Emily Wilson beating a Trojan Horse with second essay panning Nolan's Odyssey

A couple of days ago, celebrated translator and classics professor Emily Wilson made a portentous declaration : She was going to go watch The Odyssey again. Given that Wilson—whose translation of the Homer epic reportedly served as at least the partial bedrock of Christopher Nolan’s new movie version—had already managed to crack the London Review Of Books web site in half with her pan of the film last week , her sitting through another screening (as part of a Q&A presentation at New York’s Jacob Burns Film Center) seemed destined to bring even more of Zeus’ wrath down on the ongoing discourse. Now that reckoning has arrived, in the form of a new highly critical essay on Nolan’s movie that landed on the shores of The Atlantic this week . You may be wondering, weary traveler, if a second viewing has softened Wilson’s stance on Nolan’s efforts; between the title (“A Trojan Horse Is Supposed To Have Humans Inside It”) and its closing line (which calls the movie a “visually stunning, emotionally empty film”) you may rest assured that it has not.