9 huge shocking scenes 'The Odyssey' movie cut from original poem, from 12 handmaids to Circe romance

Over the weekend Christopher Nolan's latest highly-anticipated movie The Odyssey dropped in cinemas and IMAX, bringing to life the 3,000 year old poem of the same name by Homer, chronicling war hero Odysseus' journey to his home in Ithaca.

The movie was the first to be shot entirely on IMAX cameras, and has since gone onto make $264 million in its opening weekend around the world. And while the film is in many ways loyal to the epic poem by Homer as it sees Odysseus (Matt Damon) and his crew struggle through many challenges and obstacles on their way back from the Trojan War, there were a lot of scenes cut from the original poem too.

In fairness to Nolan the poem has 24 books within it and over 12,000 lines, so it would be pretty difficult to get every storyline into the movie.

However, from full on sexual relationships, to even more deaths, here's all the major plot points Christopher Nolan left out of The Odyssey.

The biggest scenes cut from The Odyssey

'Nobody is hurting me'

Odysseus and his crew evading the clutches of the Cyclops does feature in the movie, however, one very key element many fans of the original were hoping to see in the film didn't actually make it.

In the poem, when speaking with the Cyclops known as Polyphemus (which also doesn't happen in the movie) Odysseus says his name is "Nobody" and so later on when Odysseus goes to attack Polyphemus, the Cyclops shouts out "Nobody's killing me now by fraud and not by force" which means none of his Cyclops friends come to his aid. The inclusion of multiple Cyclopses is also omitted from the movie.

Nolan revealed during an interview with Jon Stewart on The Daily Show, that he had tried to make the joke work for the film, but the clever pun just fell flat on screen.

"I understand. It’s a pun. Puns in translation are tough. I tried. It was not possible to work in it," the director explained.

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