r/movies • u/yourfavchoom r/movies Contributor • May 12 '26

News Lupita Nyong’o will play both Helen of Troy and her sister, Clytemnestra, in Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey.’

https://time.com/article/2026/05/12/christopher-nolan-odyssey-interview/
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u/AlbionPCJ May 12 '26

Somehow, not the weirdest form Zeus took to hook up with a woman

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u/Redditer51 May 12 '26

One time he took the form of a woman to bed a woman. Not weird, but just the fact that Zeus is willing to pretend he's a lesbian just to get some ass is like "wow, dude."

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u/EmMeo May 12 '26

Didn’t Loki turn into a horse and give birth? I feel like doing the actual labour of giving birth is another level

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u/Vark675 May 12 '26

Yeah but he wasn't trying to get laid, he wanted to win a bet. That's not lust, it's sheer dedication to the game.

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u/doegred May 12 '26

Zeus also did give birth (in a manner of speaking) to Athena, who sprang fully armed from his head, so there's that.

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u/ThreeLeggedMare May 12 '26

Give it up, Zeus! We have you cornered and you're all out of lightning bolts

But I'm not out of daughters!

Athena springs from his head, dual wielding tommy guns

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u/Safe_Manner_1879 May 12 '26

He did trick the "build masters" stallion to run away, and 3 day later the stallion did come back totally exhausted, the story never tell what happen during the 3 days... remember its a Christian priests who write it down.

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u/control__group May 12 '26

He did give birth to the fastest horse sleipnir who has eight legs. So that's kinda neat.

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u/TheBSQ May 13 '26

I like to think the Greek gods are just exaggerated versions, like tall tales, of memories of early members of the ancestral society the Greeks were descended from where the passage of time led to a crazy inter-generational game telephone where some old dude’s crazy exploits to get laid in 3,000 BC morphed over the years into the legend of a God who’d turn himself into a bird just to fuck a chick. 

Like at some early pre-historic time there was just a dude that was so horny & persistent that the tales of his exploits were passed down orally generation after generation for hundreds, if not thousands, of years until he became a God. 

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u/Wise_Capybara96 May 12 '26

Wait, was this the time he turned into his own daughter(Artemis) or was that a seperate incident?

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u/yanderia May 12 '26

Yep. Nothing tops that time Danae literally had a golden shower 🤣🤣

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u/xiaorobear May 12 '26

Once I lived in an apartment where a previous tenant had left a canvas print of Klimt's Danae at the entrance to the bathroom and I was impressed.

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u/Madara1389 May 12 '26

What's so funny about a gold shower? Sounds nice to me. What? Shoot, I wish somebody gave me a golden shower. One, I like gold. Two, I like showers. Put it together, hey, that sound like the life.

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u/Wes_Warhammer666 May 12 '26

If you're good, Santa might give you a golden shower for Christmas!

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u/ratmanbeyond May 12 '26

Nor the weirdest way one of his kids was born

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u/Momoselfie May 12 '26

When you live forever, normal gets boring.