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Sex, beds and grisly executions: what Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey changed, invented – and left out
From missing scenes and characters to a brand new ending, the director has taken some artistic liberties with Homer’s epic poem Turning a 12,000-line poem that takes a day to read aloud into a three-hour film was always going to require some pruning. So it has proved with Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey , which dispenses with a number of scenes and characters from Homer’s ancient Greek epic. The director has also changed the emphasis in some of the story’s most famous episodes and made a few of his own additions. Here we run down the most significant alterations. Continue reading...
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From missing scenes and characters to a brand new ending, the director has taken some artistic liberties with Homer’s epic poem Turning a 12,000-line poem that takes a day to read aloud into a three-hour film was always going to require some pruning. So it has proved with Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey , which dispenses with a number of scenes and characters from Homer’s ancient Greek epic. The director has also changed the emphasis in some of the story’s most famous episodes and made a few of his own additions. Here we run down the most significant alterations. Continue reading...
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According to The Guardian’s linked report, Sex, beds and grisly executions: what Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey changed, invented – and left out, From missing scenes and characters to a brand new ending, the director has taken some artistic liberties with Homer’s epic poem Turning a 12,000-line poem that takes a day to read aloud into a three-hour film was always going to require some pruning. So it has proved with Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey , which dispenses with a number of scenes and characters from Homer’s ancient Greek epic. The director has also changed the emphasis in some of the story’s most famous episodes and made a few of his own additions. Here we run down the most significant alterations. Continue reading…
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