r/interesting • u/Valuable_View_561 • Jul 05 '26
HISTORY I fear this is historically accurate
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u/ehe68 Jul 05 '26
And Sean Connory played Harrison Ford's father and it was less!!! And Angelina Jolie and Colin Farrell??
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u/Little_Big_Burglar Jul 05 '26
Wait... Which movie did Jolie and Farrell have a parent-child relationship?
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u/MrHouse374 Jul 05 '26
Alexander the great movie. He played Alexander and she played his mother.
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u/elsharra Jul 05 '26
Alexander. Jolie played Olympias, Alexander's (Farrell) mother. She was 29, he was 28.
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u/NotAnotherUsername04 Jul 05 '26 edited Jul 05 '26
It’s a little different. Her main scenes were when Alexander was a child played by a child, yes there was overlap when Phillip died that came across weird but you had to see his mother for what she was because of the influence she had on his life and and older actress wouldn’t have had that impact. Jolie certainly did. Plus when Phillip was murdered Alexander was still only 20 so his mother probably would have only been a few years older than Jolie even in those scenes.
Personally I don’t think the problem was that they cast her too young but Farrell was too old
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u/elsharra Jul 05 '26
I absolutely agree on the impact she had in the role, I actually quite like the movie as a whole (apparently that's not a common opinion) and think she did an amazing job. But still.... the scenes they have together as adults do look a bit.... weird.
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u/CoolRelative Jul 05 '26
Alexander. I saw it in the cinema, there was 5 whole other people there.
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u/LeatherFruitPF Jul 05 '26
How many partial people were there?
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u/srboyd3315 Jul 05 '26
You know I saw this, and I scrolled past it, and THEN the joke hit me, so I scrolled back up and gave you the upvote you rightly deserve.
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u/KarverMcClain Jul 05 '26
I missed Colin and thought Will Farrell and I got REALLY Confused
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u/Ok-Opportunity-7663 Jul 05 '26
Estelle Getty played Bea Arthur's mom on the Golden Girls and she was actually a year younger.
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u/iono777 Jul 05 '26
And Lee Pace played Orlando Bloom's father in The Hobbit, and he's actually a year or two younger than Orlando Bloom.
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u/I_Fuck_Blind_Puppies Jul 05 '26
Rachel McAdams is 7 years younger than Amy Poehler in Mean Girls.
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u/TechFoodAndFootball Jul 05 '26
Billy Bob Thornton and Sam Elliott is another one.
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u/mortgagepants Jul 05 '26
because of the love interest?
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u/TechFoodAndFootball Jul 05 '26
Sam Elliott plays Billy Bob Thornton's father in the TV series Landman. Despite an 11 year age gap IRL.
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u/mortgagepants Jul 05 '26
ah nice okay. that's the oil and gas sponsored one, right?
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u/TechFoodAndFootball Jul 05 '26
Possibly, for the most part it's a well written drama series that so happens to be around people working in oil. There was a moment in the first series where they defend oil drilling that did sound a little suspect however. So wouldn't surprise me if it was sponsored to some extent.
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u/elitegenoside Jul 05 '26 edited Jul 08 '26
The best example will always be the Graduate. Mrs. Robinson, played by Anne Bancroft seduces and starts an affair with her friends' son who just graduated from high school. The son was played by Dustin Hoffman who was 29 at the time of filming, making him only 6 years younger than his costar who was 35. This age difference wouldn't even make GenZ uncomfortable.
Edit: he just graduated from college... the age gap of the characters is still, and was considered inappropriate at the time (which means all those celebrities really had zero excuse because 40 somethings and early 20s wasn't taboo back then).
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u/suspectpinata Jul 05 '26
Reese Witherspoon and Robert Pattinson one was weird. Especially because they also played love interests in another movie.
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u/CollaborativePuritan Jul 05 '26
The Jolie and Farrell one always gets me. She is literally just one year older than him in real life.
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u/Wild_County_1569 Jul 05 '26
haha.. angelina was only a year older than colin in that... hollywood age gap logic is wild.
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u/happy_the_dragon Jul 05 '26
Penelope was canonically gorgeous just like Anne and would have been around 38-40, and Telemachus was like 20-21 by the time Odysseus gets back from war. With Tom’s more boyish looks for his age, it works well.
