In the year 2000, the inventive and provocative filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen reworked the Odyssey in a liberal way, changing scenes, settings and characters. ... In the year 2000, the inventive and provocative filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen reworked the Odyssey in a liberal way, changing scenes, settings and characters. ... I"d love to point out some of the characters and/or situations to watch for, but that's half of the fun of the movie. ... When the gang left Pete's brother's house they take with them a pig, which they loose when the boy takes it back, after their car brake...

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He says, "When she had given them this and they had drunk it down, next thing she struck them with her wand and drove them into her pig pens, and they took of pigs, with the heads and voices and bristles of pigs, but the minds within them stayed as they had been before" (Odyssey, 10:236-40). ... Athene even helps to make him more presentable and godlike, because the main character has to be handsome and strong or else he may not be seen as good. ... There is a sense of a much stronger character in him now at the end of the story. ...

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He is also a top-notch athlete, which only adds more to this seemingly unbeatable character. ... If Odysseus had been pig headed and under estimated the boulder weight and size, and gone with killing the Cyclops, he would of starved or died in the cave. ... Thou it was not purely Odysseus that made this story great, It was the bonding of the characters. ...

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Gilgamesh's character-building journeys taught him that his achievements, rather than immortality, were the key to his long-lasting legacy. ... Circe and Odysseus start to argue because Circe turns his men into pigs. ...

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This mental strength of refusal can be found in his waiting wife Penelope as well and his endurance is supported by Thornton when he says, "Odysseus's men eat the lotus-flower and forget their home and identity; they eat the forbidden oxen of the sun-god Helios and die; they eat the feast of Circe and are turned into pigs. ... As we see the hero's journey and epic characteristics merge, we are better able to understand the book and the character of Odysseus....

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