Who cares if Matt Damon’s ‘Odyssey’ helmet is historically accurate?

Trailers for two high-profile adaptations — Emerald Fennell’s take on Wuthering Heights and Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey, starring Matt Damon as Odysseus — have sparked sharp online reactions, but for different reasons. The Wuthering Heights preview pairs Margot Robbie’s Catherine Earnshaw with images of dollhouses, bountiful tables, smothering fog and a suggestive mound of dough, all set to an electro ballad by Charli XCX; commenters have accused the footage of turning the novel into “50 Shades of Brontë” and worse, with Reddit users writing that “Emily is rolling in her grave” and calling it “cringey” and “tasteless.” With Nolan’s Odyssey, the complaints landed on questions of historical accuracy.

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