In favor of an antiwar message, Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of Homer’s ancient epic becomes weirdly neutered.
Is No One Horny in The Odyssey?
By
Cat Zhang,
a culture writer at The Cut, covering books, film, TV, and music.
music. Cat was previously an editor at Pitchfork, and in 2022, she received the ASME Next Award for Journalists Under 30.
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From casting choices to “historical inaccuracies,” the star-studded film has caused widespread uproar.
In a starry, stirring adaptation of Homer’s epic, the director’s signature realism grounds, without dispelling, the drama’s…
From sex and the gods to that ending, Christopher Nolan’s big-screen adaptation of “The Odyssey” deviates from Homer’s epic poem…
Christopher Nolan’s Homer adaptation presents a modern, relatable Odysseus, rather than trying to understand the ancient world on…
Controversy has centred largely on casting, but it also reflects broader debates on who gets to retell this epic story.
