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‘Odyssey’ Beats ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ At Global Weekend Box Office As Web Slinger Remains No. 3 All-Time With $2.4B WW – Global Box Office
#News #SpiderManBrandNewDay #TheOdysseyhttps://deadline.com/2026/09/box-office-global-odyssey-beats-spider-man-brand-new-day-1237069465/
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Robert Pattinson says he had ‘twice as much time’ after birth of first child
By Philip Oltermann in VeniceActor says of busy 2026 in which he has had several big roles: ‘Once you start spinning plates, it gets quite addictive’
#Venicefilmfestival #RobertPattinson #TheOdyssey #TheDrama #Film #Festivals #Culture #TheGuardian #PhilipOltermanninVenice
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Robert Pattinson says he had ‘twice as much time’ after birth of first child
By Philip Oltermann in VeniceActor says of busy 2026 in which he has had several big roles: ‘Once you start spinning plates, it gets quite addictive’
#Venicefilmfestival #RobertPattinson #TheOdyssey #TheDrama #Film #Festivals #Culture #TheGuardian #PhilipOltermanninVenice
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Robert Pattinson says he had ‘twice as much time’ after birth of first child
By Philip Oltermann in VeniceActor says of busy 2026 in which he has had several big roles: ‘Once you start spinning plates, it gets quite addictive’
#Venicefilmfestival #RobertPattinson #TheOdyssey #TheDrama #Film #Festivals #Culture #TheGuardian #PhilipOltermanninVenice
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Regal Launches Rewards+ Loyalty Program Amid Company’s Record-Setting Summer (Exclusive): A Practical Look
#RegalEntertainmentGroup #SpiderManBrandNewDay #TheOdyssey #Business #BusinessNews
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Robert Pattinson Would’ve Been ‘Devastated’ to Drop Any 2026 Film
Robert Pattinson is on a run at the movies. The actor, who just touched down at the Venice…
#NewsBeep #News #Celebrities #AU #Australia #Dune3 #Entertainment #Primetime #RobertPattinson #TheBatmanPartII #theodyssey #Venice2026
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Robert Pattinson Would’ve Been ‘Devastated’ to Drop Any 2026 Film
Robert Pattinson is on a run at the movies. The actor, who just touched down at the Venice…
#NewsBeep #News #Celebrities #AU #Australia #Dune3 #Entertainment #Primetime #RobertPattinson #TheBatmanPartII #theodyssey #Venice2026
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Robert Pattinson Says He Would’ve Been “Devastated” to Drop Any of His Big 2026 Films
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Robert Pattinson shares what it was like switching between "Batman," "Dune," "The Odyssey" and "Primetime" - which he is premiering in Venice. #RobertPattinson #VeniceFilmFestival #Batman #Dune #TheOdyssey
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The Odysseyta kuvattiin miehitetyllä maalla – Kuvitelkaa sama Ukrainaan, sanoo pakolaisleirin kasvatti
The Odyssey -elokuvaa kuvattiin miehitetyllä maalla, jonne vievät eurooppalaiset lomalennot ja Trump-valtatie.
#Kansainvälinenpolitiikka #Länsisahara #Marokko #Pohjoisafrikka #Afrikka #Elokuvat #Kulttuuri #Theodyssey #Miehitys #Matkailu #Sahrawit #Polisario #Donaldtrump #Christophernolan #Ulkomaat
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The Odysseyta kuvattiin miehitetyllä maalla – Kuvitelkaa sama Ukrainaan, sanoo pakolaisleirin kasvatti
The Odyssey -elokuvaa kuvattiin miehitetyllä maalla, jonne vievät eurooppalaiset lomalennot ja Trump-valtatie.
#Kansainvälinenpolitiikka #Länsisahara #Marokko #Pohjoisafrikka #Afrikka #Elokuvat #Kulttuuri #Theodyssey #Miehitys #Matkailu #Sahrawit #Polisario #Donaldtrump #Christophernolan #Ulkomaat
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The Odysseyta kuvattiin miehitetyllä maalla – Kuvitelkaa sama Ukrainaan, sanoo pakolaisleirin kasvatti
The Odyssey -elokuvaa kuvattiin miehitetyllä maalla, jonne vievät eurooppalaiset lomalennot ja Trump-valtatie.
