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Film Courage: In The Odyssey, what is the core relationship?
Michael Weiss, Author/Screenwriter/Professor: I love the movie for many different reasons.
I find with Nolan movies, especially Oppenheimer and Odyssey, I enjoy them when I watch them and then when I go home and think about them and break them down like Oppenheimer (I do in the book), I get this whole new appreciation for how he stitches it together.
The Odyssey’s taken a lot…There’s been a lot of debate online about The Odyssey.
One of the biggest debates is how much Christopher Nolan changed from the epic poem The Odyssey to make it into a film.
My joke and what I’ve been saying with my Beyond the Hero book is if you watch the movie The Odyssey, you’ll see that the hero’s journey is dead.
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So, what do I mean by that?
What do you mean ‘the hero’s journey is dead?’
The Odyssey is considered one of the first and really seminal hero’s journeys, right? The quintessential hero’s journey.
Guy with a quest, goes on a mission, faces a series of obstacles, learns a lesson, that’s the hot topic of all of it, and returns home.
One of the big debates has been, I guess, in the real original Odyssey and even in the translation that that Nolan used, I guess Odysseus didn’t quite feel…(Watch the video interview on YouTube here).
About:
Michael Weiss is a Writers Guild of America screenwriter with an extensive career selling original material and writing on assignment for a wide range of Hollywood studios. He has over a dozen produced films to his credit, including the big-budget feature Journey to the Center of the Earth starring Brendan Fraser and sequels to studio franchises like The Scorpion King, Jarhead and The Butterfly Effect.
His world-building portfolio includes writing for a theme park in China and an action-adventure video game. A long-time instructor in the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program, he is the recipient of the Distinguished Instructor award and a contributing writer to the screenwriting guide Cut to the Chase: Writing Feature Films with the Pros at UCLA Extension Writers’ Program. He currently teaches writing at Chapman University Dodge College of Film & Media Arts.
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