Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey draws strong audience praise
The Odyssey is a masterpiece, but the best film about boys on a boat is still Master and Commander
rimidar8What about Das Boot/The Hunt for Red October, or are those different because submarine
Stephan A. Glienke3Love "Master and Commander" - quite a shame they did not come up with a sequel in time, also: it wouldn't get made like that of they did it now. They'd skip all the practical effects for digital art and you feel it when watching.
Giles for You2Yes, and no. Yes for being true, no for not developing the other nineteen novels into major motion pictures.
Senator Alfred Sharpie Pen2Jaws should at least get an honorable mention
DrLostCauses1Might put up In The Heart of the Sea in this category.
tieryoucansplit1Boo! Go lieutenant Dan! /s
RE: the story of Dr. Emily Wilsons' Odyssey translation in which she says she thought she'd sell 1K copies but if went bananas even before the Nolan film. As an academic author, to sell even 1,000 copies is no small feat. Academic presses believe several *hundred* copies sold is a success. 1/
Anna O. Law21Yes, I know Wilson's translation is on a trade press. I'm talking about the perceptions of how many copies constitute a "successful" monograph run. 2/2
Ned Richardson-Little5I’ve been told by a few sources that 500 copies after five years is a pretty standard sign of good sales for specialist academic monographs.
Dr Vandermast2So much diligent detailed work, to such small audiences! 😳
1/16 This is an experimental essay on christopher nolan, the odyssey, “content,” “ai,” david lynch, emily wilson, star wars, philip glass, adyashanti, and the pleasures of one’s own imagination. The Odyssey film didn’t land for me. At all.
dr. thrasher also believes netanyahu is a war criminal32/16 (i will admit i am an extreme example of what i am going to write, but here goes) i am an american living in greece. I walk around and almost every day, I am walking amongst the ruins…the stories from the odessey, iliad, and the orestia are running through my head...
David Flood3Was missing some in-depth examination of Odysseus’ beef with the ‘gods’, for one; and what exactly did he learn over the course of the movie?
Resist2This sounds like an argument for reading (imagination) over movies. There’s an old argument that great books are harder to capture on film than mediocre books.