#Kansainvälinenpolitiikka #Länsisahara #Marokko #Pohjoisafrikka #Afrikka #Elokuvat #Kulttuuri #Theodyssey #Miehitys #Matkailu #Sahrawit #Polisario #Donaldtrump #Christophernolan #Ulkomaat
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The Odysseyta kuvattiin miehitetyllä maalla – Kuvitelkaa sama Ukrainaan, sanoo pakolaisleirin kasvatti
The Odyssey -elokuvaa kuvattiin miehitetyllä maalla, jonne vievät eurooppalaiset lomalennot ja Trump-valtatie.
#Kansainvälinenpolitiikka #Länsisahara #Marokko #Pohjoisafrikka #Afrikka #Elokuvat #Kulttuuri #Theodyssey #Miehitys #Matkailu #Sahrawit #Polisario #Donaldtrump #Christophernolan #Ulkomaat
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The Odysseyta kuvattiin miehitetyllä maalla – Kuvitelkaa sama Ukrainaan, sanoo pakolaisleirin kasvatti
The Odyssey -elokuvaa kuvattiin miehitetyllä maalla, jonne vievät eurooppalaiset lomalennot ja Trump-valtatie.
#Kansainvälinenpolitiikka #Länsisahara #Marokko #Pohjoisafrikka #Afrikka #Elokuvat #Kulttuuri #Theodyssey #Miehitys #Matkailu #Sahrawit #Polisario #Donaldtrump #Christophernolan #Ulkomaat
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Like everybody, I'm reading Emily Wilson's translation of "The Odyssey." Part of her intro turns on questions as old as time—& as new as ICE.
Odysseus sorts people into "lawless aggressors" & "people who welcome strangers…[T]he willingness to welcome strangers is enough to guarantee that a person or culture can be counted as law-abiding and 'civilized'…[T]he laws of hospitality are what stave off a world where men kill those who are different from themselves."
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The Odyssey’s Latest Box Office Feat Hasn’t Been Done by Any Movie in 17 Years
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‘The Odyssey’ Sails Past Another Milestone, Crosses $1 Billion At International Box Office
#News #ChristopherNolan #TheOdyssey #Universalhttps://deadline.com/2026/09/box-office-the-odyssey-billion-foreign-box-office-1237068287/
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New podfic chapter: The Odyssey, Book 21: The Contest with Odysseus' Bow
Written by Homer.
35 min | Mature
https://archiveofourown.org/works/57114529/chapters/243631061
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New podfic chapter: The Odyssey, Book 21: The Contest with Odysseus' Bow
Written by Homer.
35 min | Mature
https://archiveofourown.org/works/57114529/chapters/243631061
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‘Spider-Man’ and ‘The Odyssey’ Propel U.K. Box Office to Best August Since 2018
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‘Spider-Man’ and ‘The Odyssey’ Propel U.K. Box Office to Best August Since 2018
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‘Spider-Man’ and ‘The Odyssey’ Propel U.K. Box Office to Best August Since 2018
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‘Spider-Man’ and ‘The Odyssey’ Propel U.K. Box Office to Best August Since 2018
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‘Spider-Man’ and ‘The Odyssey’ Propel U.K. Box Office to Best August Since 2018
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Odyssey-Theme Wine Experience in Portugal
As interest grows ahead of Christopher Nolan’s upcoming adaptation of The Odyssey, Tivoli Avenida Liberdade Lisbon is introducing a new w…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Portuguesewine #1933Wine&SpiritsCollection #Cellar47 #ChristopherNolan #EUROPE #Lisbon #luxury #Portugal #TheOdyssey #TivoliAvenidaLiberdadeLisbon #Voyages&Vintages #Wine #WinefromPortugal #WineofPortugal
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Odyssey-Theme Wine Experience in Portugal https://www.diningandcooking.com/2793398/odyssey-theme-wine-experience-in-portugal/ #1933Wine&SpiritsCollection #Cellar47 #ChristopherNolan #EUROPE #Lisbon #luxury #Portugal #PortugueseWine #TheOdyssey #TivoliAvenidaLiberdadeLisbon #Voyages&Vintages #Wine #WineFromPortugal #WineOfPortugal
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‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Aims to Swing Past ‘Insidious’ Sequel for Fourth Box Office Win
#MovieNews #Movies #AndrewGarfield #Boxoffice #DestinDanielCretton #Insidious #InsidiousOutoftheFurther #JasonStatham #Lionsgate #SonyPictures #SpiderManBrandNewDay #SpiderManNoWayHome #TheMagicFarawayTree #TheOdyssey #TomHolland #ToyStory5 #Zendaya -
The Odyssey: Lots of Good Stuff, Some Bad Stuff as Well 🔱
What’s likely to be the biggest cinematic hit of 2026 is Christopher Nolan’s epic The Odyssey. Anyone and everyone have already said their bit about the film, but we’ve decided to crop up with our opinions all the same!
