The Translator of the Odyssey Harshly Criticized Nolan: He Created a Mediocre Hero.
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Emily Wilson, a philologist from Oxford University who gained great fame with her translation of Homer's Odyssey and whose work Christopher Nolan cited as the basis for his translation, slammed Nolan's "The Odyssey": "The characters are superficial, the script is terrible, and the grand ideas are left hanging in the air. Nolan's Odysseus is neither complex nor cunning."
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