{"id":14238,"date":"2026-07-29T12:39:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T12:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/culturalleft.org\/cl\/2026\/07\/29\/i-thought-nolans-odyssey-was-an-epic-bore-if-you-want-greek-myths-brought-to-life-try-the-thrill-of-opera-culture-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T12:39:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T12:39:14","slug":"i-thought-nolans-odyssey-was-an-epic-bore-if-you-want-greek-myths-brought-to-life-try-the-thrill-of-opera-culture-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/culturalleft.org\/cl\/2026\/07\/29\/i-thought-nolans-odyssey-was-an-epic-bore-if-you-want-greek-myths-brought-to-life-try-the-thrill-of-opera-culture-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"I thought Nolan\u2019s Odyssey was an epic bore. If you want Greek myths brought to life, try the thrill of opera! Culture | The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Composers from Purcell to Birtwistle have created passionate dramas inspired by ancient Greek stories \u2013 and none of them require you to sit through three hours of solemn spectacle without an interval<\/p>\n<p>For me, the most astonishing thing about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/the-odyssey\">Christopher Nolan\u2019s The Odyssey<\/a> is its barnstorming popularity. I found this cinematic epic for the ages visually bloodless, expressively monotonous and very, very long. Mind you, it is good to know that Nolan thinks that war is, on balance, you know, once you really think about it, probably a bad idea.<\/p>\n<p>The music, too, was disappointing. If I were Nolan, I\u2019d have asked <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bTHDD1Xe-iE&amp;list=PLDxVozP_ztq7Yp5gGJj_qD_Bp8ayq5NKD\">Mica Levi<\/a> to score The Odyssey. Ludwig G\u00f6ransson could have surely done more to make a soundworld of genuine strangeness, but all he could manage is a falling tritone and then a descending fifth on the two reeds and pipes of a recreated <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aulos\">aulos<\/a>, which he uses as a melancholy leitmotif in all-too-conventional Hollywood fashion. (The aulos is beautifully played by Callum Armstrong on the soundtrack, at least.) The best sounds in the film come in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=T8bRnH0_X_4\">the scene with Samantha Morton\u2019s Circe<\/a>, in which the crew\u2019s gluttony is horrorshow ASMR: surround-sound mastication that threatens to devour the audience.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2026\/jul\/29\/odyssey-christopher-nolan-opera-greek-myths\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2026\/jul\/29\/odyssey-christopher-nolan-opera-greek-myths\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/1995799f9042608da6689c32b3efa9941fc3f835\/174_0_2499_2000\/master\/2499.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=6da9b55d031e3986dff314afb99004b3\" title=\"I thought Nolan\u2019s Odyssey was an epic bore. 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