I’ve also been thinking about Nolan and how he’ll bring the Odyssey to film. To your comment, I think he’ll do the hero story well and could show us a more human representation of the mythical characters/monsters. I’m curious if he’ll take a similar approach as he’s done with some of his previous main characters, especially in the themes of facing the odds, appearance vs. reality, and grounding them to something real. The Protagonist in Tenet, Cooper in Interstellar (even Mann) and Cobb in Inception all come to mind. In each of these stories, the more abstract (almost mythical) characters or objects had some human connection in a high stakes situation - The Protagonist working against time to stop total annihilation, the 4th dimensional beings creating the tesseract to save the human race, Cobb having to travel an idea from inception to reality while facing most of the journey in the subconscious state. All while deciding what kind of person each of them wanted to be. I’m keenly tuned in to see his take on Odysseus. And with Matt Damon playing the character, I think we’ll definitely see the struggles and perseverance of a hero with all the Nolan nuances.
yes a more human representation of the gods and monsters would be an interesting way to do it but a bit of me hopes they go full Jason's and the Argonauts and scale things right up! he's shown with Inception he can do on screen grandeur in an innovative way.
I’ve also been thinking about Nolan and how he’ll bring the Odyssey to film. To your comment, I think he’ll do the hero story well and could show us a more human representation of the mythical characters/monsters. I’m curious if he’ll take a similar approach as he’s done with some of his previous main characters, especially in the themes of facing the odds, appearance vs. reality, and grounding them to something real. The Protagonist in Tenet, Cooper in Interstellar (even Mann) and Cobb in Inception all come to mind. In each of these stories, the more abstract (almost mythical) characters or objects had some human connection in a high stakes situation - The Protagonist working against time to stop total annihilation, the 4th dimensional beings creating the tesseract to save the human race, Cobb having to travel an idea from inception to reality while facing most of the journey in the subconscious state. All while deciding what kind of person each of them wanted to be. I’m keenly tuned in to see his take on Odysseus. And with Matt Damon playing the character, I think we’ll definitely see the struggles and perseverance of a hero with all the Nolan nuances.
Solid album choice by the way.
yes a more human representation of the gods and monsters would be an interesting way to do it but a bit of me hopes they go full Jason's and the Argonauts and scale things right up! he's shown with Inception he can do on screen grandeur in an innovative way.