Darnel Williams

[Vivek @avrtweets7]

Eurylochus: “What was the song of the Sirens like?”

Odysseus: “All the things you wanted to be, and then all the things you wished you never wished for. It was a delicious itch you want to scratch, but you find it under the skin and can’t reach it. So the delicious itch becomes unbearable. It told you what you most want is what you most can’t have, and that the most you can’t have is what you already had and lost. It was a song of all the promises I failed to keep. And it told me I don’t really want to go home.”

This whole scene is actually INSANE

The Sirens aren’t just tempting Odysseus with some beautiful song.
They’re showing him
every person he wanted to become, every desire he regrets,
every promise he broke, and
everything he had before the war that he can never get back.

“I don’t really want to go home” hits differently. He spent all those years trying to return to Ithaca, but actually reaching home means facing his wife, his son, all his failures, and the fact that he isn’t the same man who left.

He doesn’t only miss home. He misses who he was when home still felt like home.

And the way Nolan presents it? Odysseus tied down, completely helpless, while the Sirens drag every buried feeling out of him.
No unnecessary explanation,
No forced dialogue
just one man admitting the truth he has been running from.

Absolutely goated writing from the GOAT himself 🐐

#TheOdyssey #ChristopherNolan #Odysseus

[Variety @Variety]

Elon Musk is being slammed for vowing to use AI to make his own #TheOdyssey movie after repeatedly criticizing Christopher Nolan's film.

"Clearly Elon Musk doesn’t know shit about cinema & he stopped reading in his 20s. His opinions on art are worthless," wrote "Doctor Strange" and "The Black Phone" director Scott Derrickson in a post on X.

In March, Musk wrote that “Chris Nolan is an anti-White racist” for casting Lupita Nyong’o in the role of Helen of Troy, asserting that the director made the decision because “he wants the awards.” Musk said “Chris Nolan has lost his integrity” and called the casting an “insult” to Homer. Musk also took aim at Elliott Page, who plays Sinon in “The Odyssey,” reposting comments that mocked the actor’s masculinity.

https://t.co/FKCQG3UbSQ

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

Nietzsche said a lot of contradictory stuff but one of his most consistent ideas is that archaic western culture used to value brute strength for its own sake but Judeo-Christianity inverted the relationship between strength and goodness and encouraged the strong to feel guilt and pity for the weak. He revered Homer's Odysseus much more than a contemporary Christian priest.

So it's funny that Nolan made The Odyssey kinda Christian—accentuating the main character's guilt, trauma—and then many Christian conservatives, who decided that they were going to hate the movie because it had a Black actress in the wrong role, instead have to twist themselves into the pretzel of arguing that making the Odyssey Christian is "woke" and they just really wanted to see a movie and hero that properly embodied the very same archaic and anti-Christian values that in any other context they would consider abhorrent.

[Variety @Variety]

'Doctor Strange' Director Says Elon Musk 'Doesn't Know S--- About Cinema' After Musk Vows to Make AI 'Odyssey': 'His Opinions on Art Are Worthless' https://t.co/hZ1nU2H8i4

[Darnel Williams @HemlocKoolade]

@pureMetatron What’s the twist? A woman who translates one of the most translated works ever didn’t get the movie?

[Hill Belichick 🇺🇦 @HillBofPI]

This is exactly how you would use a high tension bow like this at close range. You're not going to waste time and energy with a full draw if you're trying to hit an unarmored target five meters away.

[Darnel Williams @HemlocKoolade]

@countdraguIa SHE did amazing. Stop trying to take away from a female actress

[Darnel Williams @HemlocKoolade]

@CaitlinPacific Wow, sucks when you miss out on the mighty dollar that Emily Watson brings to the table

[Darnel Williams @HemlocKoolade]

@maiamindel She definitely didn’t say that at all lmao

[Darnel Williams @HemlocKoolade]

@rhymewithocean After two decades of Iraq and Afghanistan, this film hit home for a lot of folks. Sorry you missed that era but…

[Darnel Williams @HemlocKoolade]

@TheElusiveEye1 @KnightWing19 It wasn’t meant to appeal to feminists, weirdo.

[Darnel Williams @HemlocKoolade]

@KnightWing19 Imagine listening to Emily Wilson critique Nolan’s film. What is she known for again? Now compare that to what Nolan has done…

[Darnel Williams @HemlocKoolade]

@dj_bruja

[Paul Muad’Dib @trygraptor]

Dr. Emily Wilson is a smarter person than i am

but as i mull over her comments on Nolan’s The Odyssey, i find myself wondering what a movie would look like that centered the ancient Greek ideals of glory

i think it probably ends up looking kind of like 300

[WIRED @WIRED]

Elon Musk and the online right convinced themselves that Christopher Nolan’s “woke” epic would go down in flames. Now they’re crashing out. https://t.co/W7JQSblTh7

[Darnel Williams @HemlocKoolade]

@sneky_quetzal And who cares what someone who translated the odyssey thinks about the movie? Is she a film expert?

[Darnel Williams @HemlocKoolade]

@StartusharMr Not fair at all. She is only know for translating one of the most translated works in human history. Her voice should remain 🤫 when talking cinema

[Darnel Williams @HemlocKoolade]

@CecereCarl He is a theater kid playing the role of a grumpy conservative for Blaze TV. Nothing more 🤷‍♂️

[Darnel Williams @HemlocKoolade]

@McConnelDem Bro her whole job is to translate one of the most translated stories in history. Who cares what she says about cinema?

[Darnel Williams @HemlocKoolade]

@emm_cee22 @damespjuffy Heck off, commie. You don’t deserve access to education or culture for free 🤷‍♂️