Nolan’s Odyssey Problem
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Nolan turns one of the oldest adventure stories into a modern IMAX gut punch, and we have a lot of feelings about it. We start with some real life chaos, including newborn sleep shifts, late-night watches, and the odd comfort of slipping back into games like Final Fantasy when your schedule makes no sense. From there, we pivot into The Odyssey, the Homeric epic that basically taught Western storytelling how to build a hero’s journey, and what it means when a filmmaker as confident as Christopher Nolan decides to reshape it.
We get into the adaptation choices that sparked the…
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