Christopher Nolan Defends Decision To Cut 3000-Year-Old Joke From The Odyssey

This article contains spoilers for The Odyssey.

Christopher Nolan has defended his controversial decision not to include a rare moment of humour from the original text in his adaptation of The Odyssey.

The Oscar winner’s big-screen epic has received near-unanimous praise since its release last week, featuring a star-studded cast led by Matt Damon as Odysseus, who embarks on a mammoth, years-long trek home to Ithaca at the end of the Trojan war.

Along the way, he survives life-threatening conditions and encounters a range of weird and wonderful characters, among them a cyclops who he and his crew must outsmart to save their own lives.

It’s this part of Homer’s original epic poem, on which Nolan’s The Odyssey is based, that the........

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