pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 15/05/2026There’s a glaring historical inaccuracy in Christopher Nolan’s upcoming film of The Odyssey: they didn’t have cameras back then. Theatres should have a blank screen and an old man reading out the script 1225748766
Happening Again @nasirum.bsky.social · 15/05/2026holy crap. the armor was a lil odd but it looked cool but THIS? I CANT FORGIVE IT 000
Travis from his porch 🌻 @freeulysses.bsky.social · 15/05/2026also the old man is blind and can neither read nor write 130
verin-mathwin @kmquigs.bsky.social · 15/05/2026I’m only mad at the movie bc I convinced myself that Oscar Isaac should be Odysseus in 2020 and Matt Damon is not Oscar Isaac. 000
praxis through posting @postingpraxis.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Back then someone would have a torch and make shadow puppets on the wall, very well documented. Nerds at the time would constantly turn around and tell everyone that the shadows weren't real, very immersion breaking and lame. 010
Michael C. Thomas @mceethomas.bsky.social · 15/05/2026I have some bad news to tell you about the Passion of the Christ 280
Gary @gazz1815.bsky.social · 15/05/2026As long as Polyphemus is historically accurate, it will be okay. 050
HONEStron @honestron.bsky.social · 15/05/2026But the movie was indeed filmed. Therefore, they must've had cameras! 110
The bird says, "Prosecute ICE" @imadifferentbird.northsky.social · 15/05/2026They also didn't have audio recording or playback equipment, so the old man should have to travel from theater to theater to read it in person. 030
yorkdukeyork.bsky.social @yorkdukeyork.bsky.social · 15/05/2026The old man is blind. He recites it from memory. 070
Spooky Hallowe'en Name @tgnprofessor.bsky.social · 15/05/2026They didn’t have old men back then, either. It was a long time ago so everyone was young. 11170
richardwpearce.bsky.social @richardwpearce.bsky.social · 15/05/2026In the original language, too. 000
Jay’s Art Corner @jaysartcorner.bsky.social · 15/05/2026All the women should be played by men, including for the make outs and sex scenes. 040
vk3tbn.bsky.social @vk3tbn.bsky.social · 15/05/2026You know I said the same thing about the Cohen Brothers… “Brother Where out Thou” … it should have been in back and white yeah?static.klipy.comO Brother Where Art Thou: Men in ForestALT: O Brother Where Art Thou: Men in Forest 150
MrDurden2u @mrdurden2u.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Does that mean I finally have a shot at being a leading man? 010
ulysses @spectralspade.org · 15/05/2026*singingyoutu.beEminem straight up reciting the iliad of homer in ancient greek (video by @GavMac39)YouTube video by Molecular Brainwaves Translate 000
Jeffrey Phillips @11thjeff.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Shadows on the wall of a cave, the way Plato intended! 030
The Supreme Leader of Big Woke☭🏳️🌈 @bigwokehq.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Another historical inaccuracy is the presence of conflict and hardship. There were no smartphones or social media back, which means that people back then lived in a utopia. After all, smartphones and social media are the root of all evil, and nothing bad ever happened before they were invented. 020
Don't Ask, Won't Tell @melissawoodruff.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Yuh, good on ya. Who woulda ever thought? So, WHAT is my screen from gens before? 000
a hideous thing @ahideousthing.bsky.social · 15/05/2026They did have an elephant in a cave though, if my education was correct, and no one could see it all in one go: sounds like a skill issue tbh. Just back up a bit, you know. 000
ANoN @anonameis.bsky.social · 15/05/2026If nolan was actually good at directing movies then he'd have the audience chained to their seats and the movie to be displayed via shadow puppets. 0191
isosolies.bsky.social @isosolies.bsky.social · 15/05/2026I'm not watching it unless it agrees 100% with Homer!!! 000
dsullivan238.bsky.social @dsullivan238.bsky.social · 15/05/2026...an old man reading out the script in Epic Greek. 010
The World's Angriest Boy in the World @angriestboy.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Wrong, it should be an old blind man reciting the story from memory with dramatic flourishes. 120
