Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey

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Rumour had had it that Christopher Nolan's next project after Oppenheimer would be a remake of The Prisoner, but it's The Odyssey. Some news here, including set probably representing Troy under construction.

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It'll be interesting to see how Nolan tackles the narrative, which is very episodic - but then I think that he'll do it inventively. I just hope that it'll be more like Inception or Dunkirk rather than the mess of Tenet.
 
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While the Illiad and Odyssey are mythological poetic epics, not history, they are set in the 'olden times' of Homer (assuming he existed), as the Arthurian legends were in the far past of Thomas Mallory. Most films drawing on these sources have had Classical or Hellenic style while the events we call the 'Trojan War' probably took place in the Bronze age, not long before the Greek Dark Age that began c. 1100 BC - roughly late in the time of the Hittite Empire or Egypt's 19th Dynasty (Ramesses II for example). 'Troy 7' (of about ten layers of the city - if you fail at first, Troy, Troy again... sorry) shows evidence of violence and fire. Other layers seem to have been demolished by earthquakes.

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If Nolan is going to research as well as he had for other films, we certainly won't see anything that looks like 300 or Troy. If the set under construction in the photo is meant to be Troy, then we'll see something more authentically Bronze Age in style.
 
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Ancient Mycenean armour made the wearer look more like a Dalek than the more familiar later styles, but was surprisingly practical.

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Analysis of Greek prehistoric combat in full body armour based on physiological principles: A series of studies using thematic analysis, human experiments, and numerical simulations

One of the oldest complete suits of European armour was discovered in 1960 near the village of Dendra, in Southern Greece, but it remained unknown whether this armour was suitable for extended use in battle or was purely ceremonial. This had limited our understanding of the ancient Greek–Late...
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Anyway, as we know, The Odyssey takes place after Troy and at sea. In fact, just last year there was a film about Odysseus' return to Ithaca, called, um, The Return. So-so as a film but Ralph Fiennes is terrific as an Odysseus struggling with PTSD, guilt, and anger (especially the latter, as the suitors of Penelope discover).
 

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