Telemachus Movie Analysis

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Athena (Karen): #1 hit mythology station! You’re on air with Athena, and this is 102.7 Mt.
Olympus. Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, today we have Telemachus here with us discussing his father’s disappearance.
Telemachus (Kimberly): No need to bring my father into this, I’m pretty sure he is dead at this point. Athena: Ladies and Gentlemen, Odysseus is here.
SOUND: Dun, DUN, DUN, DUN
Athena: Wow, Congrats Odysseus you’re no longer an old hideous beggar.
Telemachus: Oh my God, that’s not my father Odysseus, that’s a god. Please God have mercy on us.
Odysseus (Joshua): God? Me? You’re kidding right? No, please I am your father, the one that was ripped away and made you endure so much pain.
SOUND: crying hysterically
Telemachus: Please don’t pretend to be
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Athena: Please the only way Odysseus may change his skin is by my help and charm. I can make him look young with the finest clothes or a mere beggar with no prospects. It is no challenge for me the great Athena.
Athena: Aw look at Odysseus and Telemachus rejoicing in that fatherly love. Settle down, settle down, you’re men, you’re embarrassing yourselves. You’re men act like one
Telemachus: But dad, what I don’t understand is how you made it back to Ithaca. Who were your sailors? Because by the gods you don’t walk on water.
Odysseus: Listen son, I shall only tell you the truth. The Phaecians took pity on me, as they do to all and helped me sail. At night, while I was sleeping, they creepily watched me and set me down on Ithaca, with a bunch of gifts. Then Athena left me in this random wild place by myself, so that we can plan to kill those horrible men. Go and count the amount of suitors there are and their weapons and report back to me. I need to make sure that we can defeat them ourselves, or if we need help from others.
Athena: Oh, well won’t that be something to watch...
Telemachus: By the gods dad, I’ve heard the stories of your fame as a fighter, your tricks

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