the armour would be
and the clothes
and cities (well they were around 5000 to 10,000 people, so towns in today's terminology)
Posted on 07/24/2026 5:50:46 AM PDT by Cronos
"Chris Nolan desecrated the Odyssey so that he would be eligible for an Academy Award …" said Musk
Now that Nolan's film is out to rave reviews from both critics and audiences, Musk has taken to X once again to share his plans to make a more "historically accurate" version of the film.
"Before this year ends, Grok Imagine will make a full-length movie of The Odyssey that is historically accurate and true to the art of Homer," said Musk in a July 21 X post.
That same day, he replied "I'm down" to a tweet asking him to give Mel Gibson $100 million to film a "painstakingly accurate" Odyssey adaptation.
Gibson might have been chosen for previously directing the historical epic Braveheart — and for having a number of famous controversies centered around the actor/director's alleged antisemitism, racism and homophobia, making him an "anti-woke" pick.
"The whole controversy around the Nolan film has been a little head-scratching," said Daniel Mendelsohn, a classicist with a published translation of The Odyssey, in an interview with The Times. "There is no such thing as a historically accurate version of The Odyssey."
Mendelsohn says that The Odyssey is a hodgepodge of different eras from Greek history.
"The armor, the modes of fighting, the courtship rituals — it's a mixed bag from all different periods of civilization, and so there is nothing to be historically accurate to," he says.
Musk's announcement of a Grok-driven Odyssey adaptation was itself a quote retweet to a three-minute Grok-generated scene of The Odyssey, which Mendelsohn said also contained historical inaccuracies.
"I do wish they would stop putting these guys in sleeves," said Mendelsohn in the same interview. "The Greeks didn't have sleeves. That was a sign that you were a foreigner."
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the armour would be
and the clothes
and cities (well they were around 5000 to 10,000 people, so towns in today's terminology)
Love them both. Should be epic.
It’s gotta be a 2 year project.
The question is - would he use modern Greek or Mycenean Greek?
The Greek spoken by the Myceneans who attacked Troy would be unintelligible to modern day Greeks
Mycenaean Greek nouns inflected for seven distinct cases:
1. Nominative: Indicates the subject of the sentence.
2. Accusative: Indicates the direct object of an action.
3. Genitive: Indicates possession, origin, or reference. (The PIE ablative case had already merged into the Mycenaean genitive).
4. Dative: Indicates the indirect object or recipient of an action.
5. Vocative: Used for direct address or calling out to someone.
6. Instrumental: Denotes the means, tool, or instrument used to perform an action. It frequently used the distinct plural suffix -phi.
7. Locative: Indicates a physical location or place where something happens.
This is similar to modern-day Polish ONLY in terms of the 7 cases and HIGHLY similar to Sanskrit in grammar - though Sanskrit has eight noun cases (the seven listed above, plus the Ablative).
Maybe he will remake the Avengers and not make the Hulk as weak as hell.
It really needs to be a series to do it justice
It would be great if it were in Greek with subtitles, like The Passion was in Aramaic and Latin.
Any remake of The Avengers should include Mrs. Peel. Steed is optional.
Thank God he didn’t suggest that Peter Jackson do it.
After he went woke between LOTR and The Hobbit I could only imagine what he would have butchered this into...
Nope, just more of the same mice gnawing on ropes complaining that we have come to expect from the glitterati.
Quite frankly I’m not sure why Mel Gibson is considered a historically accurate director
His “Braveheart” is utter fiction, from the costumes to the ages of actors etc.
And, when I watched his Crucifixion movie and loved it from a spiritual point of view and then from a linguistic view as it used Latin, but only years later I realized:
- the soldiers would not have spoken Latin —> they were not soldiers from the Italian peninsula. These were auxiliary soldiers recruited from the local non-Jewish populations of the region, such as Syrians, Samaritans, and Greeks. These men did not know Latin; their native languages were Aramaic and Greek.
-after watching the serial “Barbarians” on Netflix, i realized also that the soldiers were not speaking Classical Latin, but a softer Latin - so instead of Ave Saysar it should have been Ave Kaizer
ok, that’s being pedantic, sorry about that
The language family is Indo-European after all....
I wasn’t bothered about this - the Hulk in all except his “Gray Hulk” format is so OP that you can’t really make a story about him
The nerfed him, might as well make Banner black. Just like the Odyssey.
you’re right - a limited series.
The story itself is made that way - like the story where they ask the swineherd how he became a slave to Odysseus’s house and then HE (the swineherd) talks about how in HIS father’s house there was a slavegirl from Sidon (a Phoenician woman) and she talks about her life
so stories within stories
This is ridiculous. The Odessey is a story. It’s not a documentary.
People can (and have) interpreted in many different ways over the years. Nolan’s is just the most recent.
Spending another nickel on “an accurate” version is silly. What exactly is an accurate representation of a cyclops? Or a Siren? Or a Lotus Eater?
We need to stop being emotional about stuff that doesn’t matter.
Apocalypto is not historically accurate.
The mass human sacrifices were Aztec, not Mayan. The maya were more personal (individual killin’s)
The timeline of Apocalypto makes no historical sense - the Mayan civilization collapsed in 900 AD and the Europeans came 600 years later
Ruffalo Hulk was gay.
yes, and the older I-E tongues like Sanskrit, Avestani, Mycenaen Greek should have been similar-ISH
Musk gave an interview yesterday and absolutely nailed it.
His statement was perfect!
Elon Musk rejected the “far-right” label and heavily criticized media framing during a fiery interview with The Economist Editor-in-Chief Zanny Minton Beddoes in July 2026.
When accused of supporting populist and far-right fringe parties globally, Musk pushed back directly, stating, “No, I support the normal people. What you call the far right, falsely.”
Musk’s Core Policy Arguments
During the exchange, Musk challenged the reporter to identify what was extreme about his worldview, listing three core principles:
• Secure borders
• Safe cities
• Sensible spending [1]
He followed up by asking, “Which of those three are far-right fringe?” and demanded that the exchange remain unedited, telling the reporter, “I would just like to just admonish you and the media for the absurd characterization of the far right. It is false and misleading and nonsense! Please keep this part in.”
Defending His Political Influence
Musk shrugged off the critique, replying, “Maybe some people do loathe me and that’s probably true. I don’t care.” He later turned the sentiment back onto the journalist, asserting that far more people harbor distrust toward legacy media institutions than toward him.
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