At nearly three hours it’s a monstrous undertaking. Unquestionably a mighty cinematic experience in IMAX, it does also suffer from stumbling stuff that drags it down, but all of it adds up to a glorious time of it. We had fun.
Guilt and PTSD in The Odyssey
Right. You probably know the plot already as this is adapted from Homer’s ancient Greek poem of the same name. Christopher Nolan has taken various liberties with the text, but the thrust of the story is sort of the same.
Star, front and centre, is Odysseus (Matt Damon) the King of the island of Ithaca. He’s been away from home for 20 years as he’s been battling it out during the Trojan War of 12th century BC.
After winning in a thrilling, last ditch Trojan Horse war move thing, it’s now left to Odysseus and his men to finally head on home. His wife Penelope (Anne Hathaway) tentatively awaits him, in his absence she’s barely able to hold off 100 suitors eager to take Odysseus’s throne.
But on the way back, Odysseus hits a series of relentless problems that escalate steadily into increasingly disastrous nightmares. As each episode plays out, the reality of the previous decade weighs heavily on his mind.
For Nolan’s Odyssey, it sees Odysseus become mired in an increasing sense of PTSD. The reality of war plays on his consience to the extent he questions whether he even wants to return home.
Hmmm! Well, there aren’t any official scenes available on YouTube yet, but you can get a great sense of the film with some sequences in the below.
Okay, the great stuff sits with the set pieces. The cyclops, the giant dudes in armoured plating, the Trojan Horse build-up and battle sequence, and Circe the witch are all goddamn outstanding.
It’s up to you which is best of the lot, but for us it’s the Trojan Horse stuff. Nolan at his absolute best and one of the best cinematic moments we’ve ever seen.
However, quite a chunk of The Odyssey is also a bit on the flat side of things. Some of the acting and casting are questionable (we’re looking at you Tom Holland), the script can be Mickey Mouse, plus there are big chunks of dull stuff. Mainly anything involving Tom Holland’s bland performance.
Plus, the super talented Mia Goth is in this film and she’s utterly wasted with almost no screen time or character development. As is the case for the excellent Robert Pattinson, whose Antinous is the main antagonist but 97% of the time is only ever in one room whilst grimacing.
It’s almost like Nolan should have spread this out into two films to properly develop out the story. To get everything into three hours was hellish ambitious of him and it often works, but for us this isn’t a 5/5.
It’s a very good film all the same. Highly recommended you see it in IMAX as this is the whole point. Take in the full cinematic spectacle, revel in the set pieces, and don’t get too upset about the story dwindling around a little bit. Well done to Mr. Nolan, he’s got people interested in history!
A Quick Note on Odyssey’s Soundtrack
Swedish composer Ludwig Göransson handled the music for Nolan’s latest film. The result is often very beautiful, he went to great lengths to use musical instruments that were around in antiquity.
This meant his team had to bring many of them back to life, re-inventing instruments that haven’t been around in thousands of years. That included an ancient lyre and aulos (a wind instrument). Hurling in Albanian iso-polyphony choral music over the top and it’s quite distinct as a soundtrack, although does lapse into bombast when it needs to.
Our favourite pieces? Sirens above is eerie and fabulous, then you’ve got the lush Ithaca theme below.
The sound effects in the film are frequently deafening, too. In IMAX, the scream from Polyphemus the cyclops registers in at 125 decibels. That’s the loudest scream in modern cinema and up there with Roger Daltrey’s big moment in The Who’s hit single Won’t Get Fooled Again (for reference).
