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Nolan’s Odyssey Robs A Great Hero Of His Masculinity

Nolan injects modern morals into an ancient story about strength, virtue, and duty. It creates a different poem from the one Homer asked the Muses to sing.

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The newly released Odyssey film is stunning and another testament to writer-director Christopher Nolan’s artistic sensibilities. It uses minimal CGI, focusing instead on practical effects such as the puppeted Cyclops. The movie looks and feels like the high-end, polished blockbuster rarely found in cinemas anymore. Despite sparking numerous controversies from casting to costuming, the film is spectacularly entertaining and lays out an interesting story over its three-hour run time.

However, the fundamental problem with Nolan’s Odyssey is that it is an analysis of modern failings rather than a retelling of an ageless classic.

In multiple interviews, Nolan explicitly singled out Emily Wilson’s 2017 translation of Homer’s Odyssey as his inspiration for the film. Wilson’s translation of the famous opening line refers to the titular character, Odysseus, as “A complicated man.” Historically, other translations referred to Odysseus as a “resourceful man” or a “cunning hero.” This change indicates Wilson’s attempt to reframe Odysseus as flawed and self-interested rather than as a complex hero.

Rather than honoring her subject material with a textually faithful translation, Wilson also claimed “the silencing of female voices” was one of several “central problems in the poem.” She complained that Penelope, Odysseus’s faithful wife, is “a woman who........

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