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I haven't read the poem in its entireity either, but now that there's a Nolan film for it, I just might. There's few things I regret more in life than cheating on a good book (or poem) by watching the film adaptation first.
There's few things I regret more in life than cheating on a good book (or poem) by watching the film adaptation first.
one of my shallowest acquaintances from the academic world actually told me that I should avoid reading a good book before watching the movie, if a popular movie has just come out, precisely because the movies are often worse; that way, I'm likely to get impressed by how good the book actually is, rather than disappointed by a mediocre movie.
Agree. On the other hand, if the movie is good, then you feel satiated without ever having been intimate with the writer. Even worse, you actually do, and spend whole time thinking of another lover.
I wish I had read it before seeing the movie. Some of the scenes may have made more sense.
Then again, I might have been even more disappointed in the film.
some of the plot elements are honestly just filler; e.g. would anyone have complained if the Lystragonean's island had been skipped, and those ships lost by other mishaps?
the only plot significance of that sequence, in the movie, was the loss of two ships, which could equally have happened in any of the more significant or iconic parts of the plot.
I skipped your review because at the time I was still considering seeing the film.
@remindme in 9 hours to go back and check this out.
would love to hear your own thoughts about the movie after you see it
It might take me a few years lol. Just added the poem to my reading list, behind Gravity's Rainbow and Ulysses. While I'm not a slow reader, I'm not a very focused one.
I recently surprised my father by admitting I hadn't read the Odyssey even once, in any language!. It turns out that an English literature major doesn't have the same ideas about literacy as a classics scholar...
[ I only studied classics in high school, and it's pretty much universal these days that Greek, the language of the Odyssey, is the advanced language, only reached after attaining a high level of proficiency in Latin; so I have actually read parts of the Aeneid, as is much more common among "scholars" who didn't continue classics past high school ]