Anyway, full credit to Ludwig Göransson as he does create some excellent moments with his score. Although, following Nolan’s lead, he’s often left to produce less intriguing pieces than the above.
The Production of The Odyssey
Okay, so this launched on 17th July 2026 and is still very much in cinemas. It’s just had its IMAX run extended into at least September as the tickets keep fully booking out. It’s really triggered a big response from the public, many of whom will experience the glory of IMAX for the first time.
It’s like being hit by a sledgehammer of cinematic spectacle and that’s why we love it.
The downside? It’s had a tedious backlash from the alt-right (headed by Elon Musk), who claim the film is whitewashing “history”. Their main beef is it’s “woke” as it was a trans actor in a small role and Helen of Troy is Lupita Nyong’o (i.e. not white). The hysterical meltdown they’ve had about it has done nothing to dent global box office figures. The film has already made $1.301 billion off its $250 million budget.
Go woke, go broke indeed…
As for the production cycle, following Nolan’s last film (2023’s Oppenheimer) he hadn’t worked out what to do next. Once decided, he went on to write the screenplay for The Odyssey and take on directing duties.
The shoot last for 91 days across February and August of 2025. He worked so effectively everything wrapped nine days ahead of schedule! Despite shoots taking place all over the shop, including locations such as Morocco, Western Sahara, Greece, Italy, Scotland, and the US.
Nolan is famous for embracing practical effects, so pretty much everything you see in the film most definitely isn’t CGI. That included building a 30ft cyclops for that scene, plus setting 5ft stunt actors against 7ft ones for others.
The Odyssey is almost certain to win a big bunch of Oscars. No way a film earning this much, and getting so much internal attention, isn’t going to win a load of them. Watch this space in 2027 then for the Academy Awards.
#Antiquity #ChristopherNolan #Cinema #Films #History #Homer #IMAX #Lifestyle #MattDamon #Movies #Odysseus #Odyssey #TheOdyssey -
Spirituality & Religious Studies @spiritualityreligiousstudies.wordpress.com@spiritualityreligiousstudies.wordpress.com ·Hephaestus
Author’s Note: This post has mentions of (g)rape. If this is triggering, please go on to 1 of our other posts.
He’s the Greek god of artisans, blacksmiths, carpenters, craftsmen, fire, metallurgy, metalworking, sculpture, & volcanoes.
In Greek mythology, Hephaestus was the son of Hera, either on her own or her husband/brother, Zeus. He was cast off Mount Olympus by his mom, Hera, because of his lameness, the result of a congenital impairment. Or, in another account, by Zeus for protecting Hera from his advances.
As a smithing god, Hephaestus created all the weapons of the gods on Olympus. He served as the blacksmith of the gods & was worshipped in the manufacturing & industrial centers of Greece, particularly Athens. The cult of Hephaestus was based in Lemnos. Hephaestus’ symbols are a smith’s hammer, anvil, & a pair of tongs. In Rome, he was equated with Vulcan.
In Hesiod’s Theogony, Hera gives birth to Hephaestus on her own, out of revenge for Zeus having, without her, fathered Athena (the daughter of Zeus & Metis). Apollodorus similarly states that Hera gives birth to Hephaestus alone. Though according to Homer, Hephaestus is 1 of the kids of Zeus & Hera.
Some sources state that the origin myth of Hephaestus was that of a “daemon of fire coming up from the Earth,” that he was also associated with gas “which takes fire & burns & is considered by many people to be divine” & that only later was a volcano considered Hephaestus’ smithy.
He was associated by Greek colonists in southern Italy with the volcano gods Adranus (of Mount Etna) & Vulcanus of the Lipari islands.
The 1st-century sage, Apollonius of Tyana, is said to have observed, “there are many other mountains all over the earth that are on fire, & yet we should never be done with it if we assigned to them giants & gods like Hephaestus.” Nevertheless, Hephaestus’ domain over fire goes back to Homer’s Iliad, where he uses flames to dry the waters of the Scamander River in order to force its eponymous deity, who was attacking Achilles, to retreat.
