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What if I told you The Odyssey is genius, not just for the epic scale of the film, but for the powerful philosophy at its core?
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It's actually a philosophy that Christopher Nolan added to this 3,000 year old film,
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and somehow he honors the core themes of the original poem with this addition.
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It's wild, and in this video, I'll break it down for you.
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About a month ago, I ordered The Odyssey from Amazon so I could read this story before seeing Christopher Nolan's film.
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I loved the book and I thought it presented Odysseus as this wily, cunning character who uses his intelligence to outwit opponents.
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The book seemed to praise these traits and used each foe he encountered, like the Cyclops or the Sirens or even the suitors,
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to showcase this cunning in some way.
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But after the first 45 minutes of the film, I felt very confused.
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The tone of the film felt way different from the book.
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Sure, there's sadness in the poem, but not on the same level as the film, and not for the same reasons as the film.
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But the more I pondered these changes, the more I thought that it showed Christopher Nolan's absolute brilliance.
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To help you understand what Christopher Nolan did with this film, I'll use one of this story's most famous symbols as a metaphor.
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The Trojan Horse.
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About 50 minutes through the film, Menelaus tells Telemachus the story of the Trojan Horse.
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Telemachus says something like, I've already heard that story before, to which Menelaus says, have you heard it from the inside?
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We then get a jarring sequence inside the Trojan horse.
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We see men drowning as the tide comes in, and Menelaus talks about the smell of piss and shit inside
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that thing as they wait for the Trojans to haul it up into Troy.
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At one point a guy gets stabbed with a sword from a soldier who's outside poking a hole in the horse,
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and Odysseus wipes the blood off of the sword as Menelaus covers the guy's mouth.
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In the book though, Menelaus tells Telemachus a story about the Trojan horse that's a lot different.
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In his 20 line account, he talks about how his wife Helen was outside of the Trojan horse, mimicking the voices of the wives of the soldiers inside,
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trying to get them to cave and come out.
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A few soldiers were close to caving, but Odysseus put his hand over their mouths to restrain them from doing so.
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And that's all we get.
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No drowning or poop talk or soldiers getting stabbed by wayward blades.
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Just a story designed to show Odysseus' mental restraint and discipline.
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It's here I want to present an idea to you.
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Nolan's telling of the Odyssey is a lot like his depiction of the Trojan horse.
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In the film, Telemachus says, We've all heard the story of the Trojan horse, to which Menelaus says, What about from the inside?
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The poem version of this story seems exultant in nature.
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The victory at Troy isn't seen like a war crime like it is in the film.
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It's seen as a victory worth celebrating and writing songs about.
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But in the film, Odysseus carries racking guilt for what he did at Troy,
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seeing it as an act that breaks the sacred bonds between men and ends civilization as he knows it.
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Nolan's saying with this film, here's what the poem left out, here's what the songs left out.
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Much like we get a view inside the Trojan Horse, we also get a view inside of Odysseus in this adaption.
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A few key lines of dialogue prove my point.
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When Odysseus, dressed as a beggar, finally talks with Penelope at the end of the film, they have this exchange.
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You know my husband Odysseus? Of course.
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Through the songs?
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I was at Troy, ma'am.
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The songs probably seem silly then.
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They make me cry.
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At the end of the film, the bard, played by Travis Scott, says, The darkness of victory shrouds the writers and legends.
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It makes bards and blind beggars of us all.
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In other words, the songs and stories make the victory at Troy and those responsible legendary, shrouding the truth of what actually happened in darkness.
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It essentially makes these figures gods in our minds and relegates us to the position of beggars by comparison.
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It's here we arrive at the genius of what Christopher Nolan did with the Odyssey.
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He reconciles the difference between the grandiose poem and the gritty film
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that he made by suggesting that the poem is just an exaggeration of what actually happened.
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But here's the thing, not in terms of the mystical elements like the Cyclops or the Sirens, but the war itself.
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I mean, the film literally starts with a bard shouting the tale of Odysseus and Troy in Odysseus' halls.
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Minutes later, Penelope asks him to stop and says, I don't want a song of Odysseus, I want Odysseus.
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In other words, she wants the real thing.
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Nolan also uses this contrast between grandiose poem and gritty film to make a point about the pride of men.
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In perhaps the most important line of dialogue in the film, Calypso, just before she lets Odysseus go home, says, You're a man who needs to control his fate,
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but you cannot control this.
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You must give yourself to the storm and take your punishment.
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Give up the fight, give up control, and live.
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It is a leap of faith you have not yet made, Odysseus." What a great line.
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And the difference between Odysseus at the start of the film and Odysseus by the end is humility.
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I mean, he comes back a beggar to his own home.
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The great Odysseus, you know, the guy who all of the Greek world sings songs about, returns home as a beggar.
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He washes up on shore with nothing but a bear of raggedy pants to call his own.
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In the book, he actually disembarks on Ithaca with a bunch of gold given to him by the Phaeacians.
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And Athena makes him look like a beggar purely as a disguise.
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So in the book, Odysseus's beggar look is just a disguise, but in the film, it's a sign of his humility.
