THE ODYSSEY Sounds Terrible

Ajouté : 2026-05-12

[00:00:00]All right, welcome. Christopher Nolan has been dreaming of the Odyssey for more than 20 years and yet still seemingly was incapable of giving it any level of dialogue which was fitting for the era that it is set in. He also in this article with time reveals why he hired Travis Scott.

[00:00:24]And when I say it is the dumbest reason and is clearly not the reason, yeah, just wait until you hear it. You will agree, I'm sure. So, thought we take a look. This is a movie which I I I do actually think genuinely will be a bit of a disaster for Nolan. I think this may go down as potentially one of his only bombs.

[00:00:52]I don't know.

[00:00:54]Looking at the response to the trailers.

[00:00:55]Not good.

[00:00:57]Not many views. Fair amount of dislikes.

[00:01:01]Commentary is not good. Doesn't seem to be any hype.

[00:01:06]I think he sort of bungled it a little bit. I could be wrong.

[00:01:10]All right. I could be wrong. Obviously, proof is in the pudding. We will see.

[00:01:14]But we'll just go through some of this because I found it fascinating. Uh, so let's just take a little bit and then we'll sort of rhetorically chitchat about it. Christopher Nolan's Trojan horse isn't a towering colossus looming over the coast of Troy.

[00:01:30]It's sinking. Bit like this movie. Half submerged. It looks less like a monument than a mistake. An offering to the gods already being claimed by the sea.

[00:01:40]Inside, filthy soldiers press up against the wood. They breathe through straws as the water rises, waiting in silence for the Trojans to drag the horse through their city's impenetrable walls. It's an audacious image, even for Nolan, the filmmaker who has most successfully fused artistic vision with commercial appeal in the modern era. And Nolan is arguably a good filmmaker. I don't think there's many people that would make the argument he's not a good filmmaker. Just seem seemingly some weird choices with this one.

[00:02:12]So he says this, "If the horse was sinking into the sand and about to be swept away by the tide, the Trojans would never believe there could be anybody in there."

[00:02:24]"So that's the reason? How's it a gift then?"

[00:02:30]"What?"

[00:02:32]says Nolan, pouring Earl Gray from a teapot wrapped in a geometric cozy at the bright but unassuming offices of his production company, Sincopi. They would be rescuing this thing from the waves and dragging it into the city as a prize. It wouldn't be on wheels like a roller skate.

[00:02:52]Okay, but then it's not a gift then, is it?

[00:02:55]It's not the Trojan horse, right? like it's not what was the what was the reason for them going to go get it? I mean, is this guy fundamentally misunderstanding what the Odyssey is?

[00:03:09]Very weird. Um, but these kind of creative decisions keep going. So, he goes, uh, the article says he dreamed up this fallen horse not for his adaptation of Homer's The Odyssey, but for another film entirely.

[00:03:22]Nolan was in talks to direct 2004's Troy based on Homer's other epic, The Iliad.

[00:03:28]That fell through. But for more than 20 years, Nolan carried his this vision through Gotham through out of space through Los Alamos. In 2023, Oppenheimer, his three-hour biopic about a physicist in existential crisis over the atomic bomb gross nearly $1 billion and won seven Oscars. That gave me options, says Nm. and what had never really been done as a cinematic telling of the Odyssey with all of the capacity of a large-scale Hollywood studio production. It's an odd gap in movie history. And I agree with him there, but I don't think your choice is a good one.

[00:04:05]See, like what what's the point of this?

[00:04:08]I don't know. Anyway, arriving on July 17th, the Odyssey follows the Greek hero behind the Trojan horse on his 10th his 10-year journey home from war. Adesius encounters a cyclops, sea monsters, and a sorceress who transforms men into animals, all rendered with minimal CGI and maximum ambition. It's the first featurelength film shot entirely on IMAX, and the scale is all inspiring.