His favorite place in our mere mortal world was the island of Lemnos. He liked to live among the Sintians. But he also repeatedly went to other volcanic islands like Lipari, Imbros, & Sicily, which were called his abodes/workshops. In 1 version of events, Hera rejects, then ejects Hephaestus from Olympus/the heavens because of his congenital impairment. (It’s implied that his congenital disability is because of Zeus & Hera’s familial relationship, i.e. brother & sister.)
Because of Hera’s actions, he fell into the ocean & of Hera’s actions, he fell into the ocean & was raised by Thetis (Achilles’ mom & 1 of the 50 Nereids) & Eurynome, the Oceanid. In another version, Hephaestus, attempting to rescue his mom from Zeus’ advances, was cast down to earth by Zeus, not Hera!
He (Hephaestus) was cast down for 1 whole day & landed on the island of Lemnos. On Lemnos, he was cared for & taught to be a master craftsman by the Sintians. Later writers describe his physical disability as a result of his 2nd fall. While Homer makes him disabled from birth.
Hephaestus was 1 of the Olympians who came back to Olympus after being exiled. In an archaic story, Hephaestus wanted revenge against Hera for rejecting him by forging her a magical golden throne, which, when she sat on it, didn’t let her stand up again.
The other gods begged Hephaestus to return to Olympus to let her go. But he refused, saying, “I’ve no mom.” It was Ares who undertook the task of fetching Hephaestus at 1st. But he was threatened by the fire god with torches. At last, Dionysus (the wine god) fetched him, got him drunk on wine, & took the subdued smith back to Olympus on the back of a mule, accompanied by revelers.
According to Hyginus, Zeus promised anything to Hephaestus to free Hera. Hephaestus asked for Athena’s hand in marriage (urged by Poseidon, who was hostile toward Athena), leading to his attempted (g)raping of the goddess, who rejected his advances.
In another version, he demanded to be married to Aphrodite to release Hera, & his mom fulfilled the request. Hephaestus had his own palace on Olympus, containing his workshop with an anvil(s) & 20 bellows that worked at his bidding.
He crafted much of the magnificent equipment of the gods, & almost any finely wrought metalwork imbued with powers that appears in Greek myth is said to have been forged by Hephaestus. He designed all the thrones in the Olympian palace, the Aegis breastplate, Hermes’ (not the fashion house) winged helmet & sandals, Aphrodite’s famous girdle, Eros’ bow & arrows, Helios’ chariot, Heracles’ bronze clappers, & the shoulder of Pelops.
Hephaestus also created the gift that the gods gave to mankind: the 1st woman, Pandora, & her pithos (a large jar)/box. In some versions, Prometheus stole the fire that he gave to man from Hephaestus’ forge. Hephaestus gave to the blinded Orion his apprentice Cedalion as a guide. In later accounts, Hephaestus worked with the Cyclopes Brontes, Steropes, & Arges, who were highly skilled blacksmiths in their own right & forged Zeus’ thunderbolts, Poseidon’s trident, & Hades’ helmet of darkness/invisibility.
According to Homer, Hephaestus built automatons of metal to work for him or others. This includes tripods with golden wheels, able to move at his wish in & out of the assembly hall of the celestials; & “handmaidens wrought of gold in the semblance of living maids,” who had “understanding in their hearts, & speech & strength,” as a gift of the gods.
They moved to support Hephaestus while walking. Hephaestus also put golden & silver lions & dogs at the entrance of the palace of Alkinoos in such a way that they could bite the invaders. These guard dogs didn’t age or perish. (So does this mean that they could possibly still be around, hidden somewhere? Like the Nag Hammadi library.)
A similar golden dog was set by Rhea to guard the infant Zeus & his nurse (the goat Amaltheia) on the island of Krete/Crete. Later, Tantalus was said to have stolen the automaton when it guarded Zeus’ temple, or to have persuaded Pandareos to steal it for him.
Later texts attempt to replace the automaton with the idea that the golden dog was actually Rhea, transformed by Hephaestus. Hephaestus fought against the giants & killed Mimas by throwing molten iron at him. He also fought another giant, Aristaeus, but he fled.
During the battle, Hephaestus fell down exhausted & was picked up by Helios in his chariot. As a gift of gratitude, Hephaestus forged 4 ever-flowing fountains & fire-breathing bulls for Helios’ son Aeetus. At the marriage of Peleus & Thetis, Hephaestus gave a knife as a wedding present.
