Merry Green Land

He basically made Oppenheimer again lol

Take a shot every time someone says "people from the sea" or "sea people." Your liver will give out during the first half of the movie. At one point, Penelope says it like five times in a single conversation

Nolan basically says that the sea people were the refugees/returning armies of Troy, who plundered the lands because they broke xenia by deceiving the Trojans with the horse and thus are no longer bound to any moral laws. This creates the Bronze Age collapse

The Trojan war was Agamemnon wanting to control trade in the area, and Helen's kidnapping was an excuse to destroy Troy to do that.

One day, Nolan will figure out how to write women who do things other than just state exposition at the camera.

You see Clytemnestra kill Agamemnon, and she doesn't use an axe :(

Odysseus in the movie is pretty much nothing like Odysseus in the poems. The only thing they have in common is he goes on an Odyssey.

Odysseus breaks through the walls of Troy, and then spends the whole fall of Troy looking sad and traumatized because people are dying.

You never see any Olympians. Zendaya plays Athena, but then it's revealed that she was a Trojan woman who Odysseus saw killed in the temple of Athena in Troy as it was destroyed, and her appearances are a manifestation of his guilt and PTSD that he associates with Athena

Circe and Calypso do have magic powers, though.

Polyphemus is mute the entire time. We don't get the "nobody" scene. Odysseus assumes that he's just a brutish monster, pokes out his eye after he eats some of Odysseus' crew. Polyphemus starts talking to himself in a corner, and Odysseus' men say he said the name "Poseidon," which they take to mean that he is the son of Poseidon who has cursed them.

Nolan does that thing where the gods COULD be real, or it could be coincidental natural disasters. But, like, there is magic and monsters.

Odysseus the least complicated man in the story. It's all very straightforward. He doesn't do any real trickery other than the Trojan horse (which he immediately regrets) and disguise himself when he gets to Ithaca

Odysseus pets Argus (I like this change) and there's only one maid who gets killed, and she's shown as actively helping the suitors to try and assassinate Telemachus. I liked this change as well.

The movie ends with Odysseus allowing Telemachus to become king of Ithaca, and him sailing west, because he promised the shades in Hades that he would travel there to honor the men who died and could not receive proper burials

He talks about how their civilization will collapse, and that all that will remain are songs

I don't know if this is on purpose, but it kind of implies that Odysseus is gonna function as Aeneas? It is a bit of a stretch, but west is Italy, and he talks about a new civilization rising. I think this is very funny if on purpose, given how the ancient Romans felt about Odysseus lmao

Nolan does not deserve such good actors.

a) young children tend to do a lot of copying the behaviors around them, and

b) most of the people hanging around them are taking care of kids (them)

a lot of little kids REALLY want to take care of slightly littler kids. Today a toddler barely over a year old kissed a baby a couple months younger than him, tried to wipe his nose, and tried to feed him a toy apple. A couple kids older than Him then started trying to put him in a toy shopping cart to take him shopping. There's a 3yo who always tries to steal the babies' milk bottles to feed them. A 4yo tried to give a baby his own bottle once. A toddler too young to know any words yet will shush me if any of the little babies are laying down to sleep.