[00:04:31]And I bet you it is, but it's ultimately a character study. It would have been enough to strap Matt Damon, who plays Odysius to a real ship's mast and sail him past sirens. In Nolan's version, Damon also has to perform an existential crisis as those sirens psychoanalyze him through song. Like the Trojan horse, the Odyssey can be enjoyed as pure spectacle or it can be cracked open to reveal something deeply human. Quote, "The script was very specific in what he was doing." Damon says he's very faithful to Homer because that's not somebody you rewrite. He did rewrite it.

[00:05:10]He did rewrite it, but thematically what he looked at was really interesting.

[00:05:17]Hollywood is in a precarious place.

[00:05:19]Movie theaters have been struggling to recover since the pandemic, and superheroes aren't performing like they used to. But directors like Ryan Cougler, Greta Gerwig, Jordan Peele, and Denal Nerve are proving that they can be as much of a draw as movie stars. Even among them, Nolan's films are have achieved a rare can't miss event status.

[00:05:38]Like his peers, he delivers clever narrative, stunning visuals, and al-Sist casts, but he also builds intricate plots and hidden details engineered to lure audiences back to the theater again and again. As the president of the director's guild, he champions the theatrical experience in an era when Hollywood has increasingly invested in streaming. Okay, fine. Anyway, just scroll down through some of this.

[00:06:09]So, some of the reveals in here are kind of dumb, right?

[00:06:13]So, he says for D for Matt Damon, it apparently was the most rewarding experience of his career. He's kind of going to say that, but okay. He says movies like this are not getting made anymore. to do this without a green screen the way that David Lean would have done it. I don't know anybody with the exception of Chris that's even trying to do that. There aren't a lot of people in their mid-50s as protagonists in these epics. I looked at this like the last movie I'd ever do. It won't be, but you can forgive the dramatics. It's difficult to imagine him or any other movie star making an old school film in this magnitude ever again. And that is that's fair and good sentiment from Matt Damon.

[00:06:52]Um anyway, we scroll through some of this stuff because some of it is super dumb. Uh not actually worth talking about. Um so this actually does confirm by the way in here uh that Leita Nongo is Helen of Troy.

[00:07:15]Ju this confirms it. this interview with Christopher Nolan and the reunion between Adius's fellow king Menalouse John Bernthal and his wife Helen, the most beautiful woman in the world.

[00:07:41]Well, there you go. So, that confirms it.

[00:07:46]Ah anyway, uh blamed for starting the war after a Trojan spirit uh prince spirited her away uh has always felt too neatly resolved in the poem. Nolan complicates it and in a twist, Nongo also plays Helen's sister.

[00:08:14]Right.

[00:08:18]Okay. So, Leongo is Helen of Troy.

[00:08:23]Fantastic.

[00:08:25]Uh, she That's ridiculous, but okay then.

[00:08:29][ __ ] fine. Whatever. Um Oh, so dumb, man.

[00:08:35]That's so dumb. Zenaia plays Athena. I think we knew that anyway, but again, that's pretty dumb.

[00:08:50]Anyway, I'm just scrolling through some.

[00:08:52]Oh, it's so dumb, man.

[00:08:56]So dumb.

[00:08:58]Super super dumb. Anyway, so there is a little bit more in this, right? I don't want to labor the point, but we'll scroll down. Scroll down. And it's all about new people being added.

[00:09:11]Who Who did they Who did they hire that actually just isn't isn't an actor.

[00:09:19]Well, that's that Travis Scott guy. I can't remember exactly where it was.

[00:09:25]Where was it?

[00:09:27]Uh, was it down here? Guy's a lot of crap in this. A lot of guff. Can't remember exactly where it was.

[00:09:36]Uh well, basically the reason why he signed up Travis Scott.

[00:09:43]Okay. Uh and it's super super dumb.

[00:09:47]I cast him because I wanted to nod towards the idea that this story has been handed down as oral poetry, which is an basically an analog to rap.

[00:10:08][ __ ] lame.

[00:10:12]Lame.