Nolan’s "Odyssey": Does His Bold, Fresh Thesis Work? ~ The Imaginative Conservative

Nolan’s "Odyssey": Does His Bold, Fresh Thesis Work? ~ The Imaginative Conservative

As an English professor who has taught the Odyssey every semester for the last 35 years, along with a dozen or so film classes on Hitchcock, Capra, musicals, Hollywood studios, and film classics, I awaited the release of Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey with great anticipation. Overall, I was impressed by the film and by Nolan’s fresh take on the epic, but it could have been much better, not on Homeric grounds but on the grounds Nolan set for himself…