She's not acting like that. She's giving her opinion as a scholar with an expertise on the subject.
Let's be real, these types are never going to be satisfied with a film adaptation. They are the quintessential "THE BOOK IS BETTER THAN THE MOVIE" types. And that's fine.
She is 100% entitled to her opinions but she needs to stop acting like her interpretation is the only one. The way she talks you’d think she wrote odyssey herself instead of being one of hundreds (maybe thousands) who have translated their interpretation of it.
I love all these haters, who previously slandered this woman, suddenly glomming onto her criticisms of the film (very telling what picture they used of her when they hated her versus now, by the way).
But her criticisms are fundamentally different than your own. Why? Because they come from a literate perspective and criticize elements of theme and substance.
Translator Emily Wilson doubles down on slamming Christopher Nolan's Odyssey:
“Nolan���s Odyssey lacks many of the elements that make the poem great. It has nothing convincing to say about time, memory, history, war, or about the relationship between one warrior’s glorious return and the lives of his family, adversaries, comrades, friends and neighbours. It lacks psychological, emotional, political and ethical depth. Its narrative structure is gimmicky. The writing is abysmal. None of the characters has convincing motivation for their actions or words. There are no sex scenes, and all the food looks horrible.”
“I would be ashamed to have written any part of this script.”
Did Nolan botch this more than anything in his career?
@XommandoPrime It was critically panned, but found an audience. It performed well. Ewe Boll is considering a sequel according to the Wikipedia article I just read.
So?
Odyssey is not projected to rank in the top 100 highest grossing films after adjusting for inflation. Dark Knight and Dark Knight Rises were in the 50s. Odyssey was Nolan's most ambitious film with most compelling subject material. Artistic failure. Hopefully Nolan's last film.
The reason rightoids are so obsessed with the idea The Odyssey sucks and everyone hates it and it's actually failing is because they made the incredibly stupid decision to run their "wokeness guarantees bad movie" play on a fucking Christopher Nolan flick and now they're scrambling to salvage the grift
Normally they attack woke Hollywood casting and the movie they're attacking is - like - the Ghostbusters all-female reboot or a Supergirl movie nobody wanted. For some reason this time they decided to run the grift on a film by Christopher Nolan, a man who's only made one arguably bad movie in Tenet and has never really had a flop except for Tenet, which came out during Covid and still made $360 million.
Why you would run a grift about how this woke movie is guaranteed to flop on a film by one of the best directors of all time whose movies always make money is beyond me. Due to this insanely stupid tactical error, they now need to make up ridiculous conspiracy theories about how everyone secretly hates this incredibly successful film because they're desperate to save face
‘THE ODYSSEY’ is currently eyeing a $1.1–1.3 billion finish at the worldwide box office.
It would become Christopher Nolan’s highest grossing film ever, surpassing ‘The Dark Knight Rises.’
Nolan’s Odyssey needs to make 4.8 trillion dollars just to break even, bro. It’s the biggest flop of all time, bro. Hollywood Jews are placing robot viewers in theaters to hide that literally not one person on earth bought a ticket, bro. Go woke, go broke, bro.
Hollywood is so desperate for the Odyssey to be a success that the studio is buying tickets to fake tickets sales, and rotten tomatoes is snubbing bad reviews, It’s like they refuse to allow Nolan to have a flop, and refuse to admit this was a failure.
What a retard. Just because a culture normalizes violence doesn’t mean it erases the trauma and guilt associated with committing barbarism and cruelty. It just makes it forbidden to express it.
Even Emily Wilson is now attacking The Odyssey for misrepresenting Ancient Greek beliefs. Odysseus would not have suffered from “guilt” or “trauma.” These feelings were quite alien to the Mycenaeans. Glory in battle was their ultimate goal. When Achilles is told he can live a long, obscure life or a short but glorious one, he doesn’t hesitate.
By the way, I saw the Odyssey in a normal theater (non-IMAX) on a Tuesday night and it was full to 90-95% capacity. The distortions and cope happening on this site are insane.
I demand a historically accurate version of the story with the giant cyclops in it from a guy who couldn’t make a historically accurate version of Braveheart.
Just saw The Odyssey. Pretty good. A little long for my tastes, but I guess that’s to be expected from an epic. Wasn’t even remotely “woke” or whatever. 7.5/10