Resolves YES if the word "odyssey" is said at any point during Christopher Nolan's upcoming "The Odyssey" movie. Resolves NO otherwise.
What matters is the word "odyssey". The full title of the movie is generally stylized as "The Odyssey", but I'm ignoring the leading "The" for the purposes of this question. "An odyssey", "the odyssey", or etc would all count.
The word needs to be spoken within the film (not just shown on screen).
The name "Odysseus" does not count—that's a related name, not the word itself.
Other forms of the same word like the plural "odysseys" would count.
hat tip to the retired @mattyb for the idea.
Update 2026-07-13 (PST) (AI summary of creator comment): - Mid or post-credits scenes count as part of the movie
Non-diegetic song lyrics (e.g., a song playing over the credits) do not count
Diegetic songs (e.g., characters singing around a campfire) do count
Update 2026-07-16 (PST) (AI summary of creator comment): The creator has seen the movie and did not hear the word "odyssey". They plan to resolve NO unless someone can point out an instance they missed.
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@MachiNi it’s 4pm PT
(I am in no rush to resolve but in this case I have tickets opening night so resolution will be prompt)
@BrendanFinan "Most of them were old enough to go to Detroit, but when they saw Agamemnon sail, their fathers hit them."
Bravo, Mr. Nolan 👏
@TiredCliche Nolan's adaptation of the Emily Wilson translation brings the Homeric classic to the modern era
Fun fact that Emily Wilson points out that surprised me- at no point in The Odyssey does anyone ever read or write anything at all.
They interpret dreams, they cast lots, they do many recognizable things. But it's just so old that no character- despite almost all being nobility- knows how to read.
Crazy.
@TiredCliche there was essentially no writing during the Greek dark ages during which the Odyssey would have been compiled orally, in the centuries following the Trojan war, and even during the times the Odyssey describes, writing was mostly an administrative scribal tradition that would have been beneath the characters
@TiredCliche in particular, there is scant evidence of, say, written literature among the Greeks during the Mycenaean, so it's unclear what they would have been reading, if they were to read. Palace records? Trade shipments?
"Poor man! Why does enraged Poseidon create an odyssey of pain for you?" - Ino, the White Goddess, ch. 5, line 340, trans. Emily Wilson.
@AhronMaline There's a footnote: "The original uses a verb that puns on our hero's name: odysat', which means "he hated" or "he was angry at.""
If true, it appears that Homer himself may have invented the "say that again" tradition
@TiredCliche Kline translates the same line as "Poor wretch, why has Poseidon, the Earth-Shaker, dealt you such fierce suffering, sowing the seed of endless misery for you?" I prefer Wilson's version here but I also can't read archaic Greek.
@TiredCliche I don’t have the book near me but I think it’s Ino not Athena who pronounces those words.
@TiredCliche that’s alright. But it matters because as far as I can tell Ino does not appear in the movie.
@MachiNi It totally matters! I'm legit ashamed of my mistake, movie or not. I strive for accuracy, and I only read this passage today. I later transcribed the passage, but I didn't go back to double-check who said it. I should have, and I didn't.
And now I ask you to forgive me,
I pour a glass of wine out for the gods,
those ever-changing gods who cursed Odysseus.
Him shaken, far from home, and afraid.
@MachiNi the word means "a long and troubled journey like the one described in the Odyssey". It's absurd for a character to refer by name to the story they're in! Plus it isn't in fact a long and troubled journey like the one described in the Odyssey; it is the original
@TiredCliche Okay that does make it much better. I still dislike it, because "odyssey" is a literal reference & not just a pun, but I can see the upside too