9/4/2023 0 Comments Armand assante odyssey![]() ![]() Geraldine Chaplin’s the determined housekeeper Eurycleia, Paloma Baeza is the faithless maid Melanthe. And there’s the eventual grim revenge scene in a locked room, when the returned Odysseus dispatches those villains who’d been pursuing and imposing upon his wife during his 20-year (!) absence the action could knock the home folks off the living-room couch.Ĭasting is interesting. There’s lots of eye-filling but tasteful flesh, thanks to Charles Knode’s costumes. And there’s a transition problem between the abbreviated Phaecian passage and Odysseus’ arrival back in Ithaca. Painful cuts from the original work include the Lotus-Eaters, the Phaecia Nausicaa, the Sirens and even Odysseus’ father, Laertes. In this version, it’s here that Odysseus, losing his crew, ends up on Calypso’s (Vanessa Williams) stark, white isle, whose housing resembles 1930s Hollywood’s concept of a smart nitery. In the flame-soaked Kingdom of the Dead, the ghost of Tiresias (Christopher Lee, remaining dignified amidst all that heat) warns Odysseus that he and his shipmates have to sail past the dreaded six-headed Scylla and the deadly Charybdis, which seems to be a vast, vacillating sinkhole. ![]() (That’s delicately covered in the vidpic by having him dream of Penelope.) ![]() It’s potent enough to work for the five years he spends sleeping with her. Pollard), country cousin to Poseidon and god of the winds, with a surprise gift to help on their trip.Įnchantress Circe (a vamping Bernadette Peters, looking late-20th-century-ish) beckons, while free-floating messenger Hermes (Freddie Douglas) slips Odysseus an antidote that wards off Circe’s ability to change men into animals. There’s giant Cyclops (sumo wrestler Reid Asato disguised in a convincingly scary headdress, also from the Henson group), who, trapping the crew, feeds on a man or two and Aeolus (Michael J. Odysseus, having offended Poseidon with his human arrogance, faces hard times, in the form of Homer’s threatening wonders. The Trojans initially keep the Greeks out of their city, but they succumb to the Trojan Horse trick. A Jim Henson Creature Shop pasty animatronic, billed as a sea monster, gulps down a man, but the creature doesn’t look very real. With the goddess Athena (a glowing Isabella Rossellini, whose sweetness is ameliorated by her straightforward manner) on his side, Odysseus and crew sail off to fight the Trojans on their beach. Pestered by the worst sort, she refuses marriage because she’s sure Odysseus is alive even as the years roll by. She has promised Odysseus that she’ll marry again when Telemachus reaches manhood and when she has accepted Odysseus’ death. The drama occasionally cuts back to Ithaca and to Telemachus (an attractive, earnest Alan Stenson) and Penelope, who’s being put upon by suitors. ![]()
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