@SpencerKlavan Great write up. I'm pretty unfamiliar with the classics but your argument seems sound. I think a big takeaway here is that Nolan didn't do this mindlessly. It seems there were clear intentions which at the very minimum elevates any creative choice.
@henskelion Yeah, that's kinda why I'm confused because when I heard him talking about it he wanted to give a sincere take to see if he could elevate the writing in any way, which does seem like a fun exercise.
Christopher Nolan on AI:
“I’ve never seen a more rapid wholesale dismissal of a supposedly foundational jump in technology in my lifetime. So much energy has been expended on bringing in AI, but if you look at that generation’s reaction, they’re utterly rejecting it. [My children’s] judgment of AI slop has been immediate and harsh. They see it for what it is very quickly – and it’s much easier for them to identify it, because it grew out of an online world they know really well. And while that doesn’t mean that every aspect of the technology is useless or meaningless, in film-making it’s hitting at exactly the wrong time. After years of driving towards heavily virtual environments, we’re seeing a renewed interest in more tactile, more real forms of storytelling.”
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YouTuber Danny Gonzalez wants YouTube to let you "turn off" Shorts altogether as they're his biggest frustration with the internet
"I feel like I would use the YouTube app so much more if you could turn off Shorts"
He’s right, I hate when I look something up and it shows me 4 results and the rest are shorts that usually aren’t even related, it’s so annoying, the app has become so useless
@PaulSkallas I think DFW died because of issues with his medication. I think this is an unfair reading of what he meant. And reframing one's perspective is a time old tradition dating back to stoicism and is in fact helpful.
This is stupid.
Nolan is a small-c conservative filmmaker. The Dark Knight Rises is a Burkean fable on revolutionary terror. Interstellar is about a father’s love and duty across generations. Dunkirk is a hymn to Western endurance. Oppenheimer was center-left in its politics, sure, but ultimately a tragedy of hubris that conservatives can appreciate.
These people exist to make the American Right culturally illiterate, irrelevant, and miserable. Ignore them.
The Odyssey is a long-form poem about a myth. It has a long history of being reinterpreted by artists, directors, & translators. Orson Welles cast Eartha Kitt as Helen of Troy back in 1950. Today's critics are culturally illiterate buffoons.
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