The author of a controversial translation of "The Odyssey" that helped influence Christopher Nolan’s adaptation panned the film in a scathing review.Emily Wilson, who wrote what some call a feminist translation of Homer’s "The Odyssey" that helped influence the film, panned director Christopher Nolan’s adaptation for missing the spirit of the original heroic epic.The film has also been criticized for the casting of certain characters, using modernized American dialogue, reshaping the warlike Odysseus as a traumatized rather than heroic figure and for removing many of the mythological aspects."As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Nolan has read at least the first line of my translation of The Odyssey into iambic pentameter," she said in her review titled, "An Uncomplicated Man." "In at least one interview, he cited my version of the first line of the poem: ‘Tell me about a complicated man.’ But I would be ashamed to have written any part of this script."CHRISTOPHER NOLAN CONFIRMS BIZARRE 'THE ODYSSEY' CASTING CHOICES INCLUDING RAPPER TRAVIS SCOTTJimmy Gonzales is Cepheus, Matt Damon is Odysseus and Himesh Patel is Eurylochus in "The Odyssey," written, produced, and directed by Christopher Nolan.
(Melinda Sue Gordon Universal Studios.All Rights Reserved.)This is the latest of multiple critiques from Wilson, having previously gone viral for stating during a 92NY panel, that this version of Odysseus struggles with guilt over his actions in the Trojan War and tries to "process them in a very modern, psychiatrised way — and struggling to process them needs drugs to do so! And he seems to feel bad about being a warrior, and we never actually see him get to do much warrioring." She added further, "I kept looking in vain for a sense that this is a film about glory, because the film that has some interest in shame, but I don't think it has any interest in glory.’Wilson went on to write in her review that the film’s writing is "abysm...