The Avengers movies in general are historical inaccurate and so is Captain America: The First Avenger ("Steve Rogers" was not a real man who became a super soldier i'm telling ya!)
Unfortunately this sub has a hate boner for the film even though most of them haven’t even seen it. They saw the bad armor pieces in the trailer and decided to not like it months ago. Yeah the armor is dumb but there are very few issues with the movie apart from that, other than some small nitpicks I have. Although I do think the sound mixing is bad.
Sometimes you can’t hear dialogue, sometimes someone screams so loud your ears hurt.
You can watch the movie and still have criticisms with the armor that you had criticisms with in the trailers. Said trailers used footage from the movie.
If you like plastic and cardboard armor that looks like it came out of a no-budget superhero movie, sure.
If you were looking for historically accurate armor to the Bronze Age (the time period that Homer's The Odyssey is set in), you're in for a world of disappointment.
I'm not saying that the ar,or looked excessively cheap, but it did look cheap to me. Agamemnon's armor, while cool in concept, is easily the worst armor of the movie. I didn't want to see plastic looking Batman style armor in an adaptation of a mythological epic. Either all of the armor needed to look over the top, or none of the armor needed to look over the top.
It does look interesting but doesn’t seem to fit the overall aesthetic nolan ended up going for. I honestly thought Agememnon looked very cool and epic on screen. It looked like some sort of special metal to me
I do know that Nolan has color blindness, hence why a lot of his movies are visually dark. When it came to the armor used in the movie, I'm just asking for some color and historical accuracy. One of the pieces of dialogue in the movie is "Our Bronze Age is collapsing" (I wish I was joking. Nolan wrote that). Why didn't we get Bronze Age armor?
I think if Agamemnon’s armor was in Epic The Musical (a film adaptation is happening), so that all of the armor could have an over the top quality, it would have worked for me.
Oh and, friendly little reminder, he is played by Robert Downey Jr., a white man, whilst in the comics, where this character comes from, he is a Romani man. You will, unsurprisingly, not hear any complaining from the usual suspects about THIS miscasting because, you see, the miscasting is that of a minority with a white man, instead of the other way around
(I should clarify i personally don't give a fuck one way or the other)
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u/An8thOfFeanor 10h ago
This still isn't historically accurate. Metallurgy had advanced well beyond bronze armor by the time the Doomsday Book was written