Tell me, O Muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he made movies about Batman and Oppie. Thats been the cry of every movie fan since Christopher Nolan announced that his next movie would be an adaptation of epic Homeric poem The Odyssey. Surprisingly, we dont have to rely on secrets of the Muses to learn about one aspect of Nolans approach.The first image of star Matt Damon as hero Odysseus has hit the internet, giving us our first indication of Nolans thought process. And must of us are reacting by nodding and saying, Yep, thats about what I expected Matt Damon as a Greek hero to look like.One social media user, however, disagreed. A user with the handle Big Serge pointed out that The Iliad describes Odysseuss headgear as a kino leather helmet adorned with boar tusks, not the more broom-top helmet seen in the picture.That observation underscores an important aspect of Nolans take on The Odyssey. Unlike, say, Robert Eggerss painstaking period recreations in The Witch and The Northman, Nolan does not seem to put historical accuracy first. Rather, hes going for classic Hollywood homage, a tribute to the movies of his youth. While the costume Damon sports doesnt look much like Kirk Douglass duds in the 1954 movie Ulysses (using the characters Roman name) or by Bekim Fehmiu in the 1968 TV miniseries, it does recall depictions of Ancient Greece in productions such as The 300 Spartans (1962) and Jason and the Argonauts (1963).