Sex, beds and grisly executions: what Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey changed, invented – and left out

From missing scenes and characters to a brand new ending, the director has taken some artistic liberties with Homer’s epic poem • Peter Bradshaw’s five-star review and a less enthused classicist’s take • Will women also enjoy Nolan’s Odyssey? • Christopher Nolan interviewed • Why shooting on occupied land feels like a betrayal Turning a 12,000-line poem that takes a day to read aloud into a three-hour film was always going to require some pruning.

So it has proved with Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey , which dispenses with a number of scenes and characters from Homer’s ancient Greek epic.

The director has also changed the emphasis in some of the story’s most famous episodes and made a few of his own additions. Here we run down the most significant alterations.

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