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It's been at least 4000 years. We can give Ea-Nasir a rest.
Goodness, is that an actual line from the movie? Say it isn't so. I'm no PugJesus, obviously, but I somehow don't think they thought of themselves as living in the Bronze Age or any age. Come to think of it, has ANYONE talked about historical inaccuracies in Nolan's Odyssey, has there been ANY discourse AT ALL? Or are meant to accept that they weren't ecstatic to finally move on to Iron?
Honestly people are focused way too much on the historical accuracy of the movie. I'm an archaeologist and managed to just enjoy it as a modern retelling of an old story.
The Bronze age collapse they brought up had nothing to do with the transition to Iron. It had everything to do with the collapse of their society. Which is something they touch on constantly with the suitors and their disregard of social rules.
As for whether or not they considered it a "bronze age" maybe not so directly but bronze was very important. Someone that was educated and could read, like a king, would know that they would not be able to produce bronze after a collapse in trade. Bronze production relied heavily on the trade routes to access tin. I actually quite enjoyed this idea that the Greeks who sacked Troy as the Sea Peoples. No it doesn't line up well with the history but it was a fun take nevertheless.
And sure, there were constant historical inaccuracies. The armor (Agamemnon in particular), the ships, the weapons, all wrong, but honestly it doesn't matter. Sirens and cyclops aren't historically accurate either. Sometimes you just gotta enjoy the story.
It's low hanging fruit and there's already a bunch of chuds talking about historical accuracies of the cast, so it's unlikely going to produce much meaningful discourse.
(Writing and horses were more important than bronze anyway. I think some ~~Brit~~Dane just came up with the metal ages to begin with, and they aren't used with the Americas.)
I know, I was being facetious ;)
But if that is an actual line it's fucking dumb
It is. The movie makes a half hearted attempt at tying the Odyssey to the bronze age collapse. It's like 5 lines in the entire movie, all of which can be cut entirely and the film would be slightly better for it. The movie is great, start to finish. But the bronze age collapse stuff definitely subtracts from the overall experience
Remember. There is no healthy tan.
That's why I'm a hermit /s
It only takes a few punch biopsies coming back pre-cancerous without clean edges (requiring a much larger chunk of skin to be removed) to make being tan not such a big deal.
Protect your skin, people. I thought I was invincible in my teens and 20s and was outside without a shirt a lot of the time.
Now the dermatologist spends 30 minutes twice a year freezing melanomas off my face.
It’s just perspective, September is just the start of the Bronze Age south of equator.
Ah! He said it! He said Bronze Age Collapse! He said the- what. That's not the title of the movie?
What's so great about bronze? Doesn't stone work all of the sudden?