Muhajireen Enog BSED 3 Filipino

World Literature

The Odyssey Movie: A Great Movie Experience

Obstacle are put on your way to see if what you want is really worth fighting for..
"The Odyssey", purportedly the work of the same man who wrote "The Iliad", is a
long epic poem which is world-renowned as a tale of adventure. The greatness of this
adaptation is that the ethical central character, Odysseus or 'Ulysses', King of Ithaca, is
treated as the first man in history able to think rationally--to control his passions.
The filmmakers do not spend more than a few minutes on the "Odysseys"
background, the war by the ancient Argives' alliance against the city of Ilium or "Troy".
The thrust of the piece is the wanderings undertaken by Ulysses after he returns home
safely from that war. His wife Penelope waits for him; his family never gives up. But
meanwhile, even as his son grows, the kingdom's nobles grow bolder. They demand
Penelope marry one of them, since they believe Ulysses is dead. By night, Penelope
unweaves what she has woven of her wedding dress during daylight. The bulk of the
film follows Ulysses on what amounts to a ship borne Cook's tour of fictionally-reworked
famous ancient places about the Mediterraean, to confrontations with the man-eating
Cyclops and his herd of sheep, with Circe the goddess who can transform men into
swine, with the Lotos eaters and the Gulf of the world.
This movie is a special-effects extravaganza with high-tech effects and a solid
cast to back up the adventure by way of intelligent direction and good dialogue. The
very large made-for-television epic was directed by Andrei Konchalovsky.
From the Trojan sequences to the slaughter of the offending nobles by team-
Ulysses, he in disguise using an ancient horn-bow only he could string to perform the
deed, this is an exciting, eye-filling and well-planned cinematic adventure. It was a great
surprise when it was offering among many mean-streets naturalistic films in 1997. Not
to be missed.
Well there were many themes in the Odyssey. Love, friendship, courage, Family
values and always remembering that you have a home no matter what. I think though,
the main theme in the Odyssey was Loyalty.

Odysseus' wife never let another man touch her and did not give up his place to
another man even when told he was dead. Likewise Odysseus stayed loyal to his Greek
people and homeland and was determined to Journey back to see them all again and
take his place in his house again.

So I would say that Homer's main idea behind the Odyssey was Loyalty to those
you Love.
This movie receives from me a 8 out of 10 because it is an enjoyable movie
which also gives you some history lessons, so 2 flies in 1 hit, a good movie and
education. Well done