Homer, Nolan, the Seven Deadly Sins

Homer, Nolan, the Seven Deadly Sins
Homer, Nolan, the Seven Deadly Sins

After watching Christopher Nolan’s take on “The Odyssey,” Father Dwight Longenecker remembered a comment Steven Spielberg made in a movie commentary while discussing how viewers react to symbolism in cinema.

The legendary director, a progressive Jew, was responding to comments that prominent crosses in the “Saving Private Ryan” cemetery scenes suggested that the hero was a Christ figure who suffere…