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The Odyssey film is full of examples of how pride and ambition ultimately gets you nowhere.
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Agamemnon wins the war and is welcomed back home as a war hero
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and then is killed in his bed by his own wife.
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Odysseus' Trojan horse idea wins the war, but destroys the world.
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After Odysseus escapes the land of the dead, he looks back on shore and sees a horde of soldiers standing like ghosts in the mist.
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One of Odysseus' crew members shouts, is that our fate?
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We see further proof of this when Agamemnon sacrifices his daughter for favorable winds,
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or when Odysseus sacrifices Sinon to sell the Trojan horse to the Trojans.
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With each of these sacrifices, the sacrifice doesn't justify the outcome.
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And in each example, the price they paid for that sacrifice hits closer to home than they imagine.
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In Agamemnon's case, his wife doesn't forget what he did to their daughter and kills him, getting revenge.
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In Odysseus's case, he sacrifices Sinon, a symbol of home and of his own honor.
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And in the case of the Trojan horse, what's sacrificed is civilization as a whole, which threatens everybody.
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Remember Zeus's law?
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The way it's defined in the film is is treat others as you would wish to be treated.
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The Odyssey book places the gods front and center a lot more than in the film.
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I mean, book one is literally just a scene with all the gods on Mount Olympus talking about Odysseus.
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In the film, the gods' influence is a lot more subtle.
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It manifests itself more so in the form of karma, which I think is a brilliant move from Christopher Nolan.
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There's actually a scene that visualizes this perfectly.
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On Circe's island, Odysseus hunts a deer, while Circe turns his men into pigs.
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After Odysseus delivers the killing shot, he comes upon the body of a man lying face down in the grass with an arrow in his back.
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The point being that the deer was obviously once a man.
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This is a perfect representation of what Odysseus did at Troy.
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In sacking Troy, he gained victory, but he killed man.
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He killed civilization in the process.
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A line of dialogue from later in the film spells this out more explicitly.
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Odysseus tells Penelope, while disguised as a beggar later on,
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that we destroyed all that was sacred between people and turned a fight into a hunt.
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This move from Nolan to make karma the manifestation of consequence rather than the gods themselves
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really fits with his grounded tone for this film.
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For example, Agamemnon, right?
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He sacrifices his daughter to get favorable wins, and then when he gets home, his wife murders him for it.
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Is that the god's judgment, or is that his wife simply getting revenge for her daughter's death?
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Is the blowback to civilization from Odysseus' trick at Troy the god's judgment, or simply man shifting to this new paradigm?
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The film blurs the lines, I feel.
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It suggests that even if you don't believe in gods, there are certain rules about how the universe works,
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how men work, that are so constant they're indistinguishable from the work of gods.
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Rules like karma in Zeus's law.
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The film argues that you will only receive what you give because people remember what you did to them, so tread carefully.
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Is that the work of the gods or is that the work of man?
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Does it matter?
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When Odysseus tells Penelope to burn the walls of Troy was to burn the world entire, he's explaining karma.
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He's explaining Zeus's law and the fact
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that cosmic justice is as real for us as it is for Odysseus and his crew.
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The Odyssey is a story about how we can't escape retribution for what we've done.
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The characters in this story do things, go to war, sacrifice friends, sacrifice children, break the sacred bonds of man,
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and are too prideful to think that retribution will come for them.
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Nolan's Odyssey says, you're a fool to think that.
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Circe tells Odysseus that the gods have already decided his men's fate, to which he says, then I defy the gods.
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He also says early on that the gods help those who help themselves.
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So he thinks that he has more control over the situation than other people might think.
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Odysseus's pride is an element that's present in both the book and the film,
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but in Nolan's adaption he expands it beyond just Odysseus to talk about the pride of man in general.
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Odysseus's visit with Circe spells this out explicitly.
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After Circe turns his men into pigs, she tells him, this is what they are.
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And men, with their appetites, too much is never enough.
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The way the men eat her food, which is cursed, is jarring.
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They laugh and slurp and can't hold themselves back from stuffing their faces.
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It reminds me of how the suitors act and sound in Odysseus's hall at times.
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A connection I felt was very intentional.
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One of my favorite lines of dialogue is when she turns the pigs back into men and she says, Go on, go back into your disguises.
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When Odysseus talks to Teresius about the fate of his men in the underworld, he says, I can still save them from the gods,
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to which Teresius replies, but not from themselves.
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Teresius is talking about the short-sightedness of man here.
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Our pride, our ambition, our belief that we control our own destinies.
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Odysseus' pride and the pride of his crew is ultimately what leads to their downfall.
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And when Odysseus hears the siren song, he describes how it sounds, saying, It told you that what you want most is what you can't have,
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and what you most can't have is what you already had and lost.
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Odysseus' Trojan horse idea was cunning and smart, but he didn't weigh the consequences of his actions before doing it.
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Odysseus destroys his home and the world.
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But it's funny, when Odysseus returns back to Ithaca with raggedy clothes and white beard, and he looks all chiseled with his body,
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he kind of resembles a god more than, than any time in the movie.
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It's like the more humble he gets, the more godlike he becomes.
