Nolan’s Odyssey looks like H&M

Late to the party, but I have just catch up with the second trailer for the upcoming myth adaptation and it looks like they have decided to h&m everything. Visually bland; casting with their American accents is, I do beg you pardon, generic; the snippets of writing in the trailer sounds more like a ChatGPT trying too hard. If you have recently (in the last 10-15 years) been to H&M or any fast fashion shop or website, you might have noticed many shades of beige and grey with façons being copy-pasted across market.

Original Odyssey is fun. Odyssey is adventure. Odyssey is gods being gods and humans being humans, and sometimes gods being like humans, too. If you have never read Homer, I highly recommend the audiobook by Stephen Fry, he did it justice. His whole quadrilogy did Ancient Greece justice. In comparison, I doubt that Nolan will include the part where Odysseus had to wear a dress of a princess. The audacity of the probability of skipping it, but I just don’t have the faith anymore. Heroes in dresses and the long faces do not go hand in hand, unfortunately.

Don’t know about you, but I would like to see colour, passion, remarkable characters instead of another reincarnation of Game of Thrones in its last-seasons-dying-agony. Sometimes art is not about pretentiousness, like the more serious something is, the more credibility it deserves. NO. Bronze Age was distinct - just go and check any suitable museum’s archive. Homer‘s (or whoever actually did it) story will live on, while this movie will be forgotten by the end of summer.

Rant over, thank you for your time!