Deliberate mistake: The same shot of Odysseus killing a man with two swings of his sword is used twice in the battle scene.
Deliberate mistake: When Penelope gives birth to Telemachus it is obviously not a newborn baby.
The Odyssey (1997)
2 deliberate mistakes - chronological order
Continuity mistake: When Telemachus is born and Penelope and Odysseus hold him, Penelope's hand goes from touching the baby's arm to touching his head.
Tiresias: It is the journey itself that makes up your life.
Trivia: The makers placed an animatronic head over a sumo wrestler's body to create the cyclops.
Question: At the beginning of the movie, when the men are boarding the ship, a line of sailors are marching single file, nodding their heads up and down and chanting "Ahh-ah, ah-ooh" repeatedly. What are they doing this for?
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Answer: It's a marching chant, sort of like an ancient version of the marching music we have now.
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