PEL Presents PMP#227: The Odyssey: Epic Film
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What is the premise of the episode and why discuss Nolan’s Odyssey?
This is pretty much Pop, a Culture Podcast, weaving the threads to figure out pop culture every episode, but and doing our work every night. Today we're discussing Christopher Nolan's Odyssey, a Mark Lintonmeyer, just hanging out on the dung heap till my time
comes. This is Al Baker recording today using a special microphone that only forty-one people listening to this podcast will be able to experience properly.
I'm Sarah Lynn Bruck, and as much as I really like this movie, they should title any movie that's three hours long, The Odyssey.
This is Lawrence Ware, and Christopher Nolan doesn't test audiences,
he tests bladders. Well, you saw it four times or five. How how many four times. Four times.
Four
times. Saw
four times. Was that because you wanted to see the whole movie, but you also needed to take like two people?
Multiple pea breaks? No. I saw it early on my computer, which is a terrible experience as a critic thing. And then I went to a critic screening. And then I took my one son to the movie. And then he wanted to go back. And so we went with my other son with him. And my middle son has seen it at this point five times. Whoa. He enjoys it that much. Yeah. But he insists on seeing it only in IMAX. He doesn't want to see it in a regular movie theater. And I think that it's actually a that's a good point for him to do it in that kind of setting because you watching a regular screen, you don't really get the full experience, really.
I was in IMAX, but I was in the second row. So I was looking up. You were way too close, dude. You were in the water.
Water. You were literally in the water as you watched that movie.
Where's your neck brace, Mark? I've I've heard that it's a loud movie, but this I don't really like this theater that has the IMAX just because the sound is always too loud, no matter what film I'm seeing there. And so this was just the the bass was just constantly and making it hard to understand some things that were being said. That said, I still found it gripping. I prepared myself. I did not leave during it at all. I was riveted.
Well, I had the same theater experience as you, Mark, except I was in a better row, but it was so loud. And I wasn't sure if this is just IMAX in general or the theater that I go to regularly. But yeah, the bass was way too loud. I I'm not glad to hear that it's like that other places, but I was like, is this just like, am I just going to the wrong theater? But I too also really, really liked this movie a lot. It was not a perfect film for me, but it was classic Nolan and I'm really glad I saw it. And I'm actually really glad I saw it in in IMAX.
So I didn't see it in IMITS. I saw it not as Nolan intended, just in a regular big screen cinema. Yeah, it's an incredible movie. As Sarah said, not perfect. And I'm pleased. I was slightly concerned because we we talked about Christopher Nolan relatively recently, and we said some, you know, not mean things, but we didn't completely fall into the hype machine. And I was kind of worried that I would have to uh because obviously one thing to say about this movie is it has had had maybe the most amazingly put together press tour of any film.
Yeah.
That has ever been released. So I've heard a lot of what Christopher Nolan had to say about the making of this film, and I r respect him an awful lot as a as a result. So I was worried that I would have to walk back some of my, you know, less generous criticisms of Christopher Nolan as a filmmaker. However, I think most of them still stand up based on the Odyssey. What it certainly is, is a tremendous achievement in Spectacle. And I definitely want to see it, and I might. I feel like this is a movie that's gonna get released and re-released in IMAX over the years. That is clearly what it was designed to do. A lot of the discussions about the film I think have been really interesting too, because so many of the takes seem obviously silly.
And having seen the film, I think there are many interesting criticisms of it that I haven't heard aired, which surprised me because people seem very much either on that this is a five-star perfect movie, or like there's
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the premise of the episode and why discuss Nolan’s Odyssey?
0:08–7:23
2
How did the hosts’ IMAX theater experiences affect their perception of the film’s sound?
7:23–15:05
3
What makes Ludwig Göransson’s score for the Odyssey unique compared to other epic scores?
15:05–23:37
4
Why did Nolan choose to omit or alter key moments from Homer’s poem (e.g., the Cyclops ‘Nobody’ trick, Penelope’s bed test)?
23:37–31:33
5
How does the film’s pacing and rushed storytelling impact its epic scope?
31:33–40:04
6
What are the strengths and weaknesses of the main performances (Matt Damon, supporting cast, Cersei scene)?
40:04–47:37
7
How does Nolan’s adaptation explore modern themes like PTSD, trauma, and civilization’s fragility?
47:37–53:38
8
What might be the long‑term legacy of Nolan’s Odyssey for future adaptations of classic literature?
53:38–54:52
Speakers
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