Every famous death in The Odyssey is the same crime.
The Trojan War? Started because a houseguest stole his host's wife. The cyclops? Blinded for eating his visitors. The suitors? Slaughtered for overstaying their welcome in another man's home.
Nolan read it correctly. Homer wrote 3,000 years ago about one thing: how you treat strangers decides whether civilization holds.
Here's why the Greeks were obsessed with it. Ancient Greece had no hotels, no cops, no ID. If you traveled anywhere, you knocked on a stranger's door and hoped.
So they made hospitality sacred. Feed the stranger. Give him a bed. Don't ask his name until after dinner. Zeus himself enforced the rule, and any beggar at your door might be a god in disguise. So you treated every stranger like a king.
Break the rule and the gods break you. That's the entire plot.
We still carry the proof in our mouths. Guest, host, and hostile all come from the same ancient word. A stranger at your door was always both things at once.
Nolan bet $250 million that after 3,000 years, we still need the reminder. $257 million opening weekend, his biggest ever, says he was right.
Πέθανε ο Les Dilley στα 84 του χρόνια. Ποιος ήταν αυτός; Ήταν ένας από εκείνους τους αθόρυβους συντελεστές, χωρίς τους οποίους οι ταινίες που μας μεγάλωσαν δεν θα ήταν οι ίδιες. Art Director στα Star Wars IV και V, στο Alien και στο Raiders Of The Lost Arc (στο κέντρο της φωτό)
In the late 1970’s Spanish architect Ricardo Bofill transformed an abandoned cement factory outside of Barcelona into a his personal home and studio
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the funniest part abt all of this nonsense is that when black people see other black ppl in high positions, we TRUST that they are super qualified bc ain’t no way they just giving away those jobs to black ppl like they do whites 😩😩😩
We see endless examples of buildings like that on the left.
They don’t need to be demolished!
They can be reused and reimagined, like the competition proposal on the right
By Martin Duplantier Architects, in Paris
When “Fight Club” premiered at the 1999 Venice Film Festival, it got booed hard by the audience. Ed Norton said that as it was happening, Brad Pitt turned to him and said: “That’s the best movie I’m ever going to be in.”