(Feel free to wait to answer this one if you haven't watched it yet but plan to):
So now that The Odyssey movie is out, what do you think of the weird tantrums some Right Wingers had over it?
To me, much of it is based on the assumption that there's ONE canon version of the story that Nolan's version must be judged against.
But even before we get to the "Woke casting" or whatever; the movie actually isn't just based on the Odyssey. The character played by Ellen Page, Sinon, doesn't appear in the Odyssey at all, but does appear in the Aeineid and later works.
Now, the "Odysseus tricked Sinon into tricking the Trojans to let the Horse in" Nolan version differs from the Aeineid. But that version of the Troy story is already very different from the Odyssey or Iliad.
And Odysseus as a character has already been re-imagined many times. Homer may have portrayed him positively, but Sophocles made him more of a problematic anti - hero, and Euripides basically made him into a Greek version of Tywin Lannister, a scheming villain who is responsible for pretty much all the atrocities committed by the Greeks.
So I don't find it at all problematic or outrage worthy for Nolan to re - imagine the Odysseus story yet again.
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(Feel free to wait to answer this one if you haven't watched it yet but plan to):
So now that The Odyssey movie is out, what do you think of the weird tantrums some Right Wingers had over it?
To me, much of it is based on the assumption that there's ONE canon version of the story that Nolan's version must be judged against.
But even before we get to the "Woke casting" or whatever; the movie actually isn't just based on the Odyssey. The character played by Ellen Page, Sinon, doesn't appear in the Odyssey at all, but does appear in the Aeineid and later works.
Now, the "Odysseus tricked Sinon into tricking the Trojans to let the Horse in" Nolan version differs from the Aeineid. But that version of the Troy story is already very different from the Odyssey or Iliad.
And Odysseus as a character has already been re-imagined many times. Homer may have portrayed him positively, but Sophocles made him more of a problematic anti - hero, and Euripides basically made him into a Greek version of Tywin Lannister, a scheming villain who is responsible for pretty much all the atrocities committed by the Greeks.
So I don't find it at all problematic or outrage worthy for Nolan to re - imagine the Odysseus story yet again.