Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough Gleams that untravelled world, whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move.
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An animated crop from “THE OATH:
The Men of the White Mountain Pledge Allegiance to Isildur at the Stone of Erech” ⚔️ ❄️ 🔮
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#Silmarillion #lotr #Tolkien
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“The world was fair, the mountains tall,
In Elder Days before the fall
Of mighty kings in Nargothrond
And Gondolin, who now beyond
The Western Seas have passed away:
The world was fair in Durin’s Day.”
#tolkien #silmarillion #LOTR #art #illustration
Side Hustle Update: Celebrating the fact that I have completed my new yoga instructor qualifications.. and moved swiftly into working damn hard! 😮💨🙌
Not bad considering I was literally in emergency surgery 1.5 months ago. Go me!
When all is said and done, it’s perfectly okay for Nolan to have reworked The Odyssey to serve different themes and creative purposes.
But it’s equally okay to not like the way in which he’s done it, and feel disappointed by the lack of several inherent Homeric Ethe.
Project Hail Mary is by far the best film - even with its hideously intrusive soundtrack.
(Seriously, the sound mixing in this otherwise excellent film has all the sensitivity and appropriateness of a trolleyed circus performer at a funeral)
And yet the REAL men idolise Hector.
Boys idolise Achilles.
Just watched The Martian again last night.
God it’s still such a fantastic ride! Love it. And I say this as someone who read the novel before seeing the film, and knew the narrative outcomes.
I think Mark Watney is one of Matt Damon’s finest rõles.
Well, Pam, this was my own trajectory!
I first studied Ancient Greek at school, through which I translated tracts of The Iliad into English.. & promptly fell in love with Hector!
THEN I saw Troy in all its flawed glory. Eric Bana was PERFECT. He deepened my devotion to Hector 😁
Gianna Michèle retweeted
The interview that explains everything. Don’t mess with the Chinese when it comes to Classics. They know their stuff & are extremely direct about it. Nolan basically admitted that the Odyssey is Oppenheimer 2 & we must apologize for greatness.
Time to bring this back…
We were all rooting for Hector, Eric.
#teamHector
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Chinese interview: The concept of atonement didn’t really exist in Ancient Greece and it didn’t exist in Homer’s Odyssey. It exists in your Odyssey. Did you Christianize the Odyssey?
American interview: spin the snack wheel and then read these thirst tweets they called you zaddy
A brilliant interviewer.
But Nolan answers in a way that demonstrates a lack of understanding of the source material. He admits he wasn’t very philosophically engaged with the text; that he carried the thematic hobbyhorses of guilt and doom within Oppenheimer into the Odyssey.
Gianna Michèle retweeted
Listen, Christopher Nolan.
I stand with Homer’s Odyssey, not with a modern version created to make Odysseus easier for us to forgive. You say you did not mean to Christianize the story. But when the Trojan Horse becomes a source of guilt, the journey home becomes penance, and a warrior hungry for glory becomes ashamed of who he is, I have to wonder: are we still watching Homer’s hero, or a modern man sent to therapy in ancient armour?
Yes, Xenia matters. But so do kleos, timē, metis and nostos: glory, honour, cunning and the unbearable desire to return home.
Homer’s Odysseus is proud, violent, brilliant, selfish, loyal, wounded and deeply human. He is not asking the audience to approve of him. He is trying to reclaim his wife, his son, his home and the name the world almost took from him.
I do not need Odysseus to be more likeable. I need him to be recognizable.
Perhaps great stories are not supposed to make us comfortable. Perhaps they survive because they force us to face people whose values are not our own.
You borrowed Homer’s seas, his gods and his hero, but gave Odysseus the conscience of another age.
And I couldn’t help but wonder: when we rewrite the past until it finally agrees with us, are we bringing Homer to life or simply putting him on trial?
