
The Odyssey
Directed by Andrei Konchalovsky
1997
Ultra-Condensed by Samuel Stoddard
Odysseus
I rule.
Poseidon
For your sin of pride, I curse you for all eternity.
(Unfazed, Odysseus boards his ship and sets SAIL for Greece, where his
family is awaiting his RETURN from Troy. A STORM happens, and it drives
them off course into the MEDITERRANEAN, where they come upon a strange LAND
owned by the giant Cyclops POLYPHEMUS who eats some of the men ALL UP, but
then they ESCAPE. Still lost, they
run into the island of the sorceress CIRCE who turns some of Odysseus' men
into ANIMALS, and it takes YEARS before they escape, and then
they sail by some singing SIRENS, but they can't hear because they have
STUFF in their ears. Then they come
upon an island where there is a field of HERBS, and they all get HIGH, until
Odysseus says it's time to GO. Then Odysseus' men let a WIND out of a BAG,
and some more men DIE. And they sail on to HADES to talk to some DEAD
people, and some more men DIE. And they steer the ship between the six
headed monster SCYLLA and the torrential whirlpool CHARYBDIS, and Scylla makes
some more men DIE, and Charybdis makes the rest of them DIE. Then the ship
busts up into a JILLION pieces, but Odysseus is SAVED by the nymph Calypso who
confines him to her ISLAND because she thinks he's HOT, and she wants
his BODY. Then years later she lets him GO, but Poseidon is
determined to terrorize him FURTHER. And then SUDDENLY Odysseus has an
IDEA.)
Odysseus
Poseidon, I am sorry.
Poseidon
Ok, you can go home now.
(Odysseus goes home.)
THE END
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