When the Trojan War began, Hephaestus sided with the Greeks & forged the armor of Achilles, the cuirass of Diomedes, & Agamemnon’s staff of office. But Hephaestus was also worshipped by the Trojans & saved 1 of their men from being killed by Diomedes.
Though she was married to Hephaestus, Aphrodite had an affair with Ares, the god of war. Eventually, Hephaestus discovered Aphrodite’s affair through Helios, the all-seeing sun (We’re gonna circle back to this. Keep this in mind.), & planned a trap during 1 of their trysts.
While the lovers lay together in bed, Hephaestus ensnared them in an unbreakable chain-link net so small as to be invisible & dragged them to Mount Olympus to shame them in front of the other gods for retribution. The gods had a good laugh at the sight of these unclothed adulterers. Poseidon persuaded Hephaestus to free them in return for a guarantee that Ares would pay the adulterers’ fine, or Poseidon would pay it himself.
In The Odyssey, Hephaestus says he would give Aphrodite back to Zeus & demand back his bride price. Some versions of the myth state that Zeus didn’t return the dowry. In fact, Aphrodite “simply charmed her way back again into her husband’s good graces.”
In The Iliad, Hephaestus is described as being married to the Grace named Charis during the events depicted in the Trojan War. While in Theogeny, he’s married to the Grace named Aglaea, with no indication of having ever been married to Aphrodite.
In Dionysiaca by Nonnus explicitly stated that, though Hephaestus & Aphrodite were once married (she’s referred to as his “ancient wife”). They’ve since separated & Hephaestus is now married to Charis.
Here’s the keep-in-mind part: In a later detail, Ares put the young soldier, Alectryon, by their door to warn them of Helios’ arrival, as he suspected that Helios would tell Hephaestus of Aphrodite’s infidelity if the 2 were discovered. But Alectryon fell asleep on guard duty. Helios finds the 2 & alerts Hephaestus. Ares, in a rage, turned Alectryon into a rooster, which always crows at dawn when the sun is about to rise.
The Thebans said that the spicy time union of Ares & Aphrodite produced Harmonia. But that of the union of Hephaestus with Aphrodite, there’s usually no issue. Because Harmonia was conceived during Aphrodite’s marriage to Hephaestus, for revenge, on Harmonia’s wedding day to Cadmus, Hephaestus gifted her with a finely worked but cursed necklace that brought immense suffering to her descendants, culminating in Oedipus. (Check out our post on Oedipus.)
An Athenian founding myth tells the city’s patron goddess, Athena, refused a union (spicy time) with Hephaestus. Pseudo-Apollodorus records an archaic legend, which claims that Hephaestus once tried to (g)rape Athena. But she pushed him away, causing him to ejaculate on her thigh.
Athena wiped the happy time juice off using a tuft of wool. She tossed it into the dust. This impregnated Gaia (his own great-grandma). This caused her to give birth to King Erichthonius, whom Athena adopted as her own kid.
