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The Odyssey Film Review

The Odyssey

CHARACTERS:

Armand Assante as Odysseus -King of Ithaca

Greta Sacchi as Penelope –his wife

Isabella Rossellini as Athena –goddess of wisdom and of war

Bernadette Peters as Circe –a nymph with magical power

Eric Roberts as Eurymachus –leading suitor

Vanessa Williams as Calypso –minor goddess

Nicholas Clay as Menelaus –King of Sparta

Reid Asato as Cyclops –son of Poseidon

Alan Stenson as Telemachus –son of Odysseus

Peter Woodthorpe as mentor –Odysseus’ friend, an Ithacan nobleman

Freddy Douglas as Hermes –god of travelers, messenger of the gods

 Miles Anderson as Poseidon –god of the sea

Michael Pollard as Aeolus –god of the wind

Geraldine Chaplin as Eurycleia –Odysseus’ old nurse

SETTING:

The whole movie was set at Ithaca, a place in Greece and this is where Odysseus reigns. And the beginning of the movie started at one of the forest in Ithaca.

SUMMARY:

Odyssey battles internal and external conflict to take part in the Trojan War. It is at a time when his son Telemachus, is only a month old. Ten years after the war, Odysseus retraces his steps back home. By that time, Telemachus is twenty and living with his mother Penelope in Ithaca. His mother has to deal with 108 suitors, who are energetic and stubborn that she should agree to marriage.

Athena, Odysseus’ guardian, decides with the King of Gods according to Greek Mythology, Zeus, to take form of Mentes, a Taphian chief and speak to Telemachus. She urges the boy to look for his father. Telemachus and Athena witness Phemius the bard entertaining the rowdy suitors “Return from Troy”. Even as Penelope objects, urged by Athena, Telemachus orders Phemius to read on.

Athena finds Telemachus a ship and crew and helps him to depart for the mainland. Welcomed by the Nestor family, Telemachus then embarks on a land journey alongside Sparta, Nestor’s son. He chances upon Helen and Menelaus bear witness of a meeting with sea-god Proteus. They inform Telemachus that his father has been captured by Calypso, a nymph.

Odysseus, meanwhile, spends seven years in captivity. He is released only in overcome the wrath of Poseidon, the sea god who was not present on Mount Olympus when Athena and Zeus interacted. Escaping the wreckage, Odyssey swims a shore exhausted and falls asleep. He then seeks the hospitality of Arête and Alcinous. Odysseus struggles through a situation where his identity is always in doubt.

A raid on his twelve ships by storms, lotus eaters and blinded with a wooden stake, leaves the hero a broken man. A help from Aeolus, the wind god helped Odysseus harness all the winds. However, with destiny playing truant, Odysseus does not retain the only ‘safe’ wind that could blown him homeward. His escapades with the pantheon of Greek gods and goddesses, a disloyal sailor, Circe, the witch goddess and the spirit of Tiresias, leave Odysseus spent and longing for home.

Odysseus’ lucky meeting with the Phaeacians buys him a homebound journey. Disguised as a beggar, Odysseus learns about his family. He meets Penelope with the intention of testing her love for him. Eurycleia, the housekeeper, discovers Odysseus’ identity and all is well when he strings his own bow as a part of the suitor competition set by Penelope.

REVIEW:

The title of The Odyssey has given us a word to describe a journey of epic. It is as dramatic as Iliad. The lack of racial antipathy and political events engrave the movie permanently in the mind of the viewer.

As a movie tells us that throughout the travel of Odysseus, his central emotion is loneliness. We first encounter him as he get a way for home, alone in Calypso’s beach, and he is not weeping when thinking of home at other points. Because of the greatness in acting of Armand Assante as Odysseus, he able to give justice for Odysseus’ role therefore he gives off more color to the character and he really portray what Odysseus must be. Greta Sacchi as Penelope as well add beauty to the movie because she really made people to fall their tears, her femininity inspired the women viewer to be like her. In this movie main and supporting actors and actresses work together for the triumph of The Odyssey, all the quality is present to them that are why the result is good quality movie in terms of characterization.

The setting in this movie is Ithaca which we know doesn’t really exist but because of creativity of the production staff they able to produce a place which perfect for the description of Ithaca. The effect in every setting of the scene in the movie is very in detailed even the smallest segment is very coordinate according to the scene to be taken.

The totality of the movie was total packaged and deserves a recognition because it is not only a movie nor epic but it make us visualize the reality over in this earth like about the family matter. It also gives reflection about wandering, fidelity, hospitality and the power of gods which touch our life.