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Originally posted by chesspieceface:
It had another good weekend and is coming up on 600m, worldwide. I don't think it can catch the Super Mario movie for #1 so far this year, but it can definitely get to the #2 spot (held now by Project Hail Mary) before all the summer movies release. It's done even better internationally (339m) than in the USA (241m).
"Michael" has a good shot for ending up as the highest grossing music biopic. It took the records from "Bohemian Rhapsody" for first week and then passed its US total after that at 240M. Now "Michael" is up to 577M globally and shooting at "Rhapsody's" 903.6M.
So I had a really good laugh this morning when I was reading an article about the upcoming Christopher Nolan film of Homer's "Odyssey". It seems that "people" are concerned that it isn't going to be accurate to the time.
Now I can't say for certain how many of the events in Homer's poem are based on actual events, but it is Greek mythology populated by Greek heroes doing rather incredible things. I can remember seeing an old B movie called "Jason and the Argonauts" that is still rather impressive because of the work of Ray Harryhausen. Turns out, Jason and his Golden Fleece is not a story in the Odyssey, but he's a Greek hero and who would know if he got thrown in too.
My point is, in a time when movie biographies of not so long-ago dead celebrities like Michael Jackson and Freddie Mercury are not held to accurate facts, who cares what knife is carried in a film based on a Greek poem? Who cares about the color of the Trojan Horse?
If anything sinks Nolan's film, it will be because no one cares about Greek heroes and we already had Brad Pitt in "Troy". Nolan has gathered together an all-star cast for his epic. There are so many A-listers in it, it's hard to see how much screen time most of them can get, even in one of his marathons. If a sanitized Michael Jackson doesn't bother anybody, no one will care why Helen of Troy is being played by Lupita Nyong'o. Check your history on Helen, if you don't understand that one.
Movies no longer require truth or accuracy to be hits, so why not put a disclaimer on all of them. "This film is based on possibly real people or events, but it is a work of fiction that is purely coincidental to any actual events, or to any living or dead person, or any person who may or may not have existed".
