The 11 Obstacles(The Journey of Odysseus)

Carli Jaff and Emily Magee

Movie Plot- The Intro

• The movie will start with a Father telling the story of Odysseus to his daughter and son.

• He will begin by talking about Odysseus when he is asked to fight in the Trojan war and the Father will explain to the children what the Oracle predicted.

• The viewers will see the Father and children until the story gets to the point where Odysseus gets the idea to create the Trojan Horse.

Movie Plot: The Trojan War

The movie will switch from the children and their father to seeing Odysseus winning the Trojan War.

Only a small portion of the War will be shown because the movie will focus on the story of Odysseus’ long journey home.

Movie Plot: The Journey Home

As the Oracle predicted Odysseus had a 20 year journey home. In these 20 years he came up against eleven obstacles.

The Cicones The Lotus-Eaters Polyphemus Aeolus The Laestrygonians Circe Journey to the Underworld The Sirens Scylla and Charybdis The Cattle of Helios Calypso and the

Phaeacians

These obstacles will make a good movie, because they are full of adventure which will be appealing to our targeted audience. There is also information about some of the aspects of Greek mythology in Odysseus’ return home, that people will be interested in.

The Eleven Obstacles

Map of Places in Odysseus’ Travels

Map of His Route

Polyphemus Polyphemus was an

important part of his journey home because he was the one who asked his father, the god Posiden to not let Odysseus return home to Ithica, and if he were to return to Ithica to have him return alone, without any of his men accompanying him.

This is also an interesting part of his story when Odysseus lives up to his nick name Odysseus the Cunning.

Other Tasks

Polyphemus is not Odysseus’ only interesting adventure. His other encountures will also supply exciting media for the audience.

When he came up against The Cicones on their island there was a battle in which Odysseus lost six rows of his men.

When he met the lotus eaters, some of his men dined with them and became addicted to the lotus’ and had to be tied onto the ship when they left the island, so they wouldn’t stay just to eat the lotus.

The Movie will end after Odysseus loses all of his men and returns home to Ithica.

The last scene that shows him will be him returning to his wife and now grown up children after 20? Years.

This is a good ending, because it will give the audience a happy ending to complete the movie.

Movie Plot- The End

Movie Plot- The Bedtime Story

Our movie will start with a father reading a bedtime story to his two small children. This is how the story will be introduced.

Through out the rest of the movie, there will be interuptions of the father telling the story to his children.

Comedy: From the children as they comment on the story.

Transitions in the story: It will be a good way to flow from one part of the story to another.

Historical information: The father will be trying to teach the children historical information on Greece as he tells the story.

What these interruptions will provide:

The father will give historical information as a way to incorporate facts that will be interesting to the viewers and that will also teach them something about Greece and how Greek life fits in with the story.

Some information that we might have the father say:a) Information on what Odysseus’ boat may have

looked like.b) What they may have eaten. c) Where some of his journey may have taken place. d) How a war was fought.And much more information that will beneficial to the

viewer.

Historical Information

The movie will be rated PG-13 and it will be directed to an audience of teenagers to middle-aged people.

They movie will be suitable for the audience because it will be intense action with some historical facts that adults will be interested in and teenagers will also find interesting because they are tied into an exciting story.

Movie Rating

The movie will tie in with Greek life because this was one of their stories and shows many aspects of Greek Warfare, Myths and the people that may have existed.

It will also tie in historically because we will add extra details and build off of what the Odyssey tells us and put it into context with Greek Life

Why It Applies to Greek Life

Craig, Albert M., William A. Graham, Donald Kagan, Steven M Ozment, and Frank M. Turner. The Heritage of World Civilizations: Volume One to 1700 (7th Edition) (Heritage of World Civilizations). Alexandria, VA: Prentice Hall, 2005.

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Homer. The Odyssey. London: Penguin Classics, 1999.

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Picture Bibliography (In order of appearance)