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Sep 11, 2026
Kevin BrownGUEST
Yeah.
Kevin BrownGUEST
Sinon's character, to that point, you know, outside the horse and, I mean, spoilers? Spoilers replete.
Kevin BrownGUEST
You know, so Sinon has a very key sort of moment early on for like first, second scene, whatever it is in the movie.
Kevin BrownGUEST
And then you don't really see very much.
Kevin BrownGUEST
And then there's a scene on the beach when they're leaving to go back.
Derek GrantHOST
He had no idea.
Derek GrantHOST
And he told him that his name was Sinon, who had served in the war.
Derek GrantHOST
He told him, he said, I serve with Odysseus.
Derek GrantHOST
And his servant said, is Odysseus still alive? And he said, absolutely, he's still alive and he's coming back.
David DedrickHOST
Let me just find out the name of this boy.
David DedrickHOST
because I don't I'm just going to look up Elliot Page is Sinon I was so close so close to Sinon right Sinon so Sinon goes to the war in place of Antinius and that way we know Antinius is a jerk and also we learn later that Antinius didn't even pay
Lisa WilliamsonHOST
the
David DedrickHOST
family for anything he did So we also see Sinan sacrifices a decoy.
Lisa WilliamsonHOST
Mm-hmm.
David DedrickHOST
And so he watches this horrible massacre of all these people, not just soldiers, but, you know, just the regular citizens of Troy, with great disgust and with, you know, he's disheartened by it all, right? He feels like he's betrayed, you know, the custom of the time, the custom of the age, and that, you know, this is not honor.
David DedrickHOST
What they're doing has no honor to it, right? So Sinon, who is sacrificed, that's the boy who traded places with Antinius.
David DedrickHOST
And so he is told that the Trojan horse is a gift for the king of Troy.
David DedrickHOST
Let me just find out the name of this boy.
David DedrickHOST
because I don't I'm just going to look up Elliot Page is Sinon I was so close so close to Sinon right Sinon so Sinon goes to the war in place of Antinius and that way we know Antinius is a jerk and also we learn later that Antinius didn't even pay
Lezah WilliamsonGUEST
the
David DedrickHOST
family for anything he did So we also see Sinan sacrifices a decoy.
Lezah WilliamsonGUEST
Mm-hmm.
David DedrickHOST
And so he watches this horrible massacre of all these people, not just soldiers, but, you know, just the regular citizens of Troy, with great disgust and with, you know, he's disheartened by it all, right? He feels like he's betrayed, you know, the custom of the time, the custom of the age, and that, you know, this is not honor.
David DedrickHOST
What they're doing has no honor to it, right? So Sinon, who is sacrificed, that's the boy who traded places with Antinius.
David DedrickHOST
And so he is told that the Trojan horse is a gift for the king of Troy.
speaker_4NARRATOR
I, whom my mother brought forth on the Pierian hill, upon which hallowed Mnemosyne nine times fruitful bore the choir of Muses to thundering Jove, although I was born almost in the very school itself, and have entirely erased all care for acquiring wealth from my breast, and with the approval of many have applied myself to these pursuits, am still with difficulty received into the choir of the poets.
speaker_4NARRATOR
What do you imagine must be the lot of him who seeks with ceaseless vigilance to amass great wealth, preferring the sweets of gain to the labors of learning? But now, come of it what may, as Sinon said when he was brought before the king of Dardania, I will trace a third book with the pen of Aesop and dedicate it to you in acknowledgement of your honor and your goodness.
speaker_4NARRATOR
If you read it, I shall rejoice.
speaker_4NARRATOR
But if otherwise, at least posterity will have something with which to amuse themselves.
Jacob ButeraGUEST
And so she is shown as black-skinned.
Jacob ButeraGUEST
Like, how do you pick which kinds of depictions you're choosing to adopt? There was uproar about having a trans actor potentially play Achilles, who wasn't really even in the movie, ends up being a character called Sinon, who is left with the horse to kind of trick the Trojans.
Jacob ButeraGUEST
And even the ancient Greeks and Romans were... kind of engaging with the questions of gender and more than just a gender binary.
Jacob ButeraGUEST
So in Greek, for example, the language has three genders, masculine, feminine, neuter.
Armand D'AngourGUEST
So I would have wanted more wraith-like creatures, not full-bodied individuals.
Armand D'AngourGUEST
And then you have Sinnoh with his face smeared with dirt and blood and so on, and you have Tiresias looking like nothing on Earth appearing, and Agamemnon looking like Darth
Russell HawkeHOST
Vader.
Russell HawkeHOST
Yes, exactly.
Armand D'AngourGUEST
Yeah, again, this is kind of Nolan's addition, the idea that the men have not been properly honoured and that it is going to be Odysseus' task to do that when he eventually gets back to Ithaca and beyond.
Armand D'AngourGUEST
So that's one way of reading that whole scene and that's what Nolan has done with it, imposing tasks on Odysseus and And one of those tasks is Sinnoh saying, give my token back to Antinous when you kill him, which of course ties up with what Dishu starts, you know, this is your token.
Armand D'AngourGUEST
None of that is in the original.
Armand D'AngourGUEST
I mean, there isn't the token at all.
Simon WainwrightNARRATOR
His distress and wretchedness and the earnest entreaties which he uttered seemed at length to soften the hearts of his enemies, and finally the violence of the crowd around the captive became somewhat appeased and was succeeded by a disposition to question him and hear what he had to say.
Simon WainwrightNARRATOR
The Greek told them, in answer to their interrogations, that his name was Sinon and that he was a fugitive from his own countrymen, the Greeks, who had been intending to kill him.
Simon WainwrightNARRATOR
He said that the Greek leaders had long been desirous of abandoning the siege of Troy and that they had made many attempts to embark their troops and sail away, but that the winds and seas had risen against them on every such attempt and defeated their design.
Simon WainwrightNARRATOR
They then sent a consult, the oracle of Apollo, to learn what was the cause of the displeasure and hostility thus manifested against them by the god of the sea.
Simon WainwrightNARRATOR
The oracle replied that they could not depart from Troy till they had first made an atoning and propitiatory offering by the sacrifice of a man, such in one as Apollo himself might designate.
Simon WainwrightNARRATOR
When this answer was returned, the whole army, as Sinon said, was thrown into a state of consternation no one knew but that the fatal designation might fall on him.
Simon WainwrightNARRATOR
The leaders were, however, earnestly determined on carrying the measure into effect.
Simon WainwrightNARRATOR
Ulysses called upon Calchas, the priest of Apollo, to point out the man who was to die.
AdrianHOST
Lupita Nyong'o delivers a towering performance in a dual role as Helen, whose abduction triggered the apocalyptic Trojan War, and her twin sister, Clytemnestra.
ClaraHOST
And Elliot Page plays Sinon, the Greek infantryman whose specific lies convinced the Trojans to bring the horse inside their gates.
AdrianHOST
It's a sprawling, egalitarian approach to casting.
AdrianHOST
And we're just impartially reporting on the cultural reaction here from our sources.
Michael KnowlesHOST
So which makes sense 'cause she's living in a way that is totally contrary to reality and, and that usually makes people unhappy.
Michael KnowlesHOST
The, the third big controversy in her casting as Sinon in, uh, The Odyssey is that her acting wasn't very good.
Michael KnowlesHOST
It was not, uh, believable.
Michael KnowlesHOST
And this, this in part might have to do s- with her skill and her range as an actor.
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