LOS ANGELES, CA — As critics continued to heap praise on Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey, fans heavily criticized the blockbuster film for what they argue is a slew of unnecessary changes to Homer's original epic, notably the depiction of a wooden "Trojan Horse" rather than the historically accurate large wooden rabbit.
The film received significant backlash early on for its casting, costumes, and use of modern English. Still, with Christopher Nolan attached, it was all but guaranteed to be a box office smash — until a trailer dropped showing the traditional Trojan Rabbit replaced by a horse.
"How do you get the most famous part of the story wrong?" said one moviegoer. "Ellen Page is a man, and now the famous Trojan Rabbit is a horse? This movie's gone woke!"
Though changes from page to screen are not out of the ordinary for a big Hollywood production, historians were quick to call out Nolan for the mess he'd created. "Everyone knows rabbits were among the most prized gifts in the ancient world. Why would anyone care about a wooden horse?"
Nolan responded to the controversy by admitting that he intended to view the story of The Odyssey through a modern lens. "Bronze Age warriors might have opened the city gates for a rabbit, but no one today would do that," he said. "So I had to think long and hard about what someone today would risk their national security for, and there were only two options before me: illegal immigrants and horses. And a horse, I think, is more in keeping with the spirit of a rabbit."
At publishing time, The Odyssey had broken box office records as people flocked to the cinemas to hate-watch.
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