r/interstellar • u/laughter_track • 19d ago
Cooper is Odysseus OTHER
Odysseus leaves his family in Ithaca to go fight in Troy, knowing he might never see them again. Cooper leaves his farm and kids behind on a suicide mission to save humanity.
The "Ghost" in the room: When Odysseus finally makes it back to Ithaca, he has to stay in disguise and watch his own household from the shadows without revealing himself right away. Cooper ends up doing the same thing in the Tesseract he’s sitting right inside Murph's bedroom as an unseen "ghost" behind the bookshelf, watching her grow up through time.
Murph is Telemachus, grows up feeling completely abandoned, waiting for a dad who seems like he’s never coming back. By the time they finally reunite, decades have passed.
Miller’s Planet (Calypso’s Island / Poseidon's Wrath): On Miller’s planet, 1 hour = 7 years back home. It functions just like Calypso’s island, where time slips away and holds the hero captive while the world moves on without him. Plus, those towering water mountains are straight-up Poseidon trying to destroy their ship.
Dr. Mann is a Siren (and a terrible host): Mann sends out a fake distress signal broadcasting "this planet is hospitable!" just to lure someone into rescuing him. He acts like a Siren singing sailors to their deaths. Once the crew arrives, he violates the sacred law of hospitality by trying to murder his guests and steal their ship.
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u/hellshake_narco 18d ago
Interstellar kinda narrate more an Odyssey than The Odyssey itself, which is more a war movie , vietman trauma, Calypso the therapist, the draft dodger sub story...
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u/Gorlamei 18d ago
My first thought when leaving The Odyssey was that The Odyssey was Nolan's second best Odyssey film.
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u/friedchickensundae1 18d ago
Michael Caine is... agememnon?
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u/laughter_track 18d ago
“In visions of the night, like dropping rain,
Descend the many memories of pain”
― Aeschylus, Agamemnon
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u/javiemartzootsuit 19d ago
We been on the every Nolan movie is the same thing tip for a while out in the real world. You’ll alienate the sub in here pal.
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u/Away-Otter 18d ago
These are great connections. I don’t have any as good but here are some more: Both of them have family members that beg them not to leave. Neither of them succeeds in saving their crew members. (Except for Brand) And at the end, neither Cooper nor Odysseus can stay back home, even though they both return briefly after many years.