Homer's "The Odyssey"

[BHopkins]

While many of the changes from the original poem are disappointing to me, the one that really has me turned off is the decision to not portray Penelope and Odysseus as very smart and clever. In my opinion, their cunning nature is one of the most important elements to the story, and makes it quite intriguing.

I will still watch it, but perhaps wait until it is streaming, instead of catching it in the theater.

 

[nwjones18]

Can’t believe no one’s mentioned the movie “Oh Brother Where Art Thou” yet… one of my favorites

 

[paulri]

I also liked (as did all their fans) their musical rendition of the Charge of the Light Brigade (The Trooper). Of course Aces High was a great rendition of the Battle of Britain. Yeah I would have loved for them to have done either the Iliad or the Odyssey.

Me too! Their rendition of the “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” is fantastic. The live version on YouTube is killer also. They also did Alexander the Great. Really good stuff.

 

[CleanSump]

Can’t believe no one’s mentioned the movie “Oh Brother Where Art Thou” yet… one of my favorites

Maybe because it's a modern comedy?

 

[2005jettatdi]

Number_35 said:

I read that voluntarily back in Grade 11. My buddy Brian, in a different English class, had to read it. He raved about it, and said it was the first book he'd ever enjoyed.

I read a bunch of Steinbeck voluntarily. Of Mice And Men had really stuck with me.

And of course, To Kill A Mockingbird.
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I have read a lot of Steinbeck. He is depressing. The Grapes of Wrath book is nowhere near as cheerful as the movie. (hint, neither is cheerful) Of Mice and Men first struck me when I saw on tv while on high school.

I found Snow Falling on Cedars on the book shelves when my mother died. After reading it I started a family discussion email thread. My literate nephew said the author was like Steinbeck. I disagreed, if Steinbeck had written it, the editor would not have done the right thing and the Nesei husband would have been convicted or a murder he did not commit.

No one can read To Kill a Mockingbird and not be affected. I have been told it was actually written by Truman Capote. No way TKAM and Go Set a Watchman were written by the same person.

 

[nwjones18]

Maybe because it's a modern comedy?

Loosley based on the Odyssey though..

 

[Pablo]

Number_35 said:

I read that voluntarily back in Grade 11. My buddy Brian, in a different English class, had to read it. He raved about it, and said it was the first book he'd ever enjoyed.

I read a bunch of Steinbeck voluntarily. Of Mice And Men had really stuck with me.

And of course, To Kill A Mockingbird.
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I have read a lot of Steinbeck. He is depressing. The Grapes of Wrath book is nowhere near as cheerful as the movie. (hint, neither is cheerful) Of Mice and Men first struck me when I saw on tv while on high school.

I found Snow Falling on Cedars on the book shelves when my mother died. After reading it I started a family discussion email thread. My literate nephew said the author was like Steinbeck. I disagreed, if Steinbeck had written it, the editor would not have done the right thing and the Nesei husband would have been convicted or a murder he did not commit.

No one can read To Kill a Mockingbird and not be affected. I have been told it was actually written by Truman Capote. No way TKAM and Go Set a Watchman were written by the same person.

I read The Grapes of Wrath when I was probably a bit too young around 13 yo. It impacted me to think this would always be the condition of man so to speak. A bit later I found (and I recommend people start with) Hemingway. I mean interspersed with Camu and Joyce. All on my own. But I never read much ancient stuff, maybe Plato which also formed my views of humans.

 

[2005jettatdi]

I never liked Hemingway and thought The Old Man and the Sea was the only readable story he wrote. Condemn me for taste. I struggled with Melville, but thought Billy Budd was very readable.

Speaking of which, when my oldest son was in 2nd grade he asked me to sign off on his book report. He handed me the paper and I saw Billy Budd. I was very skeptical so I asked him to tell me the story, which he proceeded to do. To say I was amazed understates it. It turned out, his very good 2nd grade teacher had comic book versions of classics.

 

[Pablo]

I never liked Hemingway and thought The Old Man and the Sea was the only readable story he wrote. Condemn me for taste. I struggled with Melville, but thought Billy Budd was very readable.

Speaking of which, when my oldest son was in 2nd grade he asked me to sign off on his book report. He handed me the paper and I saw Billy Budd. I was very skeptical so I asked him to tell me the story, which he proceeded to do. To say I was amazed understates it. It turned out, his very good 2nd grade teacher had comic book versions of classics.

I was young impressionable and a voracious reader. I read tons and tons of sci-fi 1970-1985 or so. Hemingway was just another window to "mature" life for me but it is true, his later books really fell short. I was kind of an ignored middle kid, but my mom was a English teacher working on her PhD in English Lit. Our house had three walls of books. Looking back though - some of my favorite books were my dad's - old cheesy mountain man adventures in the Rockies and Sierra Nevada and the plains and deserts.

I have little desire to read Steinbeck or Hemingway again. A couple years ago I did re-read Moby **** and thought it quite good and relatively quick read with my allegory hat on. I'm pretty sure this might be useful with The Odyssey ahahhahahaha