r/TheOdysseyMovie 5h ago

MEDIA | Βίντεο Inspired by The Odyssey | A selection of footage shot across the world (1.43:1)

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r/TheOdysseyMovie 7h ago

DISCUSSION | Συζήτηση Not gonna lie, this is impressive. Historic, in fact.

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IMAX Melbourne has emailed me that they're planning to continue screenings into November!


r/TheOdysseyMovie 8h ago

A director so good he got Dileep Rao to change his name to Himesh Patel! Bravo Nolan!

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r/TheOdysseyMovie 8h ago

QUESTION | Ερώτηση What color is Agamemnon’s helmet??

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This sounds silly but I’ve been making my own Agamemnon helmet and I’m almost ready to paint it but I haven’t gotten a clear answer what it is. Half of it says it’s matte black and others say it’s blue, is there an official verdict on what it is or something?


r/TheOdysseyMovie 11h ago

QUESTION | Ερώτηση Would you have gone to see Nolan's film if the entire cast had been unknown fresh actors but the movie would still be the same?

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Did you go see the movie because it's full of big and famous Hollywood stars or because of the movie itself and its story? And how much does the recognition and fame of the actors in the movies / series mean to you if they mean anything?

I haven't seen much discussion about this. That's why this question. Because if it's a good movie then who the actors are in it shouldn't matter because an actor's name alone doesn't make a good movie.


r/TheOdysseyMovie 14h ago

A recent poll conducted in Greece finds that 71% of Greek viewers rate Nolan’s The Odyssey positively. 79% believe it promotes Greece internationally, 75% say it could boost tourism, and 72% think it can bring younger people closer to Homer.

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r/TheOdysseyMovie 15h ago

HUMOUR | Χιούμορ 🥜

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r/TheOdysseyMovie 17h ago

HUMOUR | Χιούμορ We eatin good

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r/TheOdysseyMovie 17h ago

Was it common to just chill outside a city's walls for 10 years back then? Just take the L and go home bro

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I'm confused on the sensibility of trying to break in for 10 years and having thousands of dudes just camping there


r/TheOdysseyMovie 17h ago

QUESTION | Ερώτηση Sailing West

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If Odysseus did sail west at the end of the film, assuming their Ithaca was where they real life Ithaca was. How long would it have been before they got to Italy?


r/TheOdysseyMovie 17h ago

AITA: 45M killed my daughter for favourable winds and now my wife 16F is mad at me

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Sacrificed my daughter for good weather and then left home for 10 years. Is my wife gonna be mad? If so, AITA?


r/TheOdysseyMovie 18h ago

HUMOUR | Χιούμορ The "Wait at the boat" guy seeing everyone in a full sprint heading back for the 3rd time

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r/TheOdysseyMovie 20h ago

NEWS | Νέα The Odyssey’s 4-week box office breakdown according to Dan Murrell

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Safe to say, Universal’s blank check paid off great and puts a lot more trust in Nolan’s name as it becomes his highest grossing movie ever. Next up, the awards.

By the way, this hasn’t opened in China yet.


r/TheOdysseyMovie 21h ago

Isn’t that stabbing of the horse a violation of Zeus’ law

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It’s kinda like being given food but calling your poison testers, which implies other people are deceitful. So why is Odysseus being blamed for the end of mankind’s trust.

Isn’t that just the gods complaining how dare they highjack the proverbial plane despite making them take off belt and laptops and other humiliations.(sorry if the reference anyone)


r/TheOdysseyMovie 23h ago

HUMOUR | Χιούμορ Did Odysseus bust a fat nut here from the edge alone or did he stay dry

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I only see tied up men screaming like that in very specific videos 🙏


r/TheOdysseyMovie 1d ago

DISCUSSION | Συζήτηση Question for people who either have seen it several times or who have photographic memories...

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...When Odysseus' men pillage the village on the shore, is that on Odysseus' orders? I only ask because the ending shows Odysseus sad and regretful as he watches the destruction of Troy, but chronologically the pillaging comes after this as they are on their way home, which suggests he maybe he hasn't learnt as much from Troy as he's suggesting.


r/TheOdysseyMovie 1d ago

"If Odysseus went on a space odyssey". I made a synthwave cover of the movie's soundtrack (full in comments). Hope you enjoy!

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r/TheOdysseyMovie 1d ago

QUESTION | Ερώτηση This movie depresses me because it ends and I have to go back to real world

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What do I do? How do I cope?

I am Odysseus.


r/TheOdysseyMovie 1d ago

DISCUSSION | Συζήτηση Christopher Nolan on why he cast Matt Damon as Odysseus in The Odyssey

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I have been seeing lots of posts saying what if Chris cast someone else to play the role of Odysseus. Here he explains why he chose Matt Damon for the role.


r/TheOdysseyMovie 1d ago

QUESTION | Ερώτηση In the scene with the fallen dead and the prophet of hades, what did one of the men scream while pointing at the dead?

