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What is America's version of the Illiad and Odyssey?

>> No.19450404

>>19450401
Besides oh brother where art thou?

>> No.19450408

Iliad: Blood Meridian
Odyssey: Confederacy of Dunces

>> No.19450409

>>19450401
>>19450404
Irl is lewis and clarke

>> No.19450411

Avengers movies.

>> No.19450421

The film versions.

America isn't a different story, its a different medium.

>> No.19450427

blacked raw

>> No.19450432
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>>19450401
Leaves of Grass

>> No.19450443

>>19450401
Avenger endgame

>> No.19450461

>>19450421
what film versions? none are any good. only good film adaptation of ancient greek ‘stories’ is the old Jason & The Argonauts movie

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>>19450401
1 of 2 and ...

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>>19450401
>>19450471
... 2 of 2.

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>>19450401
>>19450471
>>19450478
Nota bene you should take a stroll though the "per-historic" mythology that sets up these next two. The pic, that is to say.

>> No.19450543

Sadly Band of Brothers is.

>> No.19450581

>>19450461
There's a shit Hollywood Iliad with Brad Pitt (plus probably a few older and animated telling, not to mention variations a la O' Brother) and one really good Odyssey mini-series from the 90's. It was made by American Zoetrope (Francis Ford Coppola productions) and Henson (Muppets, Sesame Street) creature shop. Great Tartarus effects.

>> No.19450590

>>19450411
Civil War for Iliad and Aquaman for Odyssey

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>>19450581
I meant The Odyssey for O Brother, not Iliad.

but yeah, the Armand Assante (Judge Dredd's brother) Odyssey is superb.

>> No.19450601

>>19450432
more based than you know.

>> No.19450604

>>19450591
Oh shit I watched the shit out of this one as a kid. I should check it out again

>> No.19450612

>>19450581
>shit Hollywood Iliad with Brad Pitt

filtered

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpB5oLYlQmI

>> No.19450617

>>19450612
I never watched the whole thing, I just know Pitt is shit.
It could be the other actors do just fine.

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>>19450427
this

>> No.19450632

>>19450408
How violent is Blood Meridian? Does it have cool battle scenes?

>> No.19450636

>>19450427
based American

>> No.19450651

>>19450632
extremely violent
idk it could be seen as cool

>> No.19450753

>>19450401
Not a single book per se, but the legends of Davy Crockett are probably the most similar thing we have in terms of retaining both the thematic spirit of Homer and the historical/hagiographic tone of it.

On that note our Caesar is Abraham Lincoln and our Robin Hood is Jesse James.

>> No.19450759

>>19450753
Your Caesar is trump

>> No.19450763

America's Epic Poem is the Cycle of the West.

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19450828

The Book of Mormon. Helaman to me more specific.

>> No.19452061

>>19450401
The Western film

>> No.19452091

>>19450632
Anything that you imagine, it's more violent than that.

>> No.19452095

Why would you think any and every nation-state would have their own Odyssey at any given point in time?

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>>19452095

>> No.19452117

Moby Dick
>>19450759
>Things that didn't happen but I wish they did.

>> No.19452182

>>19452108
>The Book of Mormon
No thanks, sorry.

>> No.19452291

>>19450632
Extremely violent.
There aren't exactly battle scenes in the book, rather massacre scenes which McCarthy subverts through repetition.

>> No.19452322

Moby Dick or The Searchers.

>> No.19453475

>>19452091
The Painted Bird was more violent than Blood Meridian.

>> No.19453498

>>19450591
Did they make more like this? I seem to remember a Jason and the Argonauts and a Hercules adaptation that had a similar charming mix of cool practical and rough chi. Were they by the same team?