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[Culture Crave 🍿 @CultureCrave]

Michael B Jordan showing support for Tom Holland at the 'Spider-Man: Brand New Day' premiere 🕸️

"What a legend" — Tom Holland

[Zero @zerowontmiss]

Bond is so goated even magic spells couldn’t break it #SpiderManBrandNewDay

[The Cyber Shepherd @CyberShepherd]

@BreitbartNews didn’t know @BreitbartNews had become so woke!

[The Cyber Shepherd @CyberShepherd]

@Just_JasMarie so damn good & on point 🎯. agency requires you know & validate yourself

[cal @hajunluvr]

this kinda hit even harder when u grew up and realizing that adults were unnecessarily mean to u as a child when i was just like wow i couldnt even tell my younger self that!

[GBC @GBC_Press]

🇮🇪 Catherine Connolly, who described Israel as a “terrorist state” and accused it of committing genocide in Gaza, has been elected President of Ireland by a landslide.

[The Cyber Shepherd @CyberShepherd]

@Camsiyonna1 so grateful this is real media and not ai! @kristenschaaled is the bestest

[Camsiyo @Camsiyonna1]

Answer hiding in plain sight in the questions themselves. Reynie doesn't miss.
The Mysterious Benedict Society📽️

[The Cyber Shepherd @CyberShepherd]

@_Zeets had to watch a few times… extraordinary: “confusing police regulations with law”

[Flint Dibble 🍖🏺 @FlintDibble]

I'm a huge Emily Wilson fan She taught me ancient Greek. I've assigned her translations to my students. I interviewed her about translating the Odyssey a few weeks ago for my YouTube

I'm not a fan of this review.

And for what, I think, are good reasons (SPOILERS)
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[The Cyber Shepherd @CyberShepherd]

@jasonwblakely excellent review and analysis

[Jason Blakely @jasonwblakely]

I know Emily Wilson is viral for savaging Nolan's Odyssey but give some attention instead to reading the superb review of the film by the great USC classicist (& my friend) Prof. Stefano Rebeggiani, who sees in it a legitimate & beautiful narrative logic! https://t.co/oerp05IZUU

[Vassiliki Souladaki @Vsouladaki]

As a Greek, I was introduced to Homer almost as soon as I learned to read. His epics are among the first great works we encounter at school, and they remain a living part of our cultural consciousness.
Given that, I really don't care whether Christopher Nolan has remained completely faithful to Homer or has taken creative liberties.

What truly matters is that he has brought Homer back into the world's imagination. If his film encourages people to return to the Odyssey, discover the Iliad, or venture further into the treasures of classical literature, then it has already accomplished something extraordinary. Any work of art that sends people back to the source has, in my view, made a genuine contribution to culture.

[Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates]

filmmakers must be gazing slack-jawed at all the attention Christopher Nolan is receiving & approximately one-half of that attention angry denunciations & insults. in an industry in which the average talented filmmaker tries, tries, tries to get a project funded & tries, tries, tries to get it completed & hopes, hopes, hopes that it might get shown at a film festival & get a distributor however modest to observe this virtual conflagration of attention one of their own is receiving must be frankly terrifying.

most creative persons fly, or crawl, quietly beneath the radar. we are rarely attacked because no one knows about us & those who do are a small coterie; we are not important enough to draw a blaze of attention, thank God.

[Laura Robinson @LauraRbnsn]

I have a ton of respect for Wilson's work but I get the impression she neither watches nor enjoys movies.
Which is fine, it just means she's a bit out of her wheelhouse here. Most of the things she calls out the movie for not addressing are actually addressed, just not in

[Boşuna Tıklama @bosunatiklama]

İstanbul'da bir sinema salonunda The Odyssey izleyen kedi:

[☀️👀 @zei_squirrel]

Ben Affleck's mother Chris Affleck passed today. I was unaware of her longstanding activism for Palestine. Now his disgust and revulsion at genocidal Zionist Bill Maher and Sam Harris's deranged racist Islamophobic rants makes perfect sense. RIP, you raised a good son.

[Heavy Spoilers @heavyspoilers]

“What if the Odysseus you knew lost his way? What if...one night, in a strange city, he saw things that made him think the home he knew couldn't possibly be there anymore. What if…when he left the belly of the horse, and opened the gates of Troy, he saw ten years of rage pour into that city in one night?

We left them a gift, an offering of peace, that they took into their home. We violated all that's ever sacred between people. It turned a fight into a hunt.

To burn the walls of Troy was to burn the world-entire.”

[Paul Tassi @PaulTassi]

Don’t care how much I get yelled at on this dumbass site, Elliot Page was genuinely great in his Odyssey scenes

[Harnidh Kaur @harnidhish]

Some very scattered thoughts on The Odyssey. Also, caveat that I know much more about Homer than I know about films, so this is very much a literature person reacting to a movie. SPOILERS AHEAD (how can you spoil a 5000 year old poem…)

- I don’t really care whether it’s “faithful.” There is no single faithful Odyssey. Every translation is already an interpretation.
- The music score was just…unremarkable. I kept waiting for the music ro do something to me and it didnt. It was just loud.
- Matt Damon will win the Oscar for the siren scene
- I wish Hollywood let women be this complicated more often.
- Penelope is one of the best parts of Homer and I was glad the film understood that.
- Matt Damon completely surprised me. I wasn’t sold on the casting. I thought he was fantastic.
- The weariness of the film is intentional. By the time Odysseus gets home, you’re exhausted too.
- The modern language didn’t bother me at all. Stopped noticing after 10 mins.
- Circe is one of the biggest departures from Homer. Instead of simply being a witch, she’s a woman responding to violent men arriving at her home.
- The biggest change is replacing divine punishment with guilt. In Homer, Poseidon keeps Odysseus from getting home. Here, it feels like Odysseus can’t forgive himself.
- The “Sea Peoples” bit gutted me because suddenly Troy feels less like a glorious victory and more like a gross violation. Originally the sack of Troy was sanctioned by gods but here it’s the violation of Xenia (Zeus’s law) so uhhh.
- The near absence of the gods was fascinating. Because they’re talked about constantly and they’re almost never present.
- the Athena reveal scene fucked me uuuup.
- I think Nolan is using Homer to say something about modern war. PTSD, shame, veterans unable to truly come ‘home’, innocents and bystanders dealing with the consequence of war.
- Tom Holland’s Telemachus was perfect. He’s a boy raised without a father. This is his coming-of-age story too.
- Robert Pattinson is delicious. More films should let him play pathetic little men.
- I still have absolutely no idea what Nolan was doing with the Laestrygonians.

Overall:
Enjoyed. Dont go for faithfulness or education. Go to be awed.