Think I'll reread The Odyssey before I see the film. Also the E. V. Rieu translation.
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Think I'll reread The Odyssey before I see the film. Also the E. V. Rieu translation.
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Do you mean the film or the book?
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I remember as a kid seeing a film on telly with Kirk Douglas. I think it was called Ulysses. He was quite handy with a bow and arrow iirc. Is that the same story?
Edit: no need to answer that, I've looked it up on on Wikipedia.
I'll give that new film a watch, but it's 3 hours. I'll never stay awake through that at the cinema, so I'll look forward to seeing it on TV
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I felt the same about Oppenheimer. It too, was overlong and overcomplicated, and the four part BBC mini-series starring Sam Waterston as Oppenheimer was just as good IMO, if not better.
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The book.
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Couldn't watch that too much mumbling.
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It's long; over 500 pages and a difficult read, involving many characters. However the 'story' is 3,000 years old, and a good translation preserves the lyricism of Homer's tale.
So difficult yes, but worth the effort.
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You can follow my father's advice to me when I was a schoolboy which was 'Just read the Classic Comic version, it's much quicker and it gives you the gist.'
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You can tell that comic's old, it was before Pampers was invented. Curious thing - how can someone with one eye look crosseyed?
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