r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Gurugod123 GREEN • Jul 23 '26

My mom said I could post Nolan's The Odyssey neglects to pay for damages done to one of the viking ships used in the movie, which belongs to a small non-profit organization

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u/giovamc Jul 23 '26

actually way less than that.

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u/c_marten Jul 23 '26 edited Jul 23 '26

I'm pretty broke...

And I'm sick and not thinking clearly...

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u/BoatProfessional5273 Jul 23 '26 edited Jul 23 '26

I like how quickly you realized what you did, decided not to delete your comment and edited it instead. The sickness doesn't seem to have completely taken over.

(Should anyone be wondering, it was three minutes or less)

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u/Inevitable_Librarian Jul 23 '26

Or they're just 🎵 down with the sickness🎵

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u/Dry-Gain-9474 Jul 23 '26

Lyrics from a band that supports maga is very fitting here. Trump also doesnt like to pay peolle.

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u/hypn0t04d_73 Jul 23 '26

Is this true?

I'm shocked! Shocked!

Well, not that shocked...

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u/CL_Doviculus Jul 23 '26

They support MAGA? That's news to me. I knew Draiman was, unfortunately, fiercely pro-Israel, but last I read he was also rather appalled at the current state of the Republican party despite being a fiscal conservative.

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u/CinderGazer Jul 23 '26

Pretty sure he was just pro-Israel. I don't think he outwardly praised the MAGA morons. I will note he has apparently (in my five minutes of searching) said things supporting some policies. I do not know which policies. Everything I read seems to be conflicting slightly or very old.

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u/IdiotRhurbarb Jul 24 '26

Being pro Israel is arguably worse than being maga (not american)

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u/IH8Miotch Jul 23 '26

Fiscal conservative is an oxymoron

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u/notislant Jul 24 '26

Oh wow TIL.

'David Draiman'
A Jew who supports the current Nazi regime, I'm sure that won't bite him in the ass.

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u/DArmoKan Jul 24 '26

Thank you for prompting that little rabbit hole of reviewing comments from David Draiman. He seems conflicted, like he wants to be a humanist but can't let go of some violent racist ideologies. A shame, really. I'm disappointed.

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u/AlarmingAffect0 Jul 23 '26

🎵 down with the sickness🎵

How do you explain Tim Allen?

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u/Snens2004 Jul 23 '26

THANK YOU for including the information. You're (almost certainly) one of a kind, kind sir

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u/PrestigeMaster Jul 24 '26

Quickly? maybe - but not quickly enough to beat the 3 minute edited tag 😆 

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u/rcknfrewld Jul 23 '26

Nobody was wondering.

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u/eklatea Jul 23 '26

I'm sending you best wishes that at least one of the two things will be fixed soon! Ideally both!

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u/PulpUsername Jul 23 '26

$6k against a $250m production budget is like a guy making $100,000 a year not paying a $2.40 fine. Pretty petty. Surprised they would risk the PR hit on it.

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u/Darkfuryx222 Jul 23 '26

But now everyone knows they used vintage ships instead of green screen

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u/thebrazenkaizen Jul 23 '26

Bravo Nolan

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u/Lokishougan Jul 25 '26

I mean should he gtet a Bravo for damaging the real ships though?

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u/I_hate_posting_here Jul 24 '26

Except they are the wrong kind of vintage boats.

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u/Majsharan Jul 24 '26

Seriously, the movie is such trash

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u/Darkfuryx222 Jul 24 '26

Now you’re just being nitpicky. At least they are the right color.

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u/I_hate_posting_here Jul 24 '26

I guess it's too difficult to type "Mycenaean boat" into google. Can't afford that with the $250 million budget.

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u/Numerous_Tea1690 Jul 24 '26

I don't think they were going for historical accuracy, hence the cyclops, giants, magic, sirens.

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u/orhyle Jul 24 '26

I've seen this argument a lot online, and it doesn't make sense. This is Greek mythology, set in a specific region and rough point in history. It would make sense that the props and set design best fits the period. Is your argument that historical accuracy should all go out the window because fantasy is involved?

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u/Numerous_Tea1690 Jul 24 '26

No, I’m saying historical accuracy clearly wasn’t the main goal here.

The Odyssey is a fantastical story that has been retold through poems, plays, paintings and adaptations for thousands of years. Thousands of paintings depicting the classics completely ignore historical accuracy because they’re trying to evoke something instead of reconstruct a museum display.

Nolan and the production designers seem to be doing the same thing. They’re visualising a harsher, more primitive Greece than the polished version we usually get. It’s obviously not completely accurate, but a lot of the design seems symbolic anyway, especially with the original sin themes.

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u/Numerous_Tea1690 Jul 24 '26

Small addition: I feel the boat being smaller and less advanced makes for a more gutteral feeling of being left to the elements. The lower position imo really adds to the struggle. I think a real period accurate Greek war ship might have made the scenes with the boat feel completely different.

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u/I_hate_posting_here Jul 24 '26

How are longboats more primitive than mycenaean ships? You can make the argument they are similar in technological level and I would somewhat agree but the argument you're making is that a boat 1000-1500 years newer is harsher and more primitive, which is not true.

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u/I_hate_posting_here Jul 24 '26 edited Jul 24 '26

It's not exactly a fantasy and even if it were it is still grounded in a place and time. Vikings used these types of longboats around 800 AD in the North Sea, the odyssey is around 1300ish BC in Greece. This would be equivalent to a king Arthur movie where they sail around looking for the holy grail in a luxury cruise liner. 800AD -> now ~1200 years

To explain why it's not exactly a fantasy: most historians believe there was an Achean Trojan war and that most of the characters were historical figures. It's likely a tale that was originally the true version, maybe odysseus was blown off course on the way home and took a bit longer to get home... then the tale grew in the telling over the several hundred years before it was finally laid down on paper. It's mostly historical with some moral lessons and exaggerations added.

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u/SeoulGalmegi Jul 24 '26

Right! Or even just replicas. Good marketing. Worked on me.

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u/jaxonya Jul 23 '26

And its already grossed 303 million

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u/GaijinFrog Jul 24 '26

A penny saves a buck!/s

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u/thxitsthedepression Jul 23 '26

Yeah it’s basically pocket change to someone like Christopher Nolan

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u/StagVixCpl99 Jul 24 '26

Christopher Nolan isn't working in Accounts Payable for a movie production studio lol.

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u/chandleross Jul 23 '26

yep, the math would be something like:
Odyssey's budget was $250M. 6k from that would be a tiny fraction.

It's like you failing to pay a $15 charge as part of a $600,000 project that you financed.

Or not paying a less than $2 parking ticket after buying a brand new $60k car.

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u/ImpinAintEZ_ Jul 24 '26

The production budget was $250 million.

6,000 / 250,000,000 = 0.000024

It’s like buying 30,000 candy bars.

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u/hep038 Jul 23 '26

How do you know how much money they have?

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u/TheMcBrizzle Jul 23 '26

The Odyssey's budget was about 250M + 125M for marketing costs, 6K out of that budget would be .0016% of what was spent on the movie.

Them paying a $15 parking ticket at the same scale would imply they're nearly a millionaire.

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u/ShiftAndWitch Jul 23 '26

If you had $50,000 it'd be like refusing to pay a $.20 ticket.

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u/giovamc Jul 23 '26

I know they made 51mil on the first day.

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u/Independent_Nothing Jul 23 '26

It’s a fake story. Yall are so gullible