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Everyone keeps complaining about the historical accuracy of adaptations of The Odyssey, yet they completely ignore how O Brother, Where Art Thou? totally butchered ancient Greek history.
If you look closely at the picture, you can clearly see that Odysseus, Telemachus, and some guy named Pete are wearing striped prison jumpsuits instead of traditional bronze hoplite armor.
The Coen brothers claimed this was a faithful retelling of Homer's epic poem, but they completely threw historical accuracy out the window by replacing a terrifying mythological Cyclops with a one-eyed Bible salesman, and the sirens with women just doing laundry in a creek. Worst of all, they substituted the legendary, divine Aegis shield with a can of Dapper Dan pomade.
This is a subtle nod to the fact that Hollywood has never cared about accurate Mycenaean Greek culture.
u/RichtofensDuckButter — 10 hours ago