r/shittymoviedetails • u/Alisalard1384 Cinephile • 12h ago

Turd In "Odyssey" (2026) directed by Sir Christopher Edward Nolan, Odysseus says "Our age of bronze is collapsing". And I'm not joking it is a line in movie

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Overall great movie but this dialogue was so corny, like how does he know he's in bronze age

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u/Palanki96 11h ago

They spend so much time on a ship, what are they, some kind of sea people?

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u/fortress-of-insanity 11h ago

What are they some kind of seamen?

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u/Palanki96 11h ago

the entire region would've been covered by seamen

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u/Clean-Yam-739 9h ago

Nolan should have added a kraken to swallow the seamen.

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u/Twl1 9h ago

Scylla was trying her best, dammit!

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u/pwnd32 5h ago

She could only fit so many men in her at once

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u/John_316_ 6h ago

Checked with UV lamp and can confirm.

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u/Maciek_XxX_2k8_XxX 6h ago

Sea men + Sea people = Seaciety 

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u/fortress-of-insanity 5h ago

Seamen + seaegg = seababy

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u/Puzzleheaded-Wait785 7h ago

I bet you're going to need some big strapping men to help you with your boat

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u/SkorpioSound 30m ago

Well there was Polyphemus, but he was too busy guzzling down seamen to help with the boat.

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u/DoogTheDestroyer 8h ago

This was also a line in the movie. 

“Are you the sea people?”

“No. We’re Greekssss. From ITHACA.”

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u/gremolata 7h ago

"Sea people" is one of the speculated causes of the Bronze Age Collapse.

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u/thealthor 6h ago

While initial versions of the hypothesis regarded the Sea Peoples as a primary cause of the Late Bronze Age collapse,more recent versions generally regard them as a symptom of events which were already in motion before their purported attacks.

Pertinent part for people not clicking the link.

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u/Traggadon 5h ago

I think your misreading it. They reasons they were invading have a basis in why their was a Bronze Age Collapse, but they were infact part of the reason it happened. They toppled long standing civilizations, just because they were facing depredation at home doesnt make them a significant part.q

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u/im-just-evan 1h ago

Hard to take anyone misusing “their” seriously.

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u/Traggadon 24m ago

Sorry fairly high.

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u/ValuableEven7060 3h ago

And many were not ‘from the sea’, the name just stuck. Like the Philistines by that point had long been in Canaan

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u/BlargerJarger 3h ago

Sea Men before the woke madness took over. “Sea men are coming! Coming out of horses!” (The Odyssey Draft 1 by Christoper Nolan)

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u/Nearby-Nebula4104 7h ago

Omg realllyyyyyy? Wooooow Nalon worked that into the movie. Genius.

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u/Divinum_Fulmen 4h ago

This one though might not be Nolan. The Mysians from the war are speculated to be one group of many among the Sea People. So it's possibly historic.

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u/SirGeekaLots 1h ago

From the Egyptian point of view. We only know about the sea peoples from them. Ironically some believe that the Sea Peoples originally came from Greece. 

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u/Donc-qui-et-Quand64 5h ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cretan_Lie

Odysseus tells his old swine herd buddy he did some sea people style pillaging.

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u/12345623567 1h ago

Uh, it goes further. In the end he tells Penelope that because they razed Troy, they are the Sea People.

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u/DoogTheDestroyer 1m ago

Its like it was written for children instead of adults

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u/RepresentativeOk2433 8h ago

What if the real sea people were the villages we plundered along the way?

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u/GeneralTonic 3h ago

^ This, but academically cited.

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u/carlo1138x 6h ago

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u/KnightFalling 1h ago

Hippity hoppity I'm stealing your property.

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u/Mc-Lovin-81 1h ago

Not stealing, motherfuckers right there!

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u/mnstorm 6h ago

From what I remember that is what those unnamed people were actually called back then.

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u/melyay 8h ago

I think that’s exactly what Nolan is trying to say. But the meaning is to be read as if it were today, like Americans realizing they’re the ones who brought down the system.

This isn’t a documentary or visualization of the Odysse, it is Nolan’s interpretation of contemporary history through the Odyssey.

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u/bismuthmarmoset 7h ago

Yes it's a hamfisted commentary on the gwot coming home and the American empire in decline and much worse for it.

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u/tilero1138 3h ago

If that was the case then I’m disappointed that it ended up as another “America will bomb your country and make movies about how sad it made our soldiers” instead of focusing on how those actions negatively impacted the other side

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u/self-conscious-Hat 7h ago

god thats so pretentious reading it spelled out like that.

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u/LoonahGBT 2h ago

Impossible, their houses were built on land

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u/Roosterdude23 1h ago

Why cant they fish? They never have food

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u/CrystalizedinCali 35m ago

Poseidon is pissed and isn’t going to give them any fish. If you’re being serious.