Emily Wilson, the University of Pennsylvania classical studies professor whose 2017 Odyssey translation Christopher Nolan credited as direct inspiration for his film, told the Associated Press that the finished movie left her unsatisfied — calling its moral messaging “incoherent,” saying Penelope’s reduced role undermined “any possibility of believing in this marriage,” and criticizing the film’s treatment of Argos as leaning into modern sentimentality beyond what Homer wrote. Fellow translator Daniel Mendelsohn put it plainly: Nolan “merely remade Homer’s hero in his own image.” The translation built to modernize Homer was modernized again by Nolan — and the result, as your article argues, is a poor copy of a poor copy, each version further from the source and losing more of what made the original worth adapting.
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