Nolan should have cast Saori Kido, she is a truly Athena look alike.
2026-07-18 17:06:47
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hammy :
Odysseus is Oppenheimer and the horse is the atomic bomb…walk with me
2026-07-18 08:02:10
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Leland🐐 :
Ngl I saw it as Odysseus saw Athena’s statue get beheaded so when he was thinking back on it he envisioned the embodiment of Athena getting beheaded
2026-07-18 00:53:12
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Ftw_fr :
my interpretation was that throughout the movie they warned that any normal human could be a god in disguise so be careful how u treat others, so during the trojan war, them killing a random girl that turns out to be athena is the ultimate breaking of zeuses law.
2026-07-18 03:48:02
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Tarek🎨🎭 :
I love everyone’s different takes on this. Mine is that she wasn’t Athena at all and was just a manifestation of his guilt. She was almost like his conscience in a way idk but I don’t think it was the actual goddess
2026-07-18 08:08:19
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Jaclyn Marie Valentin :
Thought the real thing happening was they beheaded the statue but his psyche was giving him a representation of them beheading the actual Athena…
2026-07-19 13:37:54
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Missus :
Zendaya looked more like Athena at the press tour.
2026-07-18 15:11:55
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Halie|ACNH🍓 :
Sorry was this not like incredibly obvious lol
2026-07-18 06:19:35
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Ren 🤍 :
I thought it was a metaphor, them killing and slaughtering in front of athena under a gift of "peace" in her name. Then causing inncocent deaths in front of her statue, was like killing athena and everything she represents and stands for. At least how I took it
2026-07-18 21:56:58
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Leah :
The way that I interpreted this in more of a psychological way. Because the Trojan girl was decapitated at the same time as the Athena statue right in front of Odysseus, his psyche immediately associates her face with Athena. Her consistently reappearing to him is just his moral conscience reminding him of what he did.
2026-07-19 08:48:20
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Jaadde :
That reveal was so powerful to me
2026-07-18 04:33:54
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planetasyera :
In the book she’s actually brutally defiled in from of the statue and taken prisoner by Agamemnon
2026-07-19 12:56:27
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Courtney Lee Belmont :
She's not just a girl she's a priestess in Athena's temple
2026-07-18 06:23:09
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ManOfSteele :
It also goes with the theme of “anyone can be a God so you should treat them well,” because now a God is appearing as someone that wasn’t treated well. Both a reminder of the rule/law they broke, but also messing with him with the “what if that actually was me?” torture. Then it’s not just breaking the rule, but also wondering if that was actually a god they attacked…
2026-07-18 23:10:44
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Omni_Aegean :
Its guilt
2026-07-17 23:45:54
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Honmachi :
*kills a hundred men* - that's fine!
*kills one woman* - omg what have we become
2026-07-18 13:20:40
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vashon m :
Yep I seen that part! The whole theme was the God’s walk disguise to mortals
2026-07-19 05:47:55
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Jinx’s place :
Oh, I took it like the girl wasn’t like really there, just Odysseus imagination of when they cut the statues head off 😭.
2026-07-19 08:50:33
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Outofoffice :
I love people’s interpretation on what it meant.
2026-07-18 02:10:40
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happydayzzz :
Zendaya is probably the most accurate to what a Roman person looked like during that period. She resembles a Mediterranean person.
2026-07-19 05:03:51
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Aang Jackson :
And also greek gods can't show their true forms to mortals because if they do, they could kill them
2026-07-18 16:25:46
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Sydney Studer :
Zendaya acting in the head cutting scene was incredible
2026-07-18 11:35:23
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n.attan🧟♂️ :
i really liked that they didn’t show the gods as people as per zendaya i love how they showed her as a greek girl because you never really know that a god can appear as a person and i interpreted that as like a wake up call for our humanity like why is there so much hate and anger why can’t we love one another
2026-07-18 06:59:08
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Aelin Galathynius :
She was a manifestation of his guilt
2026-07-18 17:13:36
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★luci★ :
i interpreted it that there are actually no gods in this film at all, athena is just manifestation of his guilt, the Poseidon's curse is also just soldiers blaming it on him it's just weather, and it's supposed to show how it's people that bring doom and cruelty upon themselves no gods needed.
2026-07-18 14:29:44
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