CharleyKerfeld said:

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At the risk of talking about the actual film, I watched the trailer on Imax last night, and I think what's actually bugging me is that Matt Damon seems little boring for the main role. I really like him and have seen loads of his movies, but it feels like Odysseus should be an extremely emotional role. Damon seems to excel at charm, earnestness, and humor. I think Odysseus should be more haggard and sinewy looking given the nature of the journey.

I'm not sure who I would have cast instead. Christian Bale could do the acting, but he's such a Nolan guy it would be hard to detach him from his Batman character. A performance in line with Ethan Hawke in the Northman is maybe what I'm thinking about.

Tom Holland's casting also feels like a distraction, although that might just be that I've never seen him in anything but Spiderman. He's a great Peter Parker, but I have no idea if he can do anything else.

I think the roles I'm most excited to see at Pattison as Antinous and Charlize Theron as Calypso.

Also if you guys want to fly into a rage again, the casting list says there's a Korean guy named Wil Yun Lee in the cast as another of Odysseus's crew members, paying homage to the long-standing ancient alliance between Greece and Korea that existed in those days.

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CharleyKerfeld said:

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At the risk of talking about the actual film, I watched the trailer on Imax last night, and I think what's actually bugging me is that Matt Damon seems little boring for the main role. I really like him and have seen loads of his movies, but it feels like Odysseus should be an extremely emotional role. Damon seems to excel at charm, earnestness, and humor. I think Odysseus should be more haggard and sinewy looking given the nature of the journey.

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Squadron7 said:

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CharleyKerfeld said:

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At the risk of talking about the actual film, I watched the trailer on Imax last night, and I think what's actually bugging me is that Matt Damon seems little boring for the main role. I really like him and have seen loads of his movies, but it feels like Odysseus should be an extremely emotional role. Damon seems to excel at charm, earnestness, and humor. I think Odysseus should be more haggard and sinewy looking given the nature of the journey.

I'm not sure who I would have cast instead. Christian Bale could do the acting, but he's such a Nolan guy it would be hard to detach him from his Batman character. A performance in line with Ethan Hawke in the Northman is maybe what I'm thinking about.

Tom Holland's casting also feels like a distraction, although that might just be that I've never seen him in anything but Spiderman. He's a great Peter Parker, but I have no idea if he can do anything else.

I think the roles I'm most excited to see at Pattison as Antinous and Charlize Theron as Calypso.

Also if you guys want to fly into a rage again, the casting list says there's a Korean guy named Wil Yun Lee in the cast as another of Odysseus's crew members, paying homage to the long-standing ancient alliance between Greece and Korea that existed in those days.

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Jon Hamm as Odysseus?

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CharleyKerfeld said:

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Squadron7 said:

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CharleyKerfeld said:

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At the risk of talking about the actual film, I watched the trailer on Imax last night, and I think what's actually bugging me is that Matt Damon seems little boring for the main role. I really like him and have seen loads of his movies, but it feels like Odysseus should be an extremely emotional role. Damon seems to excel at charm, earnestness, and humor. I think Odysseus should be more haggard and sinewy looking given the nature of the journey.

I'm not sure who I would have cast instead. Christian Bale could do the acting, but he's such a Nolan guy it would be hard to detach him from his Batman character. A performance in line with Ethan Hawke in the Northman is maybe what I'm thinking about.

Tom Holland's casting also feels like a distraction, although that might just be that I've never seen him in anything but Spiderman. He's a great Peter Parker, but I have no idea if he can do anything else.

I think the roles I'm most excited to see at Pattison as Antinous and Charlize Theron as Calypso.

Also if you guys want to fly into a rage again, the casting list says there's a Korean guy named Wil Yun Lee in the cast as another of Odysseus's crew members, paying homage to the long-standing ancient alliance between Greece and Korea that existed in those days.

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Jon Hamm as Odysseus?

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I think I would have preferred an unknown, or someone less known like Bale was when he became Batman in 2005. he was 31 then. I know he had been in American Psycho, but I'm not sure I had seen him in anything but Newsies when he was a kid and Reign of Fire a that point.

31 is too young for Odysseus since he has a grown son, and I just don't know enough about today's actors to suggest some lesser known guy in his mid 40s to mid 50s. But definitely a less recognizable face might have been a better choice.

I do love Jon Hamm immensely in "Your Friends and Neighbors" on Apple +. i discovered it about a month ago; it is fantastic, I was surprised TexAgs didn't have a thread about it. Very good look at divorce and loss and starting over; albeit in the context of being really rich.

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Lathspell said:

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Sean Bean would have been so good.

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Aggie_Boomin 21 said:

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Just saw a clip from an appearance Quentin Tarantino made on a podcast where called Black Hawk Down the best movie of the 21st century so far. His 1 complaint was there are too many Brits in it playing Americans. Found that funny in the context this thread has gone down.

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hunter2012 said:

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I'll try to get this back on the initial off track…

So not only have they miscast this movie, the most miscast actress hasn't even heard of the Odyssey. The most well known Greek epic of all time. How does a theatre kid not even know the name of the classics?

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Sapper Redux said:

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Does that matter to the performance?

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If it was a comic book movie I wouldn't give it a second thought, but it does seem odd that someone who received an MFA from Yale would not be familiar with The Odyssey.

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She had performed a few monologues from Greek mythology in drama school at Yale, but was unfamiliar with the source material.

"I really had no idea what The Odyssey was," she says. "I was like, 'Oh, snap, I don't know the first thing about this.' So it was a crash course. I picked up the books and read them immediately. I have this film to thank for my Greek mythological education." And by "picked up the books," she really means she read The Odyssey and listened to The Iliad…

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CheeseSndwch said:

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I read The Odyssey (Abridged) in the 9th grade.

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CheeseSndwch said:

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I read The Odyssey (Abridged) in the 9th grade.

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FL_Ag1998 said:

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I've believe I've voiced similar concerns about the "look" of this movie so far. It fits with other Nolan films and his typical sterile color schemes, but how will we like it for this movie?

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Everyone knows the colors were muted in antiquity.

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