With The Odyssey hitting theaters this weekend, the question is no longer "are you seeing it" but rather "how" are you seeing Christopher Nolan's buzzy new movie?
Filmed with IMAX cameras, the big-screen adaptation of Homer's renowned epic features a wide variety of big names, including Nolan regulars Matt Damon and Anne Hathaway.
Other American actors grace the highly anticipated release, plus a number of British celebrities. And how certain performers present — and voice — their ancient character has been the source of some backlash ever since the trailers started dropping, as fans are probably aware.
If you're in the mood for some cynical humor, just check out the recent comments on Universal Pictures' YouTube upload below. Yikes.
Esteban Touma, a linguistic and cultural expert at the language-learning platform Babbel, recently shared about why audiences are reacting so strongly to hearing American accents in a story set in ancient Greece, and what that reaction actually reveals — not about historical accuracy, but about a Hollywood convention nearly a century in the making.
"Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey has already drawn a negative reaction, with viewers questioning why the actors are playing ancient Greeks with American accents rather than the British accent Hollywood typically gives historical figures," said Touma in a statement shared with Parade. "Some have framed this as a lapse in historical accuracy, but that doesn't really hold up: a British accent wouldn't be historically accurate either, no one thinks the ancient Greeks sounded like they went to Oxford. What's actually being broken here isn't accuracy, its convention."
Touma continued, "No recording of ancient Greek speech exists, and no living audience has a reference point to be 'betrayed’. There's also a strange irony in this casting: Tom Holland and Robert Pattinson are both British in real life, yet here they're using American accents to play ancient Greeks, deliberately avoiding the British accent audiences have been trained to expect from 'the past.'"
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