Posted on 04/17/2026 1:10:25 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
Christopher Nolan made his way to Las Vegas to talk up “The Odyssey,” his historical drama based on Homer’s Greek epic...
“Why ‘The Odyssey?’ ‘The Odyssey’ is a story that has fascinated generation after generation for 3,000 years,” Nolan mused. “It’s not a story. It’s the story.”
Nolan treated exhibitors to an extended look at “The Odyssey,” which opened with Damon’s Odysseus, shirtless on the beach with a burly beard. He’s been gone a long time and admits to Calypso (Charlize Theron) that he “can’t remember anything before Troy.”
Most of the footage revolved around “the story of the horse” — the famous Trojan horse attack, which the Greeks used as cover to enter the city of Troy at the end of the war. As the massive wooden figure washes up on the beach, thousands of men have to pull the Trojan horse out of the water and onto the sand before they can wheel it into the city...
Later, there are shots of Odysseus urging his soldiers to keep rowing through a storm, and then slinging arrows as they launch their full-scale attack in the dark of night. The footage ended with a quick shot of Odysseus and his soldiers as they face the man-eating cyclops Polyphemus; the massive brute picks up a man in his hand before the screen cuts to black. He’s one of many mythical beings — Cyclops, sirens and Circe among them — who Odysseus will encounter as he ventures to reunite with his wife Penelope (Anne Hathaway) and son Telemachus (Tom Holland).
Nolan described a treacherous filming process, which brought them all over the world as they shot across Morocco, Greece, Italy, Iceland and Scotland.
“This has been an absolute nightmare to film — but in all the right ways...We had an amazing time.”
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I did not know, didn’t know the Enigma Variations.
I do recall the musical score was strange to me, every time it did that time shift thing, the repetitive music (when the Spitfire was chasing the Heinkel) that made it seem interminable and raised the tension. Maybe that was the intent.
Primer...thank you-putting that on my list!
Hmm. Now, AI will be generating movie soundtracks I am sure.
I hope you enjoy it. By now you may be able to find it on You Tube. ;)
bookmark for the cartoon. I know some people who own dachshunds. :)
I have come to despise Odysseus.
Philandering child-hurling city-sacking beyond Troy bastard who comes home and tortures to death the maid-servants who slept with the suitors - did they have much choice about that? And reunites with his faithful Penelope.
Yeah that’s the way they were in the old days.
The Odyssey - I've Got a Bad Feeling About This...
Dear God. Nolan used Emily Wilson's feminist interpretation...er, translation of Homer's work.
Cue the one word clip of Cavil's Geralt of Rivia.
Hollyweird, you have a financial death wish.
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