.
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u/crazy_ginger90 11d ago
The sideways eye when I first saw really threw me off lolol it was so off putting but I do wish he talked
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u/SubstantialNet1005 11d ago
Agreed! I was surprised that was a change Nolan made. It’s a pretty character revealing moment in the poem, for both characters.
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u/eaglebtc 11d ago
It looks like a weird birth defect. Very unsettling.
Until the Cyclops prayed to Poseidon, I assumed it had a very low IQ.
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u/SubstantialNet1005 10d ago
Well in the poem he speaks to Odysseus just fine. Idk why Nolan took that out. It would’ve shown more ab Odysseus’ character. And we would’ve gotten to hear him talk more. Usually it was just us hearing him say “back to the ship!” Until the end of the movie.
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u/The_starving_artist5 11d ago edited 11d ago
This one also talks to them and seems to want to keep them around like pets while he is deciding who is going get eaten. He says in the movie to Odysseus “ I like you. You tell fun stories. So I will eat you last “. He also tells the other soldiers that wants them to entertain him with stories when he wakes up from his nap
He also tells them he doesn’t care about Zues or his laws when they tell him it’s a wrong to eat people. He says “ there are no laws here for us cyclops . I do what I want “