Why haven't we ever gotten an adaptation of Homer's Odyssey?
It is one of the oldest extant works of literature still widely read by modern audiences, older than the Bible.
The closest we ever got was a b grade two episode mini series from 1997.
Surely this deserves a big movie.
For an industry that is struggling with creativity, what is stopping them from adapting classical works or even modern books like H.P. Lovecraft?
What? We have the Simpsons?
O Brother Where Art Thou?
Cold Mountain
That's a modern take that's very very loosely based on the Odyssey. It's not even the same thing.
That's like seeing Fast and Furious is based on Lord of the Rings because it follows the same theme of family and friendship.
>that's very very loosely based on the Odyssey. It's not even the same thing.
i wouldn't go so far as to say that, it actually incorporates a lot of the elements from the Odyssey. it's been a while since i watched it, but off the top of my head you've got John Goodman, who's the Polyphemus, you've got Circe (the river witches and one of the guys turning into a frog), iirc you had something approximating sirens/lotus-eaters, and you've got the core thread of journey and a husband returning to his wife
>That's like seeing Fast and Furious is based on Lord of the Rings because it follows the same theme of family and friendship.
that's a frivolous comparison
Because it's not just an utter anathema to the estrogen-addled nu-male, it's contrary to the very foundations of modernity. The closest you will see is "modernisations" like (kino btw) that make it palatable.
>wanting the ameripozzed shart version of this
americans be like
>this homoric epic isn't gay enough
It never was, stop listening to Mr. Shekelberg.
Because it’s unironicaly the basis for a lot of our stories. Similar how pretty much every eastern story is journey to the west
>every eastern story is journey to the west
elaborate on that
Im too lazy to go into details but essentially they get a lot of their character archetypes from it specifically the whole lovable goofball based off Son Wukong( Goku, Luffy, Naruto etc) And it’s why a lot of anime’s are focused on a group of characters there’s an Asian word that refers to group of companions like this but I forgot it. Just look into it
>there’s an Asian word that refers to group of companions like this but I forgot it
nakama? isn't that what the people in OP keep saying
Lots of stories are based on the west travelling to the east.
There's an alore to exploring strange lands and cultures.
East to West is only popular in the modern era because we like our propaganda. In the classical era, it was because the sun rises in the East and sets in the West.
>East to West is only popular in the modern era because we like our propaganda
Its because the west was the frontier. Just as the East once was.
Yeah but now you just have stories set in modern time about la poor Eastern European or Middle Easterner travelling to America for a better life BS.
Lovecraft has been adapted by the assload.
Oh really? Why not name a Lovecraft movie then homosexual? I want my Cthulhu movie.
Color out of space. That shit with all the Black folk on HBO, Lovecraft country. Reanimator.
All very loosely based on the same stories. None of them are actual adaptations. Colour out of space, for example takes place in modern times.
What do expect, do you want an actual cat named Black personman? Of course they're going to adapt, Lovecraft is fricking boring.
I want an adaption on the same level of Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Dune etc.
Not a film that is very very loosely centred around the same themes.
Again, that's like saying Jaws and Alien are the same film. Yes, Alien was inspired by Jaws but they're not the same fricking thing.
Why are you morons not getting that? What's sad is that some of you actually work in the movie business. No wonder it's gone to shit.
Those were very popular novels. HPL is niche. And which Lovecraft story would even make a good movie if adapted faithfully?
The Dream Quest Of Unknown Kadath
watch in the mouth of madness
Again, not an actual adaptation. It just follows the same themes and has a similar title.
>In the Mouth of Madness pays tribute to the work of seminal horror writer H. P. Lovecraft, with many references to his stories and themnes. Its title isa play on Lovecraft's novella, At the Mountains of Madness, and insanity plays as great a role in the film as it does in Lovecraft's fiction.
>he wants a visual depiction of indescribable horror
>indescribable horror
>it's just a big squid with wings that gets btfod by a boat ramming it
>indescribable horror
>it's Black folk
Nobody really does the whole Cthulu thing even within the Lovecraft genre for some reason.
Cthulhu sucks shit. Just a sleepy tentacle face that bumps his head on a doorway and goes back to bed.
Do you really want more Black folk in your Greek epics? Only Bollywood could do it justice right now and I'd rather they do their own mythology as it's kino as frick
>It's old, therefore it deserves a modern film adaptation
You wouldn't want it even if they'd produce it. Much like said.
