Horror Tropes Extracted to Add Another Layer to New The Odyssey Trailer
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Since the latest trailer for The Odyssey landed on 5 May, it’d be fair to say that some have had their once-unwavering support for the upcoming epic shaken a bit. Perhaps the part that sticks out the most is Matt Damon’s Odysseus shouting “let’s go” like a Twitch live chatter before ambling off camera ahead of a background charge.
It’s an oddly modern inclusion in a trailer for what otherwise has been advertised as an epic action-drama. That said, the other unexpected inclusion in the trailer leans into a horror trope or two, which is much more welcomed. After all, Greek mythology, including Homer’s poem being adapted here, is full of horrors and terrifying situations.
Bucking the Trend of Greek Myths on the Big Screen
Particularly when it comes to big-budget or major Hollywood cinematic outings, films based on Greek mythology focus on the epic, great battles, and heroes. Troy, Clash of the Titans, 300, Hercules, and plenty of others fall into this bracket. The appeal, to filmmakers, is seeing a hero or god take down huge threats and, usually, win the day.
This is the standard; it is very cinematic and offers the most mainstream entertainment appeal. You can see it in other entertainment sectors, too. Raging Gods: Olympus 2 Power Combo and Midas Dynasty Coins Ultra Link&Win are among the newest casino slots and add another two hit titles to the vast collection of Greek myth games here.
Both lean into the glitz and the glamour of the myths, with the mighty gods empowering the play of Raging Gods and towers of gold lining the Midas Dynasty. One that bucks this trend, that’s also a new release, is Medusa Dark Ages. This is very much a horror-embedded game, playing up the dreaded gorgon as she should be – a terrifying beast.
It’s an angle that stands out because of all of the shining lights, bright colours, and bigger-than-life heroes that adorn much of the theme. For similar reasons, both in the wider context of Greek myths in films and the trailer itself, the Cyclops cuts stand out in the new The Odyssey trailer.
Rightly Drawing from Horror for Polyphemus
On the Universal Pictures-posted Official New Trailer (embedded above), the most replayed section on the timeline is two cuts that reveal Odysseus’ famed foe, the Cyclops Polyphemus. Seemingly quite different parts of the scene, the first cut shows a hand coming through a cave opening, and the second reveals the Cyclops.
Very ominous music plays, the Cyclops is seen in full in its rather ghastly form, and then it cuts to black. It’s reported that a mechanical puppet was built for the Polyphemus scenes, which may be why the Cyclops looks so good in this quick take. Given how the story goes in the poem, a puppet would do the trick for the scene.
However, at the end of the trailer, seemingly before and after Odysseus and his men have enacted their plan, we get another bit of Cyclops, it’s assumed. Damon whispers to signal their foe is asleep before a hard cut to a gigantic hand coming from the darkness to snag one of his men.
All of these quick cuts help to create anticipation for what should be a tense, potentially scary scene. The trailer certainly leans into the horror tropes of quiet whispering, a sense of assured success, and then what’s essentially a jump scare to throw you back into the terror.
There’s a lot to say from the latest trailer for The Odyssey, but one of the sections that seems to have landed the best is the hint at a horror sequence.
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Since the latest trailer for The Odyssey landed on 5 May, it’d be fair to say that some have had their once-unwavering support for the upcoming epic shaken a bit. Perhaps the part that sticks out the most is Matt Damon’s Odysseus shouting “let’s go” like a Twitch live chatter before ambling off camera ahead of a background charge.
It’s an oddly modern inclusion in a trailer for what otherwise has been advertised as an epic action-drama. That said, the other unexpected inclusion in the trailer leans into a horror trope or two, which is much more welcomed. After all, Greek mythology, including Homer’s poem being adapted here, is full of horrors and terrifying situations.
Bucking the Trend of Greek Myths on the Big Screen
Particularly when it comes to big-budget or major Hollywood cinematic outings, films based on Greek mythology focus on the epic, great battles, and heroes. Troy, Clash of the Titans, 300, Hercules, and plenty of others fall into this bracket. The appeal, to filmmakers, is seeing a hero or god take down huge threats and, usually, win the day.
This is the standard; it is very cinematic and offers the most mainstream entertainment appeal. You can see it in other entertainment sectors, too. Raging Gods: Olympus 2 Power Combo and Midas Dynasty Coins Ultra Link&Win are among the newest casino slots and add another two hit titles to the vast collection of Greek myth games here.
Both lean into the glitz and the glamour of the myths, with the mighty gods empowering the play of Raging Gods and towers of gold lining the Midas Dynasty. One that bucks this trend, that’s also a new release, is Medusa Dark Ages. This is very much a horror-embedded game, playing up the dreaded gorgon as she should be – a terrifying beast.
It’s an angle that stands out because of all of the shining lights, bright colours, and bigger-than-life heroes that adorn much of the theme. For similar reasons, both in the wider context of Greek myths in films and the trailer itself, the Cyclops cuts stand out in the new The Odyssey trailer.
Rightly Drawing from Horror for Polyphemus
On the Universal Pictures-posted Official New Trailer (embedded above), the most replayed section on the timeline is two cuts that reveal Odysseus’ famed foe, the Cyclops Polyphemus. Seemingly quite different parts of the scene, the first cut shows a hand coming through a cave opening, and the second reveals the Cyclops.
Very ominous music plays, the Cyclops is seen in full in its rather ghastly form, and then it cuts to black. It’s reported that a mechanical puppet was built for the Polyphemus scenes, which may be why the Cyclops looks so good in this quick take. Given how the story goes in the poem, a puppet would do the trick for the scene.
However, at the end of the trailer, seemingly before and after Odysseus and his men have enacted their plan, we get another bit of Cyclops, it’s assumed. Damon whispers to signal their foe is asleep before a hard cut to a gigantic hand coming from the darkness to snag one of his men.
All of these quick cuts help to create anticipation for what should be a tense, potentially scary scene. The trailer certainly leans into the horror tropes of quiet whispering, a sense of assured success, and then what’s essentially a jump scare to throw you back into the terror.
There’s a lot to say from the latest trailer for The Odyssey, but one of the sections that seems to have landed the best is the hint at a horror sequence.