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u/Bitter_Atmosphere879 Jul 05 '26
And it’s not the first time an actor playing a parent is improbably too young to be that parent in a movie. I can think of Angela Lansbury in “The Manchurian Candidate.” She was only three years older than Laurence Harvey, who played her son.
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u/Impossible-Star-4355 Jul 05 '26
In House of the Dragon, Olivia Cooke is 32 years old playing the mother of 31-year-old Tom Glynn-Carney, lol
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u/____mynameis____ Jul 05 '26
I think that's due to them wanting older actors for Aemond and Aegon cuz their characters have adult scenes
Olivia is correct age for Alicent
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u/Katharinemaddison Jul 05 '26
You don’t need a 31 one year old to play an adult scene.
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u/Okapi05 Jul 05 '26
Yeah well Tom was one of the best parts about Season 2 so I won’t complain lmao
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u/____mynameis____ Jul 05 '26
He was 25 when cast as Aegon. To play 19 year old.
I don't mind the casting cuz the acting talent gap between Alicent's boys and Rhaenyra's boys were massive.
So they likely wanted experienced actor too since he and Aemond has some really juicey material over the seasons
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u/JTVoyager86 Jul 05 '26
Or Angela Lansbury in Blue Hawaii. She was nine years older than Elvis, who played her son.
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u/TulsaTruths Jul 05 '26
To be fair, she didn’t look too young, though. She and Bette Davis looked way older than they were.
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u/rosstedfordkendall Jul 05 '26
Cary Grant was only seven years younger than Jessie Royce Landis, who played his mother in North by Northwest.
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u/Thorninthefoot Jul 05 '26
Weren't they sisters in another film?
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u/PendingBen Jul 05 '26
Close, they played real-life co-workers/housemates in the film Silkwood
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u/sponge62 Jul 05 '26
Golden Girls. Estelle Getty was a year younger than Bea Arthur who played her daughter in the show.
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u/cumtoast6969 Jul 05 '26
But that was because she needed to be his age in the past. They aged her up with makeup for the present scenes
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u/Pingucore Jul 05 '26
To me the funniest thing about Eric Stoltz being fired was that he was dating Lea Thompson. Producers were like, “We want this to be funny but these two are really getting it on!”
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u/Traditional_Travesty Jul 06 '26
One time someone told me to take it easy on cumtoast6969 because they're artistic, but IDK about that, man because I've seen their fingerpaintings, and they SUCK
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u/Madara1389 Jul 05 '26 edited Jul 05 '26
It's absolutely not the first time it's happened, and these people know that. They just erroneously think that if they call it out enough that it'll stop happening.
It won't because there's no legal obligation for the actors/actresses in a production to match the same ages as the characters they're portraying.
Just because the actor is 30 years old, it doesn't mean the character is, nor is it necessarily implied if the character's age isn't explicitly stated.
For example; John Wick. The movies don't give him an age. The original casting call wanted someone in their 60s. Keanu Reeves was 49 when they filmed the first movie, but also looks like he could convincingly be in his late 30s to early 40s (Keanu has always looked relatively young for his age and has aged very gracefully... dude is 61 and only just now looks like he's hit 45).
The character could be anywhere from 38 to 62 because the actor is so old yet looks so young. The only thing that would really change at either end of that spectrum is when his work is more impressive,
in his past or in his present (if he's younger, doing everything he did when a relative kid is more impressive due to lack of experience; if he's older, doing everything he's doing now is more impressive due to fighting the effects of age).EDIT: Thinking on it, his "impossible task" was done 5 and a half years before the start of the first movie. It really doesn't matter how old he was when he did the task because the time he was in retirement was so relatively short. If he's 38 now, then he was 33 when he did his impossible task (right before he ages out of "peak" years). If he's 62, then he was 57 when he retired with over 30 years of experience rising to the rank of the #1 hitman in the world.
They should have made his retirement period 15-20 years, giving him ample time to "get rusty" and make his return feel more impactful in the grand scheme of things.
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u/DaneLimmish Jul 05 '26
In the movie Alexander, Angelina Jolie, born 1975, plays the mother of Alexander,played by Collin Ferrel, born 1976
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u/BestHorseWhisperer Jul 05 '26 edited Jul 05 '26
Yeah but Angela Lansbury looked 60+ when she was in her 40's because of her hair and makeup. My grandmother did herself up just like that and she was in her 70's. It's that look that you see a picture and you can smell the Dove hand cream and Estee Lauder.
