Post by Carl James Grindley
Retired professor of non-Euclidean geometry with a long-standing interest in impossible systems, unstable axioms, ancient gods, gibbering madness, and spaces that resist ordinary description.
Christopher Nolan is filming The Odyssey, and the early signs suggest he is treating the material world of the LH IIIB/IIIC transition as optional. Drawing on the Saving Private Ryan parallel, the Late Bronze Age archaeological record, and a 90/10 ratio of recoverable world to defensible invention, I argue that mythological setting does not license arbitrary choices—and that the failures already visible in the production are not separate annoyances but symptoms of an approaching stinker of a film. #Homer #Adaptation #FilmCriticism #ClassicalReception #BronzeAge #Nolan
