Christopher Nolan
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155 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 16 Jul
Christopher Nolan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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There's so many different ways to approach this.
I'm a big fan of Ray Harryhausen.
I loved Clash of the Titans when I was a kid, where he has Lawrence of Olivier and Maggie Smith kind of arguing and moving characters around like chess pieces as the gods.
But what I found in the poem
is two possible approaches.
Yes, there's the approach where the gods are squabbling over humans and living in their own world.
But it also presents this very, very resonant idea of the gods walking amongst us.
And it relates it to the concept of Xenia.
And Xenia is the idea of Zeus's law, as we refer to it in the film.
It's this idea that
In ancient times, when you left the house, you were at the mercy of strangers completely.
And so there was this code that said, treat others as you would be treated because they might be gods in disguise.
And so in that way, I got interested in the idea of viewing the gods the way that the characters would have viewed them.
And that is there in the text.
And so Athena, for example, is appearing to Odysseus in the guise of other beings, other characters.
And so this idea
of portraying the gods as they walk amongst us or amongst those characters has great thematic resonance for something that became very important to the adaptation.
It's there in the poem, and it coincides with this other interest that I had in the world of the film, which was to turn around and say, in a pre-scientific era,
Everything in the world, the sun rising in the morning, the tide coming in, the wind blowing, that's all absolute evidence, clear evidence of divinity around these characters.
So they're living amongst the gods.
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