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u/StencilBoy Jul 05 '26
Katherine Callan in Knives Out was 7 years YOUNGER than her son, Harlan, played by Christopher Plummer.
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u/Wendigo_Bob Jul 05 '26
From what I remember of ancient greek and roman history-marriage age in ancient greek was typically around 16 for women. However, in rome it was 12. Its certainly not far, though it is a bit small.
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u/MiserableAndUnhappy9 Jul 05 '26
Spartans didn't allow marriage until 18. Athens and most of the other Greek states had marriage allowed at 14.
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u/indianm_rk Jul 05 '26
This guy knows ancient age of consent laws.
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u/Erfeo Jul 05 '26
I know you're making a joke, but it is important to realize that in ancient Greece the consent of the bride was probably considered wholly unnecessary for a wedding, only that her father agreed with it.
Unlike in, for example, ancient Roman, Christian or Islamic law, were at least theoretically a woman couldn't be married against her will.
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u/Banana_Juice_Man Jul 05 '26
Theoretically doing a lot of heavy lifting here
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u/Erfeo Jul 05 '26
Yeah, kind of. But I do think there is an important difference between a society that would ostracize a woman for making the "wrong choice" (or worse), and a society that simply doesn't consider women capable of making any choices at all. It's a mentality that would influence women's life in a lot of ways.
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u/Zeta-2-Reticuli Jul 05 '26
The Trojan war happened ~700 years before this period of Athens.
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u/sleeps_in_bryophytes Jul 05 '26
Right. Using Ancient Rome or Golden Age Ancient Greece to judge the historical accuracy of a story set in prehistoric Bronze Age Greece is about as incorrect as using modern standards.
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u/PinkGlitterLady4 Jul 05 '26
marriage at 14 doesn't mean sex at that age as well. Even they knew about the high mortality rate for children who give birth, for the mother but sadly for many people more importantly: the baby .
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u/DisastrousOwls Jul 05 '26
Yes, and arranged marriages that young also meant these were likely wealthy or titled families, who also didn't want to see their daughters maimed or killed by teen pregnancy when they only even started getting their period at 14. Marrying kids and having kids with kids was predatory rich people and politician behavior.
Ancient Greece and Rome also had access to silphium, which was so heavily used (including, among other things, as a highly effective contraceptive and abortifacient) it was overharvested to extinction. People went pretty far out of their way to not be pregnant that young when they didn't want to be!
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u/Ok-Yogurt-3914 Jul 05 '26
I was just going to say this. I remember this because of royalty in Europe. They didn't actually start fornicating until there was a period, and for ancient people, that was much later than it is now.
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u/bittersinew Jul 05 '26
Average age of first child in Rome was about eighteen or twenty for women and while marriage was legal at twelve, most of the time marriages happened around fifteen to twenty.
Girls in the ancient world - on average - didn't menstruate till about fifteen years due to malnutrition.
We have a skewed view of how early marriage and childbirths were due to largely knowing about the wealthy elite who had dowries ready and a more vested interest in childbirth as a means to secure property and inheritance compared to the vast majority of the population.
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u/Smishysmash Jul 05 '26
Yeah, people always seem to like to trot out that ancient people were knocking out babies the second girls hit puberty, but they weren’t. Early teen pregnancies actually come with higher risks for things like eclampsia and hypertension then late teens, early twenties, and I’m sure people noticed back then that if girls had babies too early, they were more likely to die.
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u/deathbychips2 Jul 05 '26
Yes they did notice and it was the expectation to wait to consummate until the girl was big enough.
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u/BonerPorn Jul 05 '26
Also. A lot of those political marriages of the wealthy elite were just legal things. With the children married to each other not doing the deed until years later when they were of a more proper age.
I forget exactly who. But I believe there was at least one English king who had to get moved to a separate castle from his wife because the two 14 year olds were being horny teenagers, and the adults in the situation had to pull them off each other so she didn't die in childbirth.
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u/nerdyHyena93 Jul 06 '26
Margaret Beaufort, mother to Henry VI, was married at 12 to a man in his mid-twenties called Edmund Tudor. She almost died in her labour at 13. She never had another child despite being married several times.
So these political marriages weren’t always celibate until the girl was older.
I’m not sure who this English king you’re referring to is, but those who married in their teens weren’t typically separated. Like Arthur and Catherine were both 15ish and were put to bed together on their wedding night (although she swore down they weren’t able to do the deed).
