Christopher Nolan The Odyssey Scorsese inspiration
by Capucine · old hollywood: Odysseus
Christopher Nolan has revealed that Martin Scorsese's 'The Last Temptation of Christ' served as a major influence on his upcoming film 'The Odyssey.' He said, "The figure of Jesus & what Scorsese does with him was very, challenging to the audience. That was quite inspiring from the POV of Odysseus. #Odysseus
Transcript (en)
This means that you're just another Jewish politician. Do you want to know something? You're more dangerous than the zealots. Do you know that? Say something. You had better say something. All right. Tell me what you tell people on the streets. Yes? Yes. Yes. The prophet Daniel had a vision. A tall statue had a gold head and silver shoulders. The stomach was bronze The legs were iron The feet were clay A stone was thrown the clay feet broke and the statue collapsed Yes. You see, God threw the stone, the stone's me, and Rome... Rome is the statue, yes. So your kingdom, or your world, will replace Rome. Where is it? My kingdom. It's not here. Not on Earth. It wouldn't be, would it? You know, it's one thing to want to change the way that people live, but you want to change how they think and how they feel. All I'm saying is that change will happen with love, not with killing. Either way, it's dangerous. It's against Rome. It's against the way the world is. And killing or loving, it's all the same. It simply doesn't matter how you want to change things. We don't want them changed.
