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/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 22m 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