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The Greeks believed gods could be beggars in disguise, and lo and behold, Odysseus comes home looking like a god and a beggar at the same time.
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And he comes out of the shadows to string a bow that nobody else can string, a feat fit for the gods, and then slays all the suitors in his house.
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That's pretty godlike to me.
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I think what Christopher Nolan is trying to say is that it's godlike to be humble.
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Even if you don't literally believe that gods exist, staying humble is the closest you'll get to being one.
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If we want civilization to continue, we need to remember Zeus's law.
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That, even if there are no gods above us, Zeus's law plays out right in front of us all the same.
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Others will treat us how we treat them.
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And if we compromise this law, retribution will come swiftly, whether it's from gods or men.
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Remember, it's only after Odysseus lets go of his pride
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and gives in to the storm that he's able to go home and make things right.
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Maybe it's the same for all of us holding on so tightly to our pride.
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We must let go, humble ourselves, and believe in higher powers,
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whether that's Zeus's law, or karma, or a god himself.
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What did you think of the Odyssey?
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Let me know in the comments down below.
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And if you like that film analysis, subscribe to my channel.
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I publish new film analysis every single week.
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Thanks so much for watching.
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I'll see you next time.
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Dieses Video enthält 163 Sätze und 2360 Wörter zum Nachsprechen. Der gesprochene Teil dauert 13:45. Der Sprecher spricht in natürlichem Tempo, etwa 172 Wörter pro Minute, ähnlich wie im Alltagsgespräch. Nur 78 % der Wörter gehören zu den 3.000 häufigsten im Englischen, der Wortschatz ist also anspruchsvoll.
Wichtiger Wortschatz in diesem Video
15 lernenswerte Wörter aus dem Video, mit Aussprache und Bedeutung:
| Wort | Aussprache | Bedeutung |
|---|---|---|
| sacrifice Substantiv | /ˈsæk.ɹɪ.faɪs/ | Opfer |
| poem Substantiv | /ˈpoʊ.əm/ | Gedicht, Poem |
| civilization Substantiv | /ˌsɪv.ɪ.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/ | Zivilisation, Kultur |
| karma Substantiv | /kərm(ə)/ | Karma |
| disguise Verb | /dɪsˈɡaɪz/ | verkleiden |
| fate Substantiv | /feɪt/ | Schicksal, Los |
| dialogue Substantiv | /ˈdaɪəˌlɑɡ/ | Dialog, Gespräch |
| humble Adjektiv | /ˈhʌmbəl/ | demütig, bescheiden |
| sacred Adjektiv | /ˈseɪkɹɪd/ | heilig |
| pig Substantiv | /ˈpɪɡ/ | Schwein, Hausschwein |
| tone Substantiv | /ˈtəʊn/ | Ton |
| string Substantiv | /stɹɪŋ/ | Schnur |
| spell Substantiv | /spɛl/ | Zauberspruch, Zauberformel |
| sword Substantiv | /soɹd/ | Schwert, Schwärt |
| genius Substantiv | /ˈd͡ʒin.jəs/ | Genie |
Phrasal Verbs, die du hören wirst
| Wort | Aussprache | Bedeutung |
|---|---|---|
| give up Verb | aufgeben, sich ergeben | |
| come back Verb | zurückkommen, zurückkehren | |
| come out Verb | /ˌkʌm ˈaʊt/ | herauskommen |
| hand over Verb | übergeben, überreichen |
Aussprache, auf die du achten solltest
Der Sprecher verwendet 21 Kurzformen und abgeschwächte Formen, zum Beispiel can't, don't, I'll. Sprich sie in der kurzen Form, so wie du sie hörst.
- Die Laute „sh“ und „zh“: civilization /ˌsɪv.ɪ.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/, shore /ʃɔɹ/, shout /ʃaʊt/, adaptation /ˌæd.æpˈteɪ.ʃən/, ambition /æmˈbɪʃ.ən/
- Lange Wörter – auf die Betonung achten: civilization /ˌsɪv.ɪ.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/, adaptation /ˌæd.æpˈteɪ.ʃən/, humility /hjuːˈmɪlɪti/, favourable /ˈfeɪv(ə)ɹəbəl/, essentially /ɪˈsɛnʃəli/
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- Beginne mit 0,75-facher Geschwindigkeit, sprich Satz für Satz nach und wechsle zur normalen Geschwindigkeit, sobald es leichtfällt.
- Nimm dich auf und vergleiche mit dem Original; achte dabei auf Wörter wie sacrifice, poem, civilization.
Grammatik in diesem Video
Die Strukturen, die der Sprecher am häufigsten verwendet, mit den genauen Worten aus dem Video:
| Struktur | Im Video |
|---|---|
| Passiv be + Partizip Perfekt – wichtig ist, was geschieht, nicht wer es tut | isn't seen · is welcomed · is killed |
| Relativsätze who / which + Satz – eine Zusatzinformation über eine Person oder Sache | man who needs · guy who all · those who help |
| Present Perfect have/has + Partizip Perfekt – eine vergangene Handlung, die jetzt noch wichtig ist | I've already heard · we've done · have already decided |
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