I have seen the glorious footage from Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’
Universal gave fans a sneak peek at Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey over the weekend. If you attended a re-release screening of Sinners or One Battle After Another, your “previews” were six minutes of the highly anticipated adaptation of Homer’s epic poem.
The scene begins with Jon Bernthal as Menelanus asking Telemachus (Tom Holland) if he has heard of what happened with the Trojan horse. We’re then thrown into the men piled into the horse that legend says was brought into the protected city of Troy disguised as a gift from the Achaeans. Instead, 12 Achaeans were hidden in it and took over the city with it.
The concept of a “Trojan horse” is so ingrained in our collective minds that most of people don’t realize it came from Homer’s work. Now, thanks to Nolan and his adaptation of The Odyssey, we’re going to have a lot of people realizing the reach that Homer’s poems have had on society. And this scene was a perfect way to get us invested in what Nolan is doing.
In the film, Matt Damon plays Odysseus, our hero of The Odyssey. And he is a hero in the footage shown. The men have to be silent and avoid swords being shoved into the horse, even when one man accidentally is stabbed. Then, they all remain piled on top of each other until they can open the doors to Troy from the inside to let the Achaeans in.
It is tense and yet incredible to watch, made that much better with the score by Ludwig Göransson. And by the end, it cuts back to Menelanus talking to Telemachus. It is a perfect little blip of what Nolan has in store for us. Yet all it did was make me want to watch the film right now!
The Odyssey is set to hit theaters on July 17.
(featured image: Universal Pictures)
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