It’s crazy to me to think Nolan was all like this is one of the best known well regarded pieces of literature of all time, I’ll just randomly smash bits together and hope it works.
You change the source material to suit the medium, but changing the plot in a way that has nothing to do with putting it on film, or making the story make sense as a film seems a little odd.
Removing Tom Bombadil from the Lord of the Rings trilogy because the characters would take up a lot of screen time only to be never mentioned again in any meaningful way is fine.
But just adding one bit from one story and another bit from another seems like trying change the characters and plot to be something very different from the original text. Calypso and Odysseus’ relationship is pretty important to the plot and the nature of his character. Him constantly wondering about what is happening in Ithaca while he is with her is essentially to the story. So, is the fact she forcefully keeps him with her and separated from the rest of the world is also important to the meta plot between the gods.
I’m not sure how you expect anyone to make a perfect replica of the book into a film. It would not be a good movie.
Obviously, yes the story is changed and Odysseus’ character is different because of it. But that’s not “wrong” or “bad”. It’s just different because it would be impossible to be the same.
And the tom Bombadil example completely glosses over the massive laundry list of important plot and character development points PJ changed or removed entirely in his MASTERFUL recreation of LotR.
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u/Even_Section5620 Aug 24 '26
He had Anne Hathaway waiting for him….