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‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Still Soaring to Top Its Third Weekend With $67M
#MovieNews #Movies #AnneHathaway #Boxoffice #DavidRobertMitchell #DestinDanielCretton #EwanMcGregor #Marvel #PAWPatrol #SonyPictures #SpiderManBrandNewDay #TheEndofOakStreet #TheOdyssey #TomHolland #Zendaya -
The Guardian view on booming poetry sales: Homer, meet the Instapoets | Editorial
By EditorialIn an unexpected twist, a Hollywood epic has contributed to Britain’s best-ever half-year in poetry sales
#Poetry #Books #Homer #TheOdyssey #Culture #Film #MartinAmis #RobertBrowning #JohnMilton #EzraPound #RupiKaur #Socialmedia #PhilipLarkin #TheGuardian #Editorial
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‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Swinging to Best-Ever 10-Day Start With $143M Second Weekend
#MovieNews #Movies #Boxoffice #CallumTurner #ChristopherNolan #DestinDanielCretton #IceCreamMan #MonicaBarbaro #OneNightOnly #SadieSink #SonyPictures #SpiderMan #SpiderManBrandNewDay #TheOdyssey #TomHolland #Zendaya -
The Guide #255: The great front‑row backlash ignores what makes films feel truly colossal
By Gwilym MumfordIn this week’s newsletter: You’re all wrong about the most maligned seats in the house, which offer the purest form of moviegoing
#Culture #TheOdyssey #SpiderManBrandNewDay #Oppenheimer #Imax #Film #TheGuardian #GwilymMumford
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The Guide #255: The great front‑row backlash ignores what makes films feel truly colossal
By Gwilym MumfordIn this week’s newsletter: You’re all wrong about the most maligned seats in the house, which offer the purest form of moviegoing
#Culture #TheOdyssey #SpiderManBrandNewDay #Oppenheimer #Imax #Film #TheGuardian #GwilymMumford
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The Guide #255: The great front‑row backlash ignores what makes films feel truly colossal
By Gwilym MumfordIn this week’s newsletter: You’re all wrong about the most maligned seats in the house, which offer the purest form of moviegoing
#Culture #TheOdyssey #SpiderManBrandNewDay #Oppenheimer #Imax #Film #TheGuardian #GwilymMumford
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#SimonClark #tide #tides #Mediterranean #science #physics #hydrodynamics
#TheOdyssey #ChristopherNolan #TrojanHorse #ScienceIsFunThe best #short on geophysical hydrodynamics doesn't exi ...
... c'mon Chris! =D
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🎞 watched “The Odyssey” at the Metreon in 70mm IMAX on opening weekend, and mostly enjoyed it. No spoilers in this post.
My pal Rohit (@rohit.khare.org) had bought tickets last year, had a spare, and invited me along last minute. After an early dinner at Cha Cha Cha (@chachachasf.com) we made our way to the Metreon.
There was a line to get in. I have never before seen a line merely to get into the IMAX theater. We only missed maybe 1-2 movie trailers.
Our seats were in the front row, only a few seats from the left edge. In general I would not recommend the front 3-4 rows at an IMAX theater because it requires craning your neck back, and lots of swiveling to see the entire screen. Ironically being near the corner helped minimize the latter. Despite being sold out, the seat to my left was empty so I was able to lean back kinda diagonally to take in most of the screen.
The film itself was excellent (as many others have said).
There were parts that felt like they dragged a bit, yet also parts that felt rushed, where a bit more build-up before resolution would have hit harder. The only negative of the experience was the seating location in the IMAX theater, and the rigidness of the seats (they’re quite old, not like newer, plushier reclining seats that most theaters have upgraded to.)
The best part of The Odyssey is despite all the action, it dives into a number of philosophical and other intellectual challenges, illustrated by the situations encountered and paths taken.
I recommend seeing this film with nerdy friends on the earlier side, grabbing dinner after and discussing the nature, ethics, decisions, actions of the characters, and consequences thereof.
I definitely want to see it again.
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The Odyssey: A Review
Have you ever had one of those moments in life that at the time felt like a great victory, but then turned sour later on, leading to regret? I have. It’s no fun to look back on. It can hurt worse to look in the mirror.
Sure you can go into therapy to help you feel better about your choices and the ramifications. But first you have to face them, own them, and accept responsibility.
Or you could try to bury them in the bottle. Or drugs, illicit or otherwise. Or some other way of trying to keep them from resurfacing. Or you could just throw up your hands, blame the gods. Perhaps defy them. But in the end the choices you make define you. How you deal with the definition tells your story.
That’s essentially the story of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey. Much the same as it was with Oppenheimer. Do a thing. Do it well. Succeed. Then realize what you’ve done has unleashed problems bigger than the one you set out to overcome.
Is The Odyssey a good film? In my opinion, yes. Bordering on being very good one. It’s not a great one. You can see Nolan’s affection for the story he’s telling and his passion for the techniques he’s using to do so in every frame. That passion for filmmaking his way is also what keeps The Odyssey from being a great film.
In general I blow hot and cold on Nolan’s work. While he can create some thrilling cinema, his attention to his process creates an almost Brechtian alienation, while still embracing the story he’s trying to tell. And make no mistake this Odyssey is Nolan’s story more than it is Homer’s. There’s nothing wrong with that. It is a movie after all, and a story to tell the way he wants too. But in most of his movies, his love for his craft and artistry is too distancing to lure me in.
