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Ben O'Shea - The Odyssey - His Battle Armour DOES Look A Bit Like Batman! · Lisa & Russell

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  Speaker 1: Great the flick with Beno.
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  Speaker 2: Sha, Well, that's a big one today, while since we've
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  Speaker 2: had an epic of three hour proportions.
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  Speaker 1: Oh absolutely, this is almost literally bigger than Ben Herr.
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  Speaker 1: You can actually say it, and it's it's correct. It's
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  Speaker 1: you know, sort of this historical epic. Well it's technically
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  Speaker 1: not history. It's based on Homer's three thousand year old poem,
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  Speaker 1: which was a work of fiction. Christopher Nolan's new movie,
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  Speaker 1: The Odyssey. Now, there are a lot of Christopher Nolan
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  Speaker 1: nuts out there. People have been so pumped for this
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  Speaker 1: movie and it's you know, shot in seventy mili imax,
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  Speaker 1: the first film ever to be shot entirely on this
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  Speaker 1: premium large format, so it looks incredible. It's people are saying,
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  Speaker 1: this is the movie that's going to save the cinema
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  Speaker 1: industry because it's going to bring everybody back to the movies.
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  Speaker 1: You have to see it on the biggest screen you can.
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  Speaker 2: All that kind of three thousand year old poem called
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  Speaker 2: The Odyssey is the one that's going to save cinema.
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  Speaker 1: I know it really is true. Hollywood has no new
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  Speaker 1: ideas now. But there's some pre release controversy that of
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  Speaker 1: course you talked about on the Shore Report the casting
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  Speaker 1: of Lapiter and Jongo, a black actor as Helen of Troy.
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  Speaker 1: That's a non issue. In the film, she's fantastic, tiny, tiny,
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  Speaker 1: little role, but she's she's great. There was also some
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  Speaker 1: issues about some modern language, like Tom Holland calling instead
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  Speaker 1: of saying father, he says dad, which is you know,
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  Speaker 1: that's a bit of a minor thing. And the other
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  Speaker 1: the funniest of all the controversies was some people pointed
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  Speaker 1: out on the Internet that in the trailer the King Agamemnon,
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  Speaker 1: the King of the Greeks in the War of Troy,
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  Speaker 1: his battle armor does look a little bit like Batman,
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  Speaker 1: and that one is actually legit. It does look exactly
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  Speaker 1: like Batman. Chris Black Christopher Nolan's had to come out
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  Speaker 1: and justify now it's totally totally, you know, authentic to
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  Speaker 1: the period. It's like, I don't know, bro, that does
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  Speaker 1: look a lot like Batman. And so it stars madd
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  Speaker 1: as Odysseus, the King of Ithaca. Like a lot of
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  Speaker 1: people I'm sure haven't read the poem, but they'd be
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  Speaker 1: familiar with the tale.
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  Speaker 2: I remember it from school.
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  Speaker 1: So it's a twelve thousand line poem, and depending on
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  Speaker 1: the translation, he gets not the easiest, let's be honest,
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  Speaker 1: But basically, Odysseus was the dude who went to the
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  Speaker 1: siege of Troy. He came up with the Trojan horse idea,
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  Speaker 1: hid inside the Trojan horse with the other Greeks, went
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  Speaker 1: inside the walls of Troy, came out, slaughtered everybody, and
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  Speaker 1: then because of that trickery, he got punished by the gods,
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  Speaker 1: and he wasn't just allowed to go home. It's probably
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  Speaker 1: a couple of months little cruise across the Aegean. He
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  Speaker 1: was on this wild journey that took him years to
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  Speaker 1: get home. He took seven years to get home, and
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  Speaker 1: along the way he and his men encountered all sorts
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  Speaker 1: of trials and tribulations. There was a cyclops yea, and
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  Speaker 1: they had to disguise themselves as sheep after they blinded
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  Speaker 1: the bloke. There was the witch Circe, who turned his
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  Speaker 1: men into pigs. Calypso, this sort of seductive nymph who
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  Speaker 1: so in the actual original, like Odysseus is hooking up
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  Speaker 1: with these people. He hooked up with Circe. He hooked
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  Speaker 1: up with Calypso. In the movie. That doesn't happen at
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  Speaker 1: a different time. It doesn't even happen in the movie
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  Speaker 1: at all. I think Nolan's made some choices to make
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  Speaker 1: Matt Damon's character just a better bloke, just a he
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  Speaker 1: also in the in the poem, Odysseus also just like
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  Speaker 1: orders the killing of twelve maids just because he doesn't
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  Speaker 1: like them, right, And that doesn't happen in the movie.
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  Speaker 1: So it's an adaptation of a three year So they've
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  Speaker 1: made some Hollywood choices. Yeah, but I didn't muck around
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  Speaker 1: with the myths. No, no, no, back back in those days.
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  Speaker 1: Very serious. And so you've got Anne Hathaway playing Odysseus's
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  Speaker 1: wife Penelope. This is the best thing and Hathaway's ever done.
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  Speaker 1: Like She's only in it for probably fifteen percent of
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  Speaker 1: the movie, but my goodness, such a good performance. She
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  Speaker 1: is going to get a nomination for Best Actress at
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  Speaker 1: the Academy Awards. This film, this film will get an
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  Speaker 1: Oscar nomination for Best Picture.
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  Speaker 2: This music will plutch you. After the speech, it left
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  Speaker 2: me a bit cold.
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  Speaker 1: I was a bit disappointed. Oh really, yes, all right,
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  Speaker 1: amazing technical achievement. It didn't make me feel one emotion. Well,
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  Speaker 1: how many faces that launched a thousand ships, giving it
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  Speaker 1: three and a half, which is about how many hours
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  Speaker 1: it goes. And anybody else made this movie, it'd be
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  Speaker 1: the best movie of their career. I wouldn't even put
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  Speaker 1: this in my top five Christopher Nolan films.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, even number six. Okay, it's website. It's three hours long.
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  Speaker 2: So get the big popcorn and the big coke, go.
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  Speaker 1: See the Imax. Then you'll be making a big trip
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  Speaker 1: to the sit on the aisle.
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  Speaker 2: They need intermission on this, they do, Hey Ben, thank
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  Speaker 2: you very much.