>indians as greeks
How did Troy do at the box office? Then would have been a good time to follow up with the Odyssey.
>Troy made over $497 million worldwide, making it the 60th highest-grossing film at the time of its release.
Unfortunately, the historical epic genre was saturated with movies in that era and they kind of just stopped making them. The following were just some of the movies released around the same time.
>Alexander
>Kingdom of Heaven
>300
>Last Samurai
>Master and Commander
>Apocalypto
>Clash of the Titans
>Immortals
>Lord of the Rings
>Beowulf
Kingdom of heaven is so fricking good holy shit.
Holy shit that movie sucks dog ass. I had been heavily researching the crusades at the time so I was stoked to see it but it was as historically accurate as Lotr. Total shit.
It wasn't accurate at all but if you watch it just for entertainment, it's pretty fricking good.
I am specifically talking about the director's cut.
The knight skipping around: "It's what I do!" Pure shit. Scott is such a hack.
How boring it is doesn't help in the face of the completely miscast lead. He's supposed to be a blacksmith lol
The only good ones in this list are LotR and Apocalypto
>crusade bad
>muslim gud
Wow epic
You should definitely watch Master and Commander. Last Samurai was also pretty good.
It’s hard to see how you could do the odyssey as a follow up. Troy was very loosely inspired by the Iliad and cut out everything supernatural or mythology related. If you cut the mythology out of the odyssey it’s just a guy on a boat for a really long time, and then he gets home and kills a bunch of people.
Best Hollywood didn't touch it anyway. There was almost one in the late 2000s/early 2010s starring Hugh Jackman. There's also a kino 1968 Italian tv miniseries I highly recommend.
Too many scenes of men tearing their clothes off and crying like women at the slightest inconvenience.
Yakuza Games?
But we did? The tv series was pretty good.
How did it take this long for someone to point it out?
I didn't mean yours.
That's a good movie. I like it. Dont want a "modern" version. enless Eggers does it.
>the odyssey
>not Epic of Gilgamesh
Fricking zoomers
The Odyssey inspired Alexander the Great. But of course I want to see the Epic of Gilgamesh too.
I'd also love movies based on each mythology and pantheon of different cultures.
We only get Greek and Nordic. Gods of Egypt was by no means based on anything related to Egyptian mythology. That shit was just Egyptian Transformers.
Underrated mythologies that could be explored
>slavic
>celtic
>hindu
>balinese
>yoruban
>turkic
>aztec
How have we never gotten a movie about the Roman Pantheon? The Assyrians/Babylonians?
The Roman pantheon was the Greeks with different names. the other two, wtf knows any of them?
I want my Enuma Elish miniseries
It's long and boring as frick.
>widely read by modern audiences
Nah.
>It's long and boring as frick.
Ulysses from 1954 was fun.
Never I hope
>inb4 the epic bloody Odyssey with full cast of fish face anglos with wienerney accent
>Why haven't we ever gotten an adaptation of Homer's Odyssey?
CONSTANT SORRRROOOOOOOOOOW
There's plenty of them. Here's the best one btw
Jews.
that's the answer.
it's actually the answer to roughly 60% of all your questions.
Oh shut up
Go watch it you Bozos. Its kino of the highest tier. Imagine wanting a 2023 version
Made for TV trash
It really doesn't lend itself well to a direct adaptation, given how it's a mixture of moral fable and action shlock. A series like Xena Warrior princess would probably be the best approach, but those seem to be out of fashion at the moment, even though you'd think cutting back to his wife suffering under the toxic patriarchy of the suitors would fit well into the current narrative. Then in the end she could save him in a twist and they celebrate Hanukkah or something...
The task wasn't come up with the gayest movie possible.
Okay, cast:
Odysseus
Circe
Calypso
Athena
Poseidon
Penelope
Telemachus
Chief Penelope Suitor
Laertes
>Why haven't we ever gotten an adaptation of Homer's Odyssey?
people can't even decide on a definitive translation for it let alone adapt it into anything
>people can't even decide on a definitive translation for it
Odyssey in greek, it is
I remember seeing a spaghetti version called "Ulysses" when I was a kid, but don't recall much about it.
Ah, yes, that's the one. Should have read the thread before posting lol.