The Odyssey has survived for nearly 3,000 years because form matters: names, speech, armor, hierarchy, beauty, courage, piety, homecoming, and the moral weight of the ancient world.

But when an epic starts sounding like a Marvel trailer, people are right to ask whether the old world has been understood or merely used.

A director can adapt Homer, but adaptation should still carry the weight of Homer’s world.

When I go to see The Odyssey, I am not only looking for a plot. I am looking for the world that shaped the story: its language, honor, gods, rituals, hierarchy, beauty, fear, and longing for home.

If the ancient poem is only being used as raw material for a modern blockbuster, then why call it The Odyssey at all?

Create your own myth. Give it a different title. Let Homer remain Homer.