Q&A: Can anyone with a an outline for a movie?
Question by Livi R: Can anyone with a an outline for a movie?
We have to write a summary on the MOVIE not the book “The Odyssey” and we can only use an outline on it. I did not get to see the entire movie, can anyone help me make an outline of the movie that’ll guide me to write a summary? Please and thank you! 🙂
Best answer:
Answer by J8ed
There have been several movies called “The Odyssey,” but I’ll try to break the story down for you.
Odysseus is a hunky chunk of witty man-meat from the kingdom of Ithaca (in Greece, not New York). After ten years of fighting a sweaty man-war against the Trojans over Helen — supposedly the most beautiful woman in the world, who was the wife of Menelaus, but “stolen” (i.e. ran away willingly) by Paris — Odysseus and the rest of the survivors are ready to head home.
Then, all hell breaks loose. They land on an island where there’s a giant cyclops who eats/kills a bunch of them. Odysseus manages to trick the cyclops into getting drunk, and then pokes his eye out. The cyclops is PISSED. As Odysseus is fleeing, he brags the he, Odysseus of Ithaca, is the one the blinded the giant. Unfortunately for Ody, the cyclops is the son of Poseidon. (Although that’s not really a big accomplishment… in Greek mythology, it seems like everyone’s related to a god somehow. Those were some slutty deities.) Anyway, the cyclops is like, “Dad! Help! This asshole blinded me!” And Poseidon, being the god of the sea, is like, “Oh no he di’nt!” and lays the smack down. Moral of the story: if you have a really long distance to sail, don’t piss off the god of the sea.
So, Poseidon is creating a bunch of storm and waves, sinking some of the ships, killing a bunch of Odysseus’s comrades, but never managing to actually kill Odysseus. (Bad aim?) Through his wit, good luck, and some divine intervention, Odysseus manages to survive, and spends the next ten years putting up with Poseidon’s crap as he tries to get home. There’s a island where the flowers get everybody high and they don’t want to leave; they have to sail their big-ass ship through a narrow straight, with a big crazy man-eating monster on both sides; they sail past an island with crazy bird-chicks who sing really beautifully in order to lure sailors to their death; etc. etc.
Oh, and I should mention, Odysseus is trying to get home to his wife, a hot little number named Penelope back in Ithaca. Meanwhile, since he’s been gone for like 10+ years at war, and it’s taking him another 10 years to get home, everyone assumes he’s dead, so his house is filled with d-bags who are trying to bang his wife and take over his kingdom. His teenage son, Telemachus, is none too happy about this.
MEANWHILE, while Penelope is holding off the suitors for two decades, Odysseus is basically stickin’ it in every woman/demi-goddess he meets on his way home. He goes to one island where a sorceress named Circe turns all of his men into pigs, but he’s protected by a magical flower-charm given to him by the god Hermes. He apparently misses his wife SO MUCH that he decides to live with Circe for a full year before continuing on. Then he finds another demi-goddess named Calypso (who also lives alone, like Circe, on another island), and he stays with her for SEVEN years.
This is the only beef I’ve ever had with the Odyssey. People make a big deal about how it took him 10 years to get home — and to be fair, a lot of crazy shiz happened in those 10 years. But realistically, he spent EIGHT of those ten years living with one of two beautiful and mysterious witches who gave him everything he wanted (food, wine, sex) and then wished him well when he eventually decided to leave them and head home.
Oh, also, he goes to the Underworld briefly. But just to visit, and get some advice.
So Odysseus final makes it home, finds all these suitors in his house trying to bang his wife, and he’s like, “Oh heeeeells to the no.” So he and his son Telemachus have a peaceful, diplomatic discussion with the other men and politely ask them to leave. Haha, just kidding… Odysseus and Telemachus grab swords and knives and bows and arrows and slaughter them all, right there in his own palace. The marble is stained red with rivers of blood. And then, he has sex with his wife. And I imagine she’s thinking, “Wow, I thought he’d be hornier after not having sex for 20 years.” He winks at the camera, and it fades to black.
At least, that’s how I would’ve done it.
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