Word: odyssey
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...Vanya, however, is bereft. His dream is to be reunited with his birth mother, whose name he does not know. With the help of one of the whores, he learns to read, breaks into the safe where his records are stored, discovers her whereabouts and enters upon an odyssey of discovery that is dangerous - he is, after all, only 6 - yet touched by occasional grace notes. He is pursued by the adoption agent and her very tough bodyguard (if they don't deliver the boy they will not receive their fee) and in his travels he encounters people who wish...
...Greece, Homer had a surprise hit. The Iliad was boffo, thanks to a strong revenge story mixing love, war and some fabulous poetic effects. So of course he thought of a sequel, spinning off one of the characters, Ulysses, into his own traveling adventure. Homer called that one The Odyssey, and it was an even bigger smash. Then, deciding he had exhausted the saga, he stopped...
...there's a reason it's called show business. Look, if the moguls had been Greeks, they would have given The Odyssey another title: Iliad II--better brand recognition. And they would surely have pressured Homer to come up with a threequel. Maybe Ulysses could go up against Hercules in a real battle of the titans. Why, it could outgross Freddy vs. Jason...
When I heard the news that four U.S. Marines were charged for their alleged role in the killing of 24 Iraqi civilians in the western town of Haditha in Nov. 2005, it marked the end of a personal odyssey...
...dropped entirely. But, Aronofsky persevered to create something perhaps more transcendent and timeless than one might expect of an independent director’s traumatic Hollywood debut. The film is set in three different time periods, spanning a millenium. Though the official website calls it “an odyssey about one man’s eternal struggle to save the woman he loves,” this is not exactly crystal clear throughout the movie. While Tomas (Hugh Jackman in 16th-century form) fights Mayan warriors in his quest to find the Fountain of Youth, Tommy (21st-century Jackman...