We finished The Odyssey, and I have to admit, I enjoyed rereading it and enjoyed how a lot of people said it was similar to POTC. So I thought I would share my ideas.
The character Calypso is really interesting. Odysseus had a whole ship of men with him and the monster Scylla (a six-headed female monster) and Charybdis (a whirlpool) killed everyone but him and he washes up on Calypso's island where she keeps him prisoner until the gods demand she release him. She's been trying to make him love her for seven years, but he loves Penelope too much and sits on the beach crying.
This could be a parallel to Jack/Tia/Liz. She may go for Jack again, but he wants his mortal woman.
Odysseus uses his wits most of the time and only resorts to using his physical strength and fighting skills when he needs to, much like Jack. Also, he is warned about the sirens but decides he wants to hear them anyway, so he stuffs up the ears of his men and is tied to the mast so he can hear them. He says their song fills him with strange feelings and leaves him just wanting more, that he would kill his men just to stay and listen to it.
Hmm, Jack is tied to a mast, the price for enjoying the hottest kiss in the world.
Oh, another fun thing. We learned most epics don't start right at the very beginning of the story, but in the middle. Well, we never see Barbosa mutiny and maroon Jack or Jack escape the island. Those things have already happened. We start when Liz finds the medallion and its contacting the pirates when it hits the water.
There are several parallels, and I wonder if it's because The Odyssey is just a great story and now people unconsciously draw from it, or if the writers wanted to create some kind of Odyssey-inspired story.
i remember reading and watching the odyssey when i was in 9th grade- a freshman in highschool when i was living in the US. and now remembering the movie calypso and odysseus were lovers right..?? but that empty feeling could not be filled with sex especially for odysseus since he was still in love with penelope. calypso loved odysseus for seven years couldnt make him love her back
with tia i doubt sha has feelings for jack-maybe lusty/friendship kind, but not love. and jack sees her as a friend also nothing more nothing less. I believe calypso/tia (if she really is calypso its not confimed 100%) will offer jack immortality to be with her forever.
i might be way off but there could be a possibility that liz could die or sacrifice her life saving jack. since jack sacrificed his life at the end of dmc then i guess this time it will be liz sacrificing by the end of awe. so maybe calypso/tia will offer jack immortality or life again for elizabeth.
It's just that the more we read, the more I saw similar things in POTC (and in Star Wars and other great movies. Homer's a genius), but the whole class seemed to be swept up in how similar parts were to POTC. Calypso especially. Yes, she holds him prisoner and he does willingly have sex with her, but it's empty and he's just lost all his friends. She's taking advantage of him. My teacher calls it "emotionally raping" him. He can't stop thinking about Penelope and Calypso even yells at him how he could prefer a human woman to her.
Yeah, it's a college course and we're reading a book that has a lot of sex in it. She's a horror movie buff like me, so she really likes all the action, but she enjoys the quiet, domestic parts too. She asks such good questions that spark discussion. The emotional rape question came out of asking why a woman has to be a goddess to even contend with Odysseus when he will always have the upper hand since he never gives another woman his heart? Deep stuff.