2012年5月13日 星期日

Difference Between The Cyclops in the Book and in Movie

There are differences of Cyclops in the real epic poem and in the movie. In the book, Odysseus and his men waited for one full day until he was prepared for stabbing Polyphemeus' eyes. He prepared the wood staff and three cups of wine while Polyphemeus was tending the sheep outside the cave. However, in the movie, Odysseus provided Polyphemeus a cup of wine right away after he swallowed one man in one night. The Cyclops fell asleep. Then a musician in Odysseus' group played the bamboo flute as a lullaby for Polyphemeus. Odysseus stabbed the Cyclops' eye, made it blind, and escaped at the same night. Furthermore, in the movie, Polyphemeus ate the musician due to anger while other men were escaping. The musician wasn't fast enough to escape from the atrocious Cyclops. The wasn't the musician in the book. In the movie, Odysseus and his men escaped the cave when Polyphemeus was blind with panic. In the book, they escaped by hiding under the sheep' bellies on next morning. There weren't any sheep in the movie. In addition, Polyphemeus threw an enormous rock at Odysseus and his men, but not in the book. At the end of the book, Polyphemeus begged Odysseus to come back, but it didn't happen in the movie. The movie shortened the dialogue between Polyphemeus and Odysseus due to time restriction. However, the movie did include the important points from the book and successfully shorten the additional details, but not the plot.

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