{"id":14122,"date":"2026-07-25T09:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T09:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/culturalleft.org\/cl\/2026\/07\/25\/christopher-nolan-has-made-an-odyssey-for-our-times-by-sacrificing-the-delicious-darkness-of-homers-epic-charlotte-higgins-culture-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T09:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T09:32:10","slug":"christopher-nolan-has-made-an-odyssey-for-our-times-by-sacrificing-the-delicious-darkness-of-homers-epic-charlotte-higgins-culture-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/culturalleft.org\/cl\/2026\/07\/25\/christopher-nolan-has-made-an-odyssey-for-our-times-by-sacrificing-the-delicious-darkness-of-homers-epic-charlotte-higgins-culture-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Nolan has made an Odyssey for our times \u2013 by sacrificing the delicious darkness of Homer&#8217;s epic | Charlotte Higgins Culture | The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s no denying the power of the film on the big screen. But how far should modern moral sensibilities influence adaptations of classics?<\/p>\n<p>Everyone knows how dumb it is to be this person: the one who mourns the film adaptation of a favourite text because it misses out this scene, or misreads that particularly beloved character, or has a slightly \u201cinauthentic\u201d take on some detail. Of course I\u2019m talking about Christopher Nolan\u2019s film adaptation of the Odyssey, a poem I have loved since I was a teenager. I enjoyed the movie, in common with a huge number of other people. It seems remarkable, even dizzying, that the adaptation of a nearly 3,000-year-old poem <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2026\/jul\/20\/the-odyssey-box-office\">took $264m<\/a> (\u00a3196m) at the box office over its opening weekend, has sent translations of the Odyssey <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/07\/20\/books\/odyssey-book-editions.html\">surging up the bestseller charts<\/a>, and is sold out (for instance) at London\u2019s BFI Imax screen deep into September. We are living in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2025\/apr\/12\/epic-win-why-the-odyssey-is-having-a-moment\">Odyssey time<\/a>, amid an Odyssey frenzy.<\/p>\n<p>There is no point trying to be a purist about a beloved classic text. Whoever reads the Odyssey, including Nolan, inescapably does so through the prism of their prejudices, informed by the conditions of their own place and time. Since the Odyssey is the result of decades, maybe centuries, of non-literate oral poets working with memory and improvisation, there\u2019s no precise \u201coriginal\u201d place or time to return to, anyway. But what I can\u2019t help doing is observe the choices Nolan has made and think about their consequences \u2013 because there are always divides in the road, paths not taken by any adapter.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2026\/jul\/25\/christopher-nolan-odyssey-homer-epic-film-classics\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2026\/jul\/25\/christopher-nolan-odyssey-homer-epic-film-classics\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/cef104676e1180a29893244a31e785fcaefeb457\/838_0_5200_4160\/master\/5200.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=ee334672343d782e647fc9e35510068e\" title=\"Christopher Nolan has made an Odyssey for our times \u2013 by sacrificing the delicious darkness of Homer&apos;s epic | Charlotte Higgins\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s no denying the power of the film on the big screen. 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