The Odyssey

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Charles S 5h The Odyssey is definitely an epic movie for a heroic epic poem. The scale and technical direction of this movie are some of Christopher Nolan's best work to date. It is telling, though, that this movie was written solo like Dunkirk, Tenet, and Oppenheimer instead of with his brother, Jonathan, who co-wrote Memento, The Dark Knight, and Interstellar. By this, I mean there is one specific viewpoint from beginning to end that none of the characters deviate from throughout the entire film.The movie is already 3 hours long, so, of course, some parts of the poem had to be left out. The obvious omission is the gods just think about watching Disney's Hercules if all of the gods were omitted from the script. You are missing an entire part of the story where the gods are backstabbing each other because, within the family drama, some gods want to help Odysseus and other gods want to hinder him on his journey home. This, in some ways, makes Odysseus a more selfish and self-centered character in the movie, because forces outside of his control were affecting his decisions in the poem. This new context also changes the ending of the movie to be different from the poem because different lessons were learned this time around. We move from rising against authority to seize one's destiny from the gods, to learning to sacrifice oneself in repayment of past sins and misdeeds. Even though all of the acting was great, the Oscar needs to go to John Leguizamo's Eumaeus for stealing every scene he is in similar to when his co-star, Anne Hathaway, stole the show as Fantine in Les Misérables. I also miss Odysseus' intelligence being seen instead of told. Several times, characters on-screen say he is smart, because the events of the poem that show how he is smart are completely left out of the film. Overall, this is one of Nolan's best films to date. A- See more jason 5h Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey is a Certified Masterpiece. There’s not a SINGLE director that could have made this film better than Christopher Nolan. See more Roger 5h it was so beautiful and filmed perfectly one of the greater Nolan films See more Anthony 5h Absolutely wonderful movie to me. Lined up with the book closely and kept me on the edge of my seat the whole time. Thought I would fall asleep and couldn’t close my eyes at all. 10/10 See more Gregory T 5h Epic Film for the Ages! Fantastic Cast!! See more troy d 5h an epic story that is a captivating watch See more Read all reviews

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