Family Guy is More Accurate than Christopher Nolan
Wednesday, 12 Mar 2025
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They showed painted marble statues in that episode. Most people don’t even know that ancient statues used to be colorful.
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Although, I’m pretty sure Seth MacFarlane is a huge nerd. (Saying this as a pretty big nerd myself)
When filming Ted (or it could be Ted 2), in the scene where Ted comes to life, Seth literally called up Neil DeGrasse Tyson to search up what the sky would look like on that night in that location in that direction.
So, although it may sound bad, the fact that Family Guy has more accurate depictions of history is probably not that much of a shock.
We have enough generic Greco-Roman costumes in media. I want the bronze age pomp, the bright colours, the silly helmets
Knowing Nolan, this was 100% done deliberately because he thought the costume looked better. Nolan typically respects his history (See Oppenheimer)
Kind of like how Asterix and Obelix has the most accurate depiction of Gladiators in all of media.
I know this is shittymoviedetails and I shouldn’t take it seriously but all the talking about this is bothering me.
Odysseus had canonically an armour like the during the Iliad. In the Odyssey, he’s often naked/ is brought to shore by the sea with minimal stuff on/ fucks everything in sight.
Also, we don’t know what scene this is. It might be when he gets back to Itaca and kills the people taking advantage of his palace and his wife, if that’s the case, he goes there as an old poor guy, how could he have a big ass shining armour on?
Before criticising, let’s at least see the movie
If there’s one thing The Odyssey is known for its it’s close ties to realism and historical accuracy. /s
Excuse me, but Matt Damon’s role is named The, last name Odyssey.
the guy getting stabbed in the neck in the [very Bronze Age Pylos Combat Agate / Griffin Warrior carving](https://mimirsbrunnr.com/2019/02/13/the-griffin-warrior-of-pylos/) has a helmet with a really prominent crest with some sort of compressible flourish material (feathers, hair, etc)
though it seems to be acting as a handle for the victor to stab him in the neck, so maybe they gave up on that
People like to assume the movies are aiming for realism so that when they aren’t realistic they can feel smart criticizing the movie for missing a mark it wasn’t aiming for
I say this as a lover of history, please shut up nerds. The Odyssey is basically a mythological story I think creative license is fine.
I’m just a lazy American I don’t really care if the movie is historically accurate. Probably why I liked Braveheart so much.
All this is because of the red frillies?
Historical accuracy in a movie about a journey that itself was fiction back then isn’t bound to accurate looks IMO.
Let them cook, Nolan rarely disappoints
So all we have is 1 photo of the Nolan movie right? So how do we know that helmet is a permanent throughout the movie or maybe 1 time thing? Maybe the movie is 3h long and he wears it once? This whole thing is just a stupid argument.
Idgaf
Damn they’re really disrespecting the completely literal story of the famous nonfiction poem The Oddyssey
I can’t wait to read all these replies from Ancient Greek scholars in this comment section
Wait till yall find out ab cyclops, sirens and a bunch of other mythological creatures in the movie. Not exactly accurate to real like
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What a fucking wonderful channel that dude has.
COVID lockdown i just watched everything he ever made while I made Birch Bark Butterfly art.
Please check him out, especially if you wanna dunk on pseudo science or cryptids (like the irrational takes)
Great channel.
BlueJay, Ben G Thomas, Miniminuteman, Technology Connections, Fall of Civilizations, North02, and Stefan Milo
We’re all aware that the Odyssey is not a documentary, right? Like I’m starting to think people don’t understand this.
A lot of the writers on Family Guy went to Harvard.
They literally have one of the most educated writing teams in Hollywood. The irony is palpable
im honestly disappointed that nolan isn’t “umm akshully thats not how it works/went 🤓” type of nerd and is more of a pretentious prick nerd who likes to overcomplicate simple themes to make it sound more profound. in my head i always saw him as the perfect combination of the two