As to the story, the similarities between The Odyssey and Oppenheimer are easy to see. Man uses his ingenuity to do the impossible, man ends up regretting the result. Nolan told that story better in Oppenheimer.
Both films contain big moments of spectacle alternating with more intimate scenes. I walked away from Oppenheimer less impressed with the apparent painstaking to create explosions than I was with the more intimate scenes which I found infinitely more frightening and revealing. I don’t feel the same way about The Odyssey, although the work to create the Cyclops and Circe’s turning Odysseus’ men into swine pays off very well. The intimate scenes in The Odyssey did not capture me the way I think Nolan thought they would. The spectacle largely worked well. Which brings me to Matt Damon.
I don’t think Damon was the best choice for the lead. Given the framing that Nolan chose to wrap his story in, he certainly wasn’t. Following the poem’s lead in alternating timelines, Damon seemed to be the same throughout most of the film, until his return home.
Damon’s known for his straight ahead with purpose presence on screen, plowing through any obstacle in his path, typically with a strong resolve that’s unyielding. Prior to seeing the film I thought the casting made great sense. Yet it did not in practice. I never felt Damon transition from a “something’s really bothering me about all of this” gest into a leader of confidence and cunning until the final act. He just seemed bothered.
Part of that is certainly in the writing, both Nolan’s and Homer’s, given that the story is more about looking back in the aftermath. That makes sense while he’s trying to come to grips with all he’s wrought after the sack of Troy, but not in the early stages of his adventure, which we’re treated to in flashbacks. There’s no self-accomplished, self-aggrandizing height from which he can fall. His compatriots around him acted as if they were seeing something out of the ordinary, yet we never really saw what bonded their allegiance to him in the first place.
The other aspect of The Odyssey that keeps it from being a great film is the Netflix-like don’t trust your audience to pay attention restating of Zeus’ law, which grounds Odysseus’ guilt. The point that Zeus’s golden rule (be kind to strangers and guests-you never know they may be a god in disguise) is repeated so frequently, it often feels like Nolan the screenwriter didn’t trust it as the central motivating point for his character’s actions and struggles.
On the plus side, Nolan has assembled an incredible cast of actors around Damon that we’re used to seeing carry their own films and that largely pays off. Although some seem underused. The visual and aural experience can be stunning. I particularly like the choice of orchestrations in the soundtrack. The special effects have their special moments.
Is it worth seeing? I’d say yes. I’d also say that what it offers will not be substantially different once it becomes a streaming success than it is in the theaters, especially the limited number of venues that show it in the format the director wishes.
I won’t get into the squabbles that have surrounded this film with more free publicity than you can shake a stick at. With one exception. I keep reading and hearing folks saying Nolan’s version of The Odyssey is as much about today as it is about the age the story takes place in. Of course in today’s world that means some love that and some hate that. That has more to do with Homer than it has to do with Nolan.
The reason many of certain generations are at least tangentially familiar with The Odyssey is Homer wrote a story about humankind that is as enduring as the flaws and faults we as a species share and keep repeating. It’s a mirror that exposes those flaws that we really work hard to avoid looking into. It’s a difficult story that needs telling in and of itself, and has found itself as the foundation of many different variants in other forms. Funny thing is, we never seem to learn from it, regardless of its trappings.
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Some of the words you’ll find within yourself,
the rest some power will inspire you to say.
You least of all — I know —
were born and reared without the gods’ good will.
[τὸν δ᾽ αὖτε προσέειπε θεά, γλαυκῶπις Ἀθήνη:
‘Τηλέμαχ᾽, ἄλλα μὲν αὐτὸς ἐνὶ φρεσὶ σῇσι νοήσεις,
ἄλλα δὲ καὶ δαίμων ὑποθήσεται: οὐ γὰρ ὀίω
οὔ σε θεῶν ἀέκητι γενέσθαι τε τραφέμεν τε.’]Homer (fl. 7th-8th C. BC) Greek author
The Odyssey [Ὀδύσσεια], Book 3, l. 25ff (3.25) [Athena to Telemachus] (c. 700 BC) [tr. Fagles (1996)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/homer/46674/
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