“I will never get a chance to get high with you in a dorm room,” said Jon Stewart on The Daily Show tonight, preparing Christopher Nolan for his somewhat unusual questions about The Odyssey.
Among the queries: Why didn’t the cyclops tell a joke? What happened to the wheels on the Trojan horse? And is this all just happening in Odysseus’ head?
More broadly, Stewart asked Nolan why he decided to tackle an epic poem written down around the 8th century BCE that just happens to be one of the foundational texts of Western civilization. Turns out, the filmmaker
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