Mike Leigh's _Naked_ is a fantastic version of the _Odyssey_. There are also Dassin's _A Dream of Passion_, which is a couple of Medea stories, and Pasolini's _Edipo Re_. Rachel Gabara Program in Comparative Literature University of Michigan On Mon, 20 Jan 1997, Tania Kamal-Eldin wrote: > I was wondering if anyone might have suggestions for loosely based > metaphors...Films which derive from classics and myths, mostly Ancient > Greek traditions but also Asian and Irish. > > > For example: > > Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai: Homer's Illiad > > Peter Fonda's Easy Rider: Homer's Odyssey > > Antonia's Line: The Lyrics of Sappho > > Werner Herzog's Aguirre: The Wrath of God: Sophocles' Ajax > > Truffaut's Jules et Jim: Sophocle's Trachinians > > Neil Jordan's Crying Game: Bacchae > > Sleepers: Sophocles' Antigone/ Euripides' Medea > > Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal: Bible: Revelations > > > THANKS>>>>> > > TANIA > > ---- > To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L > in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask] > ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]