British American classicist scholar Emily Wilson, whose 2017 translation of Homer’s The Odyssey inspired Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster film interpretation of the nearly 2,800-year-old poem, is entirely underwhelmed by the end product. To say the least.
The academic used a brutal essay in the London Review of Books to decry Nolan’s $250 million work as delivering an “abysmal” screenplay, despairing ” I would be ashamed to have written any part of this script.
Wilson has also translated Seneca and Euripides, as well as Homer’s Iliad as part of her work as a professor of classical studies at the University of Pennsylvania. In her appraisal Wilson writes:
I had hoped that Nolan’s...
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