Kayode Afe

Ex-Photographer. Retired Poet. Retired Writer. Finance Professional. Drummer. Interests: Music, Tech, Finance, Comics.

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

Doctoral student and podcaster Zhong Shu interviewed Christopher Nolan about THE ODYSSEY yesterday in Beijing, China.

Originally shared on Bilibili, it’s one of the most fascinating conversations about the film so far.

[Biswajit Rath @ibiswarath]

One thing I've noticed about Christopher Nolan's interviews in China compared to those with the Hollywood press is that he often gets the opportunity to speak at much greater length in China. The conversations tend to be more philosophical and centered on history, literature, storytelling, and the ideas behind his films.

By contrast, many interviews with the American press are largely promotional. The questions often revolve around IMAX, practical effects, shooting on real locations, film stock, or the scale of the production. Nolan ends up telling the same stories repeatedly, like how a friend took him to watch an IMAX documentary in Chicago when he was sixteen, how he fell in love with the format, and how he eventually fulfilled his ambition of making an entire feature in IMAX. The same happens with the cast, who are repeatedly asked about shooting on real locations, practical effects, and working in IMAX.

I don't think that's a reflection on Nolan himself. It's largely a consequence of the questions being asked. When interviewers move beyond the promotional talking points, Nolan almost always has fascinating things to say about philosophy, history, narrative structure, and filmmaking.

That's exactly why I've created a playlist of interviews like this one. They offer genuine insight into how Nolan thinks, rather than repeating the same promotional questions over and over.

[Mr Neutrino @ufmannn]

25 Billion to buy Harrenhal lmao

[Sr. @JustAFamilyMan_]

Peruvians of Japanese descent are on a generational run in Peru. They make up 0.6% of the population and have been president 4 out of the last 9 times.

[SMB Attorney @SMB_Attorney]

The full story here is NUTS 🤯

TLDR dude hikes 6.5 hours to avoid a helicopter medical bill impaled while his friends make kebab jokes…

> 32yo ER nurse named David is day-hiking Montana’s tallest mountain with his boys

> He slips on a rock near the top and full-on impales himself on his own trekking pole that goes clean through his lat with like 8 inches sticking out both sides

> nurse brain kicks in immediately, checks himself, realizes nothing vital got hit and he can still breathe fine
says screw the helicopter bill and just starts hiking the entire 10 miles back down with the pole still stuck in him

> takes SIX AND A HALF hours, friends are spotting him the whole way, one even runs ahead to warn families so kids don’t see this gnarly shit

> about 4 miles from the car they realize they’re actually gonna make it… and start cracking kebab jokes 😂

> dude never complained once, stayed in weirdly high spirits the whole time

> walks himself all the way to the trailhead, gets the pole pulled out later at the hospital, and already says he’s going back next year to finish the summit

[Melio Nitesco @ciaozoomer]

The worst cyber attack in history was prevented because one person noticed a compromised linux distro was slowing his system down by fractions of a second.

[Mr. Láyí @layiwasabi]

buy gncc form and i will tell you

[Rahul Raj @x_rahulraj]

Btw, this is his family CV

[Lola Okunrin @lollypeezle]

If you see a Nigerian Politician do this, it must be a campaign season and the PR is just for 15 minutes.

[Mayowa A. Balogun @Sweeegu]

We need so so many factories bro. Factories, call centres. Just places of labor.

If you don clock in before trust me, one year of consistent clock in, you will value your spare time

[Immortal Stat @immortalstats]

Faith Vs Innovation : A Tale Of Two Investments

[Pubity @pubity]

The President of the Czech Republic spends his vacations being a professional photographer for F1 and other motorsports.

Petr Pavel has full media credentials and is just there for the love of the game.

[@Steven_Strauss @Steven_Strauss]

Life goals

[Natali Simmonds @NJSimmondsbooks]

Some might call all of this extra work pretentious but I think it's fun that Nolan challenges his creative teams. How cool they got the chance to learn from history and play replicas of ancient instruments. I appreciate this level of artistry and they look so proud of themselves.

[Movie Moments Analyst @Real_Moviescene]

For The Odyssey (2026), Christopher Nolan told Ludwig Göransson, "No orchestra," because they didn't exist in the Bronze Age, forcing him to instead record himself striking 35 bronze gongs, scrap metal, and air-conditioning units — creating a completely unheard, raw soundscape.

[Cinemark Theatres @Cinemark]

The intro everyone's talking about (rightfully, so)!

Hear from Brandon, a projectionist at Cinemark Dallas XD and IMAX, as he gives his IMAX 70mm pre-film intro before The Odyssey 👏

[Manchester United @ManUtd]

What. A. Goal. 😍

[All The Right Movies @ATRightMovies]

Christopher Nolan said he's only seen the crew applaud an actor on set twice in his career. This first was Heath Ledger as the Joker, the second was Samantha Morton as Circe in THE ODYSSEY.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Cucurella keeps his hair long so his autistic son can always recognize him. Without knowing it, he landed on something autism researchers have been documenting since 1978.

Most brains identify people from internal facial features. The eyes, the spacing, the way a mouth sits. Studies of autistic children keep finding a different strategy: many rely more on external features. Hairline, hair, glasses, silhouette.

The likely reason is that faces are hard to read when eye contact feels aversive or uninformative, so the visual system anchors on the most stable, high-contrast cue available. A face changes with every expression. A huge mane of curly hair looks the same from across a room, in a crowd, on a TV screen.

Which means this isn't just a sweet gesture. A professional athlete reverse-engineered his own son's perception and made himself easier to find.

He turned his head into the one thing in his son's world that never changes.