Wilson, whose 2017 translation of Homer’s Greek classic influenced the director Christopher Nolan, panned his screenplay for the movie version in an essay for The London Review of Books.
It seems that everyone is talking about two things these days: The Odyssey (or, to be more strictly accurate, The Odyssey as reimagined by Christopher Nolan) and the […] Source
Homer’s Odysseus was hardly a man of remorse and shame.
By trying to make the Odyssey relatable to the twenty-first century, Nolan made a flash in the pan, not an adaptation of foundational text of the Western world.
English teachers are excited to have a new adaptation of Homer's The Odyssey to use to get students excited about the epic poem.
Matt Damon revealed that a female stunt performer doubled for him in key scenes of Christopher Nolan's *The Odyssey*, praising her physique and crediting her contribution to the film's massive opening weekend. Damon made the disclosure on the *Happy Sad Confused* podcast with host Josh Horowitz, explaining how Nolan's production team used an old-school filmmaking […] The post Matt Damon used a female stunt double in 'The Odyssey' — and says she earned the screen time appeared first on American Almanac .
Matt Damon revealed that a female stunt performer doubled for him in key scenes of Christopher Nolan's *The Odyssey*, praising her physique and crediting her contribution to the film's massive opening weekend. Damon made the disclosure on the *Happy Sad Confused* podcast with host Josh Horowitz, explaining how Nolan's production team used an old-school filmmaking trick, forced perspective, to make the mythological Laestrygonian giants look enormous on screen without relying on computer-generated effects. The technique required pairing very tall stunt performers with very short ones, and Damon's stand-in fell into the latter category. The result: a woman stood in for one of Hollywood's most bankable leading men. And Damon, to his credit,…Open
Elon Musk says he’ll beat Hollywood at its own game, pledging that his artificial intelligence venture will produce a full-length film of Homer’s “The Odyssey” […] Source
Nolan injects modern morals into an ancient story about strength, virtue, and duty. It creates a different poem from the one Homer asked the Muses to sing.
Nolan’s Odyssey is neither Homer’s material nor a modern morality play. The post Misunderstanding the Odyssey appeared first on The American Conservative .
Culture Misunderstanding the Odyssey Nolan’s Odyssey is neither Homer’s material nor a modern morality play. No character study of Odysseus comes closer to perfection than Tennyson’s: And tho’ We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. The Ulysses of Tennyson—and for that matter, of Alexander Pope—is a cunning and amoral man in rebellion against fate and time. Cleverest and wittiest of all heroes, he surpasses even the…Open
American Thinker By Huck Davenport Nolan’s movie keeps the spectacle, but cuts the moral heart out of Homer’s timeless classic.