jjink0.bsky.social @jjink0.bsky.social · 15/05/2026At the time of the Trojan war, these stories were not written. It was an oral tradition, passed down, and written several hundred years later. 020
Emerence 🍁 @damemyniah.bsky.social · 15/05/2026I’ve heard it also depicts the Odyssey as occurring in the Mediterranean when everyone knows Troy & Ithaca are in the state of New York, nowhere close to the sea. 4190
Tori Tyrrell @tiboribi.bsky.social · 15/05/2026I want a cut where it's in Homeric Greek but it's like one of those undergrad Greek classes where no two people are pronouncing the vowels the same way. 010
angus mcdrangus @hamdangus.bsky.social · 15/05/2026As long as we’re all in the theater, why not maybe have some actors doing the parts up in the booth, and let the shadows play on the screen? It sounds incredibly immersive. 1130
Masastormyponez @masastormeez.bsky.social · 15/05/2026This historical account full of cyclops and sirens and harpies isn't accurate enough and will indoctrinate people to the leftist agenda! 🤫 010
Doug McGrave @dougmccrae.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Yes, except the old man shouldn't have a script. He should have memorised the whole thing as part of an oral tradition. 1800
Camerado @dogsinautumn.bsky.social · 15/05/2026He’s gotta read it in Ancient Greek with a little drum thingie and in that rhythm like the tiktok languagemonger 010
dpbsmith.bsky.social @dpbsmith.bsky.social · 15/05/2026An blind old man reciting the story from memory and possibly accompanying himself on a guitar. 040
Halloween Tornado \Wack-o-Lantern\ @joulesbyrne.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Homer - "Odyssypus was very far from home on a boat after a big war." Bart - "Boo. Your poetry sucks!" Homer - " Why... you little.." *strangling noises* 1180
Gordon Vincent He/Him @gordonvincent.bsky.social · 15/05/2026And by reading, we mean performing vocally, improvising with oral formulae. 020
Seentoomuch @seentoomuch.bsky.social · 15/05/2026With a group standing behind him providing scathing commentary in unison. 050
Grilled Cheese @grilledcheese.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Good luck finding all those words in one place. 040
Bruno @just--bruno.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Now that would be a bold creative choice, but I think the ticket sales would be pretty brutal. 000
Geoff @ih3artdisco.bsky.social · 15/05/2026It should be played out in shadows from outside the theaters doors 160
Lisa @lisathelibrarian.bsky.social · 15/05/2026For full accuracy, shouldn't it be an old, blind man, who recites it from memory? That is the only version we should accept. 030
mila itzel (she/they) 🖤 @itzelda.bsky.social · 15/05/2026lol u so right n thats a great justification 4 having a 5'1" achilles instead of the bold queen laverne cox, she was robbed fr 000
Gerard Cunningham @faduda.eurosky.social · 15/05/2026On the other hand, shadows on the wall does seem appropriate 030
brianm @brianm822.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Bit of a silly post... In the real world I'm fed up with film makers abusing their subjects: Braveheart Pearl Harbor Titanic U571 And here we go again... 000
Yvonne 💍 is writing (please interrupt me) @alayanabeth.bsky.social · 15/05/2026You make a good point 🤔 010
ThomFromBlueSky @labbla.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Nolan should tell us the story himself in the oral tradition of the original 050
David K2FI @filkerdave.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Reading? No way, it should be all from memory. And in Homeric Greek. 030
3dlanyard.bsky.social @3dlanyard.bsky.social · 15/05/2026The guy is the worst filmmaker in history. 010
G @gwill2k.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Also gonna need a lyre. It’s more of a sing-song musical affair, historically speaking, of course. 010
Enfinity Cast @enfinitycast.bsky.social · 15/05/2026The oral tradition angle is actually fascinating — there's something profoundly different about how our brains process stories when they're *told* versus shown. Ancient audiences were basically doing advanced neural multitasking we've completely forgotten how to do. 020
turnipseed.bsky.social @turnipseed.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Imagining a man, 3000 years from now, losing sleep over a new black Superman. 1140
