‘Odyssey’ Expert Doubles Down on Savaging Nolan’s Movie

KYLE CASSIDY/Courtesy of Kyle Cassidy (left); REUTERS/Francis Mascarenhas (right). The Odyssey expert Emily Wilson isn’t finished slamming Christopher Nolan’s film adaptation. Wilson, an esteemed classics scholar and translator of Homer’s The Odyssey, slammed Nolan’s blockbuster in yet another scathing op-ed in The Atl

Emily Wilson, the author whose 2017 translation of “The Odyssey” was an influence for Christopher Nolan during his own adaptation process, is doubling down in her critiques of the director’s blockbuster epic. In an op-ed written for The Atlantic, Wilson called out Nolan’s “Odyssey” for being “emotionally empty.” She pr

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