Sing to me Muse — A reveiw on Christopher Nolan’s Homer The Odyssey by Gabriel Stevens

<p><img src="https://artwork.captivate.fm/9c9e5b7b-72c1-4259-bb21-667e4cf0e0ae/Celtic-Artwork-Transparent-2000px-500KB.png"></p><p>In reviewing Christopher Nolan’s <em>The Odyssey</em>, I do not intend to offer a sweeping overview of the many alterations Nolan has made to the Homeric epic<a href="https://thegreenknightml.captivate.fm/#sdfootnote1sym">1</a>. After all, in its protean form, <em>The Odyssey </em>was sung by bards in an oral tradition, which meant that the story was always being made anew. However, what happens when a director embarks upon the voyage of <em>The Odyssey</em> without invoking the Muses? Should divinely inspired poetry be turned into a motion picture? And when does an interpretation sever rather than serve its relationship to the source material? To answer some of these questions, I will focus upon a singular omission in Nolan’s adaptation: the moment Odysseus tricks the Cyclops into believing his name is ‘Nobody’. In the spirit of the bardic tradition, in which no one person holds the definitive meaning of a text, may this essay sit as one amongst many interpretations of the film. A fragment of the whole that offers a glimpse into the spellbinding magic of the oral tradition of Homeric poetry.</p><p>Gabriel Stevens</p> <p><a href="https://thegreenknightml.captivate.fm/episode/sing-to-me-muse-a-reveiw-on-christopher-nolans-homer-the-odyssey-by-gabriel-stevens" target="_blank">- Enlace a artículo -</a></p> <p>Más info en https://ift.tt/mHKXPaf / Tfno. & WA 607725547 Centro MENADEL (Frasco Martín) Psicología Clínica y Tradicional en Mijas. #Menadel #Psicología #Clínica #Tradicional #MijasPueblo</p> <p>*No suscribimos necesariamente las opiniones o artículos aquí compartidos. No todo es lo que parece.</p>