Ross @flicksfan.bsky.social · 15/05/2026The Japanese and Koreans did that years ago (but no blank screen) unseen-japan.com/benshi-japan...unseen-japan.comBenshi: The Voice and Color of Japanese Silent Cinema - Unseen JapanOnce when there might have been silence, the voices of the benshi rang out in the theaters of Japan. Learn about this lost cinema art form. 010
Bob Blaskiewicz @rjblaskiewicz.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Or at least acted out as shadow puppets on the walls of a cave to chained captives. 110
Catacombs Gourdeiro🎃 @topmarx.bsky.social · 15/05/2026boat that's so anachronistic. they should have an old man singing his little stories from memory 020
Tranvestigating Hitler @marquisdesuede.bsky.social · 15/05/2026A script? *Scoff* I do believe you are a larper sir 090
MB @moab-bombadil.bsky.social · 15/05/2026They did have Chistopher Nolans though. That's why they invented ostracism. 050
R. Wm. "Ruedii" 🦊🐧 🥖🔞 @rwruedii.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Typically they had shadow puppet shows. Occasionally they had mirror projectors with more complex "machine" puppets, similar to what you see in some Disney theme park attractions. 000
Bread Crumb Bum @ultracrepa.bsky.social · 15/05/2026they can't afford that since the first edition was given away in that Jennifer Lopez movie 010
Stephen Aloysius Katze @steppencat.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Sing it, baby (“it” being “the man of twists and turns” and “baby” being “O Muse”) 040
artino.bsky.social @artino.bsky.social · 15/05/2026The lighting is all wrong for the time is my biggest thing. Peloponnesians didn’t have a lot of overhead lighting at the time 120
Roger Long (PSO) 🪪 @roger-is-long.bsky.social · 15/05/2026well sure haha that and some other “things” 000
Boo'dbeard 👻 @badbeard.bsky.social · 15/05/2026[Glares* in Greek chorus] *But you can't see because of the mask so they all shriek "GLARES!" 010
👻🏳️⚧️✡️Professor Lefty🕎🇵🇸🎃 @snakeslefteye.northsky.social · 15/05/2026Okay, but I would actually pay money to see that... unlike this "upcoming film". 000
Grievous "Bodily" Harmsworth @mach101010.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Bring back the large masks with the speaking trumpets 010
That Bishop Plainview Guy @sundodgerband.bsky.social · 15/05/2026If only Andy Kaufman were still alive. 010
taxoxygen.bsky.social @taxoxygen.bsky.social · 15/05/2026How are we going to understand it? We speak the barbarian language. 010
𝗔𝗻𝗱𝗿𝗲𝘄 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘀 @andrewstones.com · 15/05/2026Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’ also inaccurate: ancient Greeks had no Martello Towers, newspaper ads or porter. 040
Dahlia | Morgod’s Disciple | Acceptance Era @dahliatheesinner.bsky.social · 15/05/2026By now old man reading a script you mean a man in his 30s reciting the story in person by memory, correct. 1210
Brandon Warner @brandow.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Also Odysseus didn’t use his catch phrase, “that’s odd to see” as much as depicted. 050
The Nahwhal @the-nah-whal.bsky.social · 18/05/2026I just coudln't get past Darth Helmet in the trailer without roaring laughing. 010
ThoughtlessDeed @thoughtlessdeed.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Nah, knowing Nolan he would just blare out the Zimmer score so you couldn't hear a word 000
dipradan.bsky.social @dipradan.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Considering its a legendary tale, I can't believe idiots are talking about historical inaccuracies. Are those MAGAT dumbasses also going to complain that they didn't get Goddesses to play Athena, Hera, or Aphrodite? 000
Gerkinov 🌻🍉 @gerkinov.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Theatre goers get herded into a cave and look at shadows like Zeus intended! 000
Assistant Deputy Takesmith, Reporting For Duty @tofuttibreak.bsky.social · 15/05/2026A very old man! 000
"86 47" @mikeytsi.bsky.social · 15/05/2026And what's this with "women" performing acting roles? Should be 100% dudes kissing other dudes. 060
meanderful.bsky.social @meanderful.bsky.social · 15/05/2026They also didn’t have audio recording technology. So maybe just give everyone a copy of The Odyssey to read while eating a bucket of popcorn. 020
Erin Snyder @erinlsnyder.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Reading? READING?!!! The Odyssey must be recited from memory! It's like you're not even taking this seriously. 0120