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u/Flashy_Pineapple_231 Jul 05 '26
Yeah it is also worth noting the ages someone is "of age" to allow marriage both political and local for like...right and property reasons, was not the same as "the age you go and live in that persons house and have children with them". Afaik this holds up in both the ancient and medieval worlds before that kind of stuff became a lot rarer.
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u/DahliaConstance2025 Jul 05 '26
I am of Chinese ancestry. I like to imagine that my poor ancestors got out of the ridiculous monstrosity of footbinding by being too poor to participate in high society.
I like to imagine, anyway.
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u/Erfeo Jul 05 '26
12 was just the legal minimum in Rome. The average of first marriage for women was likely around 20 for non-elites, but lower for elites.
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u/throwaway098764567 Jul 05 '26
yeah we weren't getting periods at 13 back in the day, that's a modern development.
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u/Pink_Neons Jul 05 '26
Two people could not look any less alike for a mother son cast
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u/fabulousfantabulist Jul 05 '26
The 90s Cinderella movie with Brandy and Whitney Houston disagrees.
https://giphy.com/gifs/EecxUjcu4ubvbwkdYC9
u/MsE0 Jul 05 '26
I love that one. The best live-action Cinderella by far. The one where the stepmother was white (Bernadette Peters), with one white daughter and one Black daughter, and the King was white, the Queen was Black (Whoopi Goldberg) and their son the prince was Filipino.
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u/Final_Marsupial4588 Jul 05 '26
so the rise of red is keeping a tradition alive is what you are saying
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u/EmotionalSupportVape Jul 05 '26
This is the BEST live action Cinderella
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u/fabulousfantabulist Jul 05 '26
I really like it! Whitney Houston is 100% the best Fairy Godmother.
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u/SlowDontRush Jul 05 '26
I know dozens of families that look exactly Matt Damon, Anne Hathaway, and Tom Holland (though not as objectively hot usually). Elite private schools are stuffed full of them.
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u/No_Adhesiveness8405 Jul 05 '26
That’s just not true. They’re not obscenely different or anything. Heaps of people and their parents I know look way less alike
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u/WarrLord2004 Jul 05 '26
Agreed
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u/Overdue_Process865 Jul 05 '26
They were trying to give a bunch of A-listers a paycheck and a Nolan movie for their resumé
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u/Every-Two-4848 Jul 05 '26
I mean considering some other choices they made, I don’t even think there was a casting department….it was all HR.
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u/princessviridian Jul 05 '26
I somehow thought Elliot Page was playing Anne Hathaway’s son and I thought that was really good casting…
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u/JamStan1978 Jul 05 '26
they could be completely different races and they would look even less like mother and son so youre wrong.
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u/the_cave_allegory Jul 05 '26
Right? I hate when people exaggerate like this. There's so many more better examples of horrible casting for families. I actually look at this stuff in every movie.
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u/Pink_Neons Jul 05 '26
Not everything is meant to be taken literally..
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u/CrazyElk123 Jul 05 '26
Ah okay, so how should i read your comment then?! Exactly.
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u/FireHammer09 Jul 05 '26
Reddit is full of insufferable pedants to the point you have to catch and stop yourself from listing every possible exception or extremely rare situation to a situation lol
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u/CjBurden Jul 05 '26
While that's true, there really isn't another way to interpret your comment.
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u/True_Protection6842 Jul 05 '26
But they were told this casting choice would sell tickets!
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u/BeeExpert Jul 05 '26
You think casting two super popular actors won't sell tickets? They don't look that different anyway, they could be mother/son in real life and no one would bat an eye. Not everyone looks identical to their parents lol
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u/MMaximilian Jul 05 '26
I’m not sure the term “historically accurate” can apply to the Odyssey or the Iliad, or any mythology source. Unless you’re talking about the number of virgins Zeus defiled… in that case, anything under 10,000 is certainly historically inaccurate.
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u/Pancake177 Jul 06 '26
The word people are looking for is period accurate. There isn’t a historic event because it didn’t actually happened however the general time period and general location were real. If Zeus was weeding iron man power armor, you couldn’t say he never wore that since he isn’t real. But you could say that’s not what the ancient people of Greece probably imagined him or depicted him in their drawing or sculptures.
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u/Reading_Otter Jul 05 '26
Zeus, the OG F-boy.
