Culture war over Chris Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ completely misguided, says rock star scholar Daniel Mendelsohn
Daniel Mendelsohn has little time for the staged culture wars that have erupted over Christopher Nolan’s highly anticipated film adaptation of Homer’s Greek epic “The Odyssey” which comes out on Friday. “There’s nothing to be accurate to,” said Mendelsohn, the renowned Princeton and Bard professor, who earlier this year put out an English translation of Homer’s Odyssey, which he spent six years finishing.
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Daniel Mendelsohn has little time for the staged culture wars that have erupted over Christopher Nolan’s highly anticipated film adaptation of Homer’s Greek epic “The Odyssey” which comes out on Friday. “There’s nothing to be accurate to,” said Mendelsohn, the renowned Princeton and Bard professor, who earlier this year put out an English translation of Homer’s Odyssey, which he spent six years finishing. “Classic scholars know that both the Iliad and the Odyssey are a mishmash of different kinds of armor — clothing, speech, and different eras in the evolution of Greek culture.” Over the past few weeks, a mostly right-wing led online backlash to Nolan’s version of the famed Greek tale has metastasized into a campaign to drown the movie in bad reviews and its incorporated well known conservative voices like Matt Walsh and Elon Musk, who have taken Nolan to task for his “woke” casting decisions. Arguably the most disturbing choice made by Nolan, according to his critics, was the casting of Lupita Nyong’o as Helen of Troy and the decision to have characters speak in a more contemporary, modern dialogue.
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- Daniel Mendelsohn has little time for the staged culture wars that have erupted over Christopher Nolan’s highly anticipated film adaptation of Homer’s Greek epic “The Odyssey” which comes out on Friday. “There’s nothing to be accurate to,” said Mendelsohn, the renowned Princeton and Bard professor, who earlier this year put out an English translation of Homer’s Odyssey, which he spent six years finishing.
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