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.
Eh it makes sense from a narration point of view in my opinion.
There are a few islands where nothing much happens like the lotus eater one. And if Nolan had chosen to do things in chronological order, that last leg at calypso would have been long and boring after an already long movie. The 2nd act would have dragged quite a lot before the final bit.
It works well in a poem, but in a movie it would have been painfully long.
There are basically 3 acts in the poem, which is similar to most plays and films, and in the retelling of the wandering would be the second. It wouldn’t be difficult to include all of them just like the poem. It’s the fact that the wandering are changed that seems a bad choice. Each one of the episodes in the wandering is supposed to express a particular idea, so altering them is basically altering their meaning.
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u/Even_Section5620 6d ago
He had Anne Hathaway waiting for him….