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Odysseus, Christopher Nolan and the hero

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Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey' changed Odysseus into a hero. It was a mistake.
"And yet, despite director Christopher Nolan citing Wilson's translation as an inspiration — and the "complicated man" line specifically — Nolan's "The Odyssey" flattens Odysseus into a righteous, pre...

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Was Odysseus actually a hero? What classicists say most people get wrong about the Odyssey
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Homer’s Odysseus was never a perfect hero. Christopher Nolan’s film understands this
 · 49m
I booked an after-midnight ‘Odyssey’ screening. I didn’t know what I was in for.
It had to be a typo.

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Christopher Nolan got his Helen of Troy casting exactly right
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Oscar Voters Rave Over Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ at First Academy Screenings: ‘The Definitive Filmmaker of Our Time’
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Imax Second Quarter Earnings Rise as CEO Calls Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ a ‘Transformational Event’
“The Odyssey” is the first film shot entirely with Imax cameras and Nolan’s advocacy of the format has led to sell-outs as theaters have scrambled to keep up with demand.

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'The Odyssey' Shows Studios When to Ignore Critics
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The Odyssey Sails Toward Box Office History
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In Artwork Across the Ages, Odysseus’ Myth Keeps Entrancing Audiences

Loved Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey”? Find more images inspired by the man of many twists and turns at these U.S. museums.
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Odysseus gets lost in translation: What separates Homer’s epic from Nolan’s blockbuster?

Christopher Nolan gives us a psychologically modern Odysseus who undergoes a traumatic dissociation, is wracked by guilt but accepts that he must move on — this “complicated” man is a far cry from Homer’s paradoxical hero.
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Why Odysseus couldn’t just say: ‘I’m home’

When Odysseus finally reaches Ithaca – in Homer’s poem and again, played by Matt Damon in Christopher Nolan’s new film – he doesn’t walk through the door and say who he is. He lies. He invents a stranger’s life story.
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Mapping Odysseus's epic 20-year journey across the Mediterranean

Historians trace the legendary route of Homer's hero from Troy to Ithaca, blending real geography with mythological locations.
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‘The Odyssey’ Ending Explained: Who Are the People from the Sea and Does Odysseus Die?

Some aspects of Christopher Nolan's take on Greek myths are straightforward adaptation. But it ends in a very different place.
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Let’s All Learn From Odysseus’ Many, Many Questionable Choices

So many, in fact, that at a certain point his own soldiers stop trusting him and start doing the opposite of what he instructs them to do — only for that to turn out to be exactly what Odysseus wanted,
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The Odyssey's Brutal Ending Explained: What Happens to Odysseus After That Final Scene?

Matt Damon doesn’t quite say those words, and he’s not quite so naked as Wilson had him, but after completing Penelope’s (Anne Hathaway) impossible bow challenge Odysseus finally reveals himself before unleashing Zeus's fury on the suitors.
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How Long Would It Really Take to Sail Odysseus' Route Today?

It took Odysseus more than a decade to return to his native Ithaca from Troy in the ‘Odyssey.' Nowadays, the journey can be completed a lot more quickly.
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Odysseus: The Fall Creators Reveal How They Made AI-Generated Movie in Just Months

The Fall told SYFY Wire how artificial intelligence helped bring Homer's epic to life in a fraction of the time of a traditional production.
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Samantha Morton played Circe like she had met and loved Odysseus before

The actress behind the most haunting sequence in The Odyssey didn’t have to pretend to believe in magic.
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