Christopher Nolan shot Troy at Aït Benhaddou, Morocco. He rejected CGI for on-location filming. Here we have a 1,200-year-old mud-brick ksar standing in the actual Sahara dust. He nailed the setting. The script for the Odyssey is a different story. Nolan built his Odysseus around Emily Wilson's phrase "the complicated man." She's now written that his script doesn't earn it. It's the same word, and the wrong century, according to the one who chose it. This fight is an old one. Alexander Pope got hit with almost the same complaint in 1725, three hundred years before anyone had heard of a movie screen. A different medium, the same argument, over the exact same Greek word nobody's ever fully translated. New story coming today on this old Odyssey argument. Every generation thinks the world is ending. It never is. Join our community of historical optimists as we prove the doomscroll wrong. 3 history essays weekly. Follow me on X: @Pastpassport Subscribe on Substack: pastpassport.com Recent article: pastpassport.com/p/gladiator…