See I don’t get this - the Gods are 100% in the movie. They just aren’t human figures. They are forces of nature and feeling. You feel the rage of Zeus, the wrath of Poseidon, the mourning of Hades, the wisdom of Athena, etc.
If anything, this made their impact more for me
“It is probably viewers who haven’t read Homer who are likeliest to enjoy ‘The Odyssey’ ”—Christopher Nolan’s version—Richard Brody writes. This is not, he argues, because much of the poem is necessarily left out of the film adaptation but because of one pervasive absence: the gods. Aside from Athena (Zendaya), the classical Greek pantheon is largely absent from Nolan’s movie, even though it controls each moment of the epic poem.
“Instead, Nolan unfolds a purely human drama,” Brody continues, a slimmed-down, naturalistic version of the story that tempers the ancient sensibilities of its source text. Matt Damon’s Odysseus is “impassive and burdened,” not powerful and mercurial. What are the costs of rendering The Odyssey for modern times? Brody considers the strengths—and the limitations—of an epic adaptation constrained by contemporary morality: https://t.co/qXhbK4lSK4
Geniunely one of the best theatrical experiences in a while. Not only my first time with 70mm, but also my first film on film! God what a movie to do it with. It’s big, bold, and everything blockbuster filmmaking strives towards. You feel it all. Incredible 10/10 #Odyssey
Nothing better than a summer Spielberg movie night in a packed theater with friends!
Steven thank you for all of the hours of joy that you have given us in the cinema!! It has been a great honor and pleasure to have worked with you and to call you my friend.
Congratulations to my dear friend Emily and the entire group of artists that created this movie. You were superb.
We all loved Disclosure Day!!
One of the most delightful things about the success of BACKROOMS has been listening to its director, Kane Parsons, thoughtfully articulate why generative AI is so ... unfulfilling. https://t.co/DkNYyp4aGC
felt my heart drop to my stomach during the entire found footage sequence especially this scene, the horror in trying to recreate memories but misremembering everything. vanishing into the floor, half-formed, disfigured, fleeting. the still lifes never quite getting it right.