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If there’s one thing Christopher Nolan‘s movies are known for, it’s their sense of humor.
Okay, so that’s entirely untrue. Nolan’s movies are hugely dramatic, cinematic and thrilling — among many other things — but funny? Not really (aside from the occasional smattering of dry, rather British, wit).
Still, Nolan wanted to get a famous joke from Homer’s The Odyssey into his epic adaptation which opens this week, but he couldn’t quite make it work.
The joke is considered one of the oldest puns in the Western literary canon, a nearly 3,000-year-old gag.
