Emily Wilson claims Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey is too woke...

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Emily Wilson's translation is woke beyond words. She stripped it down to nothing, filters it through a postmodern feminist lens, and barely hides her disdain for Odysseus and masculinity and his glory seeking

Her primary complaint is that Nolan focuses on his shame and guilt, and filters the film through an overtly Christian lens instead of a pagan one.

Her real beef is that Nolan’s version of The Odyssey isn’t historically accurate.

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Her real beef is that Nolan’s version of The Odyssey isn’t historically accurate.

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Its pretty specifically noted at this point that Nolan overtly brings in Christian themes and feelings into Odysseus that are not there in the text, which is a very big beef for her

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Its pretty specifically noted at this point that Nolan overtly brings in Christian themes and feelings into Odysseus that are not there in the text, which is a very big beef for her

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You're going to make them dizzy.

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Emily Wilson's translation is woke beyond words. She stripped it down to nothing, filters it through a postmodern feminist lens, and barely hides her disdain for Odysseus and masculinity and his glory seeking

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Dude, this is dumb. There is no feminism in her translation. Odysseus is is guided by glory and honor. What disdain are you talking about?

The only thing new and different in her translation, relative to other modern, popular translations, is the focus on lines. She doesn't strip it down to nothing. She maintains the same amount of lines as in the Homerian Greek. She does this instead of artificially elevating the language. This does affect word choice, as she doesn't use the most literal translation of a word if it requires too many English words. Conversely, some of what she translates is closer to the greek. Many previous translations have dressed up servant titles when the original Greek word was just "slave."

This shite is so easy to Google. You could also very easily read the translation and find this out for yourself. There is no criticism of Odysseus. At all. The female characters are not given extra time, exposure, or sympathy.

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Her primary complaint is that Nolan focuses on his shame and guilt, and filters the film through an overtly Christian lens instead of a pagan one.

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Yeah. Nolan invented the guilt and shame, not just the lens. She wants the big adaptation to be closer to the original that she has studied her whole life. The original would not work very well as a modern (as in the past 100 years) movie, as Odysseus is not a modern hero.

You didn’t watch the movie, Helen was absolved, the war had nothing to do with her in the movie.

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Dude, this is dumb. There is no feminism in her translation.

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LOL

It most certainly does mix it in, and there has been a lot written on it.

One such example is that while some of the female slaves that slept with the suitors in other translations were referred to as "whores" or "sluts"...she simply calls them "girls".

In her forward she refers, repeatedly, to other translations as "misogynistic"

There's a lot I could say about it.

You are wrong. She hasn't exactly been shy about talking about it at all either

lol Agamemnon is explicitly said to have started the war over trade routes. You didn’t watch, it’s ok and Helen apologized for what happened “in her name” meaning other people used her, it’s not really her fault.

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lol Agamemnon is explicitly said to have started the war over trade routes. You didn’t watch, it’s ok and Helen apologized for what happened “in her name” meaning other people used her, it’s not really her fault.

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The same thing is implied in Troy.

Its long been a historical theory. Its not something Nolan invented out of thin air