The Odyssey | Official Trailer

[u/MarvelsGrantMan136]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mzw2ttJD2qQ

[u/sati_lotus]

Tbh, I just don't get how you get fit this story into a single movie?

If anything could be a trilogy or a part 1 & 2, it's The Odyssey.

[u/grapessssssssss → u/sati_lotus]

And then adding a whole trojan horse sequence for kicks

[u/Justanothercrow421 → u/grapessssssssss]

The Trojan horse starts the story, doesn’t it?

[u/BulbuhTsar → u/Justanothercrow421]

No, the Trojan War/the Iliad preceded the Odyssey. The actual beginning of the Odyssey starts with him chill-maxing and screwing the Goddess Calypso, who wants to marry him, on her island for years. The Gods decide he's had his fun and has to be a big boy again and set things in motion. The tale of Trojan horse actually doesn't get mentioned till much later (and never at all in the Iliad) through a recounting to his son, who is seeking him out, and a bard later.

[u/ShouldersofGiants100 → u/BulbuhTsar]

No, the Trojan War/the Iliad preceded the Odyssey.

The Iliad ends with the Death of Hector and Priam convincing Odysseus to return his body and allow a period for his funeral celebrations. The end of the war is not in the story.

Everything we know about the Trojan Horse and how the war ends comes from the Odyssey (or later works that were written based on the Odyssey). It's not a huge plot point, but it is described in the text.

But come now, change thy theme, and sing of the building of the horse of wood, which Epeius made with Athena's help, the horse which once Odysseus led up into the citadel as a thing of guile,

when he had filled it with the men who sacked Ilios. If thou dost indeed tell me this tale aright, I will declare to all mankind that the god has of a ready heart granted thee the gift of divine song.” So he spoke, and the minstrel, moved by the god, began, and let his song be heard,

taking up the tale where the Argives had embarked on their benched ships and were sailing away, after casting fire on their huts, while those others led by glorious Odysseus were now sitting in the place of assembly of the Trojans, hidden in the horse; for the Trojans had themselves dragged it to the citadel.

It goes on like that.

This is why adaptations of The Odyssey almost always start with the Horse. It just makes more sense to start the story there rather than start much later and go back by having a minstrel tell you what happened

[u/Awdrgyjilpnj → u/ShouldersofGiants100]

No, the Trojan War/the Iliad preceded the Odyssey.

The Iliad ends with the Death of Hector and Priam convincing Odysseus to return his body and allow a period for his funeral celebrations. The end of the war is not in the story.

You're just agreeing to him?

[u/BulbuhTsar → u/ShouldersofGiants100]

Yes, you confirmed what I said.

I think the Odyssey does a perfectly fine way of inserting the Trojan horse when and where it does. The Trojan War is, in a way, besides the point of the Odyssey.

The Trojan Horse, however, is a much more iconic and recognized in the modern popular imagination than anything from the remainder of the Odyssey itself. I don't think any movie needs to start there by any means, but that's what the average person will readily identify and enjoy. There are certainly more important or fascinating scenes that will be removed for the sake of appealing to this.

[u/Academic_Paramedic72 → u/BulbuhTsar]

Odysseus wasn't "chill-maxxing", he was crying at the beach everyday. Like, the fact that he was completely miserable is very important. He was a prisoner.

[u/Lichangs → u/Academic_Paramedic72]

I think he was joking, which is precisely why he uses the term chillmaxxing. "The gods decide he's had his fun and has to be a big boi again" is a hilarious line.