Christopher Nolan

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155 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 16 Jul

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Kermode & Mayo’s Take · Is THE ODYSSEY truly epic? With SIR CHRISTOPHER NOLAN · 16 Jul 2026 podcast

It's not a question of belief.

That's the world they're in.

And so those two things together felt like something that we could get across very strongly cinematically and keep us in, you know, the mindset of the character.

It wasn't really about tone overall because, you know, we embrace the fantasy elements of the poem.

We certainly do.

So really, for me, it was more about trying to experience these gods the way people would have back in the Bronze Age.

That felt like it would be more powerful and more relatable.

Well, I went to Ludwig, and I worked with Ludwig in a way that, because I don't use temp music when I'm editing the film.

I want to use his music, bespoke music.

So I always start him working before I actually shoot the film.

So I show him the script, and in the case of The Odyssey,

I said, look, I've examined this poem.

I've adapted this poem.

I find it to be earthy and grounded and accessible.

So I'm casting, and I'm talking to the actors, and we're talking about doing this not in the style of a Hollywood movie from the 50s and 60s.

So for example, the actors aren't going to speak with sort of mid-Atlantic or British accents arbitrarily, things like that.

We're sort of taking the references to kind of 19th century art that permeated those Hollywood movies.

We're ignoring all that.

We're trying to go back to archaeological sources, go back to a more accessible version of what this could be.

So when we look at the music, surely that means

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