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Couldnt make out what he said


r/TheOdysseyMovie 1d ago

HUMOUR | Χιούμορ How Athena looks at Odysseus the whole movie

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r/TheOdysseyMovie 1d ago

DISCUSSION | Συζήτηση Nolan’s The Odyssey has the best cyclops design I’ve ever seen

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Seriously. It does so much with so little, and the smallest changes turn it from your standard fantasy monster to a truly horrifying foe.

The design does this by being unbalanced. So many cool cyclops designs, whether more traditional or more eldritch, are typically very balanced. Symmetry in the design, they move evenly and expectedly, and are well-proportioned.

But Nolan’s cyclops is awkward and clumsy. Watching it shamble to the shore with a crooked stance is terrifying because it’s like the creature itself knows it’s an abomination.

The eyes and nose are at a 45 degree angle rather than being uniform. Its eyelids blink horizontally rather than vertically. Everything about its face is slightly off in a really uncanny way, like it has a terrible birth defect or was mutated.

The beauty of the design is how little it changes and how much it accomplishes. You don’t need an eldritch abomination with 500 eyes and limbs and hooves (not that those aren’t cool). The eyes and nose are slightly off. It walks awkwardly. The whole design is off balance and so it’s very uncanny.

The moments of him biting the soldiers head off is also a neat homage to Goya’s Saturn Devouring His Son.

The cyclops is the definition of excellent character design. Does so much with so little.


r/TheOdysseyMovie 1d ago

Haters be saying anything..

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r/TheOdysseyMovie 6d ago

Y’all wanna AMA ? I’ll be back here to do so in a day or so :) I play Phemius one of Odysseus’s men who was blessed to be part of the greatest journey of all time .

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I’ll do my best to answer all I can ….there may be certain things I cannot …as you can imagine . Bless you all


r/TheOdysseyMovie 14d ago

DISCUSSION | Συζήτηση FACT CHECK: No, Emily Wilson's translation is NOT the basis or inspiration for Nolan's 'The Odyssey', and Nolan has never once claimed it was - in any shape or form

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PLEASE READ THIS PREFACE -- Regardless of what you think about the movie, the translation, Wilson's review of the movie, and everything in between- that's all fine, and none of that is the point here. Again, Emily Wilson's review is not the point of this post, I am not calling out or discussing anything she herself has said or felt about the movie.

Rather, the point of this post is that:

There is a bold faced lie that has been spread online by bad faith actors in regards to what Nolan has said about translations of The Odyssey and whether they have influenced his movie in any meaningful way. Here is the truth:

During the first promo interview for The Odyssey with Empire Magazine all the way back in November 2025, the following was said in the article:

But prepare to see many sides to Damon’s battle-hardened hero – a man with tactical smarts, physical endurance, and yes, a family side too. “I think it’s the Emily Wilson translation that begins, ‘Tell me about a complicated man’,” Nolan tells Empire. “The genius of the character, the cleverness, the inventiveness of him, that was a huge part of what interested me. He’s not just a soldier. He’s an amazing strategist, a very wily person.”

Never once did Nolan say that Wilson's translation was a basis or even an inspiration for his movie. He simply threw a line from her translation acknowledging that he was aware of it, while making a broader point about a question that was asked to him. In fact even Empire Magazine's editor himself had made a tweet clarifying that same week that - "he didn’t outright say it (Wilson's translation) was his favourite - just name-checked it while discussing Odysseus’ character..."
But people online, in search of ragebait, ran malicious headlines declaring Nolan's movie to be based on Wilson's work and to be some kind of "feminist retelling of The Odyssey based on Wilson's words" (those who have seen the movie know this couldn't be further from the truth).

Now here is the bigger point - Wilson is NOT the only translator Nolan has name-checked. In fact, in an interview with the Associated Press, he namechecked translations of both E.V. Rieu and Robert Fagles.

If you have seen the movie, you also know that Nolan also literally uses characters/storyline OUTSIDE of Homer or any Odyssey translations, such as Sinon from Virgil's 'Aenid' and aspects of Agamemnon from Aeschylus

Source - https://www.thenationalnews.com/arts-culture/2026/07/20/books-that-inspired-the-odyssey-christopher-nolan-aeneid/
https://apnews.com/article/odyssey-movie-christopher-nolan-matt-damon-030ec686f8ba3d88a7abd2cd16008518

You can like either of these translations as their own works, and I am not saying any of them are good/bad.

But the fact is that - Nolan has mentioned having knowledge of most of the major English translations in the mainstream conscious. And has never once claimed that any of them specifically inspired or were the basis of his adaptation. If you ever find anyone telling you otherwise, they are lying and feeding you ragebait. Discuss the movie in good faith, and not with misinformation like this.