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Sophocles's Oedipus the King and Spielberg's Minority Report.(Critical Essay)

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From: The Explicator
Date: 20050622
Author:Sutton, Brian

Many English teachers today pair older, canonical works with recent films that strongly allude to those earlier works--Mrs. Dalloway and The Hours, for example, or Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now. One pairing teachers might consider is Sophocles's Oedipus the King with Steven Spielberg's 2002 film Minority Report. While it would be an exaggeration to call Minority Report a futuristic retelling of the Oedipus story, the film does borrow most of the central elements of Sophocles's play. In particular, the play and the film share an emphasis on literal and symbolic vision and ...

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