“What if the Odysseus you knew lost his way? What if...one night, in a strange city, he saw things that made him think the home he knew couldn't possibly be there anymore. What if…when he left the belly of the horse, and opened the gates of Troy, he saw ten years of rage pour into that city in one night?
We left them a gift, an offering of peace, that they took into their home. We violated all that's ever sacred between people. It turned a fight into a hunt.
To burn the walls of Troy was to burn the world-entire. Including his home.
What if he knew, that very night, as he walked through fires, anarchy, and pain—and in a daze of sweaty celebrations that follow—what if he knew exactly what he'd done?”
ran into a friend on the street who was heading to see The Odyssey in imax 70mm and I congratulated him like he'd just inherited his family's fortune and a house on the cape
I hate to say bad things about films, but one of the downsides of the rushed filmmaking style Nolan has stated over and over in recent interviews gave us a lot of frames where the focus simply flew away.
Nolan pretty clearly views the Trojan Horse as the ancient equivalent of the atomic bomb. That last line almost leads directly into Oppenheimer.
Has me very curious on what he does next.
Asking ChatGPT to teach me everything there is about Claude so I can use it better and dump OpenAI is probably my most ruthless moment in the fight against AI.