Independent World
UK · 11 mins ago
What do Greeks actually think of Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’?
Moviegoers across the world waited in anticipation ahead of the release of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey.But what about where the movie is set? What do Greeks actually think of the movie?Conversation about adaptations often revolves around how closely they follow a source text. But in a country where Homer’s story is taught and retold at all schools, many point to how the epic has been kept alive for nearly 3,000 years: not despite reinvention, but because of it.“What we want children to understand is that every new creation is exactly that — a new creation," Filippos Mantzaris, who teaches “The Odyssey” to seventh graders, said.The film, starring Matt Damon as King Odysseus and a number of Hollywood stars, follows Homer’s outline: The king's return home from war through gods and monster
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