When you've been as successful at making movies as Christopher Wokan has been you can tell any story and make any movie you want. Money talks.
But it's one thing to make a passion project or write an original story. What can't be forgiven is using sacred literature and cultural landmarks to influence young minds and shape the culture. And that is what Wokan is intending to do with this cinematic adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey.
It's a lazy way to propagate a message.
And this is not just another summer blockbuster. When you draw from ancient literature and sacred stories like the Bible, Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, the responsibility to tell the story correctly and without any political prejudice is great.
Hollywood seems unable to tell a story these days without making a political statement. And it's not because there aren't any talented apolitical filmmakers working today.
Everything Hollywood touches turns to shit because they are waging a cultural, political, and spiritual war on Western civilization. That is my belief. Hollywood is interested in spiritual warfare, not entertainment.
I could see Hollywood making a movie about Jesus in the future and cast a Haitian tranny who practices witchcraft to play him while a French dude is given the part of Judas.
All they're capable of at this point is inversion.
That is how crazy that town has become and because of its immense influence on our shared global culture we cannot escape its craziness.
It's hard to say whether Wokan's Odyssey will have any staying power. Entertaining movies are always worth re-watching. Thematically it never made sense to put The Odyssey on the big screen because the story isn't all that gripping. It works as a poem and a piece of literature to read by your nightstand.
Some stories are best left to the imagination. There's no need to adapt every novel or poem.
So it was curious why Wokan decided to adapt this ancient poem and why he chose to tell a globalized version of it. Were there no Greek actors available? And why make Helen of Troy so ugly? Why make Odysseus so weak? Why turn an epic poem on its head, so to speak?
Also, the decision to have all the characters speak in American accents is off putting. Where's the diversity in speech?
This movie just feels like a mockery of Homer. It's great to make Homer more accessible to wider audiences, but this was not Wokan's story to tell alone. A better director would have served as a vehicle and convey the story without all the political baggage.
