This could be Nolan's Heaven's Gate or 1941, but then again, he managed to make a 3 hour biopic with no action sequences become a box office success and Oscar darling
The next Mario movie is currently set to release in April 2026. If they push it to the same day as this, in July, then you got Super Mario Odyssey.
Heaven's Gate was by the guy who directed the massively overrated racist turd The Deer Hunter anyway.
When I was in high school they did seriously make us study fairly large portions of Odyssey and Iliad in ancient greek. Not only that, but we also had to memorize what was known as the "metric". Essentially the poems (like most poetry) are written according to some very precise structure when it comes to the number of syllables per line and line per paragraph. So, we had to train to read in such a way that we put the accent on the right syllables so that the rhythm of the reading is the correct one. I have learned a lot of completely useless things in my life but the metric of greek and latin poems really deserves the first place hands down.
Meter, or at least that's what it's called in English. My teachers used Shakespeare to demonstrate it.
Metrics and meter can be used interchangeably, as far as I'm aware. Well, meter is part of metrics. Pentameter is a line of verse consisting of five metrical feet, or (in Greek and Latin verse) of two halves each of two feet and a long syllable. "Metrical feet". I'd never seen that before. How many centimeters are in a metrical foot?
Well I had an Italian word in mind so it's absolutely possible that the right word is meter indeed, but anyway, you get the point.
To really hit the zeitgeist, they could call it Luigi’s Odyssey. Having a sense of how the ancient Greeks and Mycenaeans would’ve recited poetry helps cast our minds back to that time and place, which is a valuable thing, IMO. Today, especially in America, too much emphasis is placed on instruction that is immediately useful to operating in a late-capitalist hellscape. As I’ve gotten older, I’ve come to value more and more what I once considered to be pretty useless knowledge, such as the metre of ancient poetry. At the very least, it functions as a mental haven from the near-dystopia we live in.
Blank verse is just anything that doesn't rhyme, meter is the iambic pentameter stuff. I know it conceptually but have trouble picking out stresses. At least part of the issue is that Shake n' Bake constantly cheats for dramatic effect, so I think unless you sit down and do some very, very tedious analysis it kind of just washes over you.
@Bor Mullet Generally speaking I hear you, and I didn't even mind to dedicate some energy to latin and greek. Learning the structure of a sentence helps to speak better in our own language as well. Though, we have a limited time in this world and some choices about what we value more and less is needed. Well, learning about Odyssey and Iliad is time very well spent, to me. Learning about how (likely) Greek poets used to sing their verses back then? I'm less sure about that. They were pretty serious about stuff like this in my school. The teacher gave actual grades based on reading skills.
