AdvertisementCultureCelebrityCinema What happened to all the sex in The Odyssey? Alamy Stock Photo “I feel pretty strongly that this is an Odyssey rewritten for contemporary 21st-century American, slightly masculinist culture.” But also you have Circe, this enticing witch, who – at least in the poem of The Odyssey – turns his men into pigs,” she says. Now, she’s not doing that in Nolan[’s film]; she’s a rather wonderful character ... but she’s not the same.” The Odyssey isn’t the only Nolan film to largely do away with sex.