Another difference between the film and The Odyssey is that in the poem Odysseus stayed in Polyphemus’ cave for one night and one morning until Polyphemus son of Poseidon returned the next day in which they blinded him by heating up a sharp iron stick and stabbing him in the eye. However, in the movie, the whole blinding Polyphemus scene happened on the same day but this time Odysseus and his men used a wooden stick to blind him. In the film we only see two of Odysseus’ men get eaten by Polyphemus when in the poem six of his men were eaten. We also find that in the film Odysseus and his men escape Polyphemus by putting sheep fur on top of their body when in the poem it says they escape by riding the belly of one sheep. This was the reason why
