im honestly not at all bothered by historical accuracy in mythology adaptations as long as the choices theyre making are fun and interesting. one thing i cant forgive w the nolan odyssey is just how boring and uninteresting so many of the "creative" choices are
also I feel like directors forgot that sometimes it’s SUPPOSED to be uncomfortable
Satyricon made me feel genuinely uncomfortable in a lot of scenes BECAUSE THAT’S THE POINT, not everything about a world 2–3 thousand years ago needs to be softened just to please the audience
it genuinely pisses me off so bad how nonchalant people are about AI. we’re in a bubble in our online spaces but out in real life? everyone is casually using it for the most basic tasks. it’s pathetic. these people are pathetic.
I find it hilarious how F1 pundits are suggesting the next generation should ask a 7x WDC, who is currently fighting in the championship, when he plans on retiring, when we have bums like Fernando Alonso & Stroll wasting seats.
Honestly…you people.
both the directors changed key parts of the plot/characteristics to fit their own narrative in the name of “modernising” the story yet people don’t seem to dislike nolan as much as they did fennell (this does NOT mean i’m defending fennell either btw)
if nolan wanted to strip all the weirdness and humour out of a story, maybe he shouldn’t have chosen the classic Known for those exact things in the first place
Nolan's Odyssey is fine. The movie sucks in ways I was NOT expecting it to suck, but it also works in ways I was not expecting for it to work. It was very funny to watch if anything because it makes such weird decisions
Nolan's Odysseus isn't smart, isn't arrogant. He doesn't care for Ithaca and holds no love for his homeland. He doesn't want to return home. He isn't proud of his battle prowess and feels guilty about sacking Troy.
What does he even have going on then that makes him Odysseus?
imagine greek mythology told through the eyes of an atheist. this is it.
it's as if the storyteller didn't even believe in the story they were telling ykwim. they portrayed it as a tale of men rather than a mythology filled with magic, divine power, and wonder
HOW THE HELL do you make a movie about the odyssey and decide not to include the olive tree bed?? penelope’s final test is the one moment where she outwits even odysseus, proving his identity through a secret only the two of them share. HOW TF do you leave that out???
I really love the way India solves its problems
-Scientists are resigning? Make rules tight so they can't resign
-Exam papers are leaking? Ban Telegram
-Roads have potholes? Say that you will bring flying busses
-Someone doing hunger strike on paper leak issue? call him anti-national
like there are many discussions where a lot is attributed to nolan (sometimes rightfully!! he’s ofc a brilliant director, don’t get me wrong) but there’s also the criticisms that people just keep ignoring or glossing over.
i’ve seen the odyssey being called the “most vocally anti-war film recently” and it is true to some extent but that comes very strongly with the epic itself. even the iliad is very ‘anti-war’ if you will. it’s quite visible in the prose, nolan just brought that out through film.