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John Jurgensen covers music, television and digital entertainment from The Wall Street Journal's headquarters in New York.
Before joining the The Journal, he was a reporter for the Associated Press and The Hartford (Conn.) Courant.

Born in Carlisle, Penn., Mr. Jurgensen received a bachelor’s degree from Skidmore College and a master’s degree from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.

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Christopher Nolan Breaks Down the Epic Scene at the Center of ‘The Odyssey’

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By John Jurgensen Verified
| Tovima
Μake us preferred on Google On a vast beach in Morocco last year, waves were pummeling one of humanity’s oldest plot devices. Christopher Nolan’s version of the Trojan Horse—35 feet tall and rearing on hind legs—was half buried in sand on the Atlantic coast. In the filmmaker’s imagination, the trick of hiding Greek warriors inside a wood contraption was more believable if it looked like a waterlogged offering to a god left by a departed army.
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克里斯托弗·诺兰解析《奥德赛》核心史诗级场景

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By John Jurgensen Verified
| The Wall Street Journal (China) Verified
去年，在摩洛哥一片广袤的海滩上，海浪不断拍打着人类历史上最古老的情节道具之一。 克里斯托弗·诺兰(Christopher Nolan)打造的特洛伊木马高达35英尺，用后腿直立，半掩在大西洋海岸的沙滩中。在这位导演的构想里，要让希腊战士藏身木制装置的计谋显得更加可信，这个木马就得看起来像是一支撤退大军留给神明、被海水浸泡过的祭品。 Copyright ©2026 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Christopher Nolan Breaks Down the Epic Scene at the Center of ‘The Odyssey’

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Nolan’s IMAX version of ‘The Odyssey’ reinvents literature’s most famous plot device, applying old-school Hollywood techniques to conjure the intense drama of the Trojan Horse The image of a beached horse came to ‘The Odyssey’ director over 20 years ago. Melinda Sue Gordon On a vast beach in Morocco last year, waves were pummeling one of humanity’s oldest plot devices.
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