Like Scorsese, Spielberg should be uncredited co-author of every movie, IMO. He's intimately involved in architecture of the story, either from the ground up or during rewrites, and finally on set, where he improvises entire setpieces on the fly.

Over and above Thin Red Line, dunno, TRL is a poem and probably is greater than SPR. But I think SPR is still great. It’s been awhile since I saw it.

True. Also thinking of the multiplicity of his contending urges between Archaic Greek Homeric versions of gentlemanliness (host of the funeral games, meeting with Priam), and his cruelties (treatment of Hector's body, human sacrifice). Thoughts on Jonathan Shay's psychological treatment of Achilles?

Definitely. For instance (as per Richard Martin et al), Achilles talks like a poet - and he's born of both divine and mortal parents. Conversely, multiple, poly Odysseus is also in some ways single-minded; the epithet "polytlas", much-enduring/ resilient/ patient, speaks to that goal-oriented focus.

re Achilles, Odysseus is often the character of multiplicity, and Achilles the singular swift-footed one, but would you say Achilles has multiplicities, complexities of his own, even as this very intense, singularly heroic warrior?