Nolan publicly saying he referenced her translations a lot while working on the movie and then her saying this is one of those things that reinforces why so much of the public finds academics insufferably snobbish and elitist
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New York and the people in it being a character themselves is one of my favourite things about the Raimi trilogy, it helps make the world feel lived in and that it doesn't solely revolve around Peter, these people have lives, ordinary people helping the hero is a great moment
I think it's vitally important to see what the public thinks of Spider-Man, especially when you have a newspaper trying to ruin his reputation. Without stuff like that you don't get stuff like this
does anyone else feel like humanity has fundamentally betrayed ourselves and the world and that we are now living in a perpetual apocalypse of our own making or is it just me and uh. acclaimed blockbuster filmmaker christopher nolan
I think it’s pretty obvious that two things can be true: it’s highly desirable to see The Odyssey in the full aspect ratio given that it was shot to be experienced that way, and ALSO Chris Nolan is competent enough to compose his images so that they look good even when cropped
Reform paraded a woman at their conference who tweeted "Set fire to all the fucking hotels full of the bastards for all I care, while you are at it take the treacherous government & politicians with them.
This is how adaptation works. This is how adaptation has always worked. Anybody with any understanding of the arts and history understands this.
But we live in an age of dumb, angry and (occasionally even literally) illiterate shouting idiots with no grasp of culture or history.
People rightly talk about the film's groundbreaking digital effects, but the heart of Jurassic Park is the scientist overwhelmed with awe at seeing the creatures he's studied his whole life alive and in the flesh. And it doesn't work unless Sam Neill sells the hell out it.
Again, for the people that don't know how to read and just like to use the word "woke":
"Every best picture winner in the Academy’s 98-year history — from the 'Wings' in 1929 through 'One Battle After Another' — clears the Oscars' new inclusion rules."
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