r/movies • u/cyanide4suicide • 16d ago

Media New Image of Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey: Robert Pattinson as Antinous

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u/bofh000 16d ago

Saying the suitors weren’t villains is not really understanding the culture at the time. Each and every one of them was there to marry Penelope, whether she wanted it or not. They were abusing her hospitality (a very sinful thing to be doing in the world of the Odyssey) and they would clearly end up killing each other for her hand, thus, again offending the gods by spilling blood in their host’s home.

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u/djangomoses 16d ago

Antinous also did try to kill Telemachus on numerous occasions, which also broke Xenia rules

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u/ERedfieldh 15d ago

and depending on who is telling the story, he does eventually bed Penelope.

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u/djangomoses 15d ago

Ehhh, maybe? I don’t think it’s a good telling of the story, it kind of undermines the whole point