This is remarkably apt considering it was a competition between people who were never going to win, and were beat out by someone who already knew the boss lady.
I dunno, if handing out bows to all candidates is a thing, I’ve seen worse (I have no idea what this is referencing)
Listen. Strange women standing in rooms distributing bows is no basis for a system of hiring.
You can’t expect to wield supreme executive power just ’cause some watery tart threw a bow at you!
If I went around sayin’ I was an emperor because I tossed a dart through a 'andful of shovel handles when some old bint asked me, they’d put me away!
Well how did Ulysses become king of Ithica then? As an aside do they use his Roman name or the Greek one in the movie?
They use the Greek names.
This is referencing Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, where Penelope says she’ll marry any man able to string and shoot the bow that only her old husband was able to use.
This is referencing
Christopher Nolan’sThe OdysseyFTFY. It’d only be referencing Christopher Nolan’s version if that was some addition he made to the story, which is very much not the case. All his additions are lines attempting to sound historic, but are instead hilariously anachronistic (our age of bronze is collapsing)
It is a picture from Nolan’s Odyssey, but not a reference to it
This is actually referencing epic: the musical, the odyssey was inspired by that
I haven’t read The Odyssey, so I wouldn’t exactly know all the additions or changes. I did hear that Sinon wasn’t actually in the original text though, so you’re wrong about that at least.
Sinon, a character from Virgil’s recounting of the Trojan War being in the Odyssey. Really, really sounds like trying to make two works of fiction seem like they’re historical in basis. So I’m gonna say that still counts as hilarious anachronism.
Really, really sounds like trying to make two works of fiction seem like they’re historical in basis.
I’m pretty sure it’s just a movie, and isn’t trying too hard to make you think it’s historically accurate. I kind of doubt there were giants, cyclopes, witches, lotus flowers that make you forget, and sea monsters. I’m also pretty sure they didn’t speak english back then, but it’d be a little harder to enjoy the movie if you had to read subtitles, which also didn’t exist back then.
Yeah, twisting my “his contribution to this myth is to needlessly try to make it historical feeling, in a ridiculously ahistoric manner” into “this myth now attempts to be perfectly historical to the detriment of the story” is wild, my guy. Good try, though.
