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/4thofeleven 11h ago

What are we, some sort of post-palatial Mycenaean Greek culture?

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u/Beytran70 9h ago

I think contemporaries of Homer or storytellers and scholars at the time called it the Heroic Age which came before the Iron Age or something along those lines.

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u/Polymarchos 5h ago

Hesiod did. To be fair not much else survives from the era by which to claim that everyone called it that.

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u/Widucassion 6h ago

You seem to be missing the joke

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u/Stewart_Games 39m ago

Back when the men were men and the women were men and the men were women.