Emily Wilson Slams Nolan's $1 Billion Odyssey Film as Public Praise Baffles Her
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Updated · Yahoo! Voices · Aug 1
Emily Wilson Slams Nolan's $1 Billion Odyssey Film as Public Praise Baffles Her
3 articles · Updated · Yahoo! Voices · Aug 1
Summary
Emily Wilson said she is baffled by the public reaction to Christopher Nolan’s film adaptation of “The Odyssey,” sharpening a critique she has already made public.
Wilson — the first woman to translate Homer’s epic into English — argues revisiting ancient texts matters because it lets “antiquity challenge modernity,” a standard she suggests the film misses.
Her scathing review, published in the London Review of Books, called the adaptation grandiose and superficial as the movie neared $1 billion in sales.
The dispute has widened into a broader debate over literary fidelity versus blockbuster success around one of antiquity’s best-known works.