Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey Script Slammed By Homer Translator: “I Would Be Ashamed”

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Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey has been slammed by a prominent Homer translator, who says, “I would be ashamed to have written any part of this.”

In a scathing essay for the London Review of Books, translator Emily Wilson criticized Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, writing the following:

I had hoped that Nolan’s affinity with these Homeric themes might push him to new creative heights, and enable him to conjure more believable characters. But The Odyssey features his usual combination of grandiosity and superficiality … the film’s vision is too confused, its characters too underdeveloped, to deliver what it half-promises in terms of big ideas – although it is very good at conveying big bangs and big giants.

Nolan’s Odyssey lacks many of the elements that make the poem great. It has nothing convincing to say about time, memory, history, war, or about the relationship between one warrior’s glorious return and the lives of his family, adversaries, comrades, friends and neighbours. It lacks psychological, emotional, political and ethical depth. Its narrative structure is gimmicky. The writing is abysmal. None of the characters has convincing motivation for their actions or words. There are no sex scenes, and all the food looks horrible.

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