Christopher Nolan

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103 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 19 Jul

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Consider This from NPR · Nolan's 'The Odyssey': a tale of a hero and trickster retold for modern times · 19 Jul 2026 podcast

The word most commonly associated with Odysseus or Ulysses back in the day was always wily. matched

And that's not a word you traditionally associate with your hero. matched

I did it in stages, and one of the first things I did, after I'd reacquainted myself with the poem, I sat down and I wrote a list of what defines the Odyssey. matched

Things like the cyclops, things like the sirens. matched

I think for a lot of people, the lotus eaters would be one of those things. matched

And so I was trying to strike a balance. matched

between your sort of thoughts on what this thing is before you get really acquainted with it, and then the specifics of it. matched

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I mean, I don't think of it so much as adding and subtracting as trying to translate your experience of reading the poem and absorbing the poem. matched

into the cinematic medium. matched

So sometimes, yes, what feels like adding things, in a way, you're sometimes just looking at the source material with a specific lens, a modern lens. matched

And in the case of some of the female characters in the poem, they tend to be used at times purely as reflection of the hero as opposed to being characters in their own right. matched

at least at first blush. matched

And when you start looking at the sort of mechanics of who does what to whom, you know, how does the story play out, you actually start to find the necessity of characterization is there in the poem. matched

It's there sort of implied, just as I'm having to get on a real boat in real waves. matched

You know, I know that I've got matched

Anne Hathaway coming to play Penelope. matched

I've got Charlize Theron coming to play Calypso. matched

Samantha Morton coming to play Cersei. matched

They play people, not symbols. matched

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