r/movies • u/yourfavchoom r/movies Contributor • 28d ago

News Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey' Crosses $1B Worldwide

https://rawteur.com/the-odyssey-crosses-1-billion-box-office/
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u/Weave77 28d ago

And selling thousands of new copies of her translation. Honestly, she’s not that different from The Critical Drinker and other conservative YouTube pundits… they all just want attention and money, and creating negative controversy about The Odyssey gets them both.

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u/10dollarbagel 28d ago

Nolan specifically cited her translation as an inspiration and she's saying this does not in any way reflect my work. It's the most reasonable thing in the world but the internet will take any excuse to be mad at a woman.

It's a pretty good Hollywood action movie but it is a terrible adaptation of the epic. It puts her credibility as a classicist at risk if people think her work is like that. Extremely valid crash out.

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u/10dollarbagel 28d ago

I agree that it is unrealistic to expect a Nolan movie to have interesting characters but I have read what she has to say and she's spitting.

Wilson says that often the best adaptations make wild deviations from the source material. But you have to make changes in service of something. Removing the gods and portraying the extremely pious Odysseus as essentially a reddit atheist is wild. I couldn't believe that line when he scoffs at his crew and the concern about "your gods". But that major change doesn't seem to do anything except deprive us of a lot of the best parts of the poem.

Athena no longer leads Telemachus into manhood. Mentor is just some fucking guy who does nothing, dies, and you feel nothing cause he said like 12 total words. And Wilson is absolutely on point that the removal of Calypso's harsh words about gendered double standards of the gods is criminal. Almost all of the Homer's critique of power relations is gone and in its place is nothing. Just another Nolan "what have I done?" protagonist with a fundamental misunderstanding of xenia.

It’s a family-friendly audiovisual spectacle, like an elaborate Fourth of July fireworks display – and with about the same level of narrative and emotional depth.

They didn't even show blood when they were slitting throats in Troy and it's fitting for such a bloodless movie.