The Story That Refuses to Die
Hollywood works itself into a tizzy over a lot of new movies. Its buzz as a rule feels more manufactured than organic — PR types often think that there is no need for steak if they can crank up the volume of the sizzle.But something’s a little different about this one. This new movie has an old name, The Odyssey, and it’s a story that has been told for about 3,000 years.
- ▪Hollywood works itself into a tizzy over a lot of new movies.
- ▪Its buzz as a rule feels more manufactured than organic — PR types often think that there is no need for steak if they can crank up the volume of the sizzle.But something’s a little different about this one.
- ▪This new movie has an old name, The Odyssey, and it’s a story that has been told for about 3,000 years.
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Hollywood works itself into a tizzy over a lot of new movies. Its buzz as a rule feels more manufactured than organic — PR types often think that there is no need for steak if they can crank up the volume of the sizzle.But something’s a little different about this one. This new movie has an old name, The Odyssey, and it’s a story that has been told for about 3,000 years. There may be a steak here.We are all letters in the scroll of the greatest of stories, a story that reveals the infinite and the finite as partners in the drama of human life.What does seem novel about The Odyssey is this: in the face of the war to erase history and build a utopia on the ruins of Western Civilization, Hollywood is abuzz about something so ancient.
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