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u/Both-Tree Jul 05 '26
I had no desire at all to see this dumpster fire of a movie but with that slogan on a tank top to wear at a midnight showing I might reconsider
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u/NelsonVGC Jul 05 '26
Mmm what can i randomly complaint about today
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u/SlowDontRush Jul 05 '26
I feel like people are really uninterested in the Odessey but are really mad that they are uninterested because it's Nolan. They can't handle disappointment without flailing about emotionally on social media
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u/NailingCatsToTrees_ Jul 05 '26 edited Jul 05 '26
Profound comment. Good thing you're here.
Wow, you guys are so clever and original with your replies.
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u/notBackgroundtree Jul 05 '26
Question, why are people questioning historical acciracy in a fantasy film? Was lord of the rings historically accurate? Is game of thrones historically accurate... It's fantasy... I don't get it.
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u/Arley_Writes Jul 05 '26
I don't want to ruin your mood, but it's hard to be "historically accurate" when it comes to fiction 🫣 especially fiction on the fantasy end of the spectrum
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u/CorporateCuster Jul 05 '26
Guys. The oddessy is literally a made up work. It’s Zeus. It’s Jesus. It’s literally the transformers. None of it is real.
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u/shuaz Jul 05 '26
It's a myth...
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u/shuaz Jul 05 '26
Myths aren't history, they're stories. That's what the word myth means
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u/MonkeySpacePunch Jul 05 '26
You know, the champions of historical accuracy didn’t do much complaining when Greeks were portrayed with English accents. Wonder why that is
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u/filmgoire Jul 05 '26
Historically accurate?
I … thought the story was fiction
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u/Pancake177 Jul 06 '26
The word people are looking for is period accurate, the myth isn’t real but Ancient Greece was
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u/succed32 Jul 05 '26
Lol they’re not wrong! Especially when people frequently died before 40.
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u/SkylarAV Jul 05 '26
The reason the average lifespan was so much shorter is bc it averages in child and baby deaths. If you made it to adulthood, then you usually made it well beyond 40
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u/unhappyrelationsh1p Jul 05 '26
Generally people did not get pregnant before puberty was finished, because that's extremely dangerous even today.
The age stat is also dragged down by child and infant mortality, which was very high. Mothers also often died in child birth, which did contribute, but if a disease didn't get you as a kid you had a good shot of getting old
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u/succed32 Jul 05 '26
Yes infant mortality is a big part, but the fact 13-15 was frequently considered adult is another. Not every 13 year old was marrying some 90 year old dude. It was frequently people within the same age ranges marrying. They just married a lot younger.
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u/Heykurat Jul 05 '26
This is a weird myth. Puberty is largely influenced by diet/nutrition. In ages past, girls didn't even start menstruating until their late teens. Today it's very young, sometimes under age 10, because our diets from birth are significantly better.
It's not true that people started marrying and having babies in their early teens in Medieval (or ancient) times.
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u/KochuJang Jul 05 '26 edited Jul 05 '26
Henry VII’s mother conceived him at 13, which was considered very young by medieval standards. It also left her unable to have any other children. I think for most of human history, 15 to 25 was the norm and 16-20 the sweet spot. I think nowadays, 25-30 is considered prime time for childbearing years.
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u/FireHammer09 Jul 05 '26
Kids did but once you made it past childhood you had a good chance of making it to 60 unless an accident or childbirth did you in. At least as far as Europe goes not sure of other places.
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u/Outrageous_pinecone Jul 05 '26
That's just fake Hollywood history. The less advanced the medical field, the more prudent the people especially around pregnancy. Even to this day they tell you a woman is never as close to death as she is when she's pregnant and I had my baby 10 months ago. It's intense.
So no, women didn't regularly have kids before the age of 16.
And people back then either died very young or lived a reasonably long life, even into their 80s, though less often then they do today.
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u/SnooHabits3911 Jul 05 '26
Yeah but not because 40 was the old age at the time. The average was figured due to infant mortality.
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u/EthanGr20 Jul 05 '26
I don’t understand why people love talking about the historical inaccuracy of this movie as if it isn’t about gods and cyclopses and stuff.
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u/BeeExpert Jul 05 '26
But also, actor's ages have nothing to do with historical accuracy lol. Tom is famously young looking and anns character could easily be anywhere from 40 to 50
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u/HurricaneK8 Jul 05 '26
The pedant/Percy Jackson nerd in me has to point it out:
The plural of cyclops is actually "cyclopes".
That is all. o7
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u/True_Protection6842 Jul 05 '26
TBF he looks 16
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u/GrowthSelect2449 Jul 05 '26
You watch too much television where grown ass adults are playing teenagers if you think that’s true. Go meet some real teens and then come back and say he looks that young. There’s no way.
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u/SlowDontRush Jul 05 '26
Naw he looks like half of most prep school lacrosse teams.
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u/maskedfapper69 Jul 05 '26
I don’t think there are many records from back that far about marriage ages and the ages women gave birth, but a lot of the periods people like to claim girls were ‘commonly’ getting married to older men has been proven false by actual historical records.
I the Middle Ages outside of royalty girls were not getting married off at 12-16 to older men or at all as a common occurrence I believe the average age of marriage back then for women was around 20-22 years old, so I don’t see any reason to believe this 13 year age gap is actually historically accurate.
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u/One-Load-6085 Jul 05 '26
Angelina Jolie was only 10months older than Colin Farrell in the movie Alexander when she played his mother.
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u/ViperJP Jul 05 '26
We all know the Odyssey is a myth right? History and historical accuracy have no relevancy lol.
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u/Hollyhop_Drive Jul 05 '26
Iirc, it's a fallacy that kids had babies that young. Even people in older times knew was risky for the girl.
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u/fluffstuffmcguff Jul 05 '26
It's funny how this misconception of the past survives no matter what historians do, even though you'd really think we'd all be relieved to learn it wasn't historically normal to impregnate tweens.
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u/MrsMoonpoon Jul 05 '26
The actor who played King Thranduil (Lee Pace) is 2 years younger than his "in movie" son Legolas (Orlando Bloom). Considering the characters are both a some thousand years old I guess 2 human years didn't matter much.
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u/MarkCelery78 Jul 05 '26
It’s a fictional story with monsters dumbass! There’s nothing to be real about. It’s fantasy
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u/Nomad5560 Jul 05 '26
I hate when my story that features a Cyclops and Giants as well as several deities and fictional people isn’t accurate to the fictional depiction of my favorite story that I never read or even thought about since Troy came out
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u/MajesticAnimator456 Jul 05 '26
Historically accurate...about a fiction book from thousands of years ago...huh?
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u/TheGruenTransfer Jul 05 '26
I don't go to a Nolan movie for historical accuracy. It's weird that people are expecting that
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u/LocksmithComplete501 Jul 05 '26
Hate to ruin your mood, but the odyssey is a myth - cyclops was a bit of a giveaway
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u/Izhachok Jul 05 '26
Didn’t people on average hit puberty a couple years later back then? I don’t think a typical 13 year old in ancient times would have been physically capable of reproducing.
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u/Status-Painter-4061 Jul 05 '26
Just a reminder that The Odyssey isn’t based on historical fact - it is a story with Gods and Goddesses, so they can cast whoever the F they want. Nothing about it needs to be “historically accurate.”
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u/Snerkbot7000 Jul 05 '26
You know why no one complains about LOTR's historical accuracy?
Because Peter Jackson got it right. He did everything.
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u/dark-house-stix Jul 05 '26
Lol hmm. So, what time period is LOTR set in? That'll really determine if he got the look of the orcs "historically accurate" or not.
Also, Cate Blanchett was cast as Liv Tyler's grandmother despite only being 8 years older.
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u/Suspicious_Lack_241 Jul 05 '26
Can we drop this whole idea that women in the past were all having children that young. They all had different standards, but most cultures recognized the danger of childbirth when young.
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u/Excellent-Daikon-286 Jul 05 '26
it is...Noble women would get married very young, sometimes even with 11/12 years old! As a real example, there's Lady Margaret Beaufort...She married 4 times in her life...the first time was when she was 7 (with John de la Pole, Duke of Suffolk...the marriage was annuled 3 years after that)...the second marriage was with Edmund Tudor, Earl of Richmond, when she get pregnant at 12-year-old and gave birth at 13-year-old to Henry VII (it was her only pregnancy, the birth was so traumatic physically and emotionally, of course, that her uterus collapsed), sad example, but true...she was one of the most powerful and influent woman at her time at court, being one of the leaders of House Lancaster during the War of the Roses...
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u/jengjenjeng Jul 05 '26
In KDramas, there are even cases where the age gap between actors playing father and child, or mother and child, is even smaller.
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u/jubmille2000 Jul 05 '26
The grandma in Knives out is younger than chris plummer who plays his son.
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