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Being *extremely* charitable to Nolan, you could wonder if he means that the “nobody” gambit doesn’t hold up *as a pun in English* because “nobody” only sounds like “Odysseus” in Greek. That said, a genuine shortcoming of the movie is its use of language. That’s the only online pre-criticism of it that I thought really held up, as I wrote in @PostOpinions (link below). To recap: Odysseus tells the Cyclops his name is “nobody” so that when he wrecks the bastard and all his little cyclops friends come running, he says “nobody is attacking me!” And they’re like oh well guess that’s fine. That part of the trick makes perfect sense in English and could totally have been in the movie. But there’s another layer in the Greek: “nobody” in Greek is “oudeis.” So then at the critical moment when Odysseus lets his exuberance get away with him he says basically “I’m not oudeis! I’m Odysseus!” And we all go ha ha! I understand Greek! In seriousness, there is an *extraordinarily* subtle and beautiful dance Homer’s doing throughout with Odysseus’s name. As I wrote in @WSJ @WSJFreeEx (link also below), Homer opens the poem with “tell me muse of a man” and then takes twenty one lines before he names the man. He relates the name not only to “nobody” but even more directly to “hate” (odussomai)—the wrath of the gods that causes Odysseus’s sorrow. A name in a myth is of course more than just a series of syllables. It’s a powerful emblem of identity. So who is this man of whom Homer sings? What kind of identity, what kind of name can he reclaim for himself under the wreckage of his god-inflicted suffering? Or will he be obliterated by it, forced to trick and deceive his way to survival until, even if he does make it home, he finds he has lost himself entirely and become oudeis—nobody? The poem is about not just physical homecoming but about remembering who you are through storytelling. Homer gets all this and more into his play with names. I will concede that Nolan probably couldn’t have gotten all *that* into his movie. But the nobody joke with the cyclops woulda played fine, lol.

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@janhopi This is a VERY famous quote, that's mistakenly attributed to The Song of Aquilles. It's actually from a fanfic, which is actually really sad to me. It's this one: archiveofourown.org/works/3179633

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