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The Odyssey review: Christopher Nolan has made an epic worthy of the gods

Matt Damon as Odysseus – King of Ithaca, journeying home from fighting in the Trojan War Anne Hathaway as Penelope – Odysseus’s clever wife and Queen of…

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Summary

Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey will change cinema forever. Just a bloke trying to get back home: Matt Damon as Odysseus. Even as his role has evolved from reporter to supervisor over the years, his first love remains writing (and of late, talking on camera).

Furthermore, Nolan reframes and tailors sections to focus on Odysseus’s 10-year quest to return home from the Trojan War, as well as his experiences at the end of that conflict. With almost 15 years of experience in writing about everything from films and TV shows to cricket matches and elections, he inhales and exhales pop culture and news. The actor had to drop down to a lean 167 pounds for this part, which has a cool effect.

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Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey will change cinema forever.
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Just a bloke trying to get back home: Matt Damon as Odysseus.
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Even as his role has evolved from reporter to supervisor over the years, his first love remains writing (and of late, talking on camera).
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Nolan reframes and tailors sections to focus on Odysseus’s 10-year quest to return home from the Trojan War, as well as his experiences at the end of that conflict.
according to Metro
With almost 15 years of experience in writing about everything from films and TV shows to cricket matches and elections, he inhales and exhales pop culture and news.
according to Hindustan Times
The actor had to drop down to a lean 167 pounds for this part, which has a cool effect.
according to New York Post
The Odyssey is in cinemas from Friday, July 17.
according to Metro
‘The Odyssey’ review: Christopher Nolan’s magical epic is mammoth and fantastic. movie review THE ODYSSEY Running time: 173 minutes.
according to New York Post
Christopher Nolan films Homer’s epic with a 76-pound Matt Damon as Odysseus.
according to Tages-Anzeiger
One part of the Homer original that Nolan doesn’t include is the hero’s roguish grandfather Autolycus, who named him and by that token gave this story its title.
according to The Guardian - UK
And yet when Odysseus finally approaches Penelope’s house, now under brutal siege from suitors in parallel to the siege of Troy, he does so in the Christ-like disguise of a beggar.
according to The Guardian - UK

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Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey will change cinema forever.
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Even as his role has evolved from reporter to supervisor over the years, his first love remains writing (and of late, talking on camera).
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Just a bloke trying to get back home: Matt Damon as Odysseus.
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And done it, Nolan has.
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