The lack of any kind of Sea Peoples sword and sandals epic is criminal.

Look at him in Total War, hes fuckin ballin

kinda looks like the pictures of generals wearing like 200 medals on their uniform

Fremen sietches are described as raucously colorful with woven tapestries all over the place to make the cavern interiors more comfortable

More importantly imo she removes a lot of the Victorian brainworms prior English translations smuggled in, like calling slaves "servants" or calling Helen a "bitch" rather than the more correct "dog faced," which doesn't have the same gendered connotations as "bitch" does in English. Lattimore is still my favorite translator of.the epics, but Wilson's is really wonderful. Both her Iliad and Odyssey are worth reading.

It's great, the War Nerd Prose Iliad is great, and I'm a big fan of the Pope translation of both if you want something in a higher register. All such different vibes, all great.

The Nolan vibes are fucked though. Looks like a third rate spinoff of the Dune movies, but without decent art design and using leftover TDKR props.

If it's myth then explain how they found the real city of Troy by following the book's own lore!

Like if you're gonna make something that's loose with accuracy at least make it interesting to look at like fuck even 300 looks more interesting and colorful than this slop and that was pure dogwater

are bringing up the soviet movie Alexander Nevsky as an example of good movies that dont follow historical accuracy

The tutonic barbarians most definitely wore silly war hats like what's depicted in Alexander Nevsky. That's the Genius of Eisenstein, he still follows closely to historic Realism but adds a beautiful coat of colorful paint to just make it POP

They both lack color

How do you fuck up Greek columns so badly? Like, what was even the thought process behind this? "Eh, we don't need to actually carve any of this shit and make it look like a real place, everything is AI now so no one will care if it looks terrible."

Akhilleus was an aura farmer, as was Odysseus for sure. They fought and killed people because they wanted their sick, beautiful armour. There's half a book of the Iliad that describes the armour of Akhilleus and all the pretty engravings it had. Agamemnon's Medusa shield is an incredible piece of work, commented on by all as Art. These myths were all about aura, and the lifeless blandness of Nolan is so sad to see.

Have you seen the Ancient Greek Brutalism?

This has to be a CGI placeholder. There's no way.

I mean he does well with more modern settings, like Dunkirk and Oppenheimer were quite satisfactory. I suppose the problem is that his style only truly works in a modern to post-modern contemporary period when life was drained from the world.

it works for Dark Knight

I disagree, tbh. Edgy Batman sucks, despite apparently being the preferred version for basically all Batman writers.

Agumonmemnonmon

Lmfao the Mycenaean armour looks way better than the generic nolan dark armour too.

I mean at least have boar helmets which are attested to in the Epic and we have uncovered. Plus these are the most boring classical era armor as is. The people the epic is talking about would be closer to the Mycenaean if the war had happened. It is totally fair to expect that you use the armor that was found with the same helmet the epic mentions.

Fuxk make it a swanky broadway jazz musical like how they did the tale of Orpheus and Eurydice in Hadestown